Abstract: A heat exchange system with at least one heat exchange chamber is provided. The heat exchange chamber includes heat exchange chamber boundaries which surround at least one heat exchange chamber interior of the heat exchange chamber. The heat exchange chamber boundaries include at least one first opening for guiding in an inflow of at least one heat transfer fluid into the heat exchange chamber interior and at least one second opening for guiding out an outflow of the heat transfer fluid out of the heat exchange chamber interior. At least one heat storage material is arranged in the heat exchange chamber interior such that a heat exchange flow of the heat transfer fluid through the heat exchange chamber interior causes a heat exchange between the heat storage material and the heat transfer fluid.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided herein. The apparatus includes a support member, a supply channel, a return channel, a supply port to provide a fluid to the supply channel, a return port to receive the fluid from the return channel, at least two port fittings, a first sleeve, and a second sleeve. The first sleeve is connectable to one of the at least two port fittings and forms a fluid tight seal between the first sleeve and the supply channel. The second sleeve is connectable to the other of the at least two port fittings and forms a fluid tight seal between the second sleeve and the return channel.

Abstract: A method is provided for manufacturing at least a portion of a heat exchanger. During this method, a first heat exchanger section is formed that includes a base and a plurality of protrusions. The forming of the first heat exchanger section includes building up at least one protrusion material on the base to form the protrusions. The first heat exchanger section is attached to a second heat exchanger section. A plurality of flow channels are defined between the first heat exchanger section and the second heat exchanger section.

Abstract: A new heat exchange tube fin design in which a plurality of arrowhead shapes are pressed into or embossed onto each fin, the arrowhead shape defined by two intersecting wedge sections. The pressed arrowhead shapes are grouped into nested pairs, and one of the arrowheads in a pair is pressed as a positive relative to the fin plane and the other of the pair is pressed as a negative relative to the fin plane. The arrowhead pairs are placed in rows parallel to the air flow direction and arrowhead pairs in one row are preferably staggered relative to the arrowhead pairs in the adjacent row along the fin in the air flow direction.

Abstract: A heat pump system may include first and second cooling devices, a battery module, and a chiller by heating or cooling the battery module by one chiller in which a coolant and a refrigerant exchange heat and a main heat exchanger provided in an air conditioning device is connected to each of first and second coolant lines so that the coolant circulated in each of the first and second cooling devices passes through the main heat exchanger, the refrigerant passing through the main heat exchanger exchanges heat with the coolant supplied through the first coolant line and exchanges heat with the coolant supplied through the second coolant line, and a flash tank separating refrigerants which have exchanged heat into a gaseous refrigerant and a liquid refrigerant and selectively discharging the gaseous refrigerant and the liquid refrigerant may be provided in the main heat exchanger.

Abstract: A vapor chamber heat spreader includes a condenser arranged at a top end of the vapor chamber heat spreader, an evaporator arranged at an opposite end to the condenser; and multi-level wick structures. The multi-level structures include a first planar wick arranged adjacent to the condenser, a second planar wick arranged adjacent to the evaporator, a plurality of condenser posts for supplying liquid condensed by the condenser, a plurality of evaporator posts for supply the liquid towards the evaporator, and a mesh layer. The mesh layer is arranged between the condenser posts and the evaporator posts and configured to separate the condenser posts from the evaporator posts. The mesh layer includes a plurality of vent holes. The mesh layer is a porous layer having high permeability.

Abstract: A hydraulic feed roll adjustment system includes a feed roll system, a power take off system, and at least a first controller. The feed roll system includes a feed roll, a motor and a control valve. The feed roll is positioned transversely between at least two side walls and is capable of rotation about a feed roll axis. The motor is operably connected to the fed roll and in fluid communication with a hydraulic circuit. The motor rotates the feed roll about the axis. The control value controls the rate of fluid flow through the hydraulic circuit. The power take off system includes a power take off shaft capable of rotation about a power take off axis. The at least a first controller is in electronic communications with the control value and is capable of adjusting the rotational speed of the feed roll.

Abstract: A hot water apparatus includes a heat exchanger and a housing. A case of the heat exchanger has a circumferential wall portion, a lower opening, and a flange portion. A case of the housing has a flange portion, a circumferential wall portion, and an upper opening. The circumferential wall portion includes a downwardly-extending wall portion inserted into the inside of the circumferential wall portion through the upper opening. In a state where the downwardly-extending wall portion is arranged inside the circumferential wall portion, the lower opening is located below an upper surface of the flange portion, and a flange connection is formed between the heat exchanger and the housing.

Abstract: Two side channels are for mounting the first heat exchanger. Each side channel defines a back and two side walls protruding from the back. An elongate member is at each end of a tank of the first heat exchanger. Each elongate member extends through the tank and being attached at each end to one of the side walls of one of the two channels so that the elongate member spans the channel to mount the first heat exchanger to the channel. The tank includes a recessed region between two parts of the tank and the elongate member extends through an aperture defined in each of the parts, such that an exposed portion of the elongate member is outside the tank. The second heat exchanger is mounted to the exposed portions of two elongate members of the first heat exchanger via connecting unit.

Abstract: The disclosure is related to a coolant replenishment device, a cooling circulation system and an electronic device. The electronic device includes a heat source, a circulation pipe, a pump, a heat exchanger and a coolant replenishment device. The circulation pipe has a circulation channel configured to accommodate a first coolant. The pump is disposed on the circulation pipe. The heat exchanger disposed on the circulation pipe. The coolant replenishment device includes a liquid storage tank, a push plate and a driving member. The liquid storage tank has an accommodating space configured to accommodate a second coolant. The push plate is movable toward or away from the liquid outlet. The driving member is disposed in the liquid storage tank and constantly apply a force on the push plate to push the second coolant from the accommodating place into the circulation channel through the liquid outlet.

Abstract: A tubular array heat exchanger and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The heat exchanger includes a plurality of tubes extending between a tube inlet and a tube outlet. An inlet manifold includes an inner wall and an outer wall defining an inlet plenum and one or more baffles extending between the inner wall and the outer wall to divide the inlet plenum into a plurality of fluid passageways, each of the plurality of fluid passageways extending between the inlet plenum and a respective one of the tube inlets. The tubes, the inlet manifold, and an outlet manifold identical to the inlet manifold are manufactured as a single monolithic component.

Abstract: A cooling apparatus includes a container configured to contain a coolant within a space. The apparatus further includes a cooling block positioned substantially within the space and having a high heat capacity such that the space not occupied by the cooling block is filled with a coolant to a level at or below the top of the cooling block, and a placement structure having high thermal conductivity positioned on top of the cooling block and outside of the space. A method for cooling an object is also provided, which includes inserting a coolant into a container configured to contain the coolant within a space, and placing the object on a placement structure outside the space. For this method, the placement structure has a high thermal conductivity and is coupled to a cooling block, the cooling block having a high heat capacity and positioned substantially within the space.

Abstract: Provided are an air conditioner capable of indoor ventilation and humidity control with a simple structure and a method of controlling the same. The air conditioner comprises: a first air flow channel; a second air flow channel; a dehumidification rotor which comprises a first region provided on the first air flow channel, a second region provided on the second air flow channel, and an adsorbent which alternately passes through the first region and the second region and adsorbs moisture in the first region or the second region; and a control unit which controls so that, when in a ventilation mode, indoor air introduced through the first air flow channel is discharged to the outdoors through the second air flow channel and the second region, and air introduced from the outdoors is introduced to the indoors through the first air flow channel and the first region.

Abstract: A work vehicle includes a cabin to cover an operator's seat on a traveling body. A cabin frame that constitutes a framework of the cabin includes a pair of left and right front pillars, a pair of left and right rear pillars, a front beam, a rear beam, and side beams. The front beam couples upper end portions of the front pillars to each other. The rear beam couples upper end portions of the rear pillars to each other. Each of the side beams couples to each other upper end portions of each of the front pillars and each of the rear pillars that stand at a front and rear. The rear beam is formed to have a U-shaped cross-section by presswork of a metal plate material.

Abstract: A u-tube heat exchanger has inlet tubes arranged in a pressure neutral inlet tube plate, a heating medium flows via the inlet tubes into u-tubes arranged in a tube sheet where the medium splits in two and flows from both ends of the u-tubes into a heating medium outlet chamber and exits the heat exchanger via an outlet nozzle.

Abstract: A thermal energy storage and heat exchanger includes a plurality of concrete thermal energy storage elements, a housing into which the plurality of concrete thermal energy storage elements are arranged, a heat transfer and storage medium in a volume between the plurality of concrete thermal energy storage elements and the housing, in a form of a stagnant medium or a dynamic medium. The thermal energy storage and heat exchanger further includes at least one inlet for delivery of thermal energy to the thermal energy storage, at least one outlet for taking out thermal energy from the thermal energy storage, and thermal insulation arranged into or on an inside or outside of walls, floor and roof of the housing.

Abstract: A cooling system for at least one thermal unit includes a tank assembly that includes: a sump chamber, a purge chamber that is located above the sump chamber, and a reservoir chamber that is located above the purge chamber; a cooling circuit that includes a pump, a heat exchanger, and conduits, the cooling circuit being configured to circulate a liquid coolant through the at least one thermal unit, the sump chamber, the pump, the heat exchanger, and the reservoir chamber; a first valve located externally of the tank assembly and configured such that, when the first valve is open, (i) the liquid coolant is flowable from the purge chamber to the sump chamber via the first valve, and (ii) air is simultaneously flowable from the sump chamber to the purge chamber via the first valve; and a second valve located externally of the tank assembly and configured such that, when the second valve is open, (i) the liquid coolant is flowable from the reservoir chamber to the purge chamber via the second valve, and (ii) air

Abstract: In an indoor unit of an air-conditioning apparatus, an air inlet for room air is provided at a position lower than a height position of a drain pan. A partition plate is provided to partition a space below a height position of the drain pan in a housing. A pipe connecting portion connected to a refrigerant pipe of an outdoor unit is provided in one part of the partitioned space and a heat exchanger and a fan are placed in the other part of the partitioned space. At least one communicating path is formed in the partition plate to communicate the two parts of the partitioned space with each other. The indoor unit can include a controller for activating a fan when leakage of refrigerant is detected or for closing the communicating path when leakage of refrigerant is detected.

Abstract: Disclosed is a building envelope for a building wall, floor, or roof of a building, the building envelope comprising at least two shells spaced apart from one another which enclose a single intermediate space sealed against the interior and the exterior of the building and being filled with structural weight-bearing and building-technology components, and at least in sections with a porous, open-celled 3D-pattern material. A plurality of heat pipes, formed by associated first and second pipes in the exterior and interior facing shell, respectively, are connected to a heat collector element on the exterior and interior facing shell, respectively protrude from the building envelope, and are configured to increase, hold or decrease heat transition through the building envelope or to affect heat transport into or out of the building envelope.

Abstract: An exhaust gas heat exchanger may include a housing and a heat exchanger block arranged therein, the heat exchanger block including tube plates and a tube bundle having a plurality of flat tubes held at longitudinal ends of the flat tubes in rim holes formed in a complementary manner thereto in the tube plates. A first flow path for exhaust gas may extend in the flat tubes, and a second flow path for coolant may extend around the flat tubes and within the housing. The housing may include a plurality of latching contours, which interact with a plurality of counterpart latching contours arranged on an associated tube plate to fix the tube plates and the heat exchanger block on the housing.