Stoves and furnaces – Heat accumulator structures
Patent
1989-01-10
1991-12-03
Flanigan, Allen J.
Stoves and furnaces
Heat accumulator structures
165 10, 165 45, 165 47, F24H 702
Patent
active
050691996
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to a device capable of creating heat flow within an integral thermal block of finite or quasi finite dimensions. The invention relates further to a system incorporating a device suitable for employing or storing heat inside a thermal integral block, as well as to a system capable of exploiting atmospheric or terrestrial heat. Such a system moreover permits by regulating the surface temperature e.g. of a block constituting a floor, the heating or cooling of the atmosphere enveloping such a thermal intergral block.
Heat is fed or removed by means of a system that by-passes the heat flow produced inside the integral block, such a system operating essentially at an angle to such block, therefore the proposed device is also hereunder referred to as a heat shunt.
The problem of heat supply or removal with respect to the exploitation of heat issuing from atmospheric (solar and global radiation, latent heat, heat contained in the air, and in meteoric and waste water) and terrestrial (earth, ground and springs) sources--entails the contemporary requirement of the exploitation of energy that is renewable on a daily or yearly basis.
The development of concepts and processes relating to such energy exploitation which have to some extent, been protected by intellectual property laws, has increased greatly in recent years. Purely terrestrial underground heat extraction methods are technically feasible only if quasi-punctiform heat removal methods are employed at the lowest points of drilled holes. If terrestrial and atmospheric heat is to be captured, the latter can be captured only very near the earth's surface. Such methods necessarily interfere with local plant growth.
Numerous arrangements involving the dual purpose or multi-purpose use of parking areas or certain kinds of sports installations have been directed at exploiting terrestrial or atmospheric energy, whereby at the same time storage systems are utilized to an essentially large extent in storing daytime heat and releasing it at night. In order to load the storage system or to maintain the surface in an ice-free condition, heat is fed in general to systems that, designed for specific uses, are protected by numerous patents.
Also known is an arrangement suitable for heating and cooling a layer of bituminous material exposed to solar radiation, in particular the top layer of street pavement that features a plurality of heat exchange units disposed along the length of the material layer to be heated and/or cooled. Such units incorporate two fluid-flow systems, of which the first serves to transmit heat to and from the material layer to be heated and/or cooled, and the second serves to transfer heat to and from a heat storer.
The heat storer in this case constitutes the sub-structure of the street and may consist in whole or in part of the earth removed during construction of the street.
A heat transfer medium circulates through the fluid flow system in order to transport heat from the material layer into the heat storer and vice-versa, depending on whether the material layer is to be cooled in the summer or heated in the winter. Both fluid-flow systems are disposed in vertical planes (DE-OS 34 07 927).
Another concept involving the use of a massive absorber as a new kind of heating system for prefabricated concrete components, has been dealt with exhaustively in SIA Bulletin "Industrial Construction", 4/82. In this arrangement, energy is drawn from the environment in the form of heat by absorbers that are actually large-surface heat exchangers.
Such heat energy is brought by means of a heat pump from a lower temperature level to a higher temperature level, so that the resulting heat energy can be used for heating purposes.
In this paper, the temperatures at the surface and in various layers of a 30 cm steel-reinforced concrete wall exposed to the sun are plotted against time and the phase shift of the temperature curve in the fluid-filled absorber system is described. The output of the heat pump, relative to the outer air temperatu
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