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| 062304000 | MATERIAL COOLING MEANS INCLUDING GAS-LIQUID CONTACTOR | 74 |
| 20090007583 | Evaporative Cooling Device - A evaporative cooling device is described having a pair of heat conducting plates ( | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090178426 | Evaporative heat exchanger for cooling a refrigerant - An evaporative heat exchanger for cooling a hot refrigerant having a core of alternatively stacked dry and wet plates. Each dry plate includes a dry side defining a plurality of dry channels in a first direction, a series of ports distributed along the dry channels, a wet side, and a refrigerant cooling section. Each wet plate includes a wet side adjacent to and cooperates with the wet side of the dry plate to define a plurality of wet channels in a second direction. The dry channels, ports, and wet channels define a labyrinth for the air flow, which evaporates the liquid contained in the wet channels resulting in a cooling of the refrigerant. The refrigerant cooling section is integral with the outboard of the dry plate and adjacent to an end section of the wet channels to provide enhanced refrigerant cooling. | 07-16-2009 |
| 20090211290 | EVAPORATIVE COOLER HAVING A NOVEL AIR FLOW PATTERN - An evaporative cooler and method of operating the evaporative cooler are described. The evaporative cooler comprises a reservoir configured to contain water, a frame, and panels. The panels together at least partially form a cooler housing and define an interior region of the cooler housing. The cooler housing has at least one inlet for the intake of ambient air and at least one outlet for the flow of cooled air out from the interior of the cooler housing. Media is positioned adjacent the at least one inlet such that the intake of ambient air passes through the media for heat exchange. A blower is positioned to receive air entering through the at least one inlet defined by the cooler housing and to exhaust cooled air toward the at least one outlet opening defined by the cooler housing. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20100107676 | SPRAY TYPE HEAT-EXCHANGING UNIT - A spray type heat-exchanging unit includes a main body; a distributive refrigerant spray module located in an upper part of the main body and having an extended distributor and a refrigerant spray surface; and a plurality of heat exchange tubes provided in the main body below the distributive refrigerant spray module. A liquid refrigerant is guided into the extended distributor to drip onto the refrigerant spray surface, and then uniformly sprayed onto the heat exchange tubes. Gaseous refrigerant produced by evaporation in heat exchange in the main body is recovered via a top opening of the main body, making the mechanical refrigerating apparatus more efficient than a refrigerating apparatus adopting a flooded evaporator, and minimizing the refrigerant charge amount and material cost required by the heat-exchanging unit. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20110302946 | INDIRECT EVAPORATIVE COOLER CONSTRUCTION - A counter flow indirect evaporative heat exchanger ( | 12-15-2011 |
| 20120060536 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TEMPERING MATERIAL - A method and apparatus for tempering material is provided. One or more liquids are atomized by at least one sprayer into droplets which are guided towards a surface of a hot material so that at least some of the droplets collide with the surface of the hot material and evaporate, thus removing thermal energy from the surface layer of the hot material. Impact members may be used to further reduce the size of the droplets. The droplets may be guided to the surface by a separate guiding gas flow. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120312048 | NON OZONE DEPLETING AND LOW GLOBAL WARMING POTENTIAL REFRIGERANTS FOR LOW TEMPERATURE REFRIGERATION - Non ozone depleting and non flammable refrigerant compositions with GWPs less than 2,000 ITH which replace R404A, R507, HCFC22 and CFC502 in refrigeration systems. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20130118199 | Cooling System With a Cover Which Contains Super Absorber and Can Be Activated - The invention refers to a cover, comprising a fleece arranged between a top and a bottom layer which holds a super absorber. At least in one layer a permeability area which is permeable to moisture is provided through which the cover can be moistened in a controlled way. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20140144171 | Method of Wetting Evaporative Cooler Media Through a Fabric Distribution Layer - An evaporative cooler, and associated method, that includes an evaporative pad including a liquid coolant-receiving surface at which a liquid coolant distributed to the evaporative pad is received and thereafter passes into the evaporative pad. The evaporative cooler also includes a liquid coolant distribution trough that includes an upper portion configured to hold liquid coolant and a lower portion contiguous with the upper portion. The lower portion includes an opening and a fabric distribution layer in place over the opening through which the liquid coolant held in the upper portion of the liquid coolant distribution trough passes and is distributed to the liquid coolant-receiving surface of the evaporative pad. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140202192 | REACTOR LIQUID COOLDOWN APPARATUS - A reactor liquid cool down apparatus includes; a compressor comprising an inlet and an outlet, a first conduit connecting a reactor outlet to the compressor inlet, a mixing zone, comprising an inlet, an outlet, and a liquid cryogen inlet, a first control valve, a second conduit connecting the compressor outlet and the first control valve, a third conduit connecting the first control valve to the mixing zone inlet, a temperature control valve, a fourth conduit connecting the temperature control valve with the liquid cryogen inlet, a means for monitoring a mean fluid temperature within the second conduit, a second control valve, wherein the first control valve and the second control valve are configured to isolate the mixing zone, a fifth conduit connecting the second control valve with the mixing zone outlet, a sixth conduit connecting the second control valve to a reactor inlet, a bypass control valve. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20150052929 | WATER DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR AN EVAPORATIVE COOLER - In one embodiment, an evaporative cooler is described. The evaporative cooler may comprise an assembly of one or more plates. At least one trough proximate the one or more plates. A water delivery system may be proximate the at least one trough. The water delivery system may comprise at least one supply tube and at least one fill tube, wherein the water delivery system is positioned to siphon air from the evaporative cooler when a continuous water supply is suspended. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150292811 | HEAT AND MASS EXCHANGERS HAVING EXTRUDED PLATES - A heat and mass exchanger including a plurality of vertical plates that are spaced apart from one another by gaps so as to allow a first gas to flow between the plates. Each plate includes a front wall that defines a front surface of the plate, a back wall that defines a back surface of the plate, and separate, parallel channels disposed between the front and back walls. The parallel channels include a first set of parallel channels, a first liquid flowing within the first set of channels and over one of the front or back surfaces of the plate, the first liquid having a bulk composition comprising one or more constituents, the first gas having at least one constituent in common with the first liquid, and a second set of parallel channels, a first fluid flowing within the second set of channels. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20160033204 | High Efficiency Thermal Management System - Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for cooling a work piece surface using two-phase impingement, such as direct jet impingement. Preferred method include flowing a coolant through a chamber comprising a surface to be cooled by projecting a jet stream of coolant against the surface while maintaining pressure in the chamber to permit at least a portion of coolant contacting the surface to boil. Preferred apparatuses include a chamber comprising the surface and tubular nozzles configured to project a stream of coolant against the surface, a pump for forcing coolant through the tubular nozzles, a pressurizer for maintaining an appropriate pressure in the chamber, and a heat exchanger for cooling the coolant exiting the chamber. The apparatuses may further include a pressure regulator for detecting changes in temperature of the coolant exiting the chamber and communicating with the pressurizer to adjust the maintained pressure accordingly. The methods and apparatuses disclosed herein provide for effective and efficient cooling or work piece surfaces. | 02-04-2016 |
| 062305000 | Cooling heat rejector of refrigeration producer | 14 |
| 20090100854 | Evaporatively cooled condenser - An evaporative cooler assembly including a cooler housing in fluid communication with a condenser. A stream of air flows through the cooler housing where it is cooled and across the condenser to dissipate heat from the condenser. The cooler housing includes a plurality of alternating dry and wet channels with a plurality of plates extending between opposite ends of the cooler housing separating the channels. The plates include a plurality of apertures for proportionally increasing from one end to the other the amount of the stream of air flowing from the dry channels through the wet channels and to the condenser. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090120121 | Water cool refrigeration - This invention is a water cooled refrigeration system which is equipped with an evaporative condenser comprising of multiple water pans with refrigeration coil soldered underneath for multi-stages cooling. The water pans are stacked on top of each other with the hottest coil located at the bottom. The bottom water pan dries up water faster than the other water pans since it has the hottest coil soldered underneath. Once the water level of the bottom water pan is low enough to be refilled, the supply water fills in from the top water pan and propagating downward to the water pan down below until it reaches the water pan at the bottom. The water refilling ceases once the bottom water pan is full. The unwanted heat from a refrigeration system is transferred from the refrigerant to the water, and then from the water to the air by evaporation. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090165489 | Refrigeration Condenser for Electronics Cooling and Manufacture Thereof - Embodiments disclosed herein include a condenser stack having a cross-flow plate with a plurality of transverse slots, and first and second microchannel plates mounted to the cross-flow plate. In some embodiments, the microchannel plates may have a plurality of microchannels that allow for the flow of the refrigerant substantially through the plurality of microchannels in a direction generally perpendicular to the plurality of transverse slots. In some embodiments, the condenser stack may be implemented in an apparatus, such as a heat sink assembly, and in a refrigerator system. Moreover, embodiments for a method for manufacturing the condenser stack and apparatus are described. Other embodiments are also described. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090199584 | COOLING TOWER - A cooling tower comprises a body provided with air-intake windows located above a catch basin, and a water distributor, which has a sprinkler, and an irrigators. Ring tubular units are connected to each other to form a ring-type evaporator fed from a pipeline, which is used for water supply from a water source independent of the water distributor, and are vertically arranged in the apertures of the air-intake windows. Equally spaced atomizing sprayers are mounted on each of the tubular units along the circumference of the unit. The invention makes it possible to enhance the operational performance of the cooling tower in a hot environment by improving operating service and maintenance conditions. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20100095699 | PRE-COOLING SYSTEM FOR AN AIR CONDITIONING CONDENSER - A pre-cooling system for use with a condenser of an air conditioning system is provided. In one embodiment, the pre-cooling system comprises a housing that is coupleable to a top of a condenser of an air conditioner wherein the condenser has a substantially-vertical exhaust. The pre-cooling system further comprises a valve mounted in the housing that is coupleable to a water source and wherein the valve is capable of operating independent of electrical power. The pre-cooling system further comprises a vane that is coupled to the valve and positionable in the substantially-vertical exhaust, wherein the vane has an aerodynamically-shaped cross section useable to operate the valve. The present invention further provides a method of manufacturing the pre-cooling system. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100229586 | Mist Dispersal System for Air Conditioners - An apparatus for increasing the efficiency of air conditioning units, and methods of improving the efficiency of the air cooling function in air conditioners is disclosed by dispersing a water or vapor mist onto the heat transfer coils of a condenser used in an air cooling unit to effectively and efficiently reduce the use of power by the condenser and reduce the time the condenser must run. The apparatus includes fluid lines and a filter, the function of which is to remove particulate matter from the fluid, prevent scale formation, and provide a coating on the surface of certain parts of the condenser. The filter is configured to stop the flow of fluid when the filter can no longer provide these functions. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20110048051 | Heating Ventilation Air Conditioner (HVAC) Compressor Efficiency Enhancement Apparatus - The performance of central air conditioning (HVAC) units is significantly enhanced and the cost of operation of the same is greatly decreased by the elements of the present invention with the water spraying system which may include an electrically actuated solenoid valve to initiate the flow of water to the water spray nozzles in coordination with the beginning of the air conditioner compressor cycle. A drain valve unit may allow water to drain from the piping and water spray nozzles when the central air conditioning (HVAC) unit is not operating. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110138835 | REFRIGERATING CYCLE APPARATUS AND AIR CONDITIONING APPARATUS - To provide a refrigerating cycle apparatus capable of improving cooling ability by water spray to perform an efficient operation while suppressing decrease in collected power by an expander. The refrigerating cycle apparatus includes: a first compressor that compresses the refrigerant; an expander that decompresses and expands the refrigerant to collect power for expansion; a second compressor that is driven by the power collected by the expander to further compresses the refrigerant compressed by the first compressor to transmit it to a main radiator; a heat exchanger having an intercooler that cools the refrigerant compressed by the first compressor and a main radiator that cools the refrigerant compressed by the second heat exchanger to transmit it to the expander; indoor heat exchangers that heat the refrigerant decompressed by the expander; and a water spray apparatus that sprays water onto the outer surface of the intercooler and the main radiator. The water spray apparatus sprays water such that the water spray amount per heat transfer area of the intercooler becomes larger than that of the main radiator. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110174009 | COMPRESSOR AND REFRIGERATING MACHINE - A compressor and a refrigerating machine which enable an easy disposal of a lubricant, are friendly to the natural environment, and have simple configurations, are provided. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110197617 | CHILLER - A chiller is provided that may include a case; a vapor compression type cycle apparatus installed in the case and including first and second heat exchangers that heat-exchange with first and second heat transfer mediums, respectively, the vapor compression type cycle apparatus including a condenser that serves as the first heat exchanger, an evaporator that serves as the second heat exchanger, a compressor, and an expansion device disposed between the condenser and the evaporator, respectively; a blower configured to supply air to the first heat exchanger; and a liquid spray device configured to spray liquid onto the first heat exchanger. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20140026608 | RETRO-FIT ENERGY EXCHANGE SYSTEM FOR TRANSPARENT INCORPORATION INTO A PLURALITY OF EXISTING ENERGY TRANSFER SYSTEMS - A condenser with subcooling is provided. The condenser comprises apparatus for collecting liquid refrigerant and increasing a velocity of the liquid refrigerant as the liquid refrigerant interfaces with at least one wall of a first pass liquid medium compartment, thereby removing heat from the liquid refrigerant, subcooling the liquid refrigerant and heating a liquid medium. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140069134 | System For Condensate Energy Utilization - An air conditioning system includes an inlet duct, supply duct, return duct and exhaust duct: a heat exchanger for providing heat transfer between air from the inlet duct and air from the return duct: a cooling coil position in the supply duct: a pan for collecting condensate from the cooling coil; a pump to pump condensate from the pan: and a sprayer coupled to the pump, the sprayer spraying condensate into an air path to increase efficiency of the air conditioning system. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140096555 | PLATE EVAPORATIVE CONDENSER AND COOLER - An evaporator condenser has a condenser unit which has plural plate units separated from one another by air gaps. Each plate unit has first and second plates that are coupled together about a perimeter thereof. Each plate unit has a first edge and an opposite second edge. The first and second plates are coupled together along at least one line so as to form a first channel that extends from the first edge to the second edge in the second channel by communicates with the first channel and extends back to the first edge. The channels decrease in volume from an inlet to an outlet. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140250939 | EVAPORATIVELY COOLED REFRIGERATION SYSTEM - In at least one aspect of this disclosure, a refrigeration system includes an evaporatively cooled condenser configured to transfer heat from the refrigeration system to an atmosphere, an air inlet in fluid communication with the condenser, and an evaporative cooling medium disposed between the atmosphere and the condenser such that at least a portion of an airflow from the atmosphere passes through the evaporative cooling medium to reduce the temperature of the airflow before passing the airflow over the condenser. The evaporative cooling element can improve system cooling efficiency by 20-50% depending on temperature conditions or even greater in dry climates. | 09-11-2014 |
| 062306000 | Means feeding gas into pressurized receiver | 1 |
| 20120067076 | TABLE TOP WATER DISPENSER HAVING A REFRIGERATOR-COOLED COLD PLATE - Applicants provide a portable, modular table top system for dispensing chilled carbonated water, chilled non-carbonated water, and ambient (non-chilled) non-carbonated water therefrom. The table top water dispenser includes a cold plate that is chilled by evaporation of a refrigerant, which is part of a cold plate cooling circuit, which includes a compressor and a condenser. A pump and a motor move non-carbonated water through the cold plate to a dispensing valve engaged therewith. The same motor and pump typically drive non-carbonated water through the cold plate, through the carbonator where it becomes carbonated, and through the cold plate again, and out a second dispensing valve. A third dispensing valve is engaged to the remote source of pressurized water and bypasses the cold plate and, also, typically the pump for dispensing from a third dispensing valve. | 03-22-2012 |
| 062310000 | Fluid recirculating means | 6 |
| 20080250809 | Cooling Appliance - Cooling appliance, which consists of a main tank ( | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080282720 | HIGH POWER MICROJET COOLER - A distribution apparatus, system and method for thermal control whereby a plate of a manifold assembly has predetermined surface features positioned on specific locations on a surface thereof for enhancing the cooling capabilities of the assembly. The predetermined surface features of the plate delay a velocity decay of a fluid impinging the surface of the plate, while also increase the surface area of the plate exposed to the impinging liquid, which in turn, maximize both the reliability and thermal performance of the overall thermal system at a given maximum operating pressure. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20090007584 | DEWPOINT COOLER - A dewpoint cooler comprises: two medium circuits coupled mutually via a heat-conducting wall, through which circuits two media can flow, wherein the second medium contains gas, which wall has heat-conducting protrusions; wherein the wall and the protrusions are covered with a hydrophilic coating which can absorb an evaporable liquid and relinquish it again through evaporation such that the wetted coating, and thereby also the heath-conducting surfaces and the protrusions, are cooled; a wetting unit for subjecting the secondary medium to wetting by the evaporable liquid by evaporating liquid from the coating such that the evaporated liquid entrained by the secondary medium extracts heat from the primary medium via the heath-conducting wall. The coating consists of a porous technical ceramic material, such as a mineral wool. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20120006045 | CONDENSED WATER UTILIZATION STRUCTURE OF AIR CONDITIONING DEVICE - A condensed water utilization structure is provided for an air conditioning device and includes a driving electric machine, a transmission mechanism coupled to the driving electric machine, a water pumping device, a water spraying tray, and a water collection tray positioned below the water spraying tray. The water pumping device includes a cylinder forming therein a water inlet chamber, a water outlet chamber, and a piston chamber. The piston chamber receives therein a piston coupled to the transmission mechanism. The water inlet chamber and the piston chamber communicate each other through a water inlet piston, and the water outlet chamber and the piston chamber communicate each other through a water outlet piston. The water inlet chamber has a water inlet port in communication with the water collection tray. The water outlet chamber has a water outlet port in communication with the water spraying tray through a pipe. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20140096556 | SOLAR AIR CONDITIONER - A solar air conditioner provides cooling by way of liquid evaporation. The solar air conditioner includes a liquid evaporation unit, a heat exchange unit, and a solar power generation unit. The liquid evaporation unit includes an outer housing and an inner housing. The outer housing includes a fan affixed to the top and an plurality of openings on the side wall. The inner housing inside the outer housing has a plurality of porous holes through which the liquid therein penetrates to the outer surface. The penetrated liquid comes in contact with the warm air drawn by the fan and evaporation subsequently occurs cooling the liquid inside the inner housing. The cooled liquid is then provided to the heat exchange unit for cooling a target area. The pumps and fans are powered by the solar power generation unit. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140157813 | TEMPERATURE CONTROL SYSTEM - A temperature control system of the invention recovers reaction heat in a reactor in which an exothermal reaction occurs, to control the temperature in the reactor. The temperature control system includes: a refrigerant drum in which vapor and a liquid refrigerant are stored in a vapor-liquid equilibrium state; a heat removing section arranged in the reactor to evaporate a part of the liquid refrigerant supplied from the refrigerant drum by the reaction heat; a Return line that returns mixed phase fluid of vapor and the liquid refrigerant generated in the heat removing section to the refrigerant drum; a Vapor outlet line that supplies vapor in the refrigerant drum to outside of the system; and a Replenishing line that supplies makeup water in an amount matched with an amount of vapor discharged to the outside of the system, to the Return line. | 06-12-2014 |
| 062311000 | Diverse treating means | 1 |
| 20100186438 | SUB-WET BULB EVAPORATIVE CHILLER WITH PRE-COOLING OF INCOMING AIR FLOW - An evaporative chiller cooling water to below ambient wet bulb temperature. Sub-wet bulb chilling is achieved by pre-cooling incoming air upstream of the saturator. The incoming air is ambient air at ambient air temperature that is cooled using the coolness of the lower temperature outgoing air exiting the saturator. The pre-cooling lowers the temperature of the incoming air and lowers its wet bulb temperature below that of ambient air. The saturator water is chilled to below the ambient wet bulb temperature. The air in the saturator flows across the water as it gravity drips or flows from the top to the bottom of the saturator. The pre-cooled air flows across the saturator with the coolest air directed across the bottom of the saturator where the coldest water is flowing and with the hottest air directed across the top where the hottest water is flowing to provide gradient chilling. | 07-29-2010 |
| 062314000 | With gas forcing or directing means | 36 |
| 20080196435 | Condensation Plant - A condensing system has a plurality of heat exchanger elements ( | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080209934 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING GRAPHIC IMAGES ON AIR CIRCULATION DEVICES - An air circulation unit, such as a portable evaporative cooler, has one or more graphic image displays. The display may comprise advertising signage, such as the name or logo for marketing the goods or services of a sponsor thereof. The display is affixed to hardware that is adjacent to the intake, the exhaust, or both surfaces. The display may comprise a printed screen having an image formed on a substrate that is permeable to air flow. The display may be mounted to a wire frame or other hardware that is secured adjacent to the intake or exhaust. The surface area of the display may be equal to, greater than, or less than the surface areas of the intake or exhaust, and may be spaced apart therefrom along an axis extending in a direction of the airflow at a suitable distance depending on the application. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20090031748 | Evaporative Cooling System - An improved evaporative cooling system with an enclosed insulated chamber having an inlet, an outlet and a blower in the system located downstream of the outlet to draw air to be cooled through the chamber. A foraminous filter extends across the inlet to clean the incoming air of large solid particles. An electric motor is mounted partially across the inlet opening, having a rotating shaft and supporting a disc for rotation on the shaft. A reservoir of water chilled to between about 55 and 40 degrees Fahrenheit is supported within the bottom of the chamber and positioned for engagement by the disc during rotation, which upon rotation flings chilled water adhered droplets upwardly away from the reservoir in a fan-shaped pattern to further clean, cool and humidify the air which passes through a fog-like curtain formed by the chilled water droplets moving within the chamber, prior to exiting the chamber. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090211291 | EVAPORATIVE COOLER HAVING A NOVEL SUPPORT STRUCTURE - An evaporative cooler including a unique supporting structure is described herein. The evaporative cooler comprises a frame member including a base portion for coupling with a water reservoir and an elevated portion extending upwardly from the base portion. Panels of the cooler housing are formed separately from the frame. Media is mounted to an elevated portion of the frame member or to at least one of the cooler housing panels. A blower is mounted to and supported at least partially by the elevated portion of the frame member. The blower is positioned to receive air entering through an inlet opening defined by cooler housing and exhaust cooled air toward an outlet opening defined by the cooler housing. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20100018237 | Low Water Consumption Cooling Tower for Gasification Plants - Disclosed is a hybrid cooling tower and a method and system for using the cooling tower. The cooling tower is design to reduce water consumption and eliminate plume formation. The cooling tower comprises a wet section having a plurality of wet section fans and a dry section having a plurality of dry section fans. The wet section fans are adjustable to operate at an increased rate and a reduced rate, depending upon ambient conditions surrounding the cooling tower. The wet section may comprise at least one shutter door. In operation, typically the wet section fans operate at the increased rate during a summer peak price period and at the reduced rate during a winter peak price period and an offpeak price period. Typically, the dry section fans operate at the increased rate all year. This method allows for less evaporative cooling and more latent cooling thereby reducing water consumption. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100037645 | CONDENSER FOR A REFRIGERATOR - A condenser assembly for a refrigerator is provided that includes a condenser arranged in a frame, the condenser being configured for a flow of a refrigerant therethrough. The frame has at least one evaporation tray that is arranged above the condenser and one evaporation tray that is arranged below the condenser. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100058794 | Low profile evaporative cooler - An evaporative cooler assembly includes a plurality of tubes extending from a refrigerant tank in a spaced relationship to one another with each tube defining a wet air passage. Each pair of adjacent tubes defines a dry air passage extending transversely to the tubes. Each tube includes a plurality of orifices each in fluid communication with the corresponding wet air passage and the adjacent dry air passage. A pair of air ducts are disposed on the refrigerant tank with the tubes being disposed between the air ducts and the air ducts being in fluid communication with the dry air passages whereby a dry air stream flows sequentially through a portion of the dry air passages and into one of the air ducts and through another portion of the dry air passages and into the other air duct until the dry air stream flows out of a dry air outlet as conditioned air. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100058795 | Automotive dash board mounted evaporative cooling system - An Automotive dash board mounted evaporative cooling system. A small, light weight, portable square housing manufactured from molded plastic. The housing has two air intake doors that open up to a forty-five degree angle. These doors open from the top and have piece of cloth that can be cleaned and reused. There is a fan shroud that is built into the front section of the housing that helps direct the air be pushed out of it. A suction pump is mounted to the back of the housing which pulls water from a separate water bottle through a pair of plastic or vinyl tubing. There is a universal bottle cap that allows the suction pump hoses to fit on any water bottle. The system is powered by a cord that can be plugged into an automotive accessory outlet and or cigarette lighter outlet. It mounts on all dash boards. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100147003 | REFRIGERATOR - A mist atomizer is arranged in a first cooling duct including an outlet for vegetable compartment and an inlet for vegetable compartment. The mist atomizer is arranged near a gap of a lower basket and an upper basket. A refrigerator capable of efficiently collecting transpired moisture from stored food, sufficiently humidifying the interior of the basket, and having higher freshness maintaining property is provided. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100218537 | CONDENSER WHICH IS EXPOSED TO AIR - The invention relates to a condenser ( | 09-02-2010 |
| 20110197618 | MULTI-STAGE HEAT EXCHANGER - A refrigeration system that utilizes both an air-cooled heat exchanger and a cooling tower to cool refrigerant prior to the refrigerant being provided to the evaporator. This multi-stage cooling permits the refrigeration system to operate with improved efficiency, while reducing the amount of water lost to evaporative cooling in the cooling tower, since the thermal load handled by the cooling tower is reduced by the air-cooled heat exchanger. This in turn means less water is required to replace water lost to evaporative cooling. In arid regions or regions of low water quality, both efficiency increase and reduction of water lost to evaporative cooling are important improvements. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110232315 | REGENERATIVE EVAPORATIVE COOLER, COOLING SYSTEM AND CORE MODULE THEREOF - A regenerative evaporative cooler (REC) including: a plurality of dry channel units allowing indoor air to pass therethrough; a plurality of wet channel units formed to extract a portion of air, which has passed through the dry channel units, and formed to heat-exchange with the dry channel units; an evaporation water supply unit disposed at an upper portion of the wet channel units and supplying the wet channel units with evaporation water; and dry channel shields formed at an upper side of the dry channel units, allowing evaporation water supplied from the evaporation water supply unit to be introduced into the wet channel units, and shielding the upper portions of the dry channel units. The dry channel shield effectively prevents evaporation water sprinkled by the evaporation water supply unit from being introduced into the wet channels and simplifies the configuration of the evaporation water supply unit. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110259032 | HUMIDITY-ADJUSTING AIR CONDITIONER - A humidity-adjusting air conditioner includes a casing, a heat exchanger, a humidifier and an airflow driving device. The heat exchanger is disposed within the casing for transferring heat of an airflow. The heat exchanger includes a primary duct and a secondary duct. The secondary duct includes a valve. The valve is selectively opened or closed to control whether the secondary duct transfers heat of the airflow. The humidifier is disposed beside a flow path of the airflow for humidifying the airflow. The airflow driving device is disposed within the casing for driving the airflow. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20120167610 | Indirect air-side economizer for removing heat from enclosed spaces with high internal heat generation - An Indirect Air-Side Economizer based around an air-to-air heat exchanger is provided that is advantageously operated in conjunction with other components in an integrated system to facilitate necessary rejection of heat and certain removal of particulate from the air within a data center. The disclosed device may include separate cooling methodologies that can be operated independently to cool return air from that data center. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120204591 | SUB-WET BULB EVAPORATIVE WATER CHILLER WITH GRADIENT CHILLING AND AIR-TO-AIR HEAT EXCHANGE - An evaporative chiller cooling water to below ambient wet bulb temperature. Sub-wet bulb chilling is achieved by pre-cooling incoming air upstream of the saturator. The incoming air is ambient air at ambient air temperature that is cooled using the coolness of the lower temperature outgoing air exiting the saturator. The pre-cooling lowers the temperature of the incoming air and lowers its wet bulb temperature below that of ambient air. The saturator water is chilled to below the ambient wet bulb temperature. The air in the saturator flows across the water as it gravity drips or flows from the top to the bottom of the saturator. The pre-cooled air flows across the saturator with the coolest air directed across the bottom of the saturator where the coldest water is flowing and with the hottest air directed across the top where the hottest water is flowing to provide gradient chilling. | 08-16-2012 |
| 20120255321 | REFRIGERATOR - According to the present invention, a refrigerator comprises: a main body having a storage compartment; a refrigerating cycle apparatus for cooling the storage compartment; a quick cooling body which accommodates beverages inserted therein, and which has a plurality of jet-colliding holes for jet-colliding the cooling air in the storage compartment against the beverages; a quick cooling air blower which enables the cooling air in the storage compartment to flow toward the quick cooling body such that the cooling air in the storage compartment passes through the jet-colliding holes, is jet-collided against the beverages, and is then discharged to the storage compartment; and a quick cooling body moving mechanism mounted in the main body and connected to the quick cooling body to move the quick cooling body, thereby minimizing the quick cooling time of the beverages. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20130213076 | EVAPORATIVE COOLER INCLUDING ONE OR MORE ROTATING COOLER LOUVRES - An evaporative cooler may include an evaporative cooler housing with a duct extending therethrough, a plurality of cooler louvers with respective porous evaporative cooler pads, and a working fluid source conduit. The cooler louvers are arranged within the duct and rotatably connected to the cooler housing along respective louver axes. The source conduit provides an evaporative cooler working fluid to the cooler pads during at least one mode of operation. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130333407 | SUB-WET BULB EVAPORATIVE CHILLER SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE INTEGRATED SUBUNITS OR CHILLERS - A cooling system integrating a plurality of evaporative chillers, which each cool water to below ambient wet bulb temperature. In an air-to-air heat exchanger of each chiller, the incoming airstream used to evaporate water from the water stream is first cooled indirectly using the cooled air that is exhausted from a saturator of an adjacent chiller or subunit. By pre-chilling the air without adding moisture, each of the chillers of the cooling system is able to achieve water temperatures below the ambient wet bulb temperature. The system integrates or “daisy chains” multiple sub-wet bulb evaporative chillers or subunits such that the cool air output from one subunit is used to pre-cool the incoming air of another neighboring unit. To this end, adjacent units have their heat exchangers fluidically connected together (e.g., air flow output from each saturator is passed as cool return air through channels of an adjacent heat exchanger). | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130333408 | SYSTEM FOR DRYING AND/OR COOLING AN AIRFLOW - The invention relates to a system for drying and/or cooling an airflow, comprising: at least one cooling device for cooling an airflow, comprising:—at least one cooling channel with an inflow opening for the airflow for cooling and an outflow opening for the cooled airflow,—at least one evaporating channel separated from the cooling channel by a transfer wall and having an inflow opening which is connected for medium throughflow to the outflow opening of the cooling channel, and an outflow opening, and—means for wetting the side of the transfer wall directed toward the evaporating channel, and a drying device for drying the airflow, comprising:—a drying channel with an inflow opening for the airflow for drying and an outflow opening for the dried air-flow, wherein the outflow opening of the cooling channel of the or a cooling device and/or the outflow opening of the evaporating channel of the or a cooling device is connected for medium throughflow to the inflow opening of the drying device. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20140047858 | EVAPORATIVE AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM - An evaporative air conditioner system includes a heat exchanger having an inlet and an outlet and a plurality of passageways between the inlet and the outlet; a pump and nozzle assembly for introducing pressurized air and water to the inlet of the heat exchanger to create a mist of water droplets suspended in air; a vacuum assembly for creating a partial vacuum near the outlet of the heat exchanger to draw the mist through the passageways and to the outlet of the heat exchanger to remove heat from the heat exchanger through evaporative cooling; and a transfer mechanism for moving a medium past the heat exchanger to remove heat from the air without permitting the medium to mix with the mist drawn through the heat exchanger. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140109610 | FREE-STANDING EVAPORATIVE AIR COOLING APPARATUS - A free-standing evaporative air cooling system includes a base, at least one air inlet and at least one cooling pad. A neck extends upwardly relative to the base and includes at least one upwardly-oriented air flow passageway in gaseous communication with the air inlet(s). At least one air outlet is disposed proximate to the upper end of the neck and is in gaseous communication with the air flow passageway. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140116081 | SELF-CONTAINED EVAPORATIVE AIR CONDITIONER SYSTEM - A self-contained evaporative air conditioner system includes a housing having a central chamber, a lower chamber, and an upper chamber; a heat exchanger positioned in the central chamber; an air nozzle and a water nozzle for creating a mist of water droplets suspended in air in the lower chamber; an ambient air vent for introducing non-pressurized ambient air to the lower chamber; a vacuum assembly for creating a partial vacuum in the upper chamber to draw the mist and ambient air through the heat exchanger to remove heat from the heat exchanger through evaporative cooling; a return air vent for receiving air to be conditioned; and a fan for drawing air from the return air vent through the heat exchanger to remove heat from the air without permitting the air to mix with the mist and ambient air drawn through the heat exchanger. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140123694 | COOLING FAN WITH ATOMIZING DEVICE - A cooling fan includes a body and a motor is connected to the body, the motor drives multiple blades. An atomizing device is connected to the body and has an oscillator beside which a blowing device is located. A guide pipe has the first end thereof connected to the oscillator and the second end of the guide pipe extends beyond the blades. A water tank is connected to the body and has a valve which is located corresponding to the oscillator. By the rotation of the blades, the atomized water particles are sent to cool the heat. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140130535 | CONTRA-ROTATING FAN ARRANGEMENT AND FAN DRIVE SYSTEM FOR EVAPORATIVE COOLING EQUIPMENT - A counter-rotating fan system for evaporative cooling equipment. The system can include a first axial fan disposed in an air conduit of an evaporative equipment unit, a second axial fan disposed in the air conduit and arranged coaxially with the first fan, a transmission for driving the first axial fan and the second axial fan, and a motor for driving the transmission, wherein the direction of rotation of the first axial fan is opposite to the direction of rotation of the second axial fan. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140165641 | DISTRIBUTOR FOR EVAPORATIVE CONDENSER HEADER OR COOLER HEADER - A heat exchanger has heat exchange elements and an inlet header and an outlet header that fluidly communicate with the heat exchange elements. The inlet header has a fluid inlet. The heat exchange elements are connected to the inlet header along a length of the inlet header and are various distances from the fluid inlet. A distributor is located inside the inlet header, which distributor forms a perforated wall between the fluid inlet and the heat exchange elements. The distributor provides back pressure to incoming fluid into the inlet header, wherein the fluid is evenly distributed between the heat exchange elements. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140190198 | MODULAR DATA CENTER - Described are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, relating to an air module and control thereof. An air module can include a controller, an air intake module configured to receive first air from a first air source and to receive second air from a second air source, an evaporative cooling module in fluid communication with the air intake module, and a mechanical cooling module in fluid communication with the evaporative cooling module. The controller can be configured to cause the intake module to mix the first air and the second air to form intake air, and selectively cool the intake air to form supply air by at least one of causing the evaporative cooling module to selectively cool the intake air, and causing the mechanical cooling module to selectively cool the intake. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140190199 | Evaporative Cooling Fan Using String-Screen-Fills as Heat Exchanger and Fabrication Thereof - The present invention involves an evaporative cooling fan including air cooling and vapor removal heat exchangers using string heat exchanger fabricated with string-screen-fill packs, which are formed of a multiplicity of string-screen-fill with string screens on both sides. The air cooling heat exchanger cools hot air by contacting with cold water and vapor removal heat exchanger condenses vapor by contacting with cold water. Using such cooling or condensing function of the string heat exchanger, vapor removable and non-removable evaporative cooling fans are invented in the present invention. The vapor non-removable cooling fan is preferred to be operated in environmentally open area and the vapor removable cooling fan is operated in any places. Both evaporative cooling fans have an advantage to be operated in the high humid area. In the present invention, the fabrication methods of vapor removable and non-removable evaporative cooling fans are described. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140250940 | Fan Support and Storage Apparatus - A fan support and storage apparatus for use in cooling a user's torso while the user is positioned adjacent the apparatus includes a base member having upper and lower portions. The apparatus includes a tubular support member having a first end operatively coupled to the base member and a second end opposite the first end. The support member has an elongate tubular configuration extending upwardly from the base member and supported in a vertical configuration above the base member. A fan assembly is slidably coupled to the support member and selectively movable therealong between the first and second ends of the support member. A fan drawer assembly is slidably coupled to the support member adjacent the fan member that is being slidably movable between the first and second ends of the support member. One or more accessory drawer assemblies may be slidably coupled to the support member. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140260402 | Air Processor Enclosure - An enclosure having a base with a chamber for holding water, right and left side panels, front and rear frames for supporting grilles or other air passages, and a top panel. At least the base, the side panels and the top panel are blow molded as separate components each having an exterior wall and an interior wall, each wall having a contour which differs from that of the other wall, each wall having an inner surface and an outer surface, and each wall connected at its periphery to the other wall. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140311176 | PHASE TRANSFER HEAT DISSIPATING DEVICE AND PHASE TRANSFER HEAT DISSIPATING SYSTEM - A volumetric phase transfer heat dissipating system includes a base, a cap and an atomizing member. The base includes a plurality of conducting members. The cap is engaged with the base to form a chamber. The conducting members are disposed in the chamber and extended toward the cap. The cap includes an inlet connecting portion for being connected to a fluid transmission tube and includes an outlet connecting portion for being connected to a vapor transmission tube. The atomizing member is sleeved to the inlet connecting portion and disposed between the fluid transmission tube and the chamber. A working fluid in the fluid transmission tube flows into the chamber via the atomizing member and forms liquid on inner walls of the chamber and outer walls of the conducting members, and the liquid is vaporized after absorbing heat and flows out via the vapor transmission tube. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140352345 | HEAT EXCHANGE MATRIX - A heat exchange matrix includes a plurality of generally planar foils including a water retaining material, arranged in spaced, substantially parallel relationship. Each foil defines a main plane having a flow direction and a transverse direction and the foils include strips that extend a strip length in the transverse direction and are separated from each neighbouring strip in the flow direction and each strip is offset from the main plane by a distance that is different from that of its neighbour. The matrix may be provided in a flow channel for air to be humidified and cooled. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140360217 | COOLING SYSTEM FOR USE IN A TURBINE ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLY - A cooling system for use in a turbine assembly is provided. The cooling system includes a first filter configured to remove particles entrained in a flow of intake air, an array of nozzles downstream from the first filter, and a second filter downstream from the array. The array of nozzles is configured to facilitate reducing a temperature of the intake air, and the second filter is configured to repel cooling liquid discharged from the array of nozzles while allowing cooled intake air to flow therethrough. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20150052930 | EXPANDING GAS DIRECT IMPINGEMENT COOLING APPARATUS - A cooling system for packaged beverages includes a cabinet or housing which may be insulated. The housing has a door and may optionally include shelves. The user places a quantity of packaged beverages into the housing and, via a user interface of the system, identifies the package type and quantity of the packaged beverages in the housing. The system injects a measured amount of liquefied gas (e.g., liquid nitrogen) into the cabinet and prevents the door from opening for a predetermined period of time based on the package type and quantity selected by the user. The door is then unlocked, an optional alert may be sounded, and the user can open the door to remove some or all of the packaged beverages from the cabinet which have been cooled to between about 30 and 40 degrees Fahrenheit. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150121937 | REFRIGERATOR WITH PLASMA DEVICE - The refrigerator includes a thermally insulated box with a first board, a plasma device and a pipeline, all of which are embedded in the first board. The plasma device includes an atomizer with a water tank and a first fan, a plasma generator and a pipeline. The plasma generator is hermetically connected to the atomizer and has an electrode device. The electrode device includes a dielectric plate and a plurality of electrode rods embedded therein. The electrode rods are interlacedly electrically connected to an AC source. The pipeline is hermetically connected to the plasma generator and composed of an inlet section with an inlet, an outlet section with at least one outlet and a middle section communicating with the dielectric plate. The inlet is provided with a second fan. | 05-07-2015 |
| 20150300667 | PORTABLE COOLING SYSTEM - A portable cooling system is provided. The portable cooling system may include a tent, an evaporating cooling fan setup within the tent, and a source of water and power to the fan. The water and power source may include at least one water container and at least one generator secured to a frame. At least one power outlet is electrically connected to the generator and at least one water outlet is fluidly connected to the water container. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150323216 | A HEAT EXCHANGER AND A VENTILATION ASSEMBLY COMPRISING IT - A heat exchanger includes two sets of channels arranged adjacent to each other, for beat exchange between a first and a second air stream. Each of the sets of channels includes at least one transversal drainage channel for drainage of condensate, and a ventilation assembly including such a heat exchanger. | 11-12-2015 |
| 062315000 | Porous wall liquid container or flow line | 3 |
| 20080209935 | AIR COOLING ASSEMBLY - Air cooling assembly (ACA) | 09-04-2008 |
| 20130255303 | COOLING DEVICE FOR USE IN SPACE ENVIRONMENT - A space-environment dedicated cooling device includes a first flow path to which coolant to be cooled is fed, a second flow path thermally coupled to the first flow path and a water absorbing body which is exposed to the space environment when the cooling device is used in the space environment. The second flow path is fed with feedwater. The water absorbing body is fed with the feedwater from the second flow path. The water absorbing body includes a water absorbing member made of water-absorbing material. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20150308748 | Flow Directors - The present invention relates to liquid to air evaporative heat exchange apparatus, mainly for cooling towers, air conditioning units, and humidifies alike. The present invention incorporate an evaporative module embedded with a liquid delivery system with flow directors to control the flow of liquid through all of its layers. Such a design allows for an even and smooth liquid distribution, while at the same time maximized the duration and surface area for heat exchange to take place. The evaporative module of the present invention can be sealed off at various sections to redirect airflow. Such a design serves dual functions as a drift eliminator or regulator. | 10-29-2015 |
