Evaporator set, preferably for a thermally driven adsorption device, and adsorption device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10240825-B2
Application number	US-201414539036-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 12, 2014
Priority date	Nov 13, 2013
Publication date	Mar 26, 2019
Grant date	Mar 26, 2019

Abstract

An evaporator set, preferably for a thermally driven adsorption device. In an evaporator set that can be connected an easily output-scalable modular thermally driven condenser set and, as a result, can be used simultaneously as a heat or cold store, a liquid collector is connected via a blockable expansion valve with an evaporator for cooling a fluid, wherein the liquid collector, the expansion valve and the evaporator form a structural unit, and wherein the liquid collector has a fluid inlet for and the evaporator a fluid outlet to a thermally driven condenser set.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An adsorption device, comprising:
a thermally driven condenser set structurally combined with an evaporator set,
the thermally driven condenser set including multiple condenser set modules, each of the multiple condenser set modules being a condenser with a sorption heat exchanger provided therein, and
the evaporator set including an expansion valve, an evaporator, a liquid collector connected via the expansion valve to the evaporator for cooling a fluid and an inner heat exchanger connected to the liquid connector,
wherein the expansion valve, the evaporator, and the liquid collector form a modular component,
wherein the liquid collector has a fluid inlet connected to the thermally driven condenser set and the evaporator has a fluid outlet connected to the thermally driven condenser set, and
wherein the inner heat exchanger is arranged downstream from the evaporator, and wherein the inner heat exchanger has a fluid outlet for connecting to the thermally driven condenser set, such that a fluid flows from the evaporator to the inner heat exchanger and then the fluid flows from the inner heat exchanger directly to the thermally driven condenser set.

2. The adsorption device as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the expansion valve is a thermostatic or an electrically controllable, pulse width modulated, expansion valve.

3. The adsorption device as set forth in claim 1 , further comprising a controller, wherein a degree of opening or a pulse width ratio of the expansion valve is controlled by the controller as a function of a signal output from an overheating sensor system and/or a droplet sensor and/or a performance requirement signal, the signal being received by the controller.

4. The adsorption device as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the expansion valve is tied into a liquid line that connects the liquid collector to the evaporator.

5. The adsorption device as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the modular component formed by the liquid collector, the expansion valve and the evaporator further includes the inner heat exchanger.

6. The adsorption device as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the thermally driven condenser set is connected to a suction line of the evaporator of the evaporator set and connected via a condensate discharge line to the liquid collector of the evaporator set.

7. The adsorption device as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the evaporator set and the thermally driven condenser set are each embodied as a modular component.

8. The adsorption device as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the multiple condenser set modules are connected in parallel.

9. The adsorption device as set forth in claim 1 , wherein each of the multiple condenser set modules has a respective condensate line that connects to the liquid collector.

Assignees

• Mahle Int Gmbh

Inventors

• Burk Roland

Classifications

• F25B39/026 Primary

  specially adapted for sorption type systems · CPC title

• F25B2400/21

  Modules for refrigeration systems · CPC title

• Y02A30/27

  Relating to heating, ventilation or air conditioning [HVAC] technologies · CPC title

• F25B17/00

  Sorption machines, plants or systems, operating intermittently, e.g. absorption or adsorption type · CPC title