Domestic combined heat and power system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9027516-B2
Application number	US-201113996822-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 19, 2011
Priority date	Dec 24, 2010
Publication date	May 12, 2015
Grant date	May 12, 2015

Abstract

A domestic combined heat and power system including a power unit, a heat-storage tank which receives waste heat of the power unit for storing heat in direct water, and a main heat exchanger connected to the heat-storage tank, being heated by a burner so as to use the water as hot water. A waste-heat heat exchanger filled with a heat-transfer medium is installed between the power unit and the heat-storage tank such that a waste-heat pipe is arranged in the form of a coil at one side inside the waste-heat heat exchanger, and a heat-storage pipe of the heat-storage tank is arranged in the form of a coil at the other side. Waste heat of the power unit is indirectly heat exchanged to the heat-storage tank through the heat-transfer medium. Costs and waste of energy consumption are reduced, and there is sharing of functions that are duplicated across the heat-storage tank.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A domestic combined heat and power system comprising a power unit, a heat-storage tank which receives waste heat of the power unit and stores heat in direct water separately flowing in, and a main heat exchanger which is connected to the heat-storage tank and is heated by a burner so as to use water as hot water or heating water,
wherein a waste-heat heat exchanger filled with a heat-transfer medium is installed between the power unit and the heat-storage tank, such that a waste-heat pipe of the power unit is arranged in the form of a coil at one side inside the waste-heat heat exchanger, and a heat-storage pipe of the heat-storage tank is arranged in the form of a coil at the other side, so that heat is indirectly exchanged from waste heat of the power unit to the heat-storage tank through the heat-transfer medium;
a heating-water supply pipe coming out from the heat-storage tank comes back into the heat-storage tank via a main heat exchanger, a third three-way valve, a heating load, a second three-way valve, and a first three-way valve, another outlet of the first three-way valve is connected to the heating-water supply pipe that comes into the main heat exchanger, and a hot-water-heating heat exchange coil coming out from another outlet of the third three-way valve is arranged so as to allow indirect heat exchange with a heat exchange coil of hot-water piping at a hot-water heat exchanger, and then connected so as to come into another inlet of the second three-way valve, and
the hot-water piping coming out from the heat-storage tank is arranged so as to be indirectly heat exchanged with the hot-water-heating heat exchange coil at the hot-water heat exchanger, and then connected to a hot-water valve side.

2. The domestic combined heat and power system of claim 1 , wherein the heat-storage tank is an open type having a rectangular parallelepiped shape.

Assignees

• Park Chang Kwon
• Kyungdong Navien Co Ltd

Inventors

• Park Chang Kwon

Classifications

• F24D2103/17

  Storage tanks · CPC title

• F24D2101/80

  Electric generators driven by external combustion engines, e.g. Stirling engines · CPC title

• F24D2101/70

  Electric generators driven by internal combustion engines [ICE] · CPC title

• F24D2103/13

  characterised by their heat exchangers · CPC title

• F24D2101/30

  Fuel cells · CPC title