Closed circulating water cooling apparatus and method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9596786-B2
Application number	US-201214361858-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 29, 2012
Priority date	Dec 1, 2011
Publication date	Mar 14, 2017
Grant date	Mar 14, 2017

Abstract

A closed circulating water cooling apparatus and method. The cooling apparatus comprises: an internal cooling apparatus, a plate heat exchanger, an ice thermal-storage auxiliary cooling apparatus. The internal cooling apparatus comprises an air cooler. The ice thermal-storage auxiliary cooling apparatus comprises an ice thermal-storage apparatus.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A closed circulating water cooling apparatus, comprising:
an internal cooling apparatus, a plate heat exchanger and an ice thermal-storage auxiliary cooling apparatus, wherein the internal cooling apparatus comprises an internal cooling circulation pump and an air cooler;
the ice thermal-storage auxiliary cooling apparatus comprises an external cooling circulation pump and an ice thermal-storage apparatus, wherein heat is exchanged between internal cooling water in the internal cooling apparatus flowing through the plate heat exchanger and external cooling water in the ice thermal-storage auxiliary cooling apparatus flowing through the plate heat exchanger),
wherein the internal cooling apparatus further comprises a first loop valve and second loop valves; in the state that the first loop valve is opened and the second loop valves are closed, the air cooler and a device to be cooled form a first loop in which the internal cooling water circulates; in a state that the first loop valve is closed and the second loop valves are opened, the device to be cooled, the air cooler and the plate heat exchanger form a second loop in which the internal cooling water circulates; a circulation loop of the external cooling water is formed by the plate heat exchanger and the ice thermal-storage apparatus.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein an environment temperature is compared with temperature thresholds T 1 , T 2 and T 3 , respectively, wherein the temperature threshold T 1 is determined depending on a design capacity of the air cooler, the temperature threshold T 2 is determined based on a design margin of the air cooler, the temperature threshold T3 is the highest extreme environment temperature, T 1 is less than T 2 and T 2 is less than T 3 , when the environment temperature is lower than the temperature threshold T 1 , the ice thermal-storage auxiliary cooling apparatus stops operation and the internal cooling water circulates in the first loop, wherein the internal cooling water is cooled when passing through the air cooler, and then is further used to cool the device to be cooled;
when the environment temperature is higher than T 1 but lower than the temperature threshold T 2 , the first loop valve is closed and the second loop valves are opened, the internal cooling water circulates in the second loop, wherein the internal cooling water is cooled by the external cooling water when passing through the plate heat exchanger, and then is further used to cool the device to be cooled;
the ice thermal-storage apparatus operates and makes cooling-storage at night; when the environment temperature is higher than T 2 and lower than the temperature threshold T 3 , the first loop valve is closed and the second loop valves are opened, the internal water circulates in the second loop, wherein the internal cooling water is cooled when passing through the air cooler, and then is further cooled by the external cooling water when passing through the plate heat exchanger, and the internal cooling water is used to cool the device to be cooled;
the ice thermal-storage apparatus operates and makes cooling-storage at night.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein opening and closing of the first loop valve and the second loop valves are controlled according to a water temperature of the internal cooling water and/or an environment temperature.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the internal cooling circulation pump and the external cooling circulation pump are in a primary-auxiliary redundancy configuration.

5. The apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the device to be cooled is a converter valve provided in a DC power transmission equipment.

6. A closed circulating water cooling method, comprising:
cooling a device to be cooled with internal cooling water in an internal cooling apparatus, the internal cooling water passing through a plate heat exchanger and exchanging heat with external cooling water in an ice thermal-storage auxiliary cooling apparatus flowing through the plate heat exchanger, wherein the internal cooling apparatus comprises an internal cooling circulation pump and an air cooler;
the ice thermal-storage auxiliary cooling apparatus comprises an external cooling circulation pump and an ice thermal-storage apparatus
wherein the method further comprises: opening a first loop valve and closing second loop valves, the air cooler and the device to be cooled forming a first loop in which the internal cooling water circulates; closing the first loop valve and opening the second loop valves, the device to be cooled, the air cooler and the plate heat exchanger forming a second loop in which the internal cooling water circulates; the plate heat exchanger and the ice thermal-storage apparatus forming a circulation loop for external cooling circulation water, and the external cooling water circulating in the circulation loop for the external cooling circulation water.

7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein an environment temperature is compared with temperature thresholds T 1 , T 2 and T 3 , respectively, wherein the temperature threshold T 1 is determined depending on a design capacity of the air cooler ( 3 ), the temperature threshold T 2 is determined based on a design margin of the air cooler ( 3 ), the temperature threshold T3 is the highest extreme environment temperature, T 1 is less than T 2 and T 2 is less than T 3 , when the environment temperature is lower than the temperature threshold T 1 , the ice thermal-storage auxiliary cooling apparatus stops operation and the internal cooling water circulates in the first loop, wherein the internal cooling water is cooled when passing through the air cooler, and then is further used to cool the device to be cooled;
when the environment temperature is higher than T 1 and lower than the temperature threshold T 2 , the first loop valve is closed and the second loop valves are opened, the internal cooling water circulates in the second loop, wherein the internal cooling water is cooled by the external cooling water when passing through the plate heat exchanger, and then is further used to cool the device to be cooled;
the ice thermal-storage apparatus operates and makes cooling-storage at night; when the environment temperature is higher than T 2 and lower than the temperature threshold T 3 , the first loop valve is closed and the second loop valves are opened, the internal water circulates in the second loop, wherein the internal cooling water is cooled when passing through the air cooler, and then is further cooled by the external cooling water when passing through the plate heat exchanger, and the internal cooling water is used to cool the device to be cooled; the ice thermal-storage apparatus operates and makes cooling-storage at night.

8. The method according to claim 6 , wherein opening and closing of the first loop valve and the second loop valves are controlled according to a water temperature of the internal cooling water and/or an environment temperature.

9. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the internal cooling circulation pump and the external cooling circulation pump are in a primary-auxiliary redundancy configuration.

10. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the device to be cooled is a converter valve provided in a DC power transmission equipment.

Assignees

• Ding Yigong
• Yao Weizheng
• Zhang Jian
• Ruan Weihua
• Wang Dawei
• State Grid Corp China
• Xuchang Xuji Jing Rui Science & Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ding Yigong
• Yao Weizheng
• Zhang Jian
• Ruan Weihua
• Wang Dawei

Classifications

• H10W40/47

  by flowing liquids, e.g. forced water cooling · CPC title

• F25D3/02

  using ice, e.g. ice-boxes · CPC title

• H05K7/20281

  Thermal management, e.g. liquid flow control · CPC title

• F25D31/002

  Liquid coolers, e.g. beverage cooler (receptacle coolers F25D31/006) · CPC title

• F25D17/02

  for circulating liquids, e.g. brine · CPC title