EP 1963756 B1 20120307 - RARE-GAS-BASED BERNOULLI HEAT PUMP AND METHOD
Title (en)
RARE-GAS-BASED BERNOULLI HEAT PUMP AND METHOD
Title (de)
BERNOULLI-WÄRMEPUMPE AUF EDELGAS-BASIS UND VERFAHREN
Title (fr)
POMPE A CHALEUR DE BERNOULLI A GAZ RARE ET PROCEDE ASSOCIE
Publication
Application
Priority
- IB 2006002176 W 20060809
- US 70725705 P 20050811
Abstract (en)
[origin: WO2007017741A2] Heat pumps move heat from a source to a warmer sink, with Bernoulli heat pumps accomplishing this movement by reducing the temperature in a portion of the generally- warmer heat-sink flow. Heat flows spontaneously from the generally cooler heat-source flow into the locally cold portion of the heat-sink flow, which is the neck of a Venturi. The temperature reduction results from the Bernoulli conversion of random gas-particle motion (temperature and pressure) into directed motion (flow). This invention is a Bernoulli heat pump in which the heat transfer into the Venturi neck exploits unusual thermodynamic transport properties of rare-gases. Rare gases, especially mixtures of them, possess unusually small Prandtl numbers and thereby facilitate the diffusion of random particle motion (heat) relative to the diffusion of directed particle motion (viscosity), viscous friction being responsible for most of the power consumed by a Bernoulli heat pump.
IPC 8 full level
F25B 9/00 (2006.01); F25B 23/00 (2006.01)
CPC (source: EP KR)
F25B 9/00 (2013.01 - KR); F25B 9/002 (2013.01 - EP); F25B 23/00 (2013.01 - EP KR)
Designated contracting state (EPC)
AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC NL PL PT RO SE SI SK TR
DOCDB simple family (publication)
WO 2007017741 A2 20070215; WO 2007017741 A3 20070419; AT E548613 T1 20120315; AU 2006277743 A1 20070215; BR PI0614540 A2 20110405; CA 2618728 A1 20070215; CN 101317047 A 20081203; EP 1963756 A2 20080903; EP 1963756 B1 20120307; IL 189426 A0 20080605; JP 2010500524 A 20100107; KR 20080059552 A 20080630
DOCDB simple family (application)
IB 2006002176 W 20060809; AT 06795223 T 20060809; AU 2006277743 A 20060809; BR PI0614540 A 20060809; CA 2618728 A 20060809; CN 200680033296 A 20060809; EP 06795223 A 20060809; IL 18942608 A 20080211; JP 2008525656 A 20060809; KR 20087005468 A 20080305