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Energy-recovery-and-storage-system

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Details

Inventors: Munroe, Patrick Oliver;
Assignee: International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (New York, NY)
Primary Examiner: O'Dea; William F.
Assistant Examiner: Yuen; Henry C.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Raden; James B., Michals; William J.

Heat pipes are employed to capture energy normally lost in the form of heat in the gases in flue-stacks and to transfer the captured heat to water in a water jacket. The heated water is pumped from the water jacket to a storage tank where it is kept until needed. Control of the system is governed by heat sensors in the flue-stack and in the storage tank which provide control signals to a pump, or pumps, used in controlling the flow of water through the pipes between the water jacket and the storage tank.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION Objects of the present invention include the recovery of energy in the form of heat which normally is lost in flue-stacks and the storage of the recovered energy for use at a later time.
To accomplish the foregoing the ancillary objects, embodiments of the present invention employ heat pipes which are positioned to have first ends in a flue-stack while the other ends terminate in a water jacket.
With this arrangement, heat from the flue gases is transferred by the heat pipes to water in the water jacket.
Heated water from the water jacket is piped to a storage tank where it is kept until needed.
To make the hot water flow through the pipes to the tank and to bring colder water to the water jacket, a pump is provided.
The pump is turned "on" or "off" in accordance with signals received from sensors in the flue-stack and the hot water storage tank.

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