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Heat pump-refrigeration system with water injection and regenerative heat exchanger
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Inventors: Edwards, Thomas C.;
Assignee: The Rovac Corporation (Rockledge, FL)
Primary Examiner: Wayner; William E.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Leydig, Voit, Osann, Mayer & Holt, Ltd.
An air conditioning system for a living space capable of operating as a heat pump or refrigerator employing a unitary compressor and expander having a common rotor with vanes defining enclosed compartments for positive compression of air in the compressor and positive expansion of air in the expander. A regenerative heat exchanger having thermally coupled air passages is employed in the system together with a non-regenerative primary heat exchanger which is located in the warm space. Air from the cool space is heated in the first passage of the regenerative heat exchanger, and moisture is injected, following which the air passes into the compressor inlet port. From the compressor outlet port wet air flows at high temperature and pressure to the primary heat exchanger located in the warm space where some of its heat is given up. Next the air flows through the second passage in the regenerative heat exchanger where its temperature is further lowered prior to being fed to the expander inlet port. Air from the expander outlet port, at low temperature and at atmospheric pressure, is discharged into the cool space, the net result being to increase the temperature differential between the spaces. When the system is used in the heat pump mode, the primary heat exchanger is located in the living space for heating the same, with the compressor-expander, initial air inlet, and final air outlet being located in the outside environment. In the preferred form of the invention a separate primary heat exchanger is located in the outside environment and transfer valves are provided to substitute the outside heat exchanger and for switching the initial air inlet and final air outlet into the living space for use of the system in the refrigeration mode. In an alternate form of the invention an auxiliary non-regenerative heat exchanger may be interposed between the final air outlet and initial air inlet. When the system is employed in the heat pump mode, provision is made for use of a solar heat absorber between the regenerative heat exchanger and the inlet port of the compressor. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION I claim as my invention: 1.
A heat pump-refrigeration system comprising, in combination, a cool space, a relatively warm space separated therefrom by an insulating barrier, a unitary compressor and expander having rotor means driven by a common shaft, the rotor means having vanes defining enclosed compartments which cyclically become smaller and larger as the shaft rotates, the compressor and expander each having an inlet port and an outlet port so that air is positively compressed and elevated in temperature in the compressor and positively expanded and lowered in temperature in the expander, a regenerative heat exchanger having first and second thermally coupled air passages, a primary heat exchanger in the warm space having an air passage thermally coupled to the air in the warm space, an initial air inlet for conducting air from the cool space into the first passage of the regenerative heat exchanger, means for conducting the air from said first passage to the compressor inlet port, means for conducting the air from the compressor outlet port to the primary heat exchanger, means for conducting the air from the primary heat exchanger to the second air passage of the regenerative heat exchanger, means for conducting the air from the said second air passage to the inlet port of the expander, and a final air outlet for conducting air from the outlet port of the expander to the cool space so that heat is effectively pumped from the cool space to the warm space to increase the temperature differential between them, and means for injecting water in finely divided form into the air stream which enters the compressor.
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The combination as claimed in claim 1 in which a secondary heat exchanger is provided in the cool space having an air passage thermally coupled to the air in the cool space, the air passage being interposed between the final air outlet and the initial air inlet for recirculation of the air in the system.
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The combination as claimed in claim 1 in which a small percentage of miscible lubricant is entrained in the water entering the compressor inlet port
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