Jeumont Schneider Corporation

Societe Anonyme: Elf Aquitaine

Francis Meunier

Gerard F Paeye

A refrigerating and heating apparatus using a solid sorbent includes at least one compartmentalized reactor having solid sorbents able to fix at least one refrigerating fluid and in contact with a heat exchanger, a mechanism for the alternate circulation of a heat transfer fluid between hot and cold sources, by use of the exchanger, in order to create in the sorbent a temperature front passing through the compartments, a condenser and an evaporator. The thermal conductivity and permeability of the sorbent are lower parallel to the displacement of the heat transfer fluid in the exchanger than perpendicular thereto. Gaseous refrigerating fluid circulating means create a pressure front passing through the compartments with the temperature front.

Refrigerating and heating apparatus using a solid sorbent

A device for continuous production of heat and cold comprises a combination of an external heat source (10), at least first and second units (1, 2) each of which operates by using different solid-fluid adsorbent-refrigerant pairs, and each of which includes two reactors (11, 12; 21, 22) containing the same solid adsorbent, a condenser (13, 23) and an evaporator (14). The reactors of the first unit (1) are connected alternately to the external heat source (10) and the heat recovered from the first unit (1) is used to heat alternately the reactors of the second unit (2). Heat may be tapped at the condensers, and cold may be tapped at the evaporators.

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Francis Meunier