Universitat Politécnica De Catalunya

Jesús Castro González

Ramiro Alba Queipo

Carlos David Pérez Segarra

Ivette Rodríguez Pérez

Roser Capdevila Paramio

Joaquim Rigola Serrano

Carles Oliet Casasayas

Oriol Lehmkuhl Barba

Xavi Trias Miquel

Manuel Miguel Ordoño Martinez

Joan Farnos Baluenas

Asensio Oliva Llena

Asensi Oliva Llena

Manuel Miguel Ordoño Martínez

Pedro Andrés Galione Klot

The invention relates to the design of an air cooled absorption machine. Said machine has a hollow design via which air can circulate inside same by forced convention having a parallelepiped form. The air enters by suction via the sides and leaves via the upper face of the machine, where the ventilator is located. The machine comprises falling-film heat exchangers with improved designs for heat and mass transfer.

Machine for air-cooled absorption

The invention relates to a system for the storage and recovery of thermal energy, using, as its medium, at least one phase change material (solid-liquid) and a sensible heat solid material for storing/recovering the heat obtained from an external source in the form of phase change latent heat and sensible heat. The aforementioned materials are duly housed inside a single tank containing at least two zones which are differentiated by the range of temperatures to which they are subjected, each zone containing a different material. The most common configuration consists of three different zones located inside the tank, namely: a hot zone in the upper part of the tank, enclosing an encapsulated phase change material characterized by a high melting temperature; a cold zone housed in the lower part of the tank, containing a phase change material with a low melting temperature; and a middle zone containing a sensible heat solid material.

Thermal energy storage system combining sensible heat solid material and phase change material

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Terrassa, Spain

Jesús Castro González