Basf Se Corporation

Olaf Rogge

Colman Carroll

Bernard Hendrik Reesink

Danny Arnold

Armando Tura

Andrew Rowe

Bennie Reesink

Colman-Patrick Carroll

A magnetocaloric cascade containing at least three different magnetocaloric materials with different Curie temperatures, which are arranged in succession by descending Curie temperature, wherein none of the different magnetocaloric materials with different Curie temperatures has a higher layer performance Lp than the magnetocaloric material with the highest Curie temperature and wherein at least one of the different magnetocaloric materials with different Curie temperatures has as lower layer performance Lp than the magnetocaloric material with the highest Curie temperature wherein Lp of a particular magnetocaloric material being calculated according to formula (I):with

Performance improvement of magnetocaloric cascades through optimized material arrangement

A heat exchanger bed is formed from a cascade of at least three different magnetocaloric materials with different Curie temperatures, which are arranged in succession by ascending or descending Curie temperature and are preferably isolated from one another by intermediate thermal and/or electrical insulators, the difference in the Curie temperatures of adjacent magnetocaloric materials being 0.5 to 6&#xb0; C.

Magneto-caloric heat pump with the use of a cascade of magneto-caloric materials

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Waghaeusel, Germany

Olaf Rogge