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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 1984
Filed:
Mar. 01, 1982
Applicant:
Inventors:
Russell S Miller, Saratoga, NY (US);
Peter W Dietz, Delanson, NY (US);
Christopher Bray, Chillicothe, IL (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F28D / ; F28D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
165-1 ; 62 59 ; 62 71 ; 126436 ; 165 10 ; 16510411 ; 16510417 ;
Abstract
Latent heat is stored in a liquid storage material having a variable phase-dependent density from which material heat is subsequently removed by heat transfer with an immiscible liquid interfaced with the storage material, such that storage material at the interface is solidified resulting in the separation thereof from the interface by buoyancy forces.