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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2015
Basf SE, Ludwigshafen, DE;
Colman Carroll, Mannheim, DE;
Olaf Rogge, Waghaeusel, DE;
Bernard Hendrik Reesink, Winterswijk-Kotten, NL;
Andrew Rowe, Victoria BC, CA;
Danny Arnold, Victoria BC, CA;
Armando Tura, Victoira BC, CA;
BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, DE;
Abstract
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