The subject of the invention is a Device for storage of energy, in particular
cooling energy, and the method of cooling the device for storage of energy, in particular
cooling energy, as well as their specific use The invention is applicable to cyclic freeze-up, i.e. the generation and build-up of the ice (7') and its use for
refrigeration purposes, when there is an increased demand for
cooling power in systems, such as
air conditioning or freezing. The application may also include
refrigeration or freezing devices that do not operate permanently, but the time and / or duration of their use requires an additional supply of cold that cannot be obtained during standard operation of such equipment. The exemplary device for storage of energy, in particular
cooling energy, is equipped with the tank (1), preferably the
circulating pump (2) and the
heat exchanger (3) of which at least one cold accumulator (4) located in the tank (1) is a component. It is powered in terms of
refrigeration by the cooling liquid
refrigerant (5) which is a carrier of the cold, where the
refrigerant is an aqueous glycol solution or brine or
alcohol or a solution thereof. In the tank (1), at least two cold accumulators (4) are located, each bounded by the mantle (6) in the form of a spatial
solid made of a thermal conductor, which spatial
solid is filled with the water (7) and an air or vacuum buffer supplementary to 100% of this filling, wherein the mantles (6) preferably inseparably and at a distance connected to the tank (1) and / or to each other, and the distance between the mantles (6) of the adjacent cold accumulators (4) preferably ranges from 2mm to 150mm, wherein the tank (1) is filled with the liquid
refrigerant (5) as a cold carrier, which refrigerant (5) constitutes the environment of all the mantles (6) of the cold accumulators (4) contained in the tank (1), and wherein the liquid refrigerant (5) constitutes the freezing
thermal circuit of the cold accumulators (4) bounded by their mantles (6). The mantle (6) surrounding the cold accumulator (4) is the first mantle (6') of said cold accumulator (4), while inside the first mantle (6'), at a distance therefrom, but preferably using at least one
thermal bridge connection (34), there is at least one second mantle (6") of the same cold accumulator (4), wherein the outer environment of the second mantle (6") is the cold accumulator (4) and the internal environment of the kind of filling of the second mantle (6") is the refrigerant (5) supplied and discharged by the second mantle (6") from outside the cold accumulator (4), wherein the second mantle (6") has a tubular input (33') and has a tubular output (33") connecting the second mantle (6") to the freezing
thermal circuit.