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Energy recovery system for tapping thermal energy from a medium containing heat energy

A technology of energy harvesting and media, which is applied in the direction of exhaust devices, mufflers, heat exchangers, etc., and can solve the problems that energy harvesting devices are expensive and cannot be used

Inactive Publication Date: 2017-08-29
GENTHERM INC
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However, the energy harvesting devices known from the prior art are mostly very expensive and often work satisfactorily only in a narrow temperature range or cannot be used in certain temperature ranges

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[0019] figure 1 Shown therein is a vehicle 1 having an energy harvesting device 51 according to the invention. Generally, the means of transport 1 (that is, especially the devices used to transport people and / or goods, such as land vehicles, water vehicles, rail vehicles or air vehicles, especially airplanes, ships, or motor vehicles) are equipped with Air conditioning device. The air-conditioning device 5 in particular includes an object (Gegenstand) which is suitable for influencing the control system with respect to at least one climatic parameter. Here, the control system should be brought to a certain setpoint value or within a certain setpoint range at least for a short period of time, and / or be kept there continuously. This process can achieve temperature regulation, ventilation, humidification or dehumidification, and / or air conditioning. Such an air-conditioning device is particularly suitable for the temperature control or air conditioning of the vehicle seat, or al...

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The present invention relates to an energy recovery system (51), - which withdraws heat from a feed medium (52) containing heat energy, and - which has a heat transfer system (53) for this purpose, in order to transfer heat energy from the feed medium to a useful medium (54). According to the invention: - the heat transfer system (53) has a separation system (57) which spaces apart the two media (52, 54); - the heat transfer system (53) has at least one first exchanger zone (55), which allows the transfer of heat from the feed medium (52) to the useful medium (54) as long as the temperature of the feed medium is higher than that of the useful medium (54, 54'); and - the heat transfer system (53) has at least one second exchanger zone (56), which allows the transfer of heat from the feed medium (52) to the useful medium (54, 54'), even when the temperature of the feed medium is lower than that of the useful medium.

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Technical field [0001] The present invention relates to an energy harvesting device for developing thermal energy from a medium containing thermal energy according to the features of the preamble of claim 1. Here, the energy acquisition device removes heat from the supply medium containing thermal energy by means of the heat transfer device, so that the heat is transferred from the supply medium to the utilization medium. Background technique [0002] Such energy harvesting devices are used in many situations to be able to save heating energy, for example. However, most of the energy harvesting devices known from the prior art are very expensive and often only work satisfactorily in a narrow temperature range, or cannot be used in certain temperature ranges. Summary of the invention [0003] This leads to the task of providing an energy harvesting device that at least partially avoids the disadvantages of the prior art, and proposing a device that is not only narrow but also in a...

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IPC IPC(8): F01N5/02F28D21/00
CPCF01N5/02F01N5/025F28D21/0003F28D21/0014F01N2240/02Y02B30/52Y02T10/12B60H1/04B60H1/20
Inventor M·克罗博克M·拉纳利S·瓦里内奥阿列特
Owner GENTHERM INC
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