Radiator-type device with heat pipe for comfortable heating and cooling
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- EP · EP
- Patent Type
- Applications
- Current Assignee / Owner
- ENOVER ISI SISTEMLERI ANONIM SIRKETI
- Filing Date
- 2023-08-29
- Publication Date
- 2026-06-10
AI Technical Summary
Existing heating and cooling systems, such as radiators and fan coils, are inefficient and costly due to the need for thick walls to withstand hydronic pressure, high water volume leading to pressure drops and increased pumping requirements, and reliance on fossil fuels for heating at higher temperatures.
The use of heat pipes instead of traditional heat transfer fluids, with a phase-changing, non-clumping heat transfer fluid containing solid particles like colemanite and boron carbide, allows for efficient heat transfer without the need for water to pass through all pipes, reducing material and energy costs and minimizing CO2 emissions.
This solution provides efficient and comfortable heating and cooling with reduced material and energy costs, lower CO2 emissions, and the ability to operate effectively at lower temperatures using renewable energy sources, thereby addressing the inefficiencies and environmental impacts of traditional systems.
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Abstract
Description
[0001] RADIATOR-TYPE DEVICE WITH HEAT PIPE FOR COMFORTABLE HEATING AND COOLING
[0002] TECHNICAL FIELD
[0003] The invention relates to the radiator, which uses heat pipes instead of traditional heat transfer fluids such as water or air, which circulate to transfer heat inside for comfort or to take cold from inside to save material, and weight, providing comfortable heating and noticeable cooling.
[0004] The invention is especially; the heating water receives heat energy from the inner pipes and delivers this heat energy to the environment through the lower collector, upper collector, and vertical heat transfer pipes, which allows the environment to warm up and / or the heat contained in the environment, the heat is received through the convector sheet of the radiator and this heat is transmitted to the cooling water flowing through the inner cooling water pipe in the upper collector, the lower collector, upper collector, vertical heat transfer pipes that can change the phase, do not cluster, between 10-200 nanometers colemanite, borax, AI2O3, SiC , CuO, TiCh, SiL, boron carbide, szaybelite, it is related to the radiator that provides heating and cooling, which contains a heat transfer fluid with boron solid particles.
[0005] THE KNOWN STATE OF THE TECHNIQUE
[0006] Nowadays, different methods are used to control the temperature of the livable indoor environment. Besides compulsory air conditioning, radiators or fan coils are generally used to heat the localities. Radiators work on the principle of transferring the thermal energy of circulating water supplied from a built-in heating boiler, such as a wall-mounted boiler, furnace or heat pump, or a central heating system. In general application, there are water channels in radiators or finned heat exchangers in fan coils.
[0007] Four-pipe fan coils are used to heat the interior space when necessary according to seasonal needs and to meet both audible and hidden cooling loads (if there is a condensate pan). Fans provide forced convection, but they use electric power. The unit exergy of electricity is 0,95 kWexergy / kWenergy . Comfortable cooling requires only a unit of exergy of less than about 0.10. So far, the industry ignores this kind of exergy imbalance, which leads to indirect CO2 emissions liability. Thanks to its special design, this invention minimizes or eliminates the need for fan power.
[0008] According to EN442 standards in both of these known techniques, the walls touching the water, in conventional radiators and fan-coils, the wall thickness should be at least 1.11 mm if flat sheet metal and 0.8 mm if the pipe is at each fluid location. This necessity increases the weight, labor, transportation, energy contained in the radiators, emissions, material, and production costs. In this invention, the heat pipe radiator itself is not exposed to the hydronic pressure of the building, except for the internal water pipe. Therefore, the invention provides savings in all the items mentioned, since the wall thicknesses of sheet metal and heat pipes can be less.
[0009] In the radiators and fan coils used in the current technique, water circulates through the channels contained in the product. Therefore, the amount of water in each product is quite large. In addition, when water circulates in these channels, the pressure drop will be too much. Therefore, the pumping requirement required for the operation of the system is also high.
[0010] In order for the radiators used in the current technique to be heated effectively, the hot water provided must be at least around 55-60°C. With the exception of geothermal energy and high-temperature solar energy sources, it is mandatory to use all fossil fuels or mixed with renewable energy sources. Heat pumps can be used to condition temperatures, but as long as their performance coefficient is not greater than 10, they use electrical power and destroy exergy, which is not possible with today's technology. This invention allows them to work with such performance coefficients to provide such low heating or high coolant temperatures if heat pumps are needed. Otherwise, large dimensioning of radiators and fan coils is required for effective heating of the cooling. Invention, low temperatures such as 35°C for heating and 19°C for sensible cooling are sufficient.
[0011] As a result, there is a huge gap between today's technology and the goals of the Paris Agreement aimed at decelerating climate change.
[0012] Electrically powered heat pumps are not necessarily exergy-rational. Instead, an optimal mix of equipment is required, which is oversized to maintain their rated capacity at low temperatures with or without a heat pump. Today's strategies have begun to include low-temperature waste heat sources and renewable energy sources in low-temperature regional energy systems, as well as those using solar energy in the optimal resource mix. Following this trend, third and fourth-generation zone systems have begun to use much lower temperatures to take advantage of the again abundant waste heat and low enthalpy geothermal energy. However, traditional heating systems were only able to cope with lower temperatures, up to about 60°C. Below this supply temperature, the zone system needs new equipment technologies and better ways to harness solar energy in the field to provide heat to the new equipment. Another option is to use heat pumps to peak supply temperatures to eliminate or minimize the excessive size of standard heating equipment, or to reduce the need for new technologies in the short term. However, current heat pump technology has unique challenges related to the disconformity of exergy between the demand for electrical power and the highest thermal exergy. Therefore, from an exergetic point of view, it seems that the EU dream of the total electrification of heating and cooling, with or without a 100% renewable (or not) heat pump, may not be realized unless heat pump technology is further developed by improving it. Heating the COP to 8 or 10 is in a series formation with additional costs. These sample results conclude that the sustainable solution for decarbonisation with low and very low regional energy supply temperatures lies on the demand side by low-exergy heating and cooling equipment without requiring any temperature increase, i.e. electric or non-electric.
[0013] As another solution, some authors propose large temperature differences between the supply and return temperatures AT, such as 55°C supply and 25°C rotation (Dec = 30°C) in the equipment, hoping that the need for excessive sizing can be reduced. This approach has rapidly diminishing returns, especially for single-pipe systems, which were preferred between 1960 and 1980, especially for reasons of economy and ease of design. Much older buildings, which are a relic of the steam age, have double-pipe systems, as in today's buildings. Unfortunately, in many countries, there are buildings of this type in a large part of the existing building stock. The higher the AT (>20°C), the greater the need to add equipment in series at any feeding temperature (Oversizing).
[0014] As a result, the need for a new economical, convenient, comfortable heating and cooling radiator for the solution of the above-mentioned problems existing in the current technique and the lack of existing solutions made it necessary to make a development in the relevant technical field.
[0015] THE PURPOSE OF THE INVENTION
[0016] The current invention relates to a radiator that has been developed to eliminate the above-mentioned disadvantages and bring new advantages to the relevant technical field, uses heat pipes instead of traditional heat transfer fluids such as water or air that circulate to transfer heat inside for comfort or take cold from inside in order to save material, weight, providing comfortable heating and noticeable cooling.
[0017] The most important purpose of the invention is to include heat transfer pipes with a heat transfer fluid that can change the phase. In this way, it is ensured that the radiator is much lighter in mass than its counterpart radiators.
[0018] Another important purpose of the invention is that it is at the same level as its counterparts in terms of thermal power thanks to the heat transfer pipe.
[0019] Another important purpose of the invention is to provide heat conduction without passing water through the pipes by the presence of a phase-changing, non-clumping fluid in the pipes, which can contain colemanite, borax, AI2O3, SiOs, CuO, TiCh, SiL, boron carbide, szaybelite, boron solid particles between 10-200 nanometers.
[0020] One of the purposes of the invention is to save energy and costs by eliminating the need for water to pass through all of the radiator's pipes.
[0021] One of the purposes of the invention is to optimize both raw material costs and thermal power ratios, increasing the thermal power obtained per unit cost to the highest level [W / TL or W / Kg] compared to radiators.
[0022] Another purpose of the invention is to eliminate the necessity of using materials with a wall thickness of at least 1.11 mm on sheet metal and 0.80 mm on pipes by using heat pipes.
[0023] Another purpose of the invention is to reduce pressure losses by passing the heating and cooling water only through the water pipes inside the collectors.
[0024] Another purpose of the invention is to provide savings in pumping costs in boiler and central heating systems, central cooling systems by reducing pressure losses.
[0025] Another purpose of the invention is to provide heating of environments with heat obtained from renewable energy sources by working at high efficiency at low temperatures in heating. For equivalent radiators that provide efficiency at temperatures of 55-60°C under normal conditions, it is necessary to use fossil fuels to heat water. The invention can also work effectively in heating at temperatures of 28-32°C. In this way, it is possible to heat the localities efficiently with the energy obtained from renewable energy sources and waste heat recovery.
[0026] Another purpose of the invention is to provide heating of environments with heat obtained from renewable energy sources by working at high efficiency at high temperatures in refrigeration. For counterpart radiators that provide efficiency at temperatures of 7-12°C under normal conditions, it is necessary to use fossil fuels to heat water. The invention can also work effectively in refrigeration at temperatures of 16-18°C. In this way, it is possible to cool the localities efficiently with the energy obtained from heat pumps.
[0027] Another purpose of the invention is to shorten the working time in heating and cooling systems thanks to the low response time and to provide energy savings by extending the waiting time. Another purpose of the invention is to improve the effective heat transfer coefficient of heat pipes by adding nanoparticles with a high thermal capacity to primarily transfer heat through thermal transport in thermal energy packages instead of thermal conduction and convection. Another purpose of the invention is that heat pipes can operate in a horizontal position without the use of a wick and with a similarly high effective heat transfer coefficient. This is very important for cooling panels installed horizontally on the ceiling and for underfloor heating panels installed horizontally with high efficiency without using auxiliary circulation pumps or fans (for air heating or cooling panels).
[0028] Another purpose of the invention is to introduce audible ceiling cooling systems, which are the most effective comfort cooling systems without the risk of air moisture condensation on panel surfaces and supply pipes since cooling temperatures are already above the dew point in almost all conditions.
[0029] Another purpose of the invention is to introduce heating and cooling equipment with a capacity base equal to one or less than one, which is approximately 1.33 in conventional radiators. The low number of bases means better and more precise comfort control.
[0030] Another purpose of the invention is to make it possible to renovate existing buildings more easily, less cost-effectively, and with fewer applications, without enlarging existing heating or cooling equipment.
[0031] Another purpose of the invention, if used, is to increase the performance coefficient of heat pumps, and reduce avoidable CO2 emissions due to the exergy imbalance between the input electricity and the supply comfort heating or cooling exergy.
[0032] The structural and characteristic features of the invention and all its advantages will be understood more clearly thanks to the detailed description written by making references to the shapes given below and these shapes, and therefore the evaluation should be made taking into account these shapes and detailed description.
[0033] FIGURES THAT WILL HELP TO UNDERSTAND THE INVENTION
[0034] Figure - 1; This is a drawing that gives an overall image of a heat pipe heater and cooler radiator with the heat transfer fluid.
[0035] Figure - 2; This is the drawing that gives the front view of the heat pipe heater and cooler radiator with the heat transfer fluid.
[0036] Figure - 3; This is the drawing that gives the upper appearance of the heat pipe heater and cooler radiator with the heat transfer fluid.
[0037] Figure - 4; This is a drawing that gives the appearance of a heat pipe heater with heat transfer fluid and a cooler radiator without external covers. Figure - 5; This is the drawing that gives the upper view without the outer covers of the heat pipe heater and cooler radiator with the heat transfer fluid.
[0038] Figure - 6; This is the drawing that gives the cross-sectional view of the heating water inlet of the heat pipe heater and cooler radiator with the heat transfer fluid.
[0039] Figure - 7; This is the drawing that gives a cross-sectional view of the cooling water inlet of the heat pipe heater and cooler radiator with the heat transfer fluid.
[0040] Figure - 8; This is a drawing that gives a cross-sectional view showing the installation of fans and an electronic system of the heat pipe heater and cooler radiator with the heat transfer fluid.
[0041] Figure - 9; This is the drawing that gives the general appearance of the fans and electronic system of the heat pipe heater and cooler radiator with a heat transfer fluid.
[0042] Figure - 10; This is the drawing that gives the front view of the heat pipe system of the heat pipe heater and cooler radiator with the heat transfer fluid that can change phase between two and / or three phases.
[0043] Figure - 11; This is a cross-sectional view of the hot water inlet of the heat pipe heater and a cooler radiator with the heat transfer fluid.
[0044] Figure - 12; This is a cross-sectional view of the cooling water inlet of the heat pipe heater and cooler radiator with heat transfer fluid and the filling location of the heat transfer fluid.
[0045] Figure - 13; This is a cross-sectional view of the installation of the vertical heat pipes of the heat pipe heater and cooler radiator with the heat transfer fluid with an external sheet and convector sheet.
[0046] REFERENCE NUMBERS
[0047] 100. Heat pipe heater and cooling radiator
[0048] 110. Heating water inlet
[0049] 120. Heating water outlet
[0050] 130. Coolant inlet
[0051] 140. Coolant outlet
[0052] 150. Electronics and fan system 151. Detachable fan plate
[0053] 152. Fans
[0054] 153. Fan cables
[0055] 154. Temperature and humidity sensor on the convector sheet
[0056] 155. On - off button
[0057] 156. Circuit board
[0058] 157. AC electrical cable
[0059] 160. Convector sheet
[0060] 170. Outer sheet
[0061] 180. Heat transfer fluid piping system
[0062] 181. Top collector
[0063] 182. Heat transfer fluid filling location
[0064] 183. Vertical heat transfer fluid pipe
[0065] 184. Sub-collector
[0066] 185. Coolant inner pipe
[0067] 186. Heating water inner pipe
[0068] 187. Cooling water collector bridge
[0069] 188. Heating water collector bridge DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
[0070] In this detailed description, the preferred configurations of the heat pipe heater and coolant radiator (100) are explained only for a better understanding of the subject and in such a way that they do not create any limiting effects.
[0071] The invention relates to the radiator, which uses heat pipes instead of traditional heat transfer fluids such as water or air, which circulate to transfer heat inside for comfort or to take cold from inside in order to save material, and weight, providing comfortable heating and noticeable cooling.
[0072] Circulating energy and emissions regulations can all be an asset for minimal CO2emissions responsibility, enabling direct use of low-temperature waste heat and high-temperature waste heat or ambient cold without much need for temperature conditioning, such as the use of heat pumps. It opens up a wide area of opportunity to exploit low-intensity solar energy. Due to the low volume of heating or coolant in the system circulation, this invention reacts very quickly in heat pipes with the convection of the other two phases in both heating and cooling thanks to the high heating capacity of the third solid phase nano-particles moved by the condensation and evaporation phases. The main mechanism is the transport of heat by nano-particles of the solid phase, instead of the thermal conduction of the liquid used in ordinary heat pipes. Therefore, the key point is the use of a new three- phase fluid in the heat pipes, which essentially replaces conventional thermal conduction and convection by thermal transport, in addition to the traditional heat pipes with higher effective thermal conductivity from one side to the other. All of the hydro-mechanical design parameters are based on the second law of thermodynamics, which relates exergy destruction to unavoidable emissions. This invention combines such a low-exergy invention with the ability to make low-exergy thermal resources directly available for heating and cooling, minimizing exergy (energy quality) disruptions for minimal CO2 emission liability. This invention opens the window of opportunity for the most energy efficient, exergy-rational, and displays the most harmless alternative for comfort cooling in the invented three- phase heat pipe systems.
[0073] The subject of the invention shown in Figure 1-13 is the heat pipe heater and cooling radiator (100) and their details are shown. In the invention, the heat pipe heater and cooling radiator (100) is mainly intended to make the heating and cooling needs with a single product. Here, hot water enters the heat pipe heater and cooling radiator (100) through the heating water inlet (110), passes through the heating water inner pipe, and exits through the heating water outlet (120). The heat pipe heater and cooling radiator (100) consist of heating water inner pipe (186), the sub-collector (184) positioned outside these pipes, the top collector (181) positioned horizontally above the radiator, Vertical heat transfer fluid pipe (183) located between these two collectors and the outer sheets (170) and convector sheets (160) that surround these pipes. The decking radiator consists of a heating water inner pipe (186) through which the heating water is passed during heating. During use, the heating water passes only through the heating water inner pipe (186), and the hot water passing through the heating water inner pipe (186) does not mix with the phase-changing heat transfer fluid. The temperature taken from the hot water inside the heating water inner pipe (186) is transmitted to the vertical heat transfer fluid pipe (183) and from there to the top collector (181) through the phasechanging, non-clumping fluid inside the sub-collector (184), which can also contain solid particles such as colemanite, borax, AI2O3, SiO3, CuO, TiO2, SiL, boron carbide, szaybelite, boron Decarbonized in the range of 10-200 nanometers. The hot water only passes through the heating water inner pipe (186). In this way, heat transfer is performed without the need to pass water through the sub-collector (184), vertical heat transfer fluid pipe (183), and the top collector (181), and the same efficiency is achieved by using less water than the systems used in the known state of the technique. In addition, the subcollector (184), vertical heat transfer fluid pipe (183), and top collector (181) are characterized by containing a phase-changing heat transfer fluid that cools slowly thanks to nano-sized solid particles that hit and land on their inner walls.
[0074] As shown in Figure 6, only the heating water inner pipe (186) is positioned inside the sub-collector (184). Two sub-collectors (184) are connected by a heating water collector bridge (188) in the radiator where two sets of heat transfer fluid piping systems (180) are used side by side. Thanks to the heating water collector bridge (188), heating water flow is provided between the heat transfer fluid piping system (180), which is decoupled side by side.
[0075] As shown in Figure 12, the phase-changeable, non-clumping fluid, which can contain solid particles such as colemanite, borax, AI2O3, SiO3, CuO, TiO2, SiL, boron carbide, szaybelite, boron between 10-200 nanometers, is filled from the heat transfer fluid filling location (182) into the heat transfer fluid piping system (180).
[0076] During cooling; the coolant inner pipe (185) through which the cooling water is passed is located in the top collector (181). Cooling water enters the heat pipe heater and cooling radiator (100) from the coolant inlet (130), passes through the coolant inner pipe (185), and exits from the coolant outlet (140).
[0077] In order for the radiator to work effectively during cooling, it must be ensured that the air passing through it has a forced flow with the help of a fan system. For this purpose, an electronics and fan system (150) is also used. Thanks to this system, the heat in the air is transmitted to the vertical heat transfer fluid pipes (183) through the convector plate (160) of the radiator (100). The heat is transmitted to the cooling water flowing from the inner cooling water pipe (185) in the upper collector (181) through the heat transfer fluid, which can change phase between the phase in the vertical heat transfer fluid pipes (183).
[0078] During cooling, the temperature and humidity on the surface of the convector sheet (160) are detected by a temperature and humidity sensor on the convector sheet (154) and transmitted to the circuit board (156). The circuit board (156), which calculates the dew point, closes the system in order to prevent condensation on the surface of the convector sheet (160). The system is controlled by an on- off button (155). The circuit board (156) sends energy to the fans (152) via the fan cables (153). The fans (152) are mounted on the heat pipe heater and cooling radiator (100) with a detachable fan table (151). In this way, the fans (152) can be removed from the heat pipe heater and cooling radiator (100) when not needed. The electronics and fan system (150) receives energy from the grid via an AC electrical cable (157).
[0079] Since the water in the heat pipe heater and cooling radiator (100) passes only through the heating water inner pipe (186) and the coolant inner pipe (185), water cannot be found anywhere else in the radiator. Since the heat pipe heater and cooling radiator (100) has no contact with the heating water, thinner walls can be used than the radiators used in the prior art, which should have a wall thickness of at least 1.11 mm.
[0080] Due to the simple shape of the heating water inner pipe (186) in the sub-collector (184) and the coolant inner pipe (185) in the top collector (181), the pressure loss of the heating water passing through it will be low. In this way, it will be possible to use a circulation pump with much lower power.
[0081] Heat pipe radiators require almost 60% smaller size, which means savings in indoor space, weight, material arrangements, less CO2 emissions liability, and pumping requirements. It can be concluded that heat pipe technology is technically, environmentally, and economically feasible and applicable as a means of improvement, including for old buildings. For a heat pipe radiator, the exponent (m) is less than zero because heat pipe performance can be customized to accommodate lower average supply temperatures, the ability to use thinner heat pipe thickness by reducing heat pipe pressure, and smaller heat pipe diameter while generally resulting in better convector performance. A negative m value represents this overshoot. A standard radiator has only one large sizing step instead of large sizing cascades. The scope of protection of this application is determined in the claims section and cannot be limited to what is described above strictly for the purpose of illustration. It is clear that a person who is an expert in the technique can put forward the innovation revealed in the invention using similar structures and / or apply this structure to other areas for similar purposes used in the relevant technique. Therefore, it is obvious that such structures will lack the criterion of innovation and, in particular, overcoming the known state of technique.
Claims
CLAIMS1. The invention is related to the heat pipe heater and cooling radiator (100), which uses heat pipes instead of traditional heat transfer fluids such as water or air that circulate to transfer heat inside or take cold from inside, providing comfortable heating, the feature of which is; there are colemanite, borax, AI2O3, SiO3, CuO, TiO2, SiL, boron carbide, szaybelite, boron solid particles between 10-200 nanometers in it, which receive heat energy from the heating water inner pipes (186) and deliver this heat energy to the environment through the sub-collector (184), top collector (181), vertical heat transfer fluid pipe (183), and thanks to these particles and the heat received during condensation after heat transfer, the sub-collector (184), the top collector (181), which allows rapid heat transfer by evaporating together with, the vertical heat transfer fluid pipe (183) are characterized by containing a phase-changing heat transfer fluid that cools slowly thanks to nano-sized solid particles that hit and land on their inner walls.
2. The invention relates to a heat pipe heater and cooling radiator (100), which uses heat pipes instead of conventional heat transfer fluids such as circulating water or air to transfer the heat to the interior or to take the cold from inside, providing a sensible cooling; located in the vertical heat transfer fluid pipes (183), which receives the heat in the environment through the convector sheet (160) of the heat pipe heater and cooling radiator (100) and transmits this heat to the cooling water flowing from the coolant inner pipe (185) in the top collector (181), thus allowing the environment to cool. It is characterized by the fact that it contains a phase- changeable, non-aggregating heat transfer fluid containing 10-200 nanometers of colemanite, borax, AI2O3, SiO3, CuO, TiO2, SiL, boron carbide, szaybelite, boron solid particles.
3. It is a heat pipe heater and cooling radiator (100) with heat transfer fluid by claim 2, and its feature is; it is characterized by the fact that it includes, heating water collector bridge (188) that provides heating water flow between heat transfer fluid piping system (180) located between two sub-collectors (184) and standing side by side.
4. It is a heat pipe heater and cooling radiator (100) with heat transfer fluid by claim 2, and its feature is; It is characterized by the fact that it contains electronics and fan system (150) that provides a forced flow of air passing through the radiator in order for the radiator to work effectively during cooling.
5. It is a fan system (150) in accordance with Claim 4, and its feature is; it is characterized by the temperature and humidity sensor (154) that measures the temperature and humidity on the surface of the convector plate (160) during cooling, the circuit board (145) that calculates the dew point with the data from the temperature and humidity sensor (154) and turns off the system in order to prevent condensation on the surface of the convector plate (160).