Binary Ice Heat Exchanger With Contactless Stirring Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cooling mass production methods are inefficient and not optimized for large-scale, continuous production of flowable, pumpable cooled masses for applications like air conditioning and food processing, as they lack effective energy management and flexible production capabilities.
Innovation Solution
A cooling mass manufacturing apparatus with a heat exchanger device featuring spaced, fluidly connected plates and a contactless power transmission system using magnetic coupling, allowing for continuous production and energy-efficient cooling or heating of a flowable base material, such as sugar water, to create a pumpable cooling mass like binary ice.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If conventional cooling mass production methods are used, then production can be maintained, but production speed and energy efficiency are insufficient for large-scale continuous production
Solution Approach 1:
The cooling mass production apparatus is divided into multiple heat exchanger plates (first heat exchanger plate, second heat exchanger plate, etc.) that are spatially separated and arranged in series. Each plate functions as an independent heat exchange unit, allowing parallel processing and continuous production. This segmentation enables faster production while maintaining energy efficiency through optimized heat transfer at each stage.
2Adaptability or versatility
If conventional heat exchanger designs are used, then cooling can be achieved, but continuous operation and flexible production capabilities are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The apparatus incorporates adjustable inclination mechanisms that allow the entire assembly of heat exchanger plates to be tilted to different angles. This dynamic adjustment capability enables flexible control over the production process, allowing optimization for different production rates and cooling mass types without requiring complex reconfiguration of individual components.
Solution Approach 2:
The heat exchanger plates are designed with universal functionality, serving both as cooling surfaces and as structural elements that can be inclined together as a unit. The plates can process different base materials (sugar water, binary mixtures, etc.) and produce different types of cooling masses, providing versatility without increasing device complexity.
3Quantity of substance
If ice layer becomes too thick on heat exchanger surface, then cooling capacity increases, but mass layer thickness control becomes difficult and production continuity is disrupted
Solution Approach 1:
By dividing the heat exchange surface into multiple separate plates, the apparatus allows independent control and monitoring of ice layer formation on each plate. This segmentation makes it easier to maintain optimal mass layer thickness on each individual plate, ensuring continuous production without disruption from excessive ice accumulation on any single surface.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables faster, more energy-efficient production of cooling masses, allowing for continuous operation and flexible production of cooled or heated masses, enhancing the production of cooling ice or binary circuits for various applications, including air conditioning and food processing.
Implementation Method 1
for a transmission of force to the stirring elements from outside the housing inwards a contactless power transmission unit, more precisely a magnetic coupling
Implementation Method 2
a heat exchanger device which spaced several mutually spaced each other and at least partially fluidically connected heat exchanger plates
Implementation Method 3
cooling of the flowable base material by contacting a disposed in the housing heat exchanger means with stirring of the base material is carried out
Implementation Method 4
energy and / or heat into or out of a latent heat storage stored and / or drawn
Implementation Method 5
crystallisation of ice thereon wherein the scraper liquid feeds of the respective heat exchange surface of the liquid quantity in the housing to there maintain a substantially uniform temperature
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AI summary
The invention relates to a method for continuously producing a flowable, pumpable, cooled mass or cooling mass, in particular for use as and/or for foods and foodstuffs, from a flowable base mass (10), comprising the following steps: pouring the flowable base mass into a housing (110), cooling the flowable base mass by means of the contacting of a heat exchanger device (200) arranged in the housing (110) while the base mass (10) is stirred, in order to thus produce the pumpable, cooled mass or cooling mass. In the process of the formation of a layer, in particular an ice layer, on the heat exchanger device (200), the cooling is interrupted as soon as the layer, in particular the ice layer, reaches a predetermined thickness and the cooling is continued as soon as the layer falls below the predetermined thickness. In the stirring process, the base mass and/or the mass is moved radially outward along the heat exchanger surfaces and force is transmitted for the stirring from outside of the housing inward contactlessly without breaching of the housing. The invention further relates to an air-conditioning method, to a cooling-mass production method, to an energy system, and to a use therefor.