135 results about "Thermal converter" patented technology

A Waste to Liquid Hydrocarbon Refinery System that transforms any municipal solid wastes and hazardous industrial wastes, Biomass or any carbon containing feedstock into synthetic hydrocarbon, particularly, but not exclusively, diesel and gasoline and / or electricity and co-generated heat, comprising three major subsystems: i) the Pyro-Electric Thermal Converter (PETC) (10) and Plasma Arc (PA) waste and biomass gasification subsystem (1); ii) the hydrocarbon synthesis subsystem (2); and iii) the electricity generation and heat co-generation subsystem (3).

The invention discloses an energy-saving electric cooker. The electric cooker comprises a plug, a thermal converter, a top cover, a casing, a control panel and a base, wherein the base is mounted on the lower side of the casing, supporting legs are mounted on the lower side of the base, the plug is mounted on the left side of the base, an electric heating layer is mounted in the casing, a liner is mounted on the upper side of the electric heating layer, a connecting cover is mounted on the surface of the casing, the top cover is mounted on the upper side of the connecting cover, a control panel is mounted on the surface of the top cover, a lifting handle is mounted on the upper side of the control panel, a switch is mounted on the surface of the control panel, and a controller switch is mounted on the right side of the switch. A temperature sensor is mounted in the base and can induce the temperature of the electric heating layer, so that a user can know whether the electric cooker works normally when the electric cooker is used, the condition that the user forgets to turn on the switch of the electric cooker during use is avoided, whether the electric cooker is damaged can be checked, and the performance stability of the electric cooker is improved.

A flashable, rooftop enclosure with a solar radiation transmissive glazing suitable for holding solar energy collector of a solar power system includes an insulated base section with sidewalls which is secured to the roof sheathing and flashed all around, and a removably attachable glazed top section with full skirt, that is secured to and over the base unit after the interior components and connections are made, so as to seal the enclosure, overlap the flashing, and admit solar radiation. The internal components may include any or all of photovoltaic and thermal converters, with electrical and thermal fluid means of removing energy from the enclosure to respective energy distribution systems.

The invention discloses a household air source heat pump heating system in cold area and a device thereof, and relates to a heat pump system which uses the air source for running steadily under the low-temperature environment and supplying the interior with the needed heat and healthy hot water and a device thereof. The device comprises parts such as a low pressure frequency compressor, a high pressure compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, a flash evaporator, a reservoir, a defrosting coil, a flash gas overheating coil, a compressor heat radiating recovery coil, a low pressure air supply pressurization line, a sub-thermal converter, a multi-head efficient spiral heat exchanger, a thermal expansion valve, and the like, which are connected by a pipeline. The invention is characterized in that the system comprises a flash evaporator component, a flash gas overheating coil, a compressor heat radiating recovery coil, and a low pressure air supply pressurization line. When in heat operation under low-temperature working condition, based on the two-stage compression cycle which is incompletely cooled between two stages of throttles, the invention uses the flash gas overheating coil, the compressor heat radiating recovery coil, and the low pressure air supply pressurization line for recovering the heat radiating capacity of a compressor, realizes the overheating of the flash gaseous working substance, enhances the gas transmission capacity of the compressor, and further improves the heat and the energy efficiency ratio of a heat pump system. Meanwhile, the defrosting coil is added to the bottom part of the heat exchanger device, so the frosting problem of the outdoor heat exchanger of the heat pump is solved. The invention can realize the mutual switch among a single heating operating mode in winter, a heating and healthy hot water united operating mode in winter, and a healthy hot water single operating mode during a non-heating period.

Glide heads for the detection of asperities on a storage disc have a thermal transducer oriented along the air bearing surface. The thermal transducer generally is in electrical contact with a circuit to measure the electrical resistance of the thermal transducer. Preferred methods of depositing the thermal transducer involve the deposition of the thermal transducer on the smooth surface of a wafer prior to the slicing of individual sliders.

An enhanced heat transposer comprised is of a vapor chamber. The surface of the vapor chamber that holds the fluid comprises an array of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) that are grown in a way that enables the fluid to come into maximum contact with the CNTs. The fluid evaporates in the sealed vapor chamber when it is in touch with a hot surface. The vapor comes in contact with a hollow pin-fin structure that provides additional surface area for vapor cooling and heat transfer. The condensed vapor then drops back into the fluid container, and the cycle continues.

The invention discloses a preparation method of a wide-spectrum-antireflection-structure carbon aerogel. According to the method, the total mass percent of the resorcinol and formaldehyde and the resorcinol / sodium carbonate mass ratio are regulated, and the gelation time, the heating rate in the carbonization process and the sintering temperature are controlled, thereby obtaining the wide-spectrum-antireflection-structure carbon aerogel. The density range of the carbon aerogel prepared by the method is 20-60 mg / cm<3>, the specific area range is 1783-967 m<2> / g, the light reflectivity within the 400-2000nm ultraviolet-visible-near-infrared band is respectively lower than 0.3%, and the absorbance is respectively greater than 99.7%. The carbon aerogel can be used as a novel super black material, and is applicable to the fields of aerospace detecting sensors, solar photo-thermal converters, national defense stealth technology and the like.

A system is provided for reducing exhaust emissions. The system can comprise a series of chambers, an injector head, and a controller. The controller can maintain desired temperature zones and chemical environments inside the series of chambers, and the chambers and structures inside the system 10 can provide a desired travel path for the air, fuel, and untreated exhaust mixture inside.

The invention relates to a heat storing and electricity generating device for wireless transmission of energy by a laser. The heat storing and electricity generating device comprises a laser transmitter, laser photo-thermal converters, Stirling engines, electricity generators, an accumulator and an intelligent controller, wherein each laser photo-thermal converter comprises laser receiving diaphragms, a laser heat absorbing cavity, high-temperature phase change heat storing boxes, heat pipes and temperature sensors; a laser beam generated by the laser transmitter penetrates through the laser receiving diaphragms to enter the laser heat absorbing cavity, and heat is transferred to the high-temperature phase change heat storing boxes by the laser heat absorbing cavity; the heat pipe is connected with the hot ends of the Stirling engines, and the Stirling engines are connected with the electricity generators. The heat storing and electricity generating device disclosed by the invention can be used for a space solar power station and an electrical power system for transmitting energy to the ground in a wireless manner, the heat storing and electricity generating device can be applied to wireless transmission of air-to-ground, air-to-air and ground energy, wireless energy transmission between satellites, wireless energy transmission between space crafts, space shuttles and airships and wireless energy transmission between unmanned aircrafts, unmanned vehicles, unmanned ships and warships and robots.

A sensitive, compact detector measures total reactive nitrogen (NOy), as well as NO2, NO, and O3. In all channels, NO2 is directly detected by laser diode based cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CRDS) at 405 nm. Ambient O3 is converted to NO2 in excess NO for the O3 measurement channel. Likewise, ambient NO is converted to NO2 in excess O3. Ambient NOy is thermally dissociated at 700C to form NO2 or NO in a heated quartz inlet. Any NO present in ambient air or formed from thermal dissociation of other reactive nitrogen compounds is converted to NO2 in excess O3 after the thermal converter. The precision and accuracy of this instrument make it a versatile alternative to standard chemiluminescence-based NOy instruments.

The invention relates to a track condense thermoelectric utilizing system, belonging to solar-energy utilization technical field, which comprises an automatic sun tracker, a photoelectric converter mounted on the tracker, and a fluid cooler mounted on the back of a solar-energy battery group of the photoelectric converter, and a photo thermal converter mounted on the tracker. The photo thermal converter is mainly composed of a condenser and a heat collector near the focal line of the condenser. The fluid outlet of the cooler is connected with a working medium inlet of the heat collector via a connecting tube. Compared with prior art, the invention can make the solar-energy battery hold lower working temperature after light condensation, and collect the waste 80% heat energy of solar-energy battery, which can effectively resolve the problems after condensation, as high heat radiation cost and complex system, and improve the property / value ration of the whole system, to support batch application.

A method for the environment heat conversion in coherent electromagnetic energy by a super radiant quantum decay and a thermal excitation of a system of electrons is disclosed. A semiconductor device is also disclosed comprising a system of n-i-p-n transistors, a double array of quantum dots on the two sides of the thin i-layer of the n-i emitter, a system of intermediate n and p layers separating the active quantum region from the n and respectively p regions by potential barriers, a metal front electrode, a heat absorber in intimate contact with this electrode, a semitransparent rear electrode forming with the front electrode a Fabry-Perot resonator tuned with the electron quantum transition frequency through the i-layer, and an output semitransparent mirror of the same transparency as the transparency of the rear electrode, by this forming with the rear electrode a total transmission Fabry-Perot resonator.

The invention provides a method for preparing a polymer nanocomposite through ultrasonic-assisted forced infiltration. The method comprises the following steps of: preparing homogeneous dispersion liquid through ultrasonic dispersion; preparing nanomaterial flakes through vacuum filtration; preparing the polymer nanocomposite through ultrasonic-assisted forced infiltration; and performing heat preservation solidification or cooling setting on the polymer nanocomposite prepared in step III. According to the method, nano-filler networks which are tightly stacked are prepared firstly to overcomethe obstacle of surface tension; and a high-viscosity polymer matrix material is forcibly infiltrated into the filler networks to prepare the nanocomposite product with nano-fillers uniformly dispersed in the polymer matrix, and meanwhile ensure that the complete nano-filler networks exist in the product. The polymer nanocomposite shows excellent mechanical properties, electrical / thermal conductivity, electromagnetic shielding properties, dielectric properties, and the like. Therefore, the polymer nanocomposite prepared by the method can be applied to devices or systems such as flexible sensors, thermal interface materials, dielectric elastomers, and light-to-heat converters.

The invention relates to a small environment-friendly public toilet controlled by an intelligent control system. The small environment-friendly public toilet controlled by the intelligent control system aims at providing a public toilet with a simple structure, diverse functions and a small floor area. The small environment-friendly public toilet controlled by the intelligent control system comprises a public toilet main body, a temperature sensor, an air purification air supplying device, a thermal converter, a heating plate and a central controller. The temperature sensor and the heating plate are installed inside the public toilet main body, the signal output end of the temperature sensor is connected with the signal receiving end of the center controller, a grille diffuser is arranged on the top of the public toilet main body, the air inlet of the grille diffuser is connected with the air purification air supplying device outside the public toilet main body, and the control end of the air purification air supplying device is connected with the control signal output end of the central controller. The heat receiving end of the heating plate is connected with the heat generating end of the thermal converter located outside the public toilet main body, the heat converting end of the thermal converter is connected with a hot water supplying pipeline, and the control end of the thermal converter is connected with the control signal output end of the central controller.

The invention discloses a diffusion absorption type thermal converter. The diffusion absorption type thermal converter comprises a generator, a lifting pipe, a first gas-liquid separator, a rectifying device, a condenser, a second gas-liquid separator, an evaporator, an absorber, a liquid reservoir, a heat regenerator and a fan which are sequentially connected. In the invention, a thermally driven gas bubble pump is adopted to realize simultaneous pumping of an absorbent solution and a refrigerant liquid, and no mechanical solution pump or refrigerant pump is required, thus the structure of the thermal converter is greatly simplified, precious electric energy is saved, and the operation reliability is improved. The thermal converter disclosed by the invention is especially applicable to occasions in which low and medium temperature thermal resources are rich and high temperature thermal resource is required, thus the thermal converter has a good application prospect.

An inkjet printhead board and inkjet printhead is provided having a reliable storage element which allows for print without causing damages to an interlayer insulation film and protection film upon printing data unique to the printhead and is free from the restriction in arrangement position. For this purpose, a printing device board uses therein an information storage element formed common in material and process to electro-thermal converter element, the resistance value of which is changed to enable information storage so that information can be read out of the information storage element.

A system may include a tube through which hot fluid is transported from one end to another, wherein the tube radiates heat energy and transfers heat energy to surrounding air by convection. The system may also include a reflector that reflects the radiated heat and a hood that captures the heat energy from the surrounding air through convection, wherein the hood radiates the captured heat energy. The reflector may include a bi-involute curved surface.

Disclosed are a sprinkler of thermal converter steelmaking slag and a cooling method, which belong to the technical field of metallurgical slag treatment and comprehensive utilization and aims at resolving the problems in an existing steelmaking slag sprinkler that water spray quantity is large and cooling is uneven. The sprinkler of thermal converter steelmaking slag of the invention includes a slag box, and a lower sprinkler system is arranged along the top of a box wall positioned on the corner of the slag box above which an upper sprinkler system is equipped and capable of enabling water spray to cover the whole slag box. Aiming to solving the problem in an existing cooling method that serious environmental pollution exists, the invention also provides the cooling method of the thermal converter steelmaking slag, which carries out a layered water spray of the upper sprinkler system and the lower sprinkler system on the thermal converter steelmaking slag and also employs a discontinuous water spray method to proceed cooling. The utilization of the sprinkler and cooling method of the invention is capable of saving a large amount of repair and maintenance costs, improving site work conditions, avoiding environmental pollution, saving precious water resources and reducing cooling cost. The invention is beneficial to be popularized and applied.

A direct thermoelectrochemical heat-to-electricity converter includes two electrochemical cells at hot and cold temperatures, each having a gas-impermeable, electron-blocking membrane capable of transporting an ion I, and a pair of electrodes on opposite sides of the membrane. Two closed-circuit chambers A and B each includes a working fluid, a pump, and a counter-flow heat exchanger. The chambers are connected to opposite sides of the electrochemical cells and carry their respective working fluids between the two cells. The working fluids are each capable of undergoing a reversible redox half-reaction of the general form R→O+I+e−, where R is a reduced form of an active species in a working fluid and O is the oxidized forms of the active species. One of the first pair of electrodes is electrically connected to one the second pair of electrodes via an electrical load to produce electricity. The device thereby operates such that the first electrochemical cell runs a forward redox reaction, gaining entropy, and the second electrochemical cell runs a reverse redox reaction, expelling entropy.

The invention relates to a mattress, particularly relates to a semiconductor heating and cooling air circulation mattress and solves the problems of inconvenience in usage and environmental friendliness of mattresses. The mattress comprises a mattress body and a temperature controlling device, wherein the mattress body is provided with a left circulation area and a right circulation area; cavity channels for circulation of a medium are formed in the left circulation area and the right circulation area; air inlet tubes and air outlet tubes are arranged in positions corresponding to circulationareas on the mattress body and are respectively butted with openings of the cavity channels; an air filling mechanism, heat dissipation mechanisms and cooling-heating switches are arranged in the temperature controlling device; the air filling mechanism, the cooling-heating switches and the air inlet tubes are successively connected with each other; the mattress also comprises a control componentused for controlling all the execution parts; the mattress is partitioned; the heating and cooling circulation is carried out in the partitioned areas; the experience requirements of different crowdscan be met; meanwhile, a control panel is used for conveniently controlling the temperatures in the different partitioned areas; in addition, the heat dissipating and switching effects are excellent;the circulation medium is environmentally friendly and is few in impurities.

The invention discloses a mechanical work drive-free absorption type thermal converter which comprises a generator, a lifting pipe, a first gas-liquid separator, a condenser, a second gas-liquid separator, an evaporator, a first absorber, a first heat return device and a second absorber that are sequentially connected, wherein the lifting pipe and the first gas-liquid separator are arranged between the generator and the condenser; the second gas-liquid separator is arranged between the condenser and the evaporator; and the first heat return device is arranged between the first gas-liquid separator and the first absorber. The absorption type thermal converter is basically isotonic and ensures that an absorbing agent solution and a large-boiling range mixing refrigerant are simultaneously pumped by adopting a thermally-driven bubble pump without using a mechanical solution pump and a refrigerant pump, thus electric energy is not completely consumed, and operation reliability is improved. The invention is especially suitable for occasions having abundant medium-low temperature thermal resource and power shortage and needing high-temperature heat, and has a better application prospect.

An inkjet printhead board and inkjet printhead is provided having a reliable storage element which allows for print without causing damages to an interlayer insulation film and protection film upon printing data unique to the printhead and is free from the restriction in arrangement position. For this purpose, a printing device board uses therein an information storage element formed common in material and process to electro-thermal converter element, the resistance value of which is changed to enable information storage so that information can be read out of the information storage element.

The invention discloses a diffusion absorption type thermal converter without moving parts. The diffusion absorption type thermal converter comprises three parts, namely a generating and separating module, a refrigerant absorption module and a dispersing agent absorption module. The generating and separating module comprises a generator, a lifting pipe, a first gas-liquid separator, a rectifying device, a condenser and a second gas-liquid separator which are sequentially connected; the refrigerant absorption module comprises an evaporator, a first absorber, a first liquid reservoir, a first heat regenerator and a first regulating valve which are sequentially connected; and the dispersing agent absorption module comprises a second absorber, a second liquid reservoir, a second heat regenerator and a second regulating valve which are sequentially connected. In the invention, a thermally driven gas bubble pump is adopted to realize simultaneous pumping of an absorbent solution and a refrigerant liquid, no electric energy is consumed, and the operational reliability is improved. The thermal converter disclosed by the invention is especially applicable to occasions in which low and medium temperature thermal resources are rich, electric power is insufficient and a high temperature thermal resource is required, thus the thermal converter has a good application prospect.

The invention discloses a solar linear zooming and unidirectional tracking vacuum tube utilization system. In the system, a group of solar optical mirrors consisting of a plurality of reflecting mirrors, a Fresnel mirror and a plane mirror are adopted; a revolving shaft of each mirror is arranged on a linear or non-linear device; each solar optical mirror can rotate around the shaft; and a glass-vacuum tube is used a photo-thermal conversion device, and the solar energy is focused on a vacuum tube by a line focusing solar mirror, so that focusing collection and utilization of the solar energy is realized. As the vacuum tube is arranged in a cylinder interval on ground or a building, when the solar mirror moves, the vacuum tube keeps still, and the focal length is variable zooming and tracking; and therefore, the application of the zoomed and tracked solar energy, such as thermal power generation, heating, refrigeration, hot water, boiling water and the like, is realized. The invention provides an array structure of the unitization system, which is suitable for systems of different scales, and simultaneously suitable for large-scale unitization of the solar energy, particularly the utilization of solar thermal power.

A kind of new multiple greenhouse solar energy utilized installment makes the multiple greenhouse installed on the wall of the lower end of outside of window of the building or the none widow wall and the received light face of the installment is consisted of the multiple-layer clarity board or transparency film. The solar energy collector lies in this greenhouse and connects with the hot water tank in the indoor or balcony by the flexible pipe. The collector also can be used as the air collector with the metal board installing in it and connects the thermal converter in the water tank by the utilidor and the gas pump so this conforms to the new hot air source pump. After the water in collector is heated by the sun the hot water tank's water is heated or boiled by the convection. The experiment approves that: the multiple greenhouses and the hot air source pump may improve the environment temperature and reduce the cost largely and improve the thermal efficiency of collector to 90% above also in the aspects of thermal performance, installment and maintenance, use and so on it is privilege to the vacuum solar water heater. Also it can assemble in large area on the top of roof and field in order to implement the cosmically and cheapness and collectivize use.

The invention provides a high-voltage isolation switch for icebreaking through optical energy. The isolation switch is composed of a base, an operating mechanism, a transmission mechanism, an insulation part and a conducting part. The conducting part comprises binding posts, conducting arms, contacts, contact fingers and photo-thermal converters. Each conducting arm is provided with two photo-thermal converters located at the corresponding contact and the corresponding contact finger. The photo-thermal converters are fixed to the conducting arms in a surrounding mode. Each photo-thermal converter comprises a heat collection layer, a heat storage layer, a radiator and a heat insulating layer. The photo-thermal converters can convert solar energy into heat energy under irradiation of sunlight to heat the contacts, the contact fingers and the conducting arms continuously so that moisture around the contacts, the contact fingers and the conducting arms can be prevented from condensing into ice, or little ice can be formed; even if the moisture is frozen, the ice can be molten by being heated; in order to enhance the heating effect, a light condensation vehicle is further arranged as an auxiliary heating device, so that a guarantee is provided for stable operation of a power grid, and losses caused by freezing disasters are greatly reduced.

The invention relates to solar energy focusing utilization, in particular to a solar drying system which can be used for realizing solar energy collection by solar mirrors adopting dot focusing and is applied to the focusing and tracking of solar energy. The invention provides a fixed dot array solar drying system. The solar drying system comprises at least one solar mirror or one group of solar mirrors adopting dot focusing, at least one dryer and a tracking control device, wherein the solar mirrors are arranged on a solar mirror bracket, the dryers are arranged in a dotted region focused by the solar mirrors and arranged above or below the solar mirrors, and the focus lengths of the solar mirrors vary in the solar tracking process and are always kept in the dotted regions of the dryers; and the sunlight is focused by the solar mirrors to at least one dryer or a solar photo-thermal converter of the dryer under the control of the tracking control device when the sunlight varies, the dryers do not move with the solar mirrors in the solar tracking process of the solar mirrors, the dyers are kept static relative to the ground, and the tracking and focusing utilization of the solar energy is realized.

The invention discloses a carbon film auxiliary solar energy selective absorption film system and a preparation method thereof. The absorption film system comprises a titanium oxynitride thin film, an amorphous carbon thin film, a silicon nitride thin film and a silicon dioxide thin film, which are plated on a metal substrate. Through introducing the amorphous carbon thin film, the solar energy absorption rate of the absorption film system is up to 98.0 percent, the emission rate can be reduced to 2.3 percent; and the absorption film system has extremely-high photo-thermal conversion efficiency and heat collection efficiency, is superior to the current international advanced level and can be widely applied to various solar energy photo-thermal converters. Compared with a heat absorption film of a conventional flat plate heat collector, the absorption film system has the advantages that after the amorphous carbon auxiliary heat absorption thin film is added, the solar energy absorption rate of the film system can be further improved, and meanwhile, the very low emission rate is kept; and the absorption film system can be continuously plated on a large-area substrate through an industrial magnetron sputtering preparation method, so that the effect of efficient production at a low cost is realized.

The invention discloses a two-stroke photo-thermal engine which is an engine device for converting the energy of parallel light beams into mechanical energy. The engine provided by the invention comprises a cylinder, a crank case, a crank, a connecting rod, a piston, a photo-thermal converter, an air intake valve, an air exhaust valve, a light hood, a convergent lens, a planar mirror and the like, wherein the photo-thermal converter is positioned in the cylinder; the planar mirror is arranged outside the cylinder and can move downwards along the axis of the cylinder; and parallel light beams are reflected to the convergent lens and scattered to the photo-thermal converter after passing through a small hole in the center of the light hood. The temperature of the photo-thermal converter is increased after light energy is absorbed, a gas working medium in a compression cavity is heated, and the gas working medium is expanded after being heated, so that the piston is pushed to do work, and the mechanical energy is output through the crank, thereby realizing the purpose of outputting the mechanical energy on the premise of not combusting fossil energy. The engine provided by the invention has the advantages of low cost, no gaseous pollutant emission, low noise and no pollution to the environment, is easy to manufacture, and utilizes the parallel light beams as an energy source instead of fossil fuel.