EP2304342A2 - Thin-walled self-supporting cuboid vacuum container for sorption machines, especially adsorption machines - Google Patents
Thin-walled self-supporting cuboid vacuum container for sorption machines, especially adsorption machinesInfo
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
- F25B—REFRIGERATION MACHINES, PLANTS OR SYSTEMS; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS
- F25B37/00—Absorbers; Adsorbers
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
- F25B—REFRIGERATION MACHINES, PLANTS OR SYSTEMS; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS
- F25B2500/00—Problems to be solved
- F25B2500/01—Geometry problems, e.g. for reducing size
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
- Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
- Y02A—TECHNOLOGIES FOR ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE
- Y02A30/00—Adapting or protecting infrastructure or their operation
- Y02A30/27—Relating to heating, ventilation or air conditioning [HVAC] technologies
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
- Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
- Y02B—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO BUILDINGS, e.g. HOUSING, HOUSE APPLIANCES OR RELATED END-USER APPLICATIONS
- Y02B30/00—Energy efficient heating, ventilation or air conditioning [HVAC]
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- the invention relates to a self-supporting, essentially cuboid vacuum container, which is particularly thin-walled, and its use in particular for adsorption devices.
- a vacuum tank is usually necessary because e.g. Water can be used as a refrigerant and accordingly low pressures are required.
- the known classic vacuum containers have a mostly cylindrical main body, which is formed inter alia by a metal jacket, which has at least a thickness of 4 or 5 mm. Such vacuum containers are very heavy compared to other parts of sorption machines.
- the internals in these vacuum containers are often cuboid, such as fin heat exchangers as adsorber, condenser or evaporator. For these reasons, the space provided by the vacuum container is often not effective to use. This is disadvantageous for the power density and for the material costs, but also for the thermal mass (see FIG. 1).
- an adsorber-desorber unit comprises a thermally conductive receiving body which is in heat-conducting connection with a heat exchanger.
- This known receiving body fulfill two functions, namely the meübertragung between heat exchanger and sorbent material and on the other hand, the production of a stable structure of the adsorbent-desorber unit. It is described that with this stable structure it is possible to make the wall of a common housing of the sorption heat pumps particularly thin, since this unit no longer needs to impart additional stability, but only the sealing of the interior with the adsorber-desorber unit and the condenser - Evaporator unit is used to the environment.
- the outer wall is designed as a thin sheet metal casing, which has a small wall thickness, that it rests on the adsorber-desorber unit or the condenser-evaporator unit and is supported by the latter, in particular after application of negative pressure. Since the thin sheet metal sheaths are supported and supported by said units, they are referred to as a non-self-supporting vacuum envelope or a non-self-supporting vacuum envelope.
- Self-supporting containers are widely known to the person skilled in the art (JP 63280964 A, GB 2303694 A, DE 10 2007 003 077 A1, DE 10 2006 032 304 A1). These known, partially self-supporting vacuum containers have an annular cross-section and are usually joined together by a plurality of annular shell segments.
- JP 63280964 A describes a cylindrical, self-supporting vacuum container.
- GB 2303694 discloses an ultralight, laminated vacuum plastic container.
- Self-supporting, thin-walled tanks are also provided in the construction of fuselage structures of aircraft or tank structures of rockets, which, however, can not be used as vacuum containers. The majority of known pressure vessels are cylindrical if they are self-supporting; Vacuum containers are predominantly cylindrical.
- cuboid vacuum container with outer walls with wall thickness of at least 5 mm, which are additionally supported with internal stiffening angles.
- the object of the invention was therefore to provide a device which does not have the disadvantages of the prior art.
- a self-supporting vacuum container can be provided with container walls, ie the outer walls and possibly with existing in the container partitions, which is cuboid or substantially cuboidal and the container walls have a wall thickness of less than 3 mm, preferably less than 2 mm, and more preferably less than 1 mm.
- the prior art does not describe self-supporting vacuum containers for sorption machines, in particular adsorption machines, which are cuboidal and have walls with the stated wall thicknesses. The development of the prior art went in a completely different direction.
- thin-walled tube-shaped, self-supporting vacuum containers or else thin-walled cuboidal, non-self-supporting vacuum containers have been proposed, wherein thin-walled means less than 3 mm.
- thin-walled vacuum containers for adsorption chillers which are cuboidal and self-supporting and whose outer walls have a wall thickness of less than 3 mm, preferably less than 2 mm and particularly preferably less than 1 mm.
- the thin-walled vacuum containers have outer walls or container walls with a wall thickness of less than 0.8 mm, preferably less than 0.7 mm, and particularly preferably less than 0.6 mm.
- Self-supporting vacuum containers with such small wall thicknesses of the outer walls are particularly advantageous, since they are very light and yet are able to withstand the mechanical stresses caused by the vacuum forces. It was completely surprising that can be provided with the above-mentioned inventive and especially with the preferred wall thicknesses vacuum container, which under the forces of the vacuum (pressure or negative pressure, depending on which pressure is taken as a reference, a negative pressure in a container leads z B. to an increased pressure acting on it) dented and yet fully functional.
- the calculated denting means that the vacuum containers are resistant to implosion, but clearly deform under the influence of negative pressure.
- the average person skilled in the art has hitherto assumed that such vacuum containers can by no means be used for use in sorption machines, in particular adsorption machines.
- the object according to the invention can be achieved by means of a thin-walled, self-supporting, cuboid vacuum container, which preferably has struts, profiles or angles or, in particular, outside or inside beads.
- No thin-walled self-supporting cuboid vacuum containers for sorption heat pumps are described in the prior art.
- the containers according to the invention are lighter and less expensive than those of the prior art and have container walls with a thickness of ⁇ 3 mm, ⁇ 2 mm, ⁇ 1 mm. In these self-supporting cuboid vacuum container and unstable internals can be used, since they do not have to absorb the vacuum forces.
- the self-supporting cuboid vacuum containers for sorption machines according to the invention comprise at least one heat exchanger according to the invention.
- the container according to the invention may preferably have stiffeners inside or outside, or else beads in the wall of the self-supporting vacuum container.
- sorption heat pump has the following further features:
- the adsorber-desorber unit comprises a heat-conducting receiving body, which is arranged in heat-conducting connection with the heat exchanger;
- the receiving body imparts stability to the adsorber-desorber unit
- the interior of the common housing is subjected to a negative pressure and the common housing is designed as a thin-walled, self-supporting, cuboid vacuum container according to the invention, so that the collapse forces generated by the negative pressure can lead to a deformation of the vacuum vessel, but not that the vacuum container implodes, wherein the deformation of the vacuum container does not cause the collapse forces generated by the negative pressure on the receiving body, the heat exchanger shear, the evaporator, the condenser and / or the condenser-evaporator unit are derived,
- a deformable, d. H. implosion-resistant vacuum container provided in particular for adsorption chillers.
- the heating forces generated by the negative pressure are not dissipated to the adsorber-desorber unit, the condenser, the evaporator and / or the condenser-evaporator unit or to the receiving body, since the vacuum container is a self-supporting vacuum container according to the invention.
- the vacuum container is a self-supporting vacuum container according to the invention.
- adsorber chambers, the condenser or the evaporator and possible further components are surrounded by a self-supporting vacuum envelope.
- the person skilled in various ways are known to stabilize a self-supporting container.
- This may be, for example, planking, reinforcements, mounting plates and profiles with different joining techniques, wherein the profiles are connected to each other, for example, by gluing, NOTEscdesign, laser welding or soldering on the self-supporting container.
- the supporting function is thus to be borne solely by this structure.
- the rigidity of the container can be increased by stiffening means which are mounted either on an outer side of the container wall or on an inner side.
- the container according to the invention which can be stiffened by the stiffening elements is cuboid or substantially cuboid.
- a substantially parallelepiped-shaped vacuum container can be, for example, a container which deviates from an idealized cuboidal shape without the average person skilled in the art no longer describing it as a cuboid-shaped vacuum container.
- a vacuum container would be substantially cuboid, having at least one rounded corner.
- Another form of a substantially cuboid vacuum container would be, for example, a container in which z. For example, two elongated outer walls are only substantially parallel. IeI are spaced from each other. The skilled person would also call such a container cuboid.
- vacuum containers for sorption machines in particular for adsorption chillers can be either tubular or not self-supporting vacuum tank, so that it was completely surprising that self-supporting vacuum tank with a wall thickness of less than 3 mm, preferably less than 2 mm and more preferably less than 1 mm can be provided without the collapse forces of the vacuum vessel generated by the negative pressure being discharged onto the receiving body, the heat exchanger and / or the condenser-evaporator unit.
- sorption preferably adsorption
- a vacuum container which is significantly deformed by the negative pressure.
- a significant deformation is a deformation that the average expert perceives as significant in the form of dents or indentations. Deformation thus does not mean deformation of the outer walls of the vacuum vessel occurring only in the tenth of a millimeter range, but rather a visualization of the vacuum vessel that can be visually perceived without further aids.
- At least one stiffening agent is attached in at least one outer side of the container wall in a particularly preferred embodiment of the invention, this surprisingly leads to a good stiffening of the self-supporting vacuum container, if it is used in particular for adsorption refrigeration machines. It is very particularly preferred if 2, 3, 4, 5 or in particular 6 container walls are stabilized by stiffening means attached to the outside of the container wall.
- At least one stiffening means is attached to at least one inner side of the container wall.
- the attachment of the stiffening agent leads to a surprisingly good or surprisingly high stability of the container. It may be preferred that the stiffening means are arranged only on a container wall.
- Such self-supporting vacuum containers for sorption machines are particularly lightweight and yet surprisingly have good stability.
- At least one, preferably a plurality of stiffening means are attached to at least one inner and outer wall, preferably to a plurality of inner and outer walls.
- the self-supporting vacuum container can also have at least one or more intermediate walls.
- the intermediate walls may be exposed to different forces. It was surprising that the application of stiffening agent on or on one or all partitions leads to a significantly improved self-supporting vacuum tank. Since the intermediate wall by the stiffening means less by the different acting pressures (due to the process, it may come in the chambers that are formed by the intermediate wall, come to different process pressures), the preferred vacuum container according to the invention can be particularly well for sorption, especially adsorption, used.
- the stiffening means may, for example, struts, rods, angles, square tubes, profiles and / or beads.
- the person skilled in further ways are known to attach stiffening agents.
- welds are performed so that a stiffening is made possible by the shape and orientation of the welds. It may then be advantageous, for example, to assemble the longitudinal walls of the rectangular vacuum container from a plurality of sections which are welded.
- the stability of the welds or the welds can be increased by targeted deformations of the sheets that form the container wall.
- the sheets may have at their opposite ends angles or grooves which intermesh and are chipped, soldered or riveted in said regions.
- the formation of possible leads Angles, grooves or channels for improved stability of the vacuum container may be provided that the differently merged sheets have a different material composition and / or a different dimensioning, such. B. have a different thickness. That is, the container walls may be composed of different sheets having different characteristics, wherein characteristics may mean different metal compositions or different dimensioning of the sheets, or a different surface or other type of chemical or physical treatment of the sheets and / or the stiffening agent.
- said stiffening means result in a self-supporting vacuum container, which does not have the disadvantages of the prior art.
- the vacuum container on whose container walls, preferably on the outer sides of the container walls, stiffening means for stabilizing the container walls are arranged, additionally by means of a continuous or several continuous struts as part of the container is stabilized.
- the vacuum container can be additionally stabilized by continuous racks, which are formed from angles, profiles and / or square tubes or other device elements.
- the vacuum container according to the invention can be provided without the said additional stiffening means. But with certain exceptional dimensions of the vacuum vessel, the additional stiffening means mentioned may be advantageous.
- Beads in the sense of the invention are manually or mechanically produced channel-shaped depressions in the wall of the container which serve to increase the rigidity.
- the purpose of the stiffening can be combined with a special design.
- the bead can be pressed manually with a bead hammer on a sickle stick or mechanically with the beading machine, with the help of two bead rollers in the sheet metal. There are bead rolls for different shapes.
- the effectiveness of a bead depends essentially on the following factors: location of the bead, shape, shape, radii and the arrangement of different beads to each other. Furthermore, when used for the stabilization of thin-walled Vacuum containers are checked to which load is subjected to a verkicktes sheet.
- the stiffeners are attached to the outside, since these, for example - especially if they are welded - can be very easily reworked.
- the weld itself can be adapted to the corresponding requirements.
- the walls of the vacuum container according to the invention can be stiffened so that they do not dent at all by the applied vacuum, for example by having numerous stiffeners.
- the walls are partially dented and supported by internal or external stiffening elements. It may further be preferred that the denting of the walls is not supported.
- stiffeners in the form of angles or struts or in the form of beads can also be placed in the cuboidal vacuum container according to the invention so that only one or only one wall, for example by a continuous strut is supported.
- the person skilled in the art can easily determine by routine experimentation the number of beads, struts or angles that are required so that the deformation forces that lead to the indentation of the walls do not lead to collapse and thus destruction of the container.
- the stiffening means can advantageously be designed so that they are operatively connected to pipe connections or pipe penetrations or represent such.
- the stiffening agents can, for example, in adsorption chillers fasteners z. B. in hydraulic interconnection.
- the stiffening elements have at least one pressure-reducing element.
- preferred embodiments of the invention are advantageous in which the stiffening means have at least one steam valve. That is, in a particularly preferred embodiment of the invention If appropriate, separate pressure-reducing elements and / or steam valves can be integrated in optionally separate stiffening means.
- pressure-reducing elements or vapor valves are well known to the average person skilled in the art and therefore do not have to be explained in more detail.
- Vacuum containers are due to the pressure difference between the external pressure (usually ambient pressure absolute: 1013 mbar) and the internal pressure (for example, absolute: 10 mbar) strong forces acting on the container walls in the direction of the container interior.
- the deformation forces which lead to an acceptable deformation of the container walls in the context of the invention
- the collapse forces which lead to a destructive deformation, in particular to an implosion of the vacuum container to distinguish.
- non-self-supporting containers are not stable and implode under the influence of vacuum forces on the container walls. Due to the deformations that occur, they are therefore not functional in the sense of the teaching according to the invention.
- the self-supporting container according to the teaching of the invention are stable under the action of the vacuum forces.
- the self-supporting vacuum containers according to the invention are also vacuum-free and do not implode, even without internal installations - ie empty container vacuum.
- the design of the cuboid vacuum container as an implosion-resistant container, preferably in an adsorption chiller, is not a task-based formulation, since the skilled person - after learning the teaching according to the invention - without being inventive himself - the wall thickness within the selected wall density range and the stiffening means can be designed so that the deformation of the vacuum vessel is calculated and the vacuum vessel does not implode.
- the stiffeners of the device according to the invention serve to stabilize and fix a covering enclosing the sorption machine. Furthermore, it may be advantageous if the stiffeners are designed so that the feet are integrated with them in the lower area.
- the stiffening conditions such as struts, rods, profiles, angles or beads but also designed so that the entire system can be driven under with a pallet truck. It may be particularly advantageous to make these stiffeners structurally so that they can be used as attachment points for transport and / or lifting devices. That is, in particularly preferred embodiments of the invention, the stiffening means may have other functions. They may preferably be designed so that they represent a fixing ring for the shell and / or they may be integrated in the feet of the entire device, ie the sorption. They can accordingly also be starting points for the transport or lifting devices, or realize other further functions.
- stiffeners can be carried out so that all other, belonging to a sorption machine components such. As controller, display or control box, can be fixed to these stiffeners.
- the teaching according to the invention makes it possible to use heavy plates (thickness less than 3 mm) but also thin sheets for the construction of vacuum containers.
- Thin sheets are sheets with a thickness of less than 2 mm or preferably less than 1 mm. It is preferably hot or cold finished rolled sheet, which is mostly used for forming purposes. Depending on the grade of steel, these sheets may also be tin-plated, galvanized, copper-plated, nickel-plated, painted, enamelled or plastic-surface-coated.
- the invention also relates to a sorption machine, comprising at least one adsorber-desorber unit with heat exchanger and sorption material, at least one condenser, at least one condenser heat exchanger, at least one evaporator-condenser unit and / or an evaporator heat exchanger, wherein at least a part of this Building units is arranged in a self-supporting vacuum container according to the invention and the sorption machine connection and connecting elements and pipe feedthrough for hydraulic interconnection and operation.
- the adsorber desorber unit has a stable structure, since they do not absorb or derive the collapse forces generated by the negative pressure.
- the average person skilled in the art knows which of the abovementioned assemblies he has to use depending on the type of sorption machine.
- the abovementioned list represents a group of building units, depending on the type of sorption machine. ne - individual units can be joined together; The person skilled in the selection and the joining of the individual components is known.
- the adsorber-desorber unit is located in an inner and / or inner housing, wherein the condenser heat exchanger and the evaporator heat exchanger are arranged at a distance from each other and in their intermediate space, the inner housing with the Adsorber- Desorber unit is provided.
- the separation surfaces of the inner housing facing the condenser heat exchanger and the evaporator heat exchanger have steam valves.
- the invention accordingly also relates to the use of the vacuum container according to the invention for sorption machines, in particular adsorption refrigerating machines.
- structural units are arranged, wherein the units, for example, an adsorber desorber unit, a condenser, an evaporator, a condenser-evaporator unit or an evaporator-condenser unit, may be an evaporator heat exchanger and / or an evaporator-condenser unit.
- Combination invention i. several known elements are combined to a combination which has a surprising effect
- the advantageous embodiments of the invention have at least one or more of the advantages mentioned.
- FIGS. 4a) and 4b) Thin-walled vacuum containers according to the invention
- FIG. 1 shows a schematic representation of a cylindrical container with parallelepiped internals or components.
- a sorption machine described in the prior art for example an adsorption machine is shown, wherein in a container, formed from a cylindrical container wall 4, a condenser 1, an evaporator 2 and two adsorbers 3 are arranged.
- the adsorbents 3 may be adsorber / desorber units, ie, the refrigerant is adsorbed in an adsorber, with energy being delivered to the adsorbent and desorbed in a desorber where energy must be introduced into the desorber to supply the refrigerant desorb.
- the internals, such as Sator 1, evaporator 2 and adsorber 3 are cuboid.
- the container wall 4 is designed such that in the interior of the container a dead volume (unusable space) between the container wall 4 and the internals (capacitor 1, evaporator 2, adsorber 3) is formed. Consequently, such adsorption machines are disproportionately designed and take up much space, with much of the internal volume is unusable. Furthermore, the container wall 4 of the containers described in the prior art is made very thick, whereby the weight of the adsorption machines is very high. The container walls 4 are designed so thick that they do not collapse when a vacuum is applied.
- FIG. 2 a) represents a non-self-supporting container, for example an adsorption machine, which comprises a condenser 1, an evaporator 2, two adsorbers 3, further internals (for example spacers or heat conduction devices 6) and a non-self-supporting container wall 5.
- the container wall 5 is designed such that upon application of a vacuum, the container wall 5 rests on the internals and is thus stabilized.
- the fixtures or components are matched with respect to the shape and size, whereby a flexible arrangement and design of the fixtures / components is excluded.
- the container wall 5 can either be made so thick or so thin that it completely compensates for the vacuum forces or is deformed by them as a thin vacuum envelope.
- the vacuum forces acting on the container or adsorption machine are shown schematically as arrows.
- the construction of the adsorption machine is identical to the machine outlined in FIG. 2a).
- vacuum forces act on the container, which affect the internals as a result of the construction of the container and the arrangement of the internals or components.
- a negative pressure is set inside the machine, whereby strong vacuum forces act on the container wall. Since the container walls described in the prior art surround the internals and are in contact with the internals under applied negative pressure, the vacuum forces are transmitted to the internals.
- the spacers distribute the vacuum forces between the internals such as condenser, evaporator and adsorber. Over a longer period of time, the internals can be irreparably damaged by the vacuum forces and, if necessary, must be replaced, which is associated with high costs and operational failure.
- FIG. 3 shows a schematic representation of a cuboid thick-walled vacuum container with internal reinforcement angles.
- the adsorption machine comprises a cuboid container wall 7 which includes a condenser 1, an evaporator 2, internal reinforcement angles 8 and two adsorbers 3.
- the container wall 7 is made thick to compensate for the vacuum forces and protect the internals, but in addition to the container wall 7 reinforcing angle 8 are attached.
- the reinforcement angles 8 stabilize the container wall 7 and prevent deformation of the container wall 7 due to pressure differences, that is to say an applied negative pressure and the resulting vacuum forces are compensated by the internal reinforcement angles 8.
- a disadvantage of this construction is that a thermally conductive contact between the container wall 7 and the internals or components may arise, resulting in a reduced efficiency.
- the reinforcing means 8 and the container wall 7 are approximately 1, 5 to 3 cm thick designed to compensate for the vacuum forces.
- the material cost and weight are very high.
- the flexibility of the machine is limited because a simple moving or maneuvering such a machine are no longer possible. Due to the internal reinforcement angle 8 is also the available space greatly reduced in the interior of the machine, whereby no additional components can be integrated into the machine.
- FIGS. 4a) and b) show the thin-walled vacuum containers according to the invention.
- a condenser 1, an evaporator 2 and two adsorbers 3 are arranged in a thin-walled rectangular container 9a.
- the Adsorbem 3 may be adsorber / desorber units. Preference is given to the use of parallelepiped internals or components, since they require little space and can be arranged to save space. However, also internals with other shapes such as round or oval can be used.
- Thin-walled refers to a wall thickness of less than 3 mm, preferably less than 2 mm and very particularly preferably less than 1 mm.
- metal can be used as the material for the container 9a.
- stiffening elements 10 or reinforcing means are attached externally to the container wall 9a. These can be struts, rods, angles, squares, pipes and / or pipes, which are made of materials such as metal, plastic or ceramic materials. Also, welds can be used as stiffening elements 10.
- the container walls 9a may be arranged such that a weld serves as a stiffening element 10 and causes a stiffening of the container.
- Can be imagined container walls 9a which are assembled from several individual container parts and lips or flanges, where the container parts are welded together. In containers manufactured in this way, the welding can serve as stiffening element 10.
- the number of stiffening means 10 which are attached to the container wall 9a are to be determined empirically by experiments known to the person skilled in the art. Also, if necessary, only one container wall 9a can be equipped with stiffening elements 10.
- the container 9a is usable for different sorption machines, such as adsorption or absorption machines and can be easily and quickly adapted to the size of the components to be enclosed.
- the container wall 9a is self-supporting and is not supported by any elements or connected to the internals.
- a negative pressure is applied in order to evaporate the refrigerant (for example water) at low temperatures in an evaporator 2.
- the resulting water vapor is passed into the adsorber 3, where it adsorbs and releases thermal energy to a heat exchanger integrated in the adsorber 3. This is a heated by the heat exchanger flowing heat carrier.
- the adsorbed water vapor is expelled in the next step by means of energy from the adsorber 3, which now acts as a desorber, and condensed in a condenser 1, where in turn energy is released to the local heat carrier.
- the application of a vacuum and the resulting vacuum forces cause no deformation of the container 9a, although the container is made of, for example, a thin sheet metal.
- the vacuum forces are compensated by the container according to the invention in a preferred variant such that no deformation occurs.
- the stiffening elements 10 compensate for the vacuum forces and thus relieve the container wall 9a.
- containers or vacuum containers for sorption machines which are not self-supporting and / or thick-walled, whereby on the one hand the internals of the machines are heavily stressed by the vacuum forces and on the other hand, the machines are expensive and heavy.
- the cuboid thin-walled container according to the invention guarantee that the internals are not loaded and the container, consequently the machine has a low weight.
- FIG. 4b) further shows another preferred cuboid thin-walled container with external reinforcing means, wherein deformations of the container take place.
- the container wall 9b may be designed in such a way that it deforms under load, ie when a vacuum is applied, but only to the extent that neither the container collapses nor the fittings / components (1, 2 or 3) arranged in the container 3) are damaged by the container wall 9b or absorb the collapse forces. There is also no heat conduction between the container wall 9b and the internals / components. Even an empty container without internals or components does not implode, but the deformation of the container wall 9b moves to a controllable extent, that is, the container wall 9b is designed such that a controllable deformation takes place under vacuum.
- the container wall 9a, 9b Due to the thin-walled and cuboid design of the container wall 9a, 9b internals / components can be optimally integrated, the container is light and flexible. The internals are protected against external influences and are not damaged by the occurring vacuum forces. Also, no heat conduction or transmission of the vacuum forces on the container wall 9a, 9b, whereby a constant and efficient operation of the machine is ensured. LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS
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