TEMPERATURE ADJUSTING APPARATUS, FLUID SUPPLY SYSTEM, HEATING SYSTEM, INSTALLATION METHOD OF TEMPERATURE ADJUSTING APPARATUS, AND FLUID SUPPLY METHOD

• US 20120018129A1
• Filed: 03/26/2009
• Published: 01/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Ushijima, Takahiro, Oya, Ryo, Okada, Kazuki
• Application Number:
  US13/258,022
• Publication Number:
  US 20120018129A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 165/104.19
• CPC Class Codes: F24D 12/02 having more than one heat source using heat pumps, in water central heating systems F24D3/18; in air central heating systems F24D5/12; in systems using heat storage masses F24D11/02
• CPC Class Codes: F24D 19/1024 a multiple way valve
• CPC Class Codes: F24D 19/1039 the system uses a heat pump
• CPC Class Codes: F24D 19/1066 for the combination of central heating and domestic hot water
• CPC Class Codes: F24D 19/1072 the system uses a heat pump
• CPC Class Codes: F24D 2200/08 Electric heater
• CPC Class Codes: F24D 2200/12 Heat pump
• CPC Class Codes: F24D 2220/2009 Radiators
• CPC Class Codes: F24D 2220/2081 Floor or wall heating panels
• CPC Class Codes: F24D 3/082 Hot water storage tanks specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: F24D 3/1066 Distributors for heating liquids
• CPC Class Codes: F24D 3/18 using heat pumps
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 30/00 Energy efficient heating, ventilation or air conditioning [HVAC]
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 30/12 Hot water central heating systems using heat pumps
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/0318 Processes
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/6579 Circulating fluid in heat exchange relationship
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/4935 Heat exchanger or boiler making

Abstract

It is aimed to simultaneously supply hot water at a required temperature to a high-temperature heating appliance and hot water at a required temperature to a low-temperature heating appliance, the low-temperature heating appliance requiring hot water at a temperature lower than a temperature required by the high-temperature heating appliance, and to enhance efficiency by collecting surplus heat when the temperature of the hot water to be supplied to the low-temperature heating appliance is adjusted. A pipe through which flows the hot water at a high temperature to be supplied to the high-temperature heating appliance is branched into a first supply pipe and a second supply pipe. Heat exchange is effected between the hot water flowing through the first supply pipe and return water which has been supplied to a first appliance. The first supply pipe and the second supply pipe are joined again, so that the hot water which has flowed through the first supply pipe and the hot water which has flowed through the second supply pipe are mixed and supplied to the low-temperature heating appliance.

Claims

1. A temperature adjusting apparatus comprising:

a heat exchanger;

a first supply pipe through which flows a fluid to be supplied to a radiator, the first supply pipe passing through the heat exchanger;

a second supply pipe through which flows the fluid to be supplied to the radiator;

a mixed supply pipe through which flows a mixed fluid to be supplied to the radiator, the mixed fluid being a mixture of a first fluid which has flowed through the first supply pipe and a second fluid which has flowed through the second supply pipe; and

a return pipe through which flows the fluid which has been supplied to the radiator and from which heat has been radiated, the return pipe passing through the heat exchanger.

2. The temperature adjusting apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the first supply pipe and the second supply pipe are formed by being branched from a parent supply pipe, and the fluid which has flowed through the parent supply pipe flows through the first supply pipe and the second supply pipe.

3. The temperature adjusting apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the fluid which has flowed through the return pipe and has been heated by a heating apparatus flows through the parent supply pipe.

4. The temperature adjusting apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

a third supply pipe formed by being branched from the parent supply pipe and connected to another radiator different from the radiator, the another radiator utilizing the fluid at a higher temperature than a temperature of the fluid utilized by the radiator,

wherein the fluid at the higher temperature to be supplied to the another radiator via the third supply pipe flows through the parent supply pipe.

5. The temperature adjusting apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a mixture adjusting valve that adjusts a mixture ratio of the first fluid and the second fluid in the mixed fluid.

6. The temperature adjusting apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising:

a control unit that controls the mixture adjusting valve such that a ratio of a flow volume of the fluid flowing through the first supply pipe to a flow volume of the fluid flowing through the second supply pipe is reduced when a temperature of the mixed fluid is lower than a predetermined temperature.

7. The temperature adjusting apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the mixed supply pipe includes a flow volume adjusting valve that adjusts a flow volume of the fluid to be supplied to the radiator.

10. An installation method of a temperature adjusting apparatus, the method comprising:

connecting the temperature adjusting apparatus according to claim 1 to a heating apparatus for heating water such that the fluid which has flowed through the return pipe is supplied to the heating apparatus, and the fluid heated by the heating apparatus is supplied to the first supply pipe and the second supply pipe; and

connecting the temperature adjusting apparatus to the radiator such that the fluid which has flowed through the mixed supply pipe is supplied to the radiator and the fluid which has been supplied to the radiator is supplied to the return pipe.

8. A fluid supply system comprising:

a heating apparatus that heats a fluid;

a heat exchanger;

a first supply pipe through which flows the fluid heated by the heating apparatus and to be supplied to a radiator, the first supply pipe passing through the heat exchanger;

a second supply pipe through which flows the fluid heated by the heating apparatus and to be supplied to the radiator;

a mixed supply pipe through which flows a mixed fluid to be supplied to the radiator, the mixed fluid being a mixture of a first fluid which has flowed through the first supply pipe and a second fluid which has flowed through the second supply pipe; and

a return pipe through which flows the fluid which has been supplied to the radiator and from which heat has been radiated, the return pipe passing through the heat exchanger,

wherein the heating apparatus heats the fluid which has flowed through the return pipe.

9. A heating system comprising:

a heating apparatus that heats a fluid;

a heat exchanger;

a first supply pipe through which flows the fluid heated by the heating apparatus, the first supply pipe passing through the heat exchanger;

a second supply pipe through which flows the fluid heated by the heating apparatus;

a mixed supply pipe through which flows a mixed fluid, the mixed fluid being a mixture of a first fluid which has flowed through the first supply pipe and a second fluid which has flowed through the second supply pipe;

a heating appliance to which the fluid which has flowed through the mixed supply pipe is supplied, the heating appliance radiating heat from the fluid; and

a return pipe through which flows the fluid which has been supplied to the heating appliance, the return pipe passing through the heat exchanger,

wherein the heating apparatus heats the fluid which has flowed through the return pipe.

11. A fluid supply method comprising:

branching a parent supply pipe through which flows a fluid to be supplied to a radiator into a first supply pipe and a second supply pipe;

exchanging heat between the fluid flowing through the first supply pipe and the fluid which has been supplied to the radiator; and

joining the first supply pipe and the second supply pipe again, and supplying a mixed fluid to the radiator, the mixed fluid being a mixture of the fluid which has flowed through the first supply pipe and the fluid which has flowed through the second supply pipe.

12. A temperature adjusting apparatus comprising:

a heat exchanger;

a supply pipe through which flows a fluid to be supplied to a radiator, the supply pipe passing through the heat exchanger;

a parent return pipe through which flows the fluid which has been supplied to the radiator and from which heat has been radiated;

a first return pipe which is branched from the parent return pipe, and through which flows the fluid which has flowed through the parent return pipe, the first return pipe passing through the heat exchanger; and

a second return pipe which is branched from the parent return pipe, and through which flows the fluid which has flowed through the parent return pipe.