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Heat transfer and storage system

  • US 4,727,930 A
  • Filed: 08/17/1981
  • Issued: 03/01/1988
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/17/1981
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for exchanging heat between a first liquid heat exchange medium and a second gaseous heat exchange medium that is immiscible with and substantially insoluble in said first medium comprising:

  • causing the first heat exchange medium to traverse a heat transfer zone in the form of droplets, said first heat exchange medium being injected into said heat transfer zone as a plurality of relatively small diameter liquid streams, the liquid streams being sized and the first heat exchange medium being selected to cause each of the streams to break into a plurality of droplets of substantially uniform size as they enter the heat transfer zone, said liquid streams further being externally mechanically excited to produce said droplets of substantially uniform size, andcausing the second heat exchange medium to traverse the heat transfer zone in countercurrent flow relationship to said first heat exchange medium and allowing the heat exchange medium to make intimate thermal contact with each other.

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