Installation adapted with temperature equalization system

• US 8,939,197 B2
• Filed: 12/20/2011
• Issued: 01/27/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tai-Her Yang
• Original Assignee: Tai-Her Yang
• Inventors: Yang, Tai-Her
• Primary Examiner(s): FORD, JOHN K
• Application Number:
  US13/331,400
• Publication Number:
  US 20120111530A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,134 Days
• Field of Search: 165/45, 165/119, 165/11.1, 165/48.1, 165/54, 165/909, 165/244, 165/247, 165/97, 165/104.31, 165/104.19, 165/208, 165/240, 165/50, 165/296, 165/297, 165/219, 454/236, 622/60, 237/8.R
• US Class Current: 165/244
• CPC Class Codes: F24T 10/10 with circulation of working fluids through underground channels, the working fluids not coming into direct contact with the ground
• CPC Class Codes: F24T 10/15 using bent tubes; using tubes assembled with connectors or with return headers
• CPC Class Codes: F24V 50/00 Use of heat from natural sources, e.g. from the sea
• CPC Class Codes: F28D 20/0052 using the ground body or aquifers as heat storage medium
• CPC Class Codes: F28F 27/00 Control arrangements or safety devices specially adapted for heat-exchange or heat-transfer apparatus control arrangements in general G05
• CPC Class Codes: F28F 27/02 for controlling the distribution of heat-exchange media between different channels static flow control means in header boxes F28F9/026; arrangements of guide plates or guide vanes F28F9/22, F28F25/12
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/10 Geothermal energy
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/14 Thermal energy storage

Abstract

A temperature equalization system, including an installation, a heat equalizer disposed in a natural heat carrier and being made of a material of heat conduction, a relay heat equalizer, a first fluid transmission duct disposed between the relay heat equalizer and the installation and having a first fluid contained therein for heat transmission, a second fluid transmission duct disposed between the heat equalizer and the relay heat equalizer and having a second fluid contained therein for heat transmission, a pump and a relay pump respectively connected in series with the first and second fluid transmission ducts for pumping the first and second fluid, and a control means controlling the pump to pump the first fluid through the relay heat equalizer, the fluid transmission duct and an interior of the installation, and to pump the second fluid through the relay heat equalizer, the second fluid transmission duct and the heat equalizer.

Claims

1. A temperature equalization system, comprising:

an installation;

a heat equalizer disposed in a natural heat carrier, and being made of a material of heat conduction to conduct heat with the natural heat carrier;

a relay heat equalizer made of a material of heat conduction;

a first fluid transmission duct disposed between the relay heat equalizer and the installation, and having a first fluid contained therein for heat transmission;

a second fluid transmission duct disposed between the heat equalizer and the relay heat equalizer, and having a second fluid contained therein for heat transmission;

a pump (106) connected in series with the first fluid transmission duct for pumping the first fluid;

a relay pump (206) connected in series with the second fluid transmission duct for pumping the second fluid;

first and second fluid bypass ducts disposed in parallel in the installation and both in communication with the first fluid transmission duct, the first and second fluid bypass ducts respectively having first and second bypass control valves connected in series therewith, only the second fluid bypass duct having a bypass auxiliary pump connected in series therewith for pumping the first fluid flowing therethough; and

a control means controlling an operation of temperature equalization system, the control means

controlling the pump (106) to pump the first fluid, to thereby circulate the first fluid through the relay heat equalizer, the first fluid transmission duct and an interior of the installation,

controlling the relay pump (206) to pump the second fluid, to thereby circulate the second fluid through the relay heat equalizer, the second fluid transmission duct and the heat equalizer; and

controlling the first and second bypass control valves to thereby control flow rates of the first fluid respectively flowing through the first and second fluid bypass ducts, and controlling pumping of the bypass auxiliary pump.

2. The temperature equalization system of claim 1, further comprising an auxiliary temperature regulation device that heats or cools the first fluid under control of the control means.

3. The temperature equalization system of claim 1, wherein the pump (106), under control of the control means, pumps the fluid continuously or intermittently to equalize a temperature difference between the relay heat equalizer and the installation.

4. The temperature equalization system of claim 1, wherein the relay pump (206), under control of the control means, pumps the fluid continuously or intermittently to equalize a temperature difference between the heat equalizer and the relay heat equalizer.

5. The temperature equalization system of claim 1, wherein the pump (106) includes a plurality of pumps, each with a same or a different power source.

6. The temperature equalization system of claim 1, wherein the pump (106) includes a plurality of pumps connected to a single power source.

7. The temperature equalization system of claim 1, wherein the relay pump (206) includes a plurality of pumps, each with a same or a different power source.

8. The temperature equalization system of claim 1, wherein the relay pump (206) includes a plurality of pumps connected to a single power source.

9. The temperature equalization system of claim 1, further comprising a filter mounted in at least one of a first fluid circulation passage including the installation, the relay heat equalizer, the first fluid transmission duct and the pump (106), and a second fluid circulation passage including the heat equalizer, the relay heat equalizer, the second fluid transmission duct, and the relay pump (206), for cleaning the first or second fluid flowing therethrough.

10. The temperature equalization system of claim 1, further comprising a flow rate regulation valve for controlling a flow rate of the first fluid.

11. The temperature equalization system of claim 1, further comprising a flow rate regulation valve for controlling a flow rate of the second fluid.

12. The temperature equalization system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the heat equalizer, the relay heat equalizer, the installation, the first and second fluid transmission ducts, the pump (106), the relay pump (206) and the control means is of a plurality of units.

13. The temperature equalization system of claim 12, wherein the plurality of units are of a same or not of a same material and specification.