Air handler apparatuses for evaporative fluid cooling and methods thereof

• US 9,709,287 B1
• Filed: 05/11/2016
• Issued: 07/18/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2016
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Great Source Innovations LLC
• Original Assignee: Gerald Mcdonnell, Jeffrey Cheesman
• Inventors: McDonnell, Gerald, Cheesman, Jeffrey
• Primary Examiner(s): Walters, Ryan J
• Assistant Examiner(s): Trpisovsky, Joseph
• Application Number:
  US15/152,360
• Publication Number:
  US 20170205095A1
• Time in Patent Office: 433 Days
• Field of Search: 62 95, 622594, 62304, 62305, 62175, 62335
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/79 for controlling the direction of the supplied air
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 13/14 built up of tilting members, e.g. louvre
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 13/20 Casings or covers
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 13/30 Arrangement or mounting of heat-exchangers
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 5/0035 using evaporation
• CPC Class Codes: F25B 1/00 Compression machines, plants or systems with non-reversible cycle F25B3/00, F25B5/00, F25B6/00, F25B7/00, F25B9/00 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F25B 13/00 Compression machines, plants or systems, with reversible cycle defrosting cycles F25B47/02
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/20827 within rooms for removing heat from cabinets, e.g. air conditioning devices
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 30/54 Free-cooling systems

Abstract

An air handler apparatus includes at least one heat exchanger device with a cooling fluid region separated from a temperature transfer fluid region, an evaporator device comprising an evaporator housing and at least one evaporator coil, and a pump. The cooling fluid region has a cooling fluid input and a cooling fluid output and the temperature transfer fluid region has a temperature transfer fluid input and a temperature transfer fluid output. The evaporator housing defines an air passage having an air input and an air output. The evaporator coil has an evaporator coil input coupled to the temperature transfer fluid output and an evaporator output coupled to temperature transfer fluid input of the temperature transfer fluid region in the heat exchanger device. The pump is coupled to the temperature transfer fluid region in the heat exchanger device to pump temperature transfer fluid between the temperature transfer fluid region and the evaporator coil when activated.

Claims

1. An air handler apparatus comprising:

a plurality of heat exchanger device each comprising a cooling fluid region separated from a temperature transfer fluid region, each of the cooling fluid regions has a cooling fluid input and a cooling fluid output and each of the temperature transfer fluid regions has a temperature transfer fluid input and a temperature transfer fluid output, the cooling fluid regions are coupled in series;

an evaporator device comprising an evaporator housing and a plurality of evaporator coils, the evaporator housing defining an air passage having an air input and an air output and each of the evaporator coils has an evaporator coil input coupled to the temperature transfer fluid output and an evaporator output coupled to temperature transfer fluid input of one of the temperature transfer fluid regions in one of the heat exchanger devices; and

a fluid transfer system coupled to the temperature transfer fluid regions in the heat exchanger devices to transfer temperature transfer fluid between the temperature transfer fluid regions and the evaporator coils when activated;

wherein one of the plurality of the heat exchanger devices that has the cooling fluid input configured to be coupled to a cooling fluid return from an evaporative fluid cooling apparatus is coupled to one of the plurality of the evaporator coils that is closest to the air output;

wherein another one of the plurality of the heat exchanger devices that has the cooling fluid output configured to be coupled to a cooling fluid supply to the evaporative fluid cooling apparatus is coupled to another one of the plurality of the evaporator coils that is closest to the air input.

2. The apparatus as set forth in claim 1:

wherein the fluid transfer system comprises a plurality of pumps, each of the plurality of pumps is coupled to pump the temperature transfer fluid between one of the temperature transfer fluid regions and one of the evaporator coils when activated.

3. The apparatus as set forth in claim 1 wherein the temperature transfer fluid in each of the temperature transfer fluid regions in the heat exchanger devices has a different boiling point.

4. The apparatus as set forth in claim 1 wherein at least one of the plurality of the evaporator coils further comprises at least two split coils each having an input adjacent an outer edge of the split coils from one of the cooling fluid regions and each having an output in the interior of the two split coils back to the one of the cooling fluid regions.

5. The apparatus as set forth in claim 1 further comprising an evaporator air movement device positioned to provide a flow of the air from the air input through the evaporator housing and out the air output when activated.

6. The apparatus as set forth in claim 1 further comprising an additional refrigerant system positioned to remove heat in the air prior to reaching the evaporator device.

7. A method for making an air handler apparatus, the method comprising:

providing a plurality of heat exchanger devices each comprising a cooling fluid region separated from a temperature transfer fluid region, each of the cooling fluid regions has a cooling fluid input and a cooling fluid output and each of the temperature transfer fluid regions has a temperature transfer fluid input and a temperature transfer fluid output, the cooling fluid regions are coupled in series;

providing an evaporator device comprising an evaporator housing and a plurality of evaporator coils, the evaporator housing defining an air passage having an air input and an air output and each of the evaporator coils has an evaporator coil input coupled to the temperature transfer fluid output and an evaporator output coupled to temperature transfer fluid input of one of the temperature transfer fluid regions in one of the heat exchanger devices; and

coupling a fluid transfer system to the temperature transfer fluid regions in the heat exchanger devices to transfer temperature transfer fluid between the temperature transfer fluid regions and the evaporator coils when activated;

wherein one of the plurality of the heat exchanger devices that has the cooling fluid input configured to be coupled to a cooling fluid return from an evaporative fluid cooling apparatus is coupled to one of the plurality of the evaporator coils that is closest to the air output;

wherein another one of the plurality of the heat exchanger devices that has the cooling fluid output configured to be coupled to a cooling fluid supply to the evaporative fluid cooling apparatus is coupled to another one of the plurality of the evaporator coils that is closest to the air input.

8. The method as set forth in claim 7:

wherein the fluid transfer system comprises a plurality of pumps, each of the plurality of pumps is coupled to pump the temperature transfer fluid between one of the temperature transfer fluid regions and one of the evaporator coils when activated.

9. The method as set forth in claim 7 wherein the temperature transfer fluid in each of the temperature transfer fluid regions in the heat exchanger devices has a different boiling point.

10. The method as set forth in claim 7 wherein at least one of the plurality of the evaporator coils further comprises at least two split coils each having an input adjacent an outer edge of the split coils from one of the cooling fluid regions and each having an output in the interior of the two split coils back to the one of the cooling fluid regions.

11. The method as set forth in claim 7 further comprising positioning an evaporator air movement device provide a flow of the air from the air input through the evaporator housing and out the air output when activated.

12. The method as set forth in claim 7 further comprising positioning an additional refrigerant system to remove heat in the air prior to reaching the evaporator device.