An air conditioning robot according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a main body having a suction hole and a discharge hole; a cooling cycle including a compressor, a condenser, an expansion mechanism, and an evaporator, which are disposed within the main body; a blower fan configured to blow air suctioned through the suction hole so that the air is heat-exchanged with the evaporator and discharged through the discharge hole; a heat storage tank configured to accommodate a heat storage material in which heat of the condenser is stored; a heat dissipation part configured to dissipate the heat of the heat storage material accommodated in the heat storage tank, the heat dissipation part thermally contacting a heat transfer terminal disposed outside the main body; and a driving part configured to allow the main body to move so that the heat dissipation part thermally contacts or is thermally separated from the heat transfer terminal.

An insulation-time determining device for a thermally insulated container with a latent heat accumulator includes energy-calculating equipment for calculating the amount of thermal energy stored in the latent heat accumulator from at least one status parameter of the thermally insulated container or the interior thereof as well as display equipment for displaying the calculated amount of stored thermal energy or a value correlated therewith. The insulation-time determining device also includes insulation-time calculating equipment to calculate a maximum insulation time provided with a safety correction factor of the thermally insulated container from the calculated amount of stored thermal energy or a value correlated therewith and a specified external temperature progression outside the thermally insulated container, during which maximum insulation time a specified temperature range is neither fallen below nor exceeded in the interior of the thermally insulated container.

The invention relates to thermal management aimed at maintaining the temperature inside a space. The proposed assembly includes the space and a device arranged around same, placed in an outdoor environment exposed to a non-constant temperature and including at least one thermally insulating element inserted between the inner space and the outdoor environment and, from the inside towards the outside: an inner heat-storage element made of PCM material and an outer thermal barrier containing several PCMs. The invention also includes a cooling unit for provisionally providing, in the inner space, a charge fluid, at least at a temperature that is different from those of the temperature to be maintained, in heat transfer with the PCM of the inner element, so as to store thermal energy.

In one embodiment, there is provided a device for a vehicle, having: a first interface configured to couple to at least one replaceable fluid container for a vehicle comprising a battery, the first interface comprising at least one fluid port configured to couple to at least one fluid port of the replaceable fluid container; a second interface configured to couple to an engine of the vehicle, the second interface comprising at least one fluid port configured to couple to at least one fluid port of a fluid circulation system of the vehicle; a fluid path coupled to at least one fluid port of the first interface and at least one fluid port of the second interface; and at least one electrical pump configured to be powered and/or driven by the battery of the vehicle and to cause fluid flow.

There is herein described energy storage systems. More particularly, there is herein described thermal energy storage systems and use of energy storable material such as phase change material in the provision of heating and/or cooling systems in, for example, domestic dwellings.

In one embodiment, there is provided a heat exchanger for equipment, having: at least one phase change material; and at least one heat exchange interface for heat exchange between the phase change material and a fluid flowing within, into and/or from a replaceable fluid container for the equipment, the replaceable fluid container having at least one fluid port adapted to couple to a fluid circulation system of the equipment when the replaceable container is coupled to a dock.

A storage device for thermal energy includes a thermo-vector unit, and a thermo-accumulator unit. The thermo-vector unit includes one or more flow ducts for a working fluid. The thermo-accumulator unit includes a thermal storage material configured to operate in a thermal exchange relationship with the working fluid and for storing and releasing thermal energy due to a thermal exchange with the working fluid. The thermo-accumulator unit has a thermal diffusivity comprised between 10 and 150 mm2/s.

In one embodiment, there is provided a device for a vehicle, having: a first interface configured to couple to at least one replaceable fluid container for a vehicle comprising a battery, the first interface comprising at least one fluid port configured to couple to at least one fluid port of the replaceable fluid container; a second interface configured to couple to an engine of the vehicle, the second interface comprising at least one fluid port configured to couple to at least one fluid port of a fluid circulation system of the vehicle; a fluid path coupled to at least one fluid port of the first interface and at least one fluid port of the second interface; and at least one electrical pump configured to be powered and/or driven by the battery of the vehicle and to cause fluid flow.

A supply module for supplying a weapon system includes an electric storage device and a thermal storage device that stores coolant. The supply module also includes at least one electrical connection via which power can be transferred from the electric storage device to the effector system, and at least one thermal connection via which the coolant can be transferred from the thermal storage device to the effector system.

The present invention discloses a mobile energy storage internet system. The mobile energy storage internet system comprises distributed energy harvesting devices, mobile cold storage/heat storage devices, an energy system dispatching and monitoring center, and cold supply/heat supply terminals. The distributed energy harvesting devices are used for harvesting industrial waste cold energy/heat energy. The energy system dispatching and monitoring center is used for monitoring the residual energy of the distributed energy harvesting devices and the energy demand of the cold supply/heat supply terminals respectively, and mobilizing the mobile cold storage/heat storage devices to the distributed energy harvesting devices to store residual energy or to the cold supply/heat supply terminals to release the stored residual energy. The mobile energy storage internet system disclosed by the present invention can make full use of various waste industrial residual energy, and nest electricity of renewable energy power stations and nuclear power stations, realizes long-distance cold supply and heat supply without pipe network, and reduces energy consumption in construction industries.