An air-cooling mechanism. An electric fan has a fan motor and fan blades. A front grill covers the fan blades. A removably attached ice pack holder holds an ice pack. The ice pack holder has an ice pack holder grill and attachment brackets. The ice pack holder also includes a holding mechanism for receiving and holding the ice pack. Connection straps are used to connect the attachment brackets to the electric fan's front grill. In a preferred embodiment the connection straps are Velcro® straps. In a preferred embodiment, the ice pack includes ice pack holes for allowing air flow.

According to some embodiments, a floating cold thermal energy storage vessel comprises an ice battery. The ice battery comprises a storage tank configured to store thermal energy in the form of ice and chilled liquid, and a chiller coupled to a refrigerant loop. The refrigerant loop is coupled to the storage tank and operable to transfer thermal energy between the chiller and storage tank to form ice. The ice battery further comprises a heat exchanger coupled to the refrigerant loop, a liquid inlet, and a liquid outlet. The heat exchanger is configured to cool heated liquid received from the liquid inlet and supply cooled liquid to the liquid outlet using the thermal energy stored in the storage tank via the refrigerant loop. According to some embodiments, a regasification and cold thermal energy storage system comprises an ice battery and a liquefied gas regasification system.

A switch-mode power supply waste heat recovery and utilization system includes a switch-mode power supply unit, an air conditioner and a water storage tank that are all connected with pipes. The switch-mode power supply unit, the air conditioner and the water storage tank are in communication with each other through the pipes. The switch-mode power supply unit includes a cabinet. Fixed plates are fixedly connected to an inner side wall of the cabinet and arranged at equal intervals. A top and a bottom of the cabinet and respective interiors of the fixed plates are formed with cavities. The pipes are in communication with the cavities. A fan is fixedly connected to a side wall of the water storage tank, and is matched with the water storage tank. A filter screen is insertedly connected to an inner side wall of the water storage tank. A filter cotton is horizontally provided under the filter screen.

An air conditioner comprises a first refrigeration cycle and a second refrigeration cycle. The first refrigeration cycle comprises an evaporator, a condenser, a compressor and a throttle valve; the evaporator, the condenser, the compressor and the throttle valve are connected to form a first loop; the first refrigeration cycle further comprises a refrigerant which circulates in the first loop; the second refrigeration cycle comprises an antifreeze fluid tank, a pump and a heat exchanger; the antifreeze fluid tank, the pump and the heat exchanger are connected into a second loop; the second refrigeration cycle further comprises an antifreeze fluid which circulates in the second loop; the evaporator is installed in the antifreeze fluid tank and immersed in the antifreeze fluid in the antifreeze fluid tank. The air conditioner is novel in design and high in practicability.

A phase-change energy-storage structure for building insulation. The wall structure is provided with a wall base, an insulation layer, an oriented structural board, a shaped phase-change energy-storage insulation board, and an exterior decorative board in sequence from outdoor to indoor. The shaped phase-change energy-storage insulation board is composed of an inorganic composite phase-change material and a packaging sheet. The inorganic composite phase-change material has a phase-change temperature of 10 to 40° C., obtained by compounding an inorganic hydrated salt and a porous structural carrier. In the inorganic composite phase-change material, a mass percentage of the inorganic hydrated salt is 40 to 95%, and the inorganic composite phase-change material is coated with a fire resistant and corrosion resistant light-cured resin. The coldness in outdoor air in summer night can be stored in the phase-change energy-storage insulation board, which can be released into the indoor air during the day.

Thermo-chemical recuperation systems, devices, and methods are provided in accordance with various embodiments. Embodiments may generally relate to the field of refrigeration and/or heat pumping. Within that field, some embodiments apply to the recuperation or recapturing of both thermal and chemical potential in a freeze point suppression cycle. Some embodiments include a method and/or system of thermo-chemical recuperation that includes creating a flow of ice and flowing a brine against the flow of the ice. Some embodiments manage the thermal and chemical potentials by mixing a dilute brine stream exiting an ice mixing vessel with an ice stream before it enters the ice mixing vessel. By controlling this mixing in a counter-flow or step-wise cross flow manner with sufficient steps, both the thermal and chemical potential of the dilute bine stream may be recuperated.

Apparatus related to thermal storage and exchange systems for use in buildings to selectively cool and/or heat a heat storage medium and cause said medium to reversibly pass between a liquid phase and a solid phase without requiring a complete discharge of a thermal reservoir between phase changes. In one embodiment, a cube filled with water and a gas or liquid within the horizontal tubing is used to charge the system, thereby freezing the water. The vertical tubing is then used to recover the energy by melting the ice, which is used for air conditioning. In one embodiment, copper tubing and fins are used to efficiently charge and discharge the system.

Embodiments provide a thermal management system for supplying stored energy for the purpose of cooling by direct mixing of a common working fluid within a thermal store in which the cooling is realised by phase via latent heat phase change of an ice slurry of the working fluid.

An air handling unit (1) for cooling down an indoor airflow (A1) including at least one fan (3) circulating the indoor airflow inside the air handling unit (1) and a first and a second cooling subsystems (5, 15) including a refrigeration apparatus (50, 150) comprising an evaporator (500, 1500) and a condenser (504, 1504), a first water circuit (52, 152) connected to the condenser and comprising at least one outside heat exchanger (520, 1520) exposed to outside air (A5, A15), a second water circuit (56, 156) connected to the evaporator and comprising at least one indoor heat exchanger (560, 1560) exposed to the indoor airflow, water connection means (62, 64, 162, 164) for selectively connecting, depending on a temperature of the outside air.

A method for controlling cold storage of an air conditioner includes acquiring an ambient temperature around the air conditioner and a pipe temperature of an exhaust pipe of a compressor of the air conditioner, acquiring a target opening degree corresponding to a current cold storage mode of the air conditioner according to the ambient temperature and the pipe temperature, and adjusting an opening degree of a throttle device of the air conditioner to be the target opening degree. The throttle device is arranged at a pipe between a cold storage box of the air conditioner and a condenser of the air conditioner.