A gas-liquid separator includes a first cylinder body, a second cylinder body, a first flow guide portion, a second flow guide portion, a gas-liquid distribution assembly and a heat exchange assembly. The first cylinder body is located inside the second cylinder body. The gas-liquid separator has a first cavity and a second cavity. The heat exchange assembly is at least partially located in the first cavity. The heat exchange assembly includes a heat exchange tube, a first heat exchange member and a second heat exchange member. The heat exchange tube at least partially surrounds the first cylinder body. The first heat exchange member and the second heat exchange member have different structures. A thermal management system having the gas-liquid separator is also disclosed.

Disclosed are systems and methods of flexibly cooling thermal loads by providing a complex compound system for burst mode cooling, a vapor compression system for ancillary cooling, and a thermal storage system for helping efficiently maintain and cool a thermal load such as a directed energy weapon system.

A thermal management system is described. The thermal management system includes a receiver configured to store a refrigerant, the receiver having a receiver inlet and a receiver outlet, a closed-circuit refrigeration system including a vapor compression closed-circuit system that includes the receiver, and a closed-circuit system that includes the receiver, wherein the closed-circuit refrigeration system is configurable to receive refrigerant from the receiver through one or both of the vapor compression closed-circuit system and the closed-circuit system.

A circulation system of an air conditioner, an air conditioner, and an air conditioner control method. The circulation system of the air conditioner includes a compressor, a first heat exchanger, a second heat exchanger, and a gas-liquid separation assembly. The gas-liquid separation assembly, together with the compressor, the first heat exchanger, and the second heat exchanger, forms a loop; the gas-liquid separation assembly includes two or more gas-liquid separators which are connected in series; the gas-liquid separation assembly is configured to perform gas-liquid separation for refrigerant. Further, two or more-staged gas-liquid separation can be performed for the refrigerant flowing back to the compressor, so that a problem that return oil containing liquid in the compressor can be effectively solved.

A refrigeration cycle apparatus includes an outdoor unit including a compressor, a first heat exchanger, and a first expansion valve, an indoor unit including a second expansion valve and a second heat exchanger, and a first pipe and a second pipe connected between the outdoor unit and the indoor unit. In a cooling operation, refrigerant delivered from the compressor sequentially passes through the first heat exchanger, the first expansion valve, the first pipe, the second expansion valve, the second heat exchanger, and the second pipe and returns to the compressor, and in the cooling operation, the first expansion valve converts refrigerant from a liquid-phase state to a two-phase state and sends two-phase refrigerant to the first pipe.

A heat transfer system for controlling two or more heat loads, including a high transient heat load, is provided. The heat transfer system may include sensible-heat thermal energy storage. A method of transferring heat from two or more heat loads to an ambient environment is further provided.

A refrigeration assembly includes a receiver tank, a heat exchanger, a first piping assembly, and a second piping assembly. The receiver tank has a fluid outlet and a fluid inlet that receives a working fluid. The heat exchanger is disposed within the receiver tank. The heat exchanger has coiled tubing that is fluidly coupled to the fluid inlet and to the fluid outlet. The first piping assembly is disposed between and is fluidly coupled to the fluid inlet and the coiled tubing. The first piping assembly has a first double riser and a first P-trap. The second piping assembly is disposed between and is fluidly coupled to the fluid outlet and the coiled tubing. The second piping assembly includes a second double riser and a second P-trap.

An outdoor unit includes at least one heat exchanger, a first motor including a first fan, a second motor including a second fan, an inverter that applies voltage to the first motor and the second for respectively, a connection switching unit that switches the voltage applied to the second motor between on and off, and a control unit that controls the inverter and the connection switching unit. The inverter is disposed closer to the first motor than to the second motor.

In a motor driving apparatus having an inverter which can drive n (n being an integer not smaller than 2) motors each having a permanent magnet in its rotor, and a connection switching device for switching the connection state of the n motors, the connection switching device is operated to change the number of the motors connected to the inverter thereby to change the impedance as seen from the inverter towards the motors. When i (i being any of 2 to n) motors among the n motors are concurrently driven by the inverter, the voltage outputted by the inverter may be controlled such that the inductance values of the i motors are identical. It is possible to prevent hunting and step-out due to the phase difference between the motors driven by the inverter.

A thermal management system includes an open-circuit refrigeration system including a cooling system configured to supply a cooling medium. The open-circuit refrigeration system includes a receiver having a receiver outlet, the receiver configurable to store a refrigerant fluid, the receiver configured to receive the cooling medium from the cooling system, an evaporator coupled to the receiver outlet, the evaporator configurable to receive liquid refrigerant fluid from the receiver outlet and to extract heat from a heat load when the heat load contacts or is proximate to the evaporator a control device configurable to control a temperature of the heat load and an exhaust line, with the receiver, the evaporator, and the exhaust line coupled to form an open-circuit refrigerant fluid flow path.