A COMPACT HEAT RECOVERY VENTILATION SYSTEM
20200300498 ยท 2020-09-24
Inventors
- Edward LOPATINSKY (San Diego, CA, US)
- Daniel SCHAEFER (Kanarraville, UT, US)
- Loftsson JOHANNES (Reykjavik, IS)
Cpc classification
B60H1/00321
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
Y02B30/56
GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
F24F12/006
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F04D17/04
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F04D17/16
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
B60H1/039
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
F04D25/163
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F04D25/08
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F24F2221/17
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F04D25/06
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F04D29/4226
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F24F2221/14
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F04D25/16
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
International classification
F24F12/00
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F04D25/08
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F04D25/06
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
Abstract
A countercurrent heat recovery ventilation system includes an air module assembly and heat exchanger assembly. Air module assembly made from front and back panels connected by two side panels, base plate fixed with the side panels and placed parallel between side panels and a double side radial impeller with a shaft, an electric drive form two hydraulically isolated flow canals with inlet and outlet openings.
The heat exchanger assembly comprises a heat-exchanger that could be done as changeable flow side heat-exchanger made as folded corrugated fins or plates, thus each of the both flow passages split in separate flow channels. Every other channel is sealed to flow from flow same direction forcing the flow to be in opposite direction in all adjacent cannels. This forms two hydraulically isolated flow passages with intake and outtake openings connected respectively with outlet and inlet openings of the air blower assembly.
Claims
1. A compact heat recovery ventilation system comprising an air module assembly with exhaust gas inlet, exhaust gas outlet and fresh gas inlet, fresh gas outlet, heat exchanger assembly with exhaust gas intake, exhaust gas outtake and fresh gas intake, fresh gas outtake, wherein: said air module assembly comprises two side panels, base plate placed between two radial blowers surrounded by airflow guides and located on a common axis between each said side panel and said base plate forming two hydraulically isolated counter flow canals between said exhaust gas inlet and said exhaust gas outlet and between said fresh gas outlet and said fresh gas inlet. said heat exchanger assembly comprising heat exchange elements surrounded by outside panels with two open ends, each of said open end divided by a center plate to two separated isolated flow conduits with said exhaust gas intake, said exhaust gas outtake and said fresh gas outtake, said fresh gas intake, where said fresh gas outtake of said conduit hydraulically connected to said fresh gas inlet of said canal and said exhaust gas intake of said conduit hydraulically connected to said exhaust gas outlet of said canal.
2. The compact heat recovery ventilation system per claim 1 wherein said side panels are parallel to said base plate.
3. The compact heat recovery ventilation system according to claim 1 wherein said base plate of the air module assembly made from two plates divided in plane perpendicular to the thickness of said base plate.
4. The compact heat recovery ventilation system according to claim 1 wherein said base plate is parallel to the said outside panels and the center plate.
5. The compact heat recovery ventilation system according to claim 1 wherein said side panels are directly connected to said outside panels to form substantially continuous surfaces and said base plate is directly connected to said center plate to form a substantially continuous plate.
6. The compact heat recovery ventilation system according to claim 1 wherein the air module assembly connected to heat exchanger assembly through a flat transition with two airflow ducts.
7. The compact heat recovery ventilation system according to claim 1 wherein the air module assembly connected to heat exchanger assembly through a L-shape transition with two airflow ducts.
8. The compact heat recovery ventilation system according to claim 1 wherein said compact heat recovery ventilation system is hidden within a structure envelope inside a building wall, a window frame or a ceiling.
9. The compact heat recovery ventilation system according to claim 1 wherein said system includes two said radial blowers each comprising a radial impeller, said impellers integrated with electric drive and each said impeller spaced from the respective side of said base plate, each of said radial impellers located at one of said canals.
10. The compact heat recovery ventilation system according to claim 9 wherein each of said radial impellers comprises set of radial blades fixed on a back plate disk placed in a cylindrical cavity of said base plate.
11. The compact heat recovery ventilation system according to claim 10 wherein each of said back plate made from ferrous metal.
12. The compact heat recovery ventilation system according to claim 10 wherein at least one of the back plates includes set of permanent magnets and along with second said back plate comprises a rotor of said electric drive.
13. The compact heat recovery ventilation system according to claim 9 wherein said electric drive comprises a flat stator made as circumferential arrayed coil windings with magnetic axes perpendicular to a plane of said flat stator and integrated with said base plate, while said magnetic elements made as circumferential arrayed permanent magnets magnetized perpendicular to the plane of said flat stator, thus magnetic axes said coils windings and said magnets are substantially parallel.
14. The compact heat recovery ventilation system according to claim 9 wherein a stator of said electric drive made as a stator comprising circumferential arrayed coils windings with magnetic axes coincided with a plane of said stator and fixed with said base plate and when electrically powered, creates alternating electromagnetic fields which interact with a said permanent magnets of said rotor thus providing a rotation of said two radial impellers.
15. The compact heat recovery ventilation system according to claim 13 wherein the flat stator located between two said divided sections of the said base, thus said cylindrical cavities, said stator and said back plates of the rotor creating a labyrinth hydraulically isolating said two canals of said air module assembly.
16. The compact heat recovery ventilation system according to claim 12 wherein outside diameters of said rotors are larger than diameters of said blades of the radial impellers.
17. The compact heat recovery ventilation system according to claim 9 wherein at least one of said radial impellers is a cross flow type.
18. The compact heat recovery ventilation system according to claim 9 wherein both of said radial impellers are the cross flow type.
19. The compact heat recovery ventilation system according to claim 9 wherein both of said radial impellers rotate in one direction.
20. The compact heat recovery ventilation system according to claim 17 wherein said crossflow impeller further comprises at least one guide vane surrounded by said radial blades;
21. The compact heat recovery ventilation system according to claim 1 wherein said heat exchanging elements protruding from both sides of said center plate up to said outside panels.
22. The compact heat recovery ventilation system according to claim 1 wherein said heat exchanging elements shaped as corrugated fins made as a plurality of channels divided by said center plate to one said intake and one said outtake openings at one said open end and one said outtake and one said intake openings at the other said open end in a way that every even channel of said corrugated fins is sealed at said intake openings while every odd channel is sealed at said outtake openings on said another, thus every other channel is having opposite flow direction to every neighboring channel.
23. The compact heat recovery ventilation system according to claim 21 wherein said center plate has a flat portion across all said corrugated fins and a plurality dividers perpendicular to said flat portion and spaced with a double distance of the distance between neighboring said corrugated fins thus each said divider would seal every other said corrugated fin at said intake.
24. The compact heat recovery ventilation system according to claim 22 wherein said center plate has a flat portion across all said corrugated fins and a plurality dividers perpendicular to said flat portion and spaced with a double distance of the distance between neighboring said corrugated fins thus each said divider would seal every other said corrugated fin at said outtake.
25. The compact heat recovery ventilation system according to claim 1 wherein said heat exchanging elements made from plurality of even and odd plates forming plurality of said channels and said center plate that has a flat portion across all said plates from both said open ends and at one said open end at said intake each pair of said even and said odd plates bended towards each other and sealed and at another said open end at said intake each pair of odd and even said plates bended towards each other and sealed and at one said open end at said outtake each pair of said odd and said even plates bended towards each other and sealed and at another said open end at said outtake each pair of said even and said odd plates bended towards each other and sealed.
26. The compact heat recovery ventilation system according to claim 24 wherein central portion of said plates at the both said open ends has a bend perpendicular to the plate creating said center plate across all said channels thus separates the intakes and outtakes and any said channel is having opposite flow direction to every next said channel.
27. The compact heat recovery ventilation system according to claim 2, wherein the common axis of the radial blowers is perpendicular to the side panels.
28. The compact heat recovery ventilation system according to claim 1 wherein at least one of said radial blowers is a cross flow type.
29. The compact heat recovery ventilation system according to claim 1 wherein both of said radial blowers are the cross flow type.
30. The compact heat recovery ventilation system according to claim 1 wherein both of said radial blowers rotate in one direction.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
[0071] Preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
[0072] A compact heat recovery system 1 (
[0073] The heat exchanger assembly 3 comprises of heat exchanging elements 20, center plate 21 fixed with outside panels 22 and 23 and withe with heat exchanger sides 18 and 19. The center plate 21 divides openings of the ends 24, 25 of the heat exchanger assembly 3 for two hydraulically isolated flow conduits 28 and 29 with exhaust gas intake 31, fresh gas intake 32 and exhaust gas outtake 34, fresh gas 36 outtake located at the ends 24, 25. The base plate 4, side panels 8, 9 of the air module assembly 2 connected respectively to the center plate 21, outside panels 22, 23 of the heat exchanger assembly 3.
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[0078] There are at least two design options for the electric drive 45. According to a first design option (
[0079] According to a second design option (
[0080] All electrical coils made as printed overlapping coils on the PC board in accordance with the U.S. Pat. No. 7,623,013 that is incorporated in this application by reference.
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[0086] End 25 has exhaust gas intake 31 and fresh gas outtake, 36 while the end 24 has fresh gas intake 32 and exhaust gas outtake 34.
[0087] At the exhaust gas intake 31 at the end 24 every even channel 81 is sealed and every odd channel 82 is open, while at the fresh gas outtake 36 at the same end 24 every odd channel 82 is sealed and every even channel 81 is open.
[0088] For this particular heat exchanger with heat exchanging elements 20 at exhaust gas flows through the exhaust gas intake 31 next to outside panel 22 at end 24, through open odd channels 82 to the exhaust gas outtake 34 next to outside panel 23 at end 25, thus gas is forced to change sides.
[0089] Fresh gas flows through the fresh gas intake 32 next to outside panel 23 at end 25, through open even channels 81 out to the fresh gas outtake 36 next to outside panel 22 at end 24, thus gas is forced to change sides.
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[0091] At both ends 24 and 25 at fresh gas intake 32 and fresh gas outtake 36 pluralities of pairs of all even plates 83 and odd plates 84 are bended and sealed together.
[0092] At the end 24 of the heat exchanger assembly 3 the exhaust gas intake 31 is separated from fresh gas outtake 36 by center plate 74.
At the end 25 of the heat exchanger assembly 3 the fresh gas intake 32 is separated from exhaust gas outtake 34 by center plate 75.
[0093] For this particular heat exchanger assembly 3 with heat exchanging elements 20 the exhaust gas flows through the exhaust gas intake 31 next to outside panel 22 at end 24, through open odd channels 82 to the exhaust gas outtake 34 next to outside panel 23 at end 25, thus gas is forced to change sides.
[0094] Fresh gas flows through the fresh gas intake 32 next to outside panel 23 at end 25, through open even channels 81 out to the fresh gas outtake 36 next to outside panel 22 at end 24, thus gas is forced to change sides.
[0095] This gives additional flexibility in design as the air is free to move between opposite sides of the heat exchanger, and the air can exit on the other end of the heat exchanger on the opposite side than it entered.
[0096] The principals of such heat exchanger are described in U.S. Pat. No. DE4,301,296 Plate heat exchange on countercurrent principle and incorporated here by reference.
[0097] The heat exchangers described in
[0098] The changing or sides of the airflow inside the heat exchanger, is also beneficial as it can be used to prevent formation of dead pockets inside the heat exchanger which may accumulate and condensate dirt, hence, having both outlets on the bottom side can help reduce any such accumulation inside the heat exchanger.
[0099] There are several alignments of heat exchangers assembly 3 and air module assembly 2 that are possible in the compact heat recovery ventilation system 1.
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[0104] The compact heat recovery ventilation system 1 operates in the following way. When an electric power is supplied to the flat stator 68 of the electric drive 45, the alternative electromagnetic field is created. This electromagnetic field is controlled by the electronic controllers (not shown on Figs.) and interacts with a magnetic field created by the magnetic rotor 63. As a result of this interaction, the magnetized rotor 63 causes the double radial impeller 57 to rotate. The exhaust gas flows through the exhaust gas inlet duct 54A, crossflow blower 49 in the exhaust gas canal 12 of the air module assembly 2, the exhaust gas outlet 53A, exhaust gas intake 31 through heat exchanging elements 20 and exhaust gas outtake 34 of heat exchanger assembly 3 and exhaust gas outtake duct 54, while fresh gas flows through the fresh gas intake duct 55, fresh gas intake 32 through heat exchanging elements 20, fresh gas outtake 36 of the heat exchanger assembly 3, flexible fresh air transition channel 91 of the transition 89, fresh gas inlet 15, cross flow blower 50 in fresh gas canal 13, and fresh gas outlet 17, fresh gas outlet duct 55A of air module assembly 2, thus providing countercurrent heat exchange process.
[0105] According to the present invention, the compact heat recovery ventilation system 1 due to the mutual arrangement of the hydraulic schemes of the crossflow blowers 42 with the double side radial impeller 75 parallel to the base plate 4 of the air module assembly 2, provides a thin, compact, highly efficient, simple, reliable and less expensive device that can easily be mounted inside the wall, ceiling or inside a vehicle.
[0106] These combination of the dual thin blowers with the integrated single motor between them, mounted with the side changeable heat exchanger including additional modules such as filters, silencers, humidifiers, assembled in a flat modular way, allows to create a flat compact heat recovery system capable of being soundless, wall-mounted or even be able to fit inside of the wall or ceiling.
[0107] While the invention has been described with reference to various embodiments, it should be understood that these embodiments are only illustrative and that the scope of the invention is not limited to just those. Many variations, modifications and improvements of the embodiments described are possible. Variations and modifications of the embodiments disclosed herein may be made based on description set forth herein, without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention as set forth in the following claims.
In accordance to the above description of proposed invention first prototype of such system was manufactured, installed in the standard wall and successfully tested.