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    • 专利摘要:
    An inlet stratification device serves for providing and maintaining stratification of a fluid in a tank. The stratification device comprises a pipe (6) of flexible non]porous material, having a number of holes (10), said pipe being configured to contract and expand such that exchange of fluid through the holes (10) of the pipe is substantially prevented in regions of the pipe, where the temperature of the fluid inside the pipe is higher than the temperature of the fluid outside of the pipe.
    公开号:DK201400140A1
    申请号:DKP201400140
    申请日:2014-03-14
    公开日:2015-09-28
    发明作者:Martin Spanggaard
    申请人:Eyecular Technologies Aps；
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    专利说明:

    DESCRIPTION
    The invention concerns an inlet stratification device. The purpose of the present invention is to thermally stratify the inlet liquid in a hot liquid storage tank to increase the thermal performance of the storage tank and/ or the heating system as a whole. The hot liquid system can be used for space heating, domestic hot water, process heat etc.
    The present invention is a further development of two known stratification technologies: 1. Rigid pipe with exit holes as described in e.g. DE 10320569 B4 and DE 102007046905 Al. This technology is widely used in the industry today. 2. Flexible pipe with pores as described in W02006084460. This technology has been described in numerous scientific articles but has never been commercialized.
    The disadvantage with the rigid pipe with exit holes is that the warm inlet liquid is mixed colder liquid from the tank, before the warm liquid has reached the appropriate thermal layer in the tank. The inlet liquid is flowing upwards inside the stratification device, and passes exit holes in the stratifier, positioned in the lower and colder part of the tank. When the warm liquid passes these holes, cold liquid from the tank, is sucked into the stratification pipe, through these holes, and are mixed with the warm inlet liquid. This way a part of the stratification potential is lost, and the thermal performance is reduced significantly.
    The disadvantage with the flexible pipe with pores is that the porous material can behave as a filter for the liquid. All particles larger than the pores e.g. rust, dirt, various flaking and any other floating material in the liquid system, will be caught by the porous material. This will gradually block the pores, and eventually disable the stratification capabilities of the stratifier completely. Also calcium carbonate sediments have a tendency of building up deposits in the pores, again gradually blocking the pores, and eventually disabling the stratification capabilities of the stratifier completely.
    The new invention is made as a non-porous flexible pipe with holes. The invention thereby takes the best functions from the two technologies described above, and eliminates the mentioned disadvantages of both.
    All embodiments of the invention are designed with a number of discrete openings (exit holes) in the flexible non-porous material. The holes are located in different vertical heights, and have a predetermined vertical distance to allow the exchange of fluid in the desired vertical thermal layers.
    The holes are closed when the temperature of the surrounding liquid is lower than the temperature of the liquid inside the stratification device. This is due to the pressure difference stemming from the density difference between warm and the cold liquid. Thereby the disadvantage of the rigid pipe with holes is eliminated, as no cold liquid is mixed with the warm liquid. When the inlet liquid has reached the thermal layer where there is no temperature difference and thus no pressure difference, the pipe with expand to its circular shape and the holes will open and the inlet liquid can exit to the right thermal layer.
    The new invention has thereby also solved the disadvantage from the flexible pipe with pores as the exit of liquid is not through the pores in the material, but through open holes in the material. The holes are dimensioned as big as it takes for them not to block at any time.
    One embodiment of the invention is a rectangular non-porous flexible material e.g. polymer film which is folded around its central axis on the long side (a). After the folding of the film, the two edges of the film sheet are joined together (b), for example by welding. See cross section in Figure 1.
    Figure 2 is a diagrammatic longitudinal sectional view through the first embodiment of the stratification device according to the invention arranged vertically in a tank. Figure 2 discloses a tank 1 having a bottom 2 provided with an opening 3 which is closed by means of a cover 4.
    Inside the tank a first embodiment of a stratification device 5 according to the invention is arranged vertically. The stratification device comprises a non-porous flexible pipe with holes 6 which is retained in the vertical position by a rigid frame structure 7 and a bottom mount 8. Alongside the jointed edges 9, the holes 10 are made as circular recesses, so that the edges are only joined point wise.
    The bottom mount 8 comprises a ledge 11 of a small diameter corresponding to the inner diameter of the non-porous flexible pipe with holes 6, the lower end of the non-porous flexible pipe with holes 6 being fixed to the ledge and the upper end being fixed by a rigid ring 12 of the rigid frame structure 7.
    The bottom mount 8 is provided with an inlet 13 to the non-porous flexible pipe 6 and it is fixed to the cover 4 by not-shown means. Also shown is a heating circuit 14 comprising an outlet 15 provided at the bottom of the tank 1. From this outlet 15 cold water flows through a diagrammatically shown heat exchanger 16 transferring heat from energy source e.g. solar collectors. From the heat exchanger 16 the water flows back to the bottom of the tank and into the non-porous flexible pipe with holes 6 through the inlet 13. A pump 17 is arranged in the circuit 14.
    The heated water from the heat exchanger 16 flows upwards inside the non-porous flexible pipe with holes 6 and the heated water will be thermally stratified as described earlier.
    Figure 3 illustrates the pressure difference and equalization respectively causing the film to contract around the warm inlet liquid and closing the holes (c) and expand to its circular shape and opening the holes and letter the inlet liquid out (d). A second embodiment of the invention can be seen as a cross section in Figure 4. The stratification device consists partially of a flexible film (e) and partially of a rigid material (f). A third embodiment of the invention can be seen as a cross section in Figure 5. Like the second embodiment, it consists partially of a flexible film (g) and partially of a rigid material (h). The edge of the film is attached to the rigid material throughout the length of the stratification device. The open/close function takes place by the flexible film either stretching/collapsing around the rigid material, thereby closing the holes (i) in the flexible film, or by unfolding thereby opening the holes. A fourth embodiment of the invention will have a similar cross section shape as the third embodiment. It can be seen in Figure 6. The difference between the two is that in this embodiment, the film will not have any holes and will not be attached to the rigid material throughout the length of the stratification device. Instead it will only be attached point wise to the rigid material, thereby creating openings/holes (j). The open/close function takes place by the flexible film either stretching/collapsing around the rigid material, thereby closing the holes in the flexible film, or by unfolding thereby opening the holes.
    权利要求:
    Claims (10)
    [1] 1. An inlet stratification device (5) for providing and maintaining stratification of a fluid in a tank, the inlet stratification device comprises a pipe (6) of a flexible non-porous material, having a number of holes (10), said pipe being configured to contract and expand such that exchange of fluid through the holes (10) of the pipe is substantially prevented in regions of the pipe, where the temperature of the fluid inside the pipe is higher than the temperature of the fluid outside the pipe.
    [2] 2. An inlet stratification device (5) according to claim 1, characterized in that the pipe in the expanded position has a substantially circular cross-sectional shape.
    [3] 3. An inlet stratification device (5) according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the holes (10) are provided in different vertical heights and have a predetermined vertical distance to allow exchange of fluid in the desired vertical thermal layers of the stratification device.
    [4] 4. An inlet stratification device (5) according to any of the preceding claims, characterized in that the holes (10) are dimensioned such that floating material in the fluid will not be caught in said holes.
    [5] 5. An inlet stratification device (5) according to any of the preceding claims, characterized in that that the pipe is made of a polymer film.
    [6] 6. An inlet stratification device (5) according to any of the preceding claims, characterized in that the stratification device is arranged vertically in a liquid storage tank (1) by means of a rigid frame structure (7) and a bottom mount (8).
    [7] 7. An inlet stratification device (5) according to claim 1, characterized in that that the pipe of the stratification device (5) consist partly of a flexible non-porous material (e) and partly of a rigid material (f), the longitudinal edges of the flexible non-porous material being attached to the longitudinal edges of the rigid material.
    [8] 8. An inlet stratification device (5) according to claim 7, characterized in that the longitudinal edges of the flexible non-porous material (e) is point wise attached to the longitudinal edges of the rigid material (f), such that the holes are provided along the joint edges.
    [9] 9. A method of providing an inlet stratification device (5) comprising a pipe of flexible non-porous material, having a number of holes (10), said method comprises providing a rectangular non-porous flexible material, assembling the longitudinal edges of the rectangular non-porous flexible material in the complete length of the edges, or assembling the longitudinal edges of the rectangular non-porous flexible material point wise in order to provide holes as circular recesses along the joint edge.
    [10] 10. A method of providing an inlet stratification device (5) comprising a pipe having a number of holes (10), said pipe being of a partly flexible non-porous material and partly of a rigid material, said method comprises providing a rectangular non-porous flexible material, attaching the longitudinal edges of the rectangular non-porous flexible material to the longitudinal edges of the rigid material in the complete length of the respective edges, attaching the longitudinal edges of the rectangular non-porous flexible material to the longitudinal edges of the rigid material point wise in order to provide holes along the joint edges.
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