IMPROVED HEATING AND AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEMS INCORPORATING SOLID-VAPOR SORPTION REACTORS CAPABLE OF HIGH REACTION RATES

摘要

A heating system incorporates one or more reactors (10,30, 40, 50, 66, 68) containing a complex compound of ametal salt and a polar gas adsorbed thereon in which thevolumetric expansion of the complex compound is restrictedduring adsorption and which reactors (10, 30, 40, 50, 66, 68)comprise one or more reaction chambers having a maximum meanmass diffusion path length of less than 15 mm, and/or a maximumthermal diffusion path length of less than 1.5 mm, means (18, 72)for heating the complex compound in the reactors (10, 30, 40, 50,66, 68), a condenser (12, 32), an evaporator (14, 34) and conduitmeans (11, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 31, 33, 39, 47, 52, 53, 54, 60,81) for directing polar gas from the reactors (10, 30, 40, 50, 66,68) to the condenser (12, 32), from the condenser (12, 32) to theevaporator (14, 34) respectively through the reactors (10, 30, 40,50, 66, 68) for cooling them and from the evaporator (14, 34) tothe reactors (10, 30, 40, 50, 66, 68).