Invention Application
- Patent Title: Modular High-Performance Turbo-Compression Cooling
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Application No.: US18691113Application Date: 2022-09-22
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Publication No.: US20240392701A1Publication Date: 2024-11-28
- Inventor: Todd Bandhauer , Nickolas Roberts
- Applicant: Colorado State University Research Foundation
- Applicant Address: US CO Fort Collins
- Assignee: Colorado State University Research Foundation
- Current Assignee: Colorado State University Research Foundation
- Current Assignee Address: US CO Fort Collins
- International Application: PCT/US2022/044325 WO 20220922
- Main IPC: F01K23/10
- IPC: F01K23/10 ; F01K11/02 ; F01K25/10

Abstract:
An ultra-efficient turbo-compression cooling system links an organic Rankine power cycle and a vapor compression cooling cycle using a turbine and compressor that shares a single shaft and further linked to an evaporative condenser. The power cycle implements a waste heat exchanger configured to evaporate a working fluid and a turbine configured to receive the evaporated working fluid. The turbine has a plurality of vanes disposed around a central shaft and configured to rotate as the working fluid expands to a lower pressure within the turbine. An evaporative condenser then condenses the working fluid to a saturated liquid and a mechanical pump pumps the saturated liquid to reenter the waste heat waste heat exchanger. The cooling cycle implements a compressor configured to increase the pressure of the working fluid, with the evaporative condenser (shared with the power cycle) configured to condense the working fluid to a saturated liquid upon exiting the compressor, an expansion valve wherein the working fluid expands to a lower pressure, and an evaporator rejecting heat from a circulating fluid to the working fluid, thereby cooling the circulating fluid.
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