Described is a thermal energy storage and delivery system for delivering thermal energy to both a passenger compartment of a vehicle and a component, such as a battery, located externally of the passenger compartment. The system capitalizes on excess capacity stored in a thermal energy storage apparatus, to heat the external component in addition to the passenger compartment.

Thermal energy storage and delivery system

The instant invention is a respiratory system to temporarily prevent asphyxiation and suffocation due to the presence of smoke, toxic gases and/or noxious gases resulting from aircraft fire or similar such. The respiratory system consists of a small dropout package (12) containing a protective hood (28) for deployment to enclose the head of the passenger to improve the passenger's vision in the smoke, a protective breathing mask (1) for enclosing the mouth and nose of the passenger in order to provide breathable air and a dual air supply system. The respiratory system provides a connection to a fresh, breathable air supply (58) from the aircraft's emergency air source and provides a chemical air purifier (14) preferably including a wet scrubbing system for purifying cabin air of contaminants to supply additional breathable air. The respiratory system is disengageable from the aircraft's emergency air source for evacuation.

Protective hood and oral-nasal mask

Systems, methods, and computer-implemented embodiments consistent with the inventions herein are directed to storing and/or transferring heat. In one exemplary implementation, there is provided a system for transferring/storing heat comprised of a heat exchange/storage apparatus including a chamber, and a heat input device adapted to heat/provide a vapor into the chamber. Other exemplary implementations may include one or more features consistent with a heat output device through which a working medium/fluid passes, a thermal storage medium located within the chamber, and/or a heat exchange system that delivers a heat exchange medium/fluid to the thermal storage medium.

Systems and methods of thermal transfer and/or storage

A thermal energy storage system is operable in heating capacity storage and discharge modes and cooling capacity storage and discharge modes for maintaining a temperature in a vehicle compartment. Each mode includes a thermal charging cycle and a thermal discharging cycle. The thermal energy storage system communicates with a vehicle air conditioning system including a compressor and a vehicle coolant system including a vehicle engine. The thermal energy storage system comprises a thermal storage apparatus housing thermal energy storage material that stores thermal energy. The thermal storage apparatus is connected to the air conditioning system and the coolant system so that a refrigerant or coolant flows through the thermal storage apparatus in heat transfer relationship with the thermal energy storage material.

Plumbed thermal energy storage system

A thermal energy storage apparatus is disclosed which is adapted for use in motor vehicles to provide immediate cooling, or for use in buildings to provide local area cooling or a reduction in peak energy demand. The apparatus comprises a reservoir (12) which is composed of a plurality of separate containers (14), each containing water and a gas capable of forming a gas hydrate with the water at a transition temperature above 32 °F. Also, at least one movable member (20) is positioned in each container, which serves to facilitate the formation of the gas hydrate at or below the transition temperature.

Thermal energy storage apparatus

Heat storage and transfer system and method in which a liquid-solid phase change material and a liquid-vapor phase change material selected for coaction with each other are disposed in a container with a body of the liquid phase of the liquid-vapor material in continuous contact with a body of the liquid phase of the liquid-solid material for superior heat transfer between the materials for giving up and transferring sensible heat and liquid to solid phase change latent heat to vaporize liquid-vapor phase change material and vapor to liquid phase change latent heat to a condenser/heat exchanger and also for superior heat transfer from a heat source such as a solar or electric heater by giving up the heat of condensation of a vapor phase to a solid-liquid material which accepts the heat as sensible heat and as heat of melting.

Albert G. Tsai

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