摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a latent heat storage device having a latent heat storage tank body which requires a smaller quantity of heat medium than in the case of a round type and has economic efficiency and also provide a method of designing the latent heat storage device. SOLUTION: This horizontal latent heat storage device 1 comprises the latent heat storage tank body 3 so disposed that the axis thereof extends horizontally. The shape of the latent heat storage tank body 3 in longitudinal cross section is such that a circle with a predetermined diameter is deformed in an elliptic shape using the longitudinal axis Y as the major axis and the horizontal axis X as the minor axis. The circumferential length of the circle is equal to the circumferential length of the elliptic shape. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT |