| 摘要 |
A heat transfer system 100 includes a working fluid (as illustrated by block arrows) and an electrochemical compressor 110. The working fluid is made up of a polar solvent that primarily acts as a condensable refrigerant and hydrogen that primarily acts as an electrochemically-active component. The electrochemical compressor includes an inlet fluidly coupled to an evaporator to receive the working fluid and arranged with a first heat transfer device 112, an outlet fluidly coupled to a condenser and arranged with a second heat transfer device 114, and one or more electrochemical cells electrically connected to each other and to a power supply 106. Each electrochemical cell has a gas pervious anode 120, a gas pervious cathode 122, and an electrolytic membrane 124 disposed between and in intimate electrical contact with the cathode and the anode and able to pass the working fluid. In use the hydrogen pressure in the working fluid is increased by oxidizing the hydrogen at the anode, conducting the oxidised hydrogen across the electrolyte, and reducing the hydrogen at the cathode, which results in circulating the polar solvent around the refrigerant circuit. |
