| 摘要 |
<p>The present invention divides the traditional full-loop heat pump compression (heating) and expansion (refrigeration) process into two separate half-loop processes. At Time A, a half loop heat pump (53) compresses a fluid, using energy input (54), to heat a space (55). In this process a fluid is moved from a low pressure storage means (65) to a high pressure storage means (57). At subsequent Time B, a half loop heat pump (61) expands the fluid that was compressed at Time A (no energy input required), to cool a space (63). In this process a fluid is moved from the high pressure storage means (57) to the low pressure storage means (65). Thus the two (half-loop) processes occur separately and are separated by physical distance and/or by time. Energy used to heat a space also provides the resource to later cool a space. The result of this invention is a significant reduction in energy required to heat and cool buildings, a reduction in fossil fuel consumption (and concomitant carbon dioxide gas emission pollution), a reduction in thermal pollution (and concomitant global warming), and a reduction in the cost of heating and cooling buildings.</p> |
