LATENT HEAT STORAGE APPARATUS FOR COOLING

摘要

In an apparatus intended to lower the temperature of fluid like refrigerant which has received heat from a heating element, heat storage media having different phase change temperatures are used as a heat sink to utilize latent heat associated with their phase change and contained in a plurality of cells, the cells are disposed in such an order that the phase change temperature of heat storage media is gradually lowered in the flow direction of the fluid to provide a certain temperature difference between the gradualy cooled fluid and the media in the serially disposed cells, thereby achieving effective utilization of latent heat stored in the medium and improving the fluid cooling rate or thermal response.