Device for manufacturing and storing ice

Abstract

The device comprises a closed, a heat-insulated storage tank with a water reservoir embedded inside, wherein a plurality of inner chambers are separated by horizontally mounted and spaced apart units with tubular heat exchangers, wherein each unit comprises two similar heat exchangers included in parallel the thermodynamic medium circuit through the inlet collectors ( 7.1 ) and the outlet collectors ( 8.2 ), wherein the inlet collectors ( 7.1 ) are connected with the outlet collectors ( 8.2 ) through the perpendicular tubular flow channels ( 5.1 ), wherein final sections ( 10.2 ) of the flow channel connections ( 5.2 ) to the outlet collector ( 8.2 ) are bent off the plate of the radiator ( 4 ) common for both exchangers by a dimension (e) greater than half the sum of the outside diameters of the inlet ( 7.1 ) and outlet collector ( 8.2 ), wherein the tubular nozzle distributors ( 11 ), having many nozzle orifices on the side, directed coaxially to the flow channels ( 5.1 ), are introduced to the inside of the inlet collectors ( 7.1 ).

1 . The device for manufacturing and storing ice, in particular for cooling and air-conditioning systems, comprising a closed, a heat-insulated storage an (A) with a water reservoir (W) embedded inside having a plurality of inner chambers (K), separated by heat exchange units ( 1 ) horizontally mounted and at intervals above each other with tubular heat exchangers ( 2 ,  3 ) each of which is incorporated in parallel in the thermodynamic medium circuit of the heat pump through the inlet collector ( 7 ) and the outlet collector ( 8 ), in parallel position and connected through the perpendicular tubular flow channels ( 5 ) heat-welded together by the plate of the radiator ( 4 ), wherein the device is incorporated in the heat pump circuit (S, Wc, Zr) comprising the valve assembly (Z 4 ) controlling the flow direction of the thermodynamic medium, characterized in that each heat exchange unit ( 1 ) consists of two identical heat exchangers incorporated in parallel in the heat pump circuit (S, Wc, Zr) of the exchangers ( 2 ,  3 ) having the final sections ( 10 . 1 ,  10 . 2 ) of the flow channel connections ( 5 . 1 ,  5 . 2 ) to the outlet collector ( 8 . 1 ,  8 . 2 ) bent off the radiator plate ( 9 - 9 )—determined by long, straight sections of the flow channels ( 5 . 1 ,  5 . 2 ) coming out from the inlet collector ( 7 . 1 ,  7 . 2 )—by a dimension (e) greater than half the sum of the outside diameters (d 1 , d 2 ) of the inlet ( 7 . 1 ,  7 . 2 ) and outlet ( 8 . 1   8 . 2 ) collector, the neat exchangers ( 2 ,  3 ) being superposed so that the straight long sections of the flow channels ( 5 . 1 ,  52 ) alternate with each other in the plane of the radiator ( 9 - 9 ) and the inlet collectors ( 7 . 1 ,  7 . 2 ) in both heat exchangers ( 2 ,  3 ) are arranged above the outlet collectors ( 8 . 1 ,  8 . 2 ), wherein the tubular nozzle distributor ( 11 ), having many nozzle orifices ( 12 ) on the side, directed coaxially to the low channels ( 5 ), and whose diameters (d 3 ) increase successively from the end of the thermodynamic medium supply is inserted longitudinally to the inside of each inlet collectors ( 7 . 1 ,  7 . 2 ). 
     
     
         2 . A device according to  claim 1  characterized in that each heat exchange unit ( 1 ) has an inter-collector insulating strip ( 14 ) inserted between the vertically adjacent inlet collector ( 7 . 1 ,  7 . 2 ) and the outlet collector ( 8 . 1 ,  8 . 2 ) in both exchangers ( 2 ,  3 ) and moreover, the surface between the outlet collectors ( 8 . 1 ,  8 . 2 ) in both heat exchangers ( 2 ,  3 ) is covered from the bottom by a counter-plate ( 6 ) made of waterproof material with a low thermal conductivity coefficient and it adheres to the flow channels ( 5 . 1 ,  5 . 2 ) and to the plate of the radiator ( 4 ). 
     
     
         3 . A device according to  claim 1  characterized in that in both exchangers ( 2 ,  3 ) of each heat exchange unit ( 1 ) the areas of vertically adjacent pairs of the inlet collector ( 7 . 1 ,  7 . 2 ) and outlet collector ( 8 . 2 ,  8 . 1 ) are longitudinally covered by the waterproof, edge thermal insulation ( 15 ).