A building module including a ground floor and a first floor, the building module constructed from prefabricated metal components. Located beneath the first floor are at least a pair of channels adapted to be engaged by rotatable tines of a forklift that can engage the module. Once engaged the forklift can rotate the module so as to load the module onto a flatbed truck for transportation to the building location. This allows a lot of the manufacture of the building to be completed off-site leading to quicker construction of the building on site.
E04H 1/00 - Bâtiments ou groupes de bâtiments pour habitation ou à usage de bureaux; Tracé général, p.ex. coordination modulaire ou étages en attique
E04B 1/343 - Structures caractérisées par des parties mobiles, séparables ou repliables, p.ex. pour le transport
E04B 1/348 - Structures composées d'unités comportant au moins des parties importantes des deux côtés d'une pièce, c. à d. unités en forme de boîtes ou de cellules closes ou en forme de carcasses
An apparatus to evaporate water from a tank including a plurality of rotating thin discs partially extending into a tank containing the water and causing it to adhere to the discs. Air is caused to flow through the discs causing the water adhered to the discs to evaporate and when the discs rotate back into the tank cool the water. The apparatus can also remove water from a desiccant solution whereby when air is caused to flow through the discs above the solution it causes the water in the desiccant solution to evaporate reducing the water content of the solution.
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A modular building with a structure having various constructional elements including columns joists and rafters each including a void to accommodate pipes that carry fluid at a certain temperature, the pipes extending at least below the floor of the building through the joists that are enclosed by a base to define a cavity affecting the temperature of the air in-between the floor and the base. Air vents are provided in the floor to allow for the air flow between the cavity and the inside of the modular building.
E04C 2/52 - Eléments de construction de relativement faible épaisseur pour la construction de parties de bâtiments, p.ex. matériaux en feuilles, dalles ou panneaux caractérisés par la forme ou la structure avec adaptations particulières pour usages auxiliaires, p.ex. servant au logement de conduits
F24D 3/14 - Aménagements de tubes et panneaux pour le chauffage par plafond, mur ou sol incorporés dans un plafond, un mur ou un plancher
F28D 1/053 - Appareils échangeurs de chaleur comportant des ensembles de canalisations fixes pour une seule des sources de potentiel calorifique, les deux sources étant en contact chacune avec un côté de la paroi de la canalisation, dans lesquels l'autre source d avec des canalisations d'échange de chaleur immergées dans la masse du fluide avec canalisations tubulaires les canalisations étant rectilignes
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A MULTI-STAGE AXIAL FLOW TURBINE ADAPTED TO OPERATE AT LOW STEAM TEMPERATURES
A multi-stage axial turbine (typically between 4 and 10 stages) designed to operate more efficiently with partial admission of low temperature steam in each stage except the last one or two stages. Each stage of the subject turbine operates efficiently with smaller pressure drops thereby maintaining much smaller reductions in fluid density per stage. Each stage has blisks built as a single piece and the steam passages built into the periphery of the blisks. Each subsequent stage then only requires a small increase in flow area that can be achieved by using only a small increase in admission and blade height.
F01D 5/06 - Rotors à plus d'un étage axial, p.ex. du type à tambour ou à disques multiples; Leurs parties constitutives, p.ex. arbres, connections des arbres
F01D 17/16 - Organes de commande terminaux disposés sur des parties du stator faisant varier l'aire effective de la section transversale des injecteurs ou tuyères de guidage en obturant les injecteurs
F01D 1/02 - "Machines" ou machines motrices à déplacement non positif, p.ex. turbines à vapeur avec des moyens stationnaires de guidage de fluide de travail et un rotor à ailettes ou de structure analogue
A system for the generation of electrical power using a solar collector that heats water using solar energy. The heated water is stored in a first tank. A vessel is connected to the first tank through a pipe and includes a headspace within which the heated water is sprayed to thereby generate steam. The headspace pressure is lower than atmospheric pressure and the water not converted to steam is collected in a pool at the bottom of the vessel to be fed back into the first tank. The steam is fed to a partial admission turbine that drives an electrical generator.
The present invention relates to a dehumidification system and method and, in particular, to a system and method for controlling the humidity of air in a process or location using a desiccant-coated fluid-air heat exchanger. The desiccant material adsorbs water at or above ambient temperatures during an adsorption cycle, and the resultant air stream is of a reduced humidity compared with the humidity of the supply air. The desiccant material may then be dried during a regeneration cycle through addition of heating fluid through the heat exchanger, driving water back into the vapour state with addition of latent energy of vaporization. The desiccant material may be cooled, during the adsorption cycle, through addition of cooling fluid through the heat exchanger to maintain the temperature within a range sufficient for water vapour to be removed from the stream of air.
F28D 17/00 - Appareils échangeurs de chaleur de régénération dans lesquels un agent ou une masse intermédiaire immobile de transfert de chaleur est mis en contact successivement avec chacune des sources de potentiel calorifique, p.ex. en utilisant des particules
F24F 3/14 - Systèmes de conditionnement d'air dans lesquels l'air conditionné primaire est fourni par une ou plusieurs stations centrales aux blocs de distribution situés dans les pièces ou enceintes, blocs dans lesquels il peut subir un traitement secondaire; Appareillage spécialement conçu pour de tels systèmes caractérisés par le traitement de l'air autrement que par chauffage et refroidissement par déshumidification
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SYSTEM AND METHOD OF COOLING BY LATENT ENERGY TRANSFER
The present invention relates to a system and method of cooling by latent energy transfer and, in particular, to cool a fluid by discharging unwanted low temperature thermal energy to a surrounding ambient environment utilising a fluid evaporation process involving permitted or forced ventilation of air across a surface area of a heat transfer fluid. The invention further relates to an air treatment system utilising the cooled heat transfer fluid for cooling air and for supplying ventilation air to the evaporation process. A body of liquid is cooled close to the prevailing wet bulb temperature, discharging unwanted thermal energy to the surroundings, rendering the liquid suitable as a cooling medium for removing unwanted thermal energy from a location or in a process.
F24F 3/14 - Systèmes de conditionnement d'air dans lesquels l'air conditionné primaire est fourni par une ou plusieurs stations centrales aux blocs de distribution situés dans les pièces ou enceintes, blocs dans lesquels il peut subir un traitement secondaire; Appareillage spécialement conçu pour de tels systèmes caractérisés par le traitement de l'air autrement que par chauffage et refroidissement par déshumidification
F24F 6/02 - Humidification de l'air par évaporation d'eau dans l'air
F28C 3/02 - Autres appareils échangeurs de chaleur à contact direct les sources de potentiel calorifique étant toutes deux des gaz ou des vapeurs
F28D 20/02 - Appareils ou ensembles fonctionnels d'accumulation de chaleur en général; Appareils échangeurs de chaleur de régénération non couverts par les groupes ou utilisant la chaleur latente
A method of separating a gas for example carbon dioxide from others such as exhaust gases from a combustion process including the steps of introducing at (1) an appropriate liquid such as water in fine droplet form into a gas mixture at spray chamber (4) so that a significant solution of the gas into the liquid is first achieved then subsequently treating the droplets so that there is a coalescing of these at heat exchanger (3) so that some of the gas being targeted can be separated by being forced out of solution from the liquid and having the coalesced liquid separately located at 6 so the released gas can then be kept separate in storage (8).
B01D 53/00 - SÉPARATION Épuration chimique ou biologique des gaz résiduaires, p.ex. gaz d'échappement des moteurs à combustion, fumées, vapeurs, gaz de combustion ou aérosols
B01D 5/00 - Condensation de vapeurs; Récupération de solvants volatils par condensation
A method of extracting more energy from a stream of gas possibly from an exhaust of an internal combustion engine with constrained back pressure resulting at its inlet where the gas stream will be directed Into a turbine there being a passageway through which the gas stream is directed having an expanded portion in the vicinity of which an additional fluid such as water is injected into the stream to be expanded therein.
F02C 3/00 - Ensembles fonctionnels de turbines à gaz caractérisés par l'utilisation de produits de combustion comme fluide de travail
F02C 3/30 - Addition d'eau, de vapeur ou d'autres fluides aux composants combustibles ou au fluide de travail avant l'échappement de la turbine
F02C 3/34 - Ensembles fonctionnels de turbines à gaz caractérisés par l'utilisation de produits de combustion comme fluide de travail avec recyclage d'une partie du fluide de travail, c. à d. cycles semi-fermés comportant des produits de combustion dans la partie fermée du cycle