Reclaiming Waste Heat
Originally published in 1976
Body
Air-O-Space" heater based on spacecraft heat requires no fuel other than electricity to run fan. Installed in chimney flue heat pipes transfer heat from waste hot gases (but not the gases themselves) to fresh air blown across the other end of the pipes. It can transport roughly 500 times the heat flux of the best solid conductors with a temperature drop of less than 3 degrees per foot. This instrument has also been used by Kin-Tek Laboratories Inc. to produce an instrument to calibrate gas analyzers for air-pollution monitoring."
Full article: http://hdl.handle.net/hdl:2060/20030005477
Abstract
Air-O-Space" heater based on spacecraft heat requires no fuel other than electricity to run fan. Installed in chimney flue heat pipes transfer heat from waste hot gases (but not the gases themselves) to fresh air blown across the other end of the pipes. It can transport roughly 500 times the heat flux of the best solid conductors with a temperature drop of less than 3 degrees per foot. This instrument has also been used by Kin-Tek Laboratories Inc. to produce an instrument to calibrate gas analyzers for air-pollution monitoring."
Reclaiming Waste Heat
Reclaiming Waste Heat
