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(19) United States (12) Patent Application Publication (10) Pub. No.: US 2014/0157815 A1

Mckay et al. (43) Pub. Date: Jun. 12, 2014

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BI-DIRECTIONAL HEAT PUMP (60) Provisional application No. 61/733,941, ?led on Dec.

(71) Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 6’ 2012' cambridge, MA (Us) Publication Classi?cation

(72) Inventors: Ian Salmon Mckay, Seattle, WA (US); (51) Int_ CL Collier Miers, Little Rock, AR (U S); F25B 30/04 (2006.01) Shankar Narayanan, Allston, MA (US); (52) us CL Evelyn N- Wang, Cambridge, MA (US); CPC .................................... .. F25B 30/04 (2013.01) Carlos Hiller Hidrovo Chavez, Austin, USPC ....................................................... .. 62/3242 TX (U S); Geoffrey Wehmeyer, Overland Park, KS (US) (57) ABSTRACT

Monolithically integrated heat pump. The heat pump includes as adsorbent/absorbent condenser forming a hot terminal

(21) Appl. No.: 14/097,401 integrated With a phase change heat exchanger forming a cold terminal. The adsorbent/absorbent condenser and the phase change heat exchanger are integrated into a single pressure

(22) Filed: Dec. 5, 2013 vessel.

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