Broad band district heating and cooling system

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 10883728
APP PUB NO 20170030590A1
SERIAL NO

15303995

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A method and system that allows thermal energy to be supplied at different temperature levels to consumers, where each consumer is provided with its desired temperature whenever that is necessary. The method or a system for supplying consumers with heat energy or with cooling energy includes a set of three or more conduits for carrying a heat transfer fluid, each conduit carrying fluid at one of three or more different temperatures or temperature ranges, a plurality of heating and/or cooling consumer appliances distributed along the length of the conduits, each consumer appliance being linked to one of a plurality of pairs of conduits such that either: a consumer appliance is linked on a high temperature side, or a consumer appliance is linked on a low temperature side; a number of heat or cold generators, each pair of conduits being connected to at least one of the generators.

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VITO2400 MOL

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Van, Bael Johan Westerlo, BE 5 15
Vanhoudt, Dirk Arendonk, BE 2 7

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