Patent ID: 6101821
Filing Date: 2000-08-15
Classification: F25D,F28D,Y02E

Abstract:
A thermal storage coil apparatus for installation in an ice-on-coil thermal storage tank for transporting a refrigerant through said tank and on which ice cylinders are formed from water in the tank, comprising:a serpentine tubular coil having an inlet end, an outlet end, and vertically spaced rows of elongate straight run sections adjoined by U-shaped curved portions at each end of each of said straight run sections, said coil having a height in a vertical direction greater than its width and length in a horizontal direction; anda supply header connected with said inlet end for providing refrigerant to said coil and a return header connected at said outlet end for withdrawing refrigerant from said coil, wherein said coil height in a vertical direction is at least twice its width in a horizontal direction and said supply header and said return header are disposed at an upper end of said coil.