Patent ID: 6415625
Filing Date: 2002-07-09
Classification: B60H,B61D,C09K,F25B,Y02A,Y02T

Abstract:
An auxiliary active heating and air conditioning system for a passenger area of a motor vehicle comprising:an evaporator and a condenser, a heat exchange coil in the passenger area, a hydronic heat transfer loop between said evaporator and said heat exchange coil, a sorption cooling apparatus located outside the passenger area and having first and second reactors, each reactor comprising heat exchange surfaces having space therebetween containing a metal salt or a complex compound formed by absorbing a polar gas on a metal salt, said metal salt comprising a halide, nitrate, nitrite, oxalate, perchlorate, sulfate or sulfite of an alkali metal, alkaline earth metal, transition metal, zinc, cadmium, tin or aluminum, or sodium borofluoride or a double metal halide, said reactors having a heat transfer section for thermally exposing a heat transfer fluid in heat exchange communication with said metal salt or said complex compound, a refrigerant loop communicating with said first and second reactors, said evaporator and said condenser, and a heater for heating heat transfer fluid and a heat transfer fluid loop communicating said heater with said reactor heat transfer sections.