Patent ID: 6994155

Claim:
A heat transfer assembly, comprising: a plurality of channel walls, each said channel wall being made from a textile fibrous material formed of independently displaceable elongated fibres, at least a first channel and a second channel being defined at opposing sides of at least one of said plurality of said channel walls, a first fluid at a first temperature being received in said at least first channel, and a second fluid at a second temperature being received in said at least second channel separated from the first fluid by said at least one of said plurality of the channel walls, and a plurality of fibre members, each of said plurality of fibre members including at least one elongated thermally conductive fibre extending substantially axially along said each fibre member between the first fluid and the second fluid through said plurality of the channel walls, thus retaining relative disposition between said channel walls to form a structurally enhanced integral heat transfer unit, and for transferring heat between the first fluid and the second fluid.