Patent ID: 8435103

Claim:
An air conditioning arrangement for an aircraft or other premises with a plurality of climate zones that may be individually temperature-controlled, comprising: an air supply feed path system with a mixing chamber and a plurality of sub-branching systems branching off from the mixing chamber and leading to one of the climate zones in each case, basic temperature control means for controlling the temperature of the air supply in the mixing chamber as a function of at least one desired temperature value, and individual temperature-control means for individually controlling the temperature of the air supply in each of the sub-branching systems as a function of a desired temperature value of the respective climate zone, wherein the individual temperature-control means, in allocation to only a partial number of the climate zones, comprise at least one combined heat and power engine operating according to a thermodynamic cyclic process, wherein the basic temperature-control means control the temperature of the air supply in the mixing chamber (i) as a function of a desired temperature value of at least one climate zone that is not associated with a combined heat and power engine, but (ii) independently and not as a function of a desired temperature value of at least one climate zone that is associated with a combined heat and power engine.