US20060242973A1 - Refrigeration device and operating method for the same - Google Patents

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US20060242973A1
US20060242973A1 US10/551,561 US55156104A US2006242973A1 US 20060242973 A1 US20060242973 A1 US 20060242973A1 US 55156104 A US55156104 A US 55156104A US 2006242973 A1 US2006242973 A1 US 2006242973A1
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F25D21/00—Defrosting; Preventing frosting; Removing condensed or defrost water
    • F25D21/02—Detecting the presence of frost or condensate
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25B—REFRIGERATION MACHINES, PLANTS OR SYSTEMS; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS
    • F25B2700/00—Sensing or detecting of parameters; Sensors therefor
    • F25B2700/11—Sensor to detect if defrost is necessary
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25B—REFRIGERATION MACHINES, PLANTS OR SYSTEMS; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS
    • F25B2700/00—Sensing or detecting of parameters; Sensors therefor
    • F25B2700/21—Temperatures
    • F25B2700/2117—Temperatures of an evaporator
    • F25B2700/21171—Temperatures of an evaporator of the fluid cooled by the evaporator
    • F25B2700/21173—Temperatures of an evaporator of the fluid cooled by the evaporator at the outlet
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F25D21/00—Defrosting; Preventing frosting; Removing condensed or defrost water
    • F25D21/002—Defroster control
    • F25D21/006—Defroster control with electronic control circuits
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F25D2700/00—Means for sensing or measuring; Sensors therefor
    • F25D2700/10—Sensors measuring the temperature of the evaporator

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  • the present invention relates to a refrigeration device with a thermally insulating housing enclosing an inner chamber and an evaporator arranged in the housing.
  • Moisture from the inner chamber, which forms an ice layer over time which in turn thermally insulates the evaporator from the inner chamber to be cooled, condenses on this evaporator during operation of the refrigeration device.
  • This insulation impairs the efficiency of the refrigeration device, so that the ice layer must be thawed from time to time to maintain efficient operation of the refrigeration device.
  • Every defrosting procedure is associated with input of heat into the refrigeration device, which, when normal operation of the device is resumed, must be drawn off and thus likewise impairs the energy balance of the device. Excessively frequent defrosting is thus as ineffective as excessively infrequent defrosting.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a refrigeration device, which enables reliable assessment of the quantity of ice accumulated on an evaporator with simple and robust means, and an operating mode for such a refrigeration device.
  • the invention utilises the change in temperature distribution in the vicinity of the evaporator resulting from the presence of an ice layer. If the evaporator is ice-free, this results in an extensively unhindered flow of heat in the vicinity of the evaporator, the temperature gradient is relatively flat, and the difference between the temperatures detected by the two sensors is minimal. If the heat flow is hampered by an ice layer, however, the result is a relatively steep temperature gradient in the ice layer, leading to greater differences between the temperatures detected by the two sensors, than when both sensors are ice-free.
  • One of the temperature sensors in particular can be placed directly on the surface of the evaporator and the other at a distance from the surface. This ensures that at least the first one will react very quickly to a change in temperature of the evaporator, which occurs whenever the evaporator begins to be supplied with coolant again after a standing phase.
  • the invention is applicable to refrigeration devices with an evaporator arranged directly in the inner chamber or in thermal contact with the latter.
  • the output signal delivered by the monitoring circuit can however be used in such a refrigerating device to control a display which advises a user of the necessity for defrosting.
  • a preferred application of the invention is a no-frost refrigeration device, that is, refrigeration devices, in which the evaporator is placed in a channel communicating with the inner chamber and in this channel can be warmed for defrosting, without the inner chamber necessarily having to be warmed also.
  • one of the temperature sensors is preferably placed on the surface of the evaporator and the other is placed on an output of the channel terminating in the inner chamber.
  • FIG. 1 shows a schematic section through a refrigeration device according to a first embodiment of the invention
  • FIG. 2 shows the dependence of the temperature difference detected by the sensors on the thickness of the ice layer on the evaporator in the embodiment of FIG. 1 ;
  • FIG. 3 shows a schematic detail of a second embodiment of an inventive refrigeration device
  • FIG. 4 shows the correlation between ice layer thickness and temperature difference according to the second embodiment.
  • FIG. 1 shows a sketch of a no-frost refrigeration device according to a first embodiment of the invention.
  • the refrigeration device conventionally comprises a thermally-insulating housing 1 , in which an inner chamber 2 for receiving cool goods and an evaporator chamber 5 separated from the inner chamber 2 by a partition 3 , is formed by openings 4 in the partition 3 communicating with the inner chamber 2 .
  • a plate-like evaporator 7 supplied with coolant by a refrigerating machine 6 and, in close contact with the latter, a defrosting unit 8 .
  • the evaporator chamber 5 and the openings 4 are designated jointly also as air duct.
  • a monitoring circuit 10 controls operation of the refrigerating machine 6 and a ventilator 11 arranged on the upper opening 4 by means of a measuring signal by a (not shown) temperature sensor in the inner chamber 2 .
  • Refrigerating machine 6 and ventilator 11 can in each case be run at the same time; it is preferred to switch the ventilator 11 on and off in each case with a certain delay relative to the refrigerating machine 6 , so as to first give the evaporator 7 the opportunity to cool down before air is circulated when the refrigerating machine 6 is started up, and so as to continue utilising residual cold of the evaporator 7 after the refrigerating machine 6 is switched off.
  • a first temperature sensor 12 is attached directly to a surface of the evaporator 7 , which is stroked by the air current circulating through the air duct when the ventilator 11 is running and on which as a result moisture precipitates from this air current and over time forms an ice layer 13 , shown as a lightly hatched surface.
  • a second temperature sensor 14 is arranged in the upper opening 4 , from which air cooled in the evaporator chamber 5 flows back to the inner chamber 2 .
  • the evaporator 7 is conventionally operated at intervals, that is, supplied by the refrigerating machine 6 with liquid coolant.
  • the monitoring circuit 10 detects the difference between the temperatures measured by the sensors 12 and 14 in each case with a preset time delay from when the evaporator is started up or at a point in time when the change in speed of the temperature detected by one of the temperature sensors 12 , 14 has fallen below a limit value and therefore can be assumed that the temperature distribution in the air duct is no longer all that far removed by stationary distribution.
  • the difference between the temperatures detected by the temperature sensors 12 , 14 at such a point in time is at the lowest when the thickness of the ice layer is zero, and it increases with the thickness of the ice layer.
  • the monitoring circuit 10 waits until the inner chamber 2 is sufficiently cooled down for the refrigerating machine 6 and the ventilator 11 to be switched off, and then closes a switch 9 , via which the defrosting heating unit 8 is supplied with current.
  • the period, during which the switch 9 remains closed, is preset and considering the performance of the defrosting heating unit 8 is selected such that the quantity of heat given off in this period must suffice to thaw the ice layer 13 .
  • FIG. 3 schematically illustrates an enlarged detail of a refrigeration device according to a second embodiment of the invention. It is distinguished from the embodiment of FIG. 1 only by the placing of the temperature sensors 12 ′, 14 ′, so that the refrigeration device does not have to be illustrated and described in its entirety.
  • the two temperature sensors 12 ′, 14 ′ are held here on a carrier 15 made of a poor heat-conducting material, which is attached, e.g. adhered to a surface of the evaporator 7 , on which an ice layer 13 can form.
  • FIG. 4 shows the temperature difference ⁇ T detected under the same conditions as in the embodiment of FIG. 1 between the sensors as a function of the thickness d of the ice layer.
  • the thickness of the ice layer is less than the distance d 1 of the temperature sensor 12 ′ from the surface of the evaporator 7 , both temperature sensors are subjected to the air current in the evaporator chamber 5 , and their temperature is determined substantially by that of the air current. Since the distancing of the second temperature sensor 14 ′ from the evaporator 7 is greater than that of the first sensor 12 ′, the second sensor is in any case slightly warmer than the first.
  • the temperature difference ⁇ T therefore now begins to grow fast with the layer thickness d.
  • the temperature difference, corresponding to the critical layer thickness dmax, can take on another value ⁇ Tmax′ than in the embodiment of FIG. 1 . Since a large increase in the curve of FIG. 4 can be realised in the vicinity of dmax, precise and reproducible detection of the critical layer thickness dmax is possible.
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