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Heat exchanger apparatus for use with refrigeration cycle heating and cooling equipment is disclosed. In the preferred embodiment, it cooperates with and modifies refrigeration equipment including a compressor, an expansion valve, an evaporator coil and a closed loop for cycling refrigerant. This ap

Heat exchanger apparatus for use with refrigeration cycle heating and cooling equipment is disclosed. In the preferred embodiment, it cooperates with and modifies refrigeration equipment including a compressor, an expansion valve, an evaporator coil and a closed loop for cycling refrigerant. This apparatus is a sealed container adapted to be placed in a well extending into artesian (relatively heated or chilled) formations whereby the water of the formation stabilizes the temperature around the unit and enables heating and cooling. The sealed unit receives refrigerant from the top which flows along the sidewall at a reduced temperature, thereby condensing on the sidewall and trickling down the sidewall to collect in a sump at the bottom where the compressor pump picks up condensed refrigerant as a liquid and pumps it out of the artesian well to the connected refrigeration equipment.

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An apparatus for use in refrigeration equipment which functions with a refrigerant which changes phase from vapor to liquid and which flows in a closed circuit through an expansion means and evaporator comprising: (a) a sealed housing comprising an elongate tubular member having a top end and bottom

An apparatus for use in refrigeration equipment which functions with a refrigerant which changes phase from vapor to liquid and which flows in a closed circuit through an expansion means and evaporator comprising: (a) a sealed housing comprising an elongate tubular member having a top end and bottom end sealed to enclose the interior thereof, said sealed housing extending into a well containing cool artesian water; (b) an inlet passing through said sealed housing through which a vaporous refrigerant is introduced into said sealed housing; (c) a plurality of deflector baffles constructed and arranged along the longitudinal axis of said elongate tubular member on the interior of said sealed housing for directing the vaporous refrigerant toward contact with the wall of said elongate tubular member of said sealed housing for condensation of the vaporous refrigerant to cool to form a liquid collecting at said bottom of said sealed housing; (d) a pump with an inlet positioned at said bottom of said sealed housing, said pump being sufficietly placed in said sealed housing that the inlet thereof is covered by the liquid refrigerant in said sealed housing; (e) an outlet in said sealed housing; and (f) a conduit connected at a first end to said pump and passing through said outlet in said sealed housing and connectable at a second end to said expansion means such that said pump lifts the liquid refrigerant through said conduit into said expansion means.