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A chemisorption thermal system provides a cooling output by revolving an array of thermal elements through heat sink and heat source temperature zones defined within a cylindrical housing. Each thermal element is an enclosed elongated body having an absorbent material at one end and a reactant conta

A chemisorption thermal system provides a cooling output by revolving an array of thermal elements through heat sink and heat source temperature zones defined within a cylindrical housing. Each thermal element is an enclosed elongated body having an absorbent material at one end and a reactant containing part at the other end. Reactant is desorbed from the absorbent material in one part of the thermal cycle, and then evaporated from the reactant containing part to provide a cooling output in another part of the cycle. It is particularly suitable as a vehicle air conditioner using the engine waste heat as a heat source and the vehicle radiator as a heat sink. The invention also makes use of dry chemical absorbent materials which have high heats of reaction allowing the system to have a high heat capacity and low volume. The thermal cycle may be reversed to provide a heating output.

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A chemisorption apparatus for heating or cooling comprising: (a) a housing in right cylindrical form divisible into temperature zones and having inlet and outlet apertures to said zones; (b) a plurality of enclosed fins arrayed in a circle radially spaced from each other arranged coaxially with said

A chemisorption apparatus for heating or cooling comprising: (a) a housing in right cylindrical form divisible into temperature zones and having inlet and outlet apertures to said zones; (b) a plurality of enclosed fins arrayed in a circle radially spaced from each other arranged coaxially with said housing, said array being movable through said temperature zones in a continuous thermal cycle, each of said fins having one part for containing an absorbent material and another part for containing a reactant material, said absorbent material being adapted to combine together with or to disassociate from said reactant material, depending on the temperatures applied to said parts of said fins as they are moved through said temperature zones; (c) means for moving said array inc1uding a drive shaft to which said fins are mounted for rotation through the temperture zones of said housing; and (d) horizontal dividers arranged between each pair of adjacent fins for dividing said housing into an upper part and a lower part, said dividers extending to the housing and being adapted in conjunction with said rotatable fin array to form upper and lower temperature zones through which the array of fins rotates, wherein the absorbent containing parts of the fins constitute the lower parts thereof which are rotated through the lower temperature zone of the housing.