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A sorption method and sorption medium container arrangement utilizes two sorption medium containers and at least one heat exchanger for use with each sorption medium container for absorbing or emitting heat. Each sorption medium container is filled with a sorption medium that can adsorb an operating

A sorption method and sorption medium container arrangement utilizes two sorption medium containers and at least one heat exchanger for use with each sorption medium container for absorbing or emitting heat. Each sorption medium container is filled with a sorption medium that can adsorb an operating medium by releasing heat and can desorb or expel the operating medium by absorbing heat. The sorption medium container arrangement also includes steam sources or steam troughs which are connected to the sorption medium containers. The steam source or trough is designed to provide or receive operating medium steam. A heat carrier medium flows through the heat exchanger of the first sorption medium container during a first partial operation phase wherein the sorption medium is cooled and the first sorption medium container is heated. The operating medium is subsequently heated by a heater and flows through the heat exchanger of the second sorption medium container wherein the operating medium cools itself by releasing heat to the sorption medium. During a second partial operating phase, the operating medium is initially provided to the second sorption medium container, whose sorption medium is cooled and the sorption medium container is heated. Subsequently the operating medium is heated by the heater and thereafter flows through the heat exchanger of the first sorption medium container wherein the operating medium is cooled and the sorption medium is heated.

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A method for providing regenerative heat exchange capability to a sorption medium container arrangement having a flow path and having first and second sorption medium containers possessing sorption medium therein, first and second heat exchangers respectively coupled to each sorption medium containe

A method for providing regenerative heat exchange capability to a sorption medium container arrangement having a flow path and having first and second sorption medium containers possessing sorption medium therein, first and second heat exchangers respectively coupled to each sorption medium container, first and second steam source/sink respectively coupled to each sorption medium container and heating means operatively coupling the first and the second sorption medium containers, the method comprising: a) providing operating medium steam from the first steam source/sink to the sorption medium of the first sorption medium container; b) providing a heat carrier medium to the first heat exchanger for passage therethrough, the heat carrier medium being a gas; c) releasing heat energy from the sorption medium of the first sorption medium container to the heat exchanger means of the first sorption medium container; d) releasing heat energy from the heat exchanger means of the first sorption medium container to the heat carrier medium; e) providing the heat carrier medium to the heating means; f) providing the heat carrier medium to the second heat exchanger for passage therethrough; g) releasing the heat of the heat carrier medium to the sorption medium of the second sorption container while the same is passing therethrough; h) maintaining a relative uniform temperature gradient along the flow path of the heat carrier medium, the relative uniform temperature gradient being maintained during a change in flow direction of the heat carrier medium; and i) expelling the heat carrier medium from the sorption medium container arrangement to the ambient environment.