US 12,442,558 B2
Using liquid to air membrane energy exchanger for liquid cooling
Davood Ghadiri Moghaddam, Richmond Hill (CA); Philip Paul LePoudre, Saskatoon (CA); and Manfred Gerber, Saskatoon (CA)
Assigned to Nortek Air Solutions Canada, Inc., Saskatoon (CA)
Filed by Nortek Air Solutions Canada, Inc., Saskatoon (CA)
Filed on Sep. 29, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/478,464.
Application 18/478,464 is a continuation of application No. 17/466,603, filed on Sep. 3, 2021, granted, now 11,815,283.
Application 17/466,603 is a continuation of application No. 15/574,201, granted, now 11,143,430, previously published as PCT/CA2016/050252, filed on Mar. 8, 2016.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/162,487, filed on May 15, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2024/0027094 A1, Jan. 25, 2024
Int. Cl. F24H 3/02 (2022.01); F24F 3/14 (2006.01); F24F 5/00 (2006.01); F24F 11/46 (2018.01); F24F 11/63 (2018.01); F24F 11/83 (2018.01); F24F 12/00 (2006.01); F24F 13/30 (2006.01); F28D 15/00 (2006.01); H05K 7/20 (2006.01); F24F 11/00 (2018.01); F24F 110/10 (2018.01)
CPC F24F 12/00 (2013.01) [F24F 3/1411 (2013.01); F24F 5/0003 (2013.01); F24F 5/0035 (2013.01); F24F 11/46 (2018.01); F24F 11/63 (2018.01); F24F 11/83 (2018.01); F24F 12/002 (2013.01); F24F 12/003 (2013.01); F24F 13/30 (2013.01); F28D 15/00 (2013.01); H05K 7/20745 (2013.01); H05K 7/2079 (2013.01); F24F 2003/1435 (2013.01); F24F 2011/0006 (2013.01); F24F 2012/005 (2013.01); F24F 2110/10 (2018.01); F24F 2203/02 (2013.01); F24F 2203/026 (2013.01); F24F 2203/104 (2013.01); Y02B 30/52 (2013.01); Y02B 30/56 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
9. A method of providing cooling to a device, the method comprising:
directing scavenger air through a liquid to air membrane energy exchanger (LAMEE) arranged inside a scavenger air plenum, the scavenger air entering the plenum at an air inlet and exiting the plenum at an air outlet, the scavenger air plenum and the LAMEE forming a cooling system separate from and remote to the device;
directing water through the LAMEE, the LAMEE comprising a water flow path separate from an air flow path, the LAMEE configured to evaporatively cool the water using the scavenger air and reduce a temperature of the water;
storing the reduced temperature water exiting the LAMEE in a tank;
delivering a cooling fluid in a cooling fluid circuit to the device, the cooling fluid circuit connected to the water flow path of the LAMEE, the cooling fluid is the reduced temperature water from the tank or a coolant that is cooled by the reduced temperature water in a liquid to liquid heat exchanger (LLHX);
cooling the device with the cooling fluid; and
recirculating the cooling fluid back to the cooling system or to the LLHX.