Heat-pipe-diode-charged thermal

Claim 1

A heat-pipe-diode charged thermal reservoir which comprises: tank means for holding a reserve of heated feed water, which includes; a feed water vessel having thermally insulated walls; an outlet connection for hot feed water operatively disposed on an upper end of said vessel; an inlet connection for incoming cold feed water operatively disposed on a lower end of said vessel; and a baffle member fixedly positioned on the bottom of said vessel opposite said inlet connection, said baffle member helping to stratify feed water in said vessel; means for stratifying said feed water in said tank means, which includes; a plurality of horizontally spaced apart screens supported from the interior walls of said vessel; means for holding a waste stream remote from said tank means, which includes; a compartmented evaporator tank, operatively disposed at a lower level than said tank means, having a waste fluid inlet connected to a top side of a first compartment and a waste tank output connection positioned at a lower level on the side of another compartment; baffle means for dividing said waste stream flow and for permitting overflow of waste stream from said first compartment to other compartments, which includes; a plurality of baffle walls for dividing said tank into multiple decreasingly sized compartments for permitting waste fluid to exit by gravity in the direction of the waste fluid flow; means for automatically extracting heat from said waste stream and for using said heat to preheat incoming and stored feed water; which includes a plurality of inclined heat-pipe-diode condenser members operatively disposed between each layer of said means for stratifying; a plurality of heat receiving members fluidically connected to said condenser member, and horizontally disposed in separate sections of said compartments evaporator tank; a plurality of vertical pipes fluidically connecting each of said condenser members to a receiving member, said condenser member located in the hottest and upper stratum of said feed water vessel is fluidically coupled to a receiving member located in the hottest compartment of said evaporator tank, each progressively cooler condenser member being fluidically connected to a progressively cooler receiving member in said evaporator tank; and a heat transfer fluid sealed in each of said condensor and receiving members.