1. A system comprising:
a frame configured to be housed within an exterior container, the frame comprising:
perimeter walls;
interior walls interconnecting the perimeter walls, thereby forming a plurality of container sections having openings;
wherein at least one interior wall is configured to facilitate heat transfer between neighboring container sections via heat conducting material; and
a plurality of access hatches covering at least some of the openings, wherein the plurality of access hatches are configured to retard heat transfer between the exterior of the frame and the interior via heat insulating material.
2. The system of claim 1, wherein the perimeter walls are configured to retard heat transfer between the exterior of the frame and the interior via heat insulating material.
3. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one interior wall is at least partially hollow.
4. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one interior wall is configured to retard heat transfer between neighboring container sections via heat insulating material.
5. The system of claim 1, wherein the interior walls are configured to facilitate a thermal cascade from one compartment section to the next.
6. The system of claim 1, wherein heat transfer characteristics of at least some of the interior walls are configurable by a user.
7. The system of claim 1, wherein at least a first interior wall includes a slot formed in an edge of the first interior wall.
8. The system of claim 7 comprising:
at least one removable heat conducting insert configured to slide into the at least one slot; and
at least one removable heat insulating insert configured to slide into the at least one slot.
9. The system of claim 1, wherein each access hatch of the plurality of access hatches covers one respective opening.
10. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one access hatch of the plurality of access hatches covers at least two openings.
11. The system of claim 1, comprising:
a plurality of space filling bodies configured to fill empty spaces within one or more container sections.
12. The system of claim 11, wherein at least one space filling body comprises heat insulating material.
13. The system of claim 11, wherein at least one space filling body comprises heat conducting material.
14. The system of claim 1, wherein the frame is integral to the exterior container.
15. The system of claim 1, wherein the frame is removable from the exterior container.
16. A method comprising:
placing a first item into an opening of a first container section of a plurality of container sections, the plurality of container sections being disposed within a heat insulated exterior container;
wherein the plurality of container sections is formed by a frame comprising perimeter walls and interior walls interconnecting the perimeter walls;
wherein at least one interior wall is configured to facilitate heat transfer between a neighboring container section via heat conducting material; and
wherein the first container section includes an opening; and
closing a first access hatch of the first container section, thereby covering the opening and
insulating the first item from an ambient environment via heat insulating material.
17. The method of claim 16, comprising controlling the temperature of the first item via heat conduction between a second container section and at least one neighboring container section.
18. The method of claim 16, comprising:
placing a second item into a third container section; and
controlling the temperature of the second item via heat conduction between the third container section and at least one neighboring container section.
19. The method of claim 18, wherein the first item is controlled to a substantially different temperature than the second item.
20. The method of claim 19, wherein the controlling step comprises creating a thermal cascade from a first perimeter wall to an opposite perimeter wall.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. An aircraft engine assembly, comprising:
an engine;
an engine suspension pylon, the pylon including a rigid structure that includes a box and a structural block installed fixed on the box between the box and the and the engine, and the pylon including a mounting system inserted between the engine and the rigid structure, the mounting system including an aft engine suspension, the structural block including an attachment interface for the aft engine suspension;
a heat exchanger system including an exchanger to which a hot fluid inlet, a cold air inlet, a first outlet communicating with the hot fluid inlet, and at least one second outlet communicating with the cold air inlet are connected, the hot fluid inlet being provided on a hot air duct connected to the exchanger and passing through the structural block in a longitudinal direction of the rigid structure, and each second outlet from the heat exchanger system being located between the box and the engine;
wherein each second outlet is located aft from the aft engine suspension, and
wherein the exchanger in the heat exchanger system is at least partially arranged inside an aft aerodynamic fairing of the suspension pylon, the aft aerodynamic fairing being located entirely aft from the aft engine suspension.
2. An engine assembly according to claim 1, wherein the second outlet opens up inside the aft aerodynamic fairing of the suspension pylon.
3. An engine assembly according to claim 2, wherein the aft aerodynamic fairing includes a controllable mobile structure including two lateral panels articulated at their forward ends on two corresponding lateral skins of the fairing, each of the panels configured to closerelease an opening formed in its related lateral skin of the fairing.
4. An engine assembly according to claim 1, wherein the aft aerodynamic fairing includes an air outlet opening including a controllable mobile structure, that, depending on its position, can modify an aerodynamic shape of the fairing.
5. An engine assembly according to claim 4, wherein the mobile structure is placed across the air outlet opening.
6. An engine assembly according to claim 1, wherein the first outlet from the heat exchanger system is provided on a first outlet pipe connected to the exchanger and passing through the box of the rigid structure.
7. An engine assembly according to claim 6, wherein the first outlet is configured to be connected to a wing element of the aircraft.
8. An engine assembly according to claim 1, wherein the heat exchanger system is a fluidair type, the fluid passing through the hot fluid inlet and the first outlet and being among the group composed of air, oil and fuel.
9. An engine assembly according to claim 1, wherein each second outlet is located between the box and the engine, adjacent to an engine exhaust nozzle or on the downstream side of the engine exhaust nozzle.
10. An aircraft comprising at least one engine assembly according to claim 1.
11. An engine assembly according to claim 1, wherein the box is made of a composite material.
12. An engine assembly according to claim 1, wherein the mounting system further includes a thrust resistance device connected to an aft part of a fan casing of the engine and connected to the structural block.