Abstract: A unit core radiator is provided with support for the top tank and bottom tank so as to prevent the top and bottom tanks from vibrating relative to the support and at the same time to permit expansion and contraction of the core relative to the support. Mating members are carried by the top tank and the side channels and are urged against each other to form slip joints to allow limited movement between the tank top and the side channels in adjusting for temperature changes in the cooling fluid.

Abstract: The spaced apart elongated supporting members for the various tubular coils of a heat exchanger include vertically spaced apart openings in a wall portion thereof which faces an associated supporting member, the tubular coil being fitted to extend through the openings and thus be supported by the supporting members. A pair of such members, together with the supported tubular coil, comprise a heat exchange section, the entire heat exchanger including a multiplicity of such sections. Each individual section can be separately disconnected and removed from the heat exchanger if a leak develops in the supported tubular coil in a fast and efficient manner.

Abstract: A heat exchanger comprising a casing wherein a bank of tubes is arranged and provided with means for conducting a first medium through the tubes of the bank from a supply opening for said medium in the wall of the casing, and means for conducting a second medium from another supply opening in the wall of the casing around the tubes of the bank towards a discharge opening in the wall of the casing, whereby the means for conducting the second medium through the apparatus comprise a pump impeller arranged centrally at the bottom of the casing, said impeller being connected to a pump shaft projecting upwardly within a cylindrical inner jacket disposed centrally in the casing and which is driven above the casing by a motor arranged in situ, while the tube bank for the first medium is an annular bank which is arranged around the cylindrical jacket, whereby the tubes of the bank are tubes of the bayonet type.

Abstract: A heat exchanger element consists of a double fabric web coated on both sides, the distance between the face fabric and the back fabric of which is maintained by binder filaments. This double fabric web is provided with a feeder duct and discharge duct for liquid and gaseous media. The heat exchanger element is used as heat absorber or heater element. It is distinguished by its flexibility. As heater element, it may be doubled with carpet material or used as wall-to-wall carpet.

Abstract: A shell-tube bundle heat exchanger is so arranged as to leave a section within the shell devoid of tubes. Into said section relatively hot vapors are introduced to be mixed with chilling medium within said shell and surrounding said tubes. A baffle means is provided to prevent liquid disturbed by introduction of the vapors from transmitting disturbance to the cooling medium surrounding the tubes. In one embodiment, propane vapors under pressure are introduced under the surface of cold liquid propane in a horizontal gas chiller. A stilling leg or vertical baffle is located between the tubes and the point of introduction of the vapors introduced through a slotted vapor inlet pipe. A liquid level sensing and/or control means is also baffled away from the point of introduction of vapors.

Abstract: A tubular body on whose external surface are formed a series of periodically wavy recesses of specific depth and angle, said recesses becoming the corresponding series of similarly wavy projections and thereby improving the mixed state or heat conduction efficiency of a fluid flowing therein.

Abstract: A system having a tube-in-tube heat exchanger comprising three coaxial tubular members fitted one within the other with manifolding at each longitudinal end of the exchanger for the circulation of fluid through the outside tubular member in a counterflow direction to fluid passing through the inside tubular member such that heat is exchanged therebetween. A fluid is provided in the intermediate tubular member such that a leak in either the outer or inner tubular members can be detected. Each of the tubular members has integral radially inwardly projecting fins in its bore, the fins of the outer member being in good thermal contact with the intermediate member whose fins, in turn, are in good thermal contact with the inner member such that an effective heat flow path therebetween is provided.

Abstract: A plate used in a plate type condenser comprises inclined grooves having a V-shaped external appearance and a vertical groove which extends through the bottoms of the V's to communicate with the inclined grooves, so that the condensate flows down along the inclined grooves and then along the vertical groove to be discharged out of the condenser.

Abstract: A heat exchange structure is provided wherein a radiator (10) has a cooling core (24) extending between a top tank (22) and a bottom tank (20) with the bottom tank (20) being open (38) at one side. A cooler (66) for cooling a second fluid is mounted on a plate (46) which is sealingly secured over the open side (38) of the bottom tank (20) to position the cooler (66) in said bottom tank (20). A baffle (55) is mounted in the bottom tank (20) to divert fluid flowing through the cooling core (24) past the cooler (66). The plate (46) with the cooler (66) attached is removable from the bottom tank (20) without disturbing the connections between the cooling core (24) and the bottom tank (20). The heat exchange structure is assembled in a picture frame mounting (12) with attaching members (16) passing through bottom members (17) of the picture frame mounting (12) and threading into fasteners (18) in the bottom tank (20) to removably anchor the picture frame mounting (12) and the heat exchange structure together.

Abstract: A method of suppressing formation of heat exchange fluid particles into standing waves is provided. Pursuant to the method a plurality of metal fins attached to a plurality of tube sections extending within a shell are disposed within a heat exchanger shell such that the fins extend parallel to the tube sections and parallel to the direction of flow of fluid through the shell. The fins define with the tube sections a barrier adapted to interrupt movement of columns of fluid particles in a direction perpendicular to the direction of flow of fluid through the shell.

Abstract: A flexible liner, e.g. of rubber, for a manifold or apertured plate having collared apertures is disclosed, the manifold or apertured plate being part of a header tank of a heat exchanger having a bank of tubes, such as an automobile radiator. The liner has holes rimmed with sleeves corresponding to the collared apertures of the manifold or apertured plate. The sleeves are squeezed between their associated tubes and collar to effect fluidtightness around the tubes. To prevent stress developed in the sleeves being transmitted to the rest of the liner, a zone of reduced section surrounds each hole and preferably is of similar contour and coaxial therewith. The zones of reduced section are preferably grooves opening onto the side of the liner remote from the side from which the sleeves project.

Abstract: A matrix of small diameter holes are located in the module housing adjacent each of the integrated circuit chips to be cooled. A pin or rod is located in each of the holes and extends therefrom into contact with the exposed surface of the chip. A spring means is located between the housing and the pin to provide a predetermined spring loading of the pin-piston against the exposed surface of the chip. A header is located at the outer end of the pin-piston in contact with the exposed surface of the chip thereby, providing multiple pin-piston contact with the exposed surface of the chip regardless of the chip tilt which improves the heat transfer. The heat transfer can be controlled by including or removing pin-pistons in accordance with the heat transfer desired.

Abstract: A feed-water preheater for a steam power plant is disclosed. Feed-water at a relatively low temperature is conducted through bundles of heater tubes in heat exchange relation with steam from the turbine. The heater tubes are arranged in a U-shaped bundle, with one leg of the U serving as the cold inlet side and the other leg of the U serving as the warm outlet side of the heat exchanger. A partition extends lengthwise of the heater tubes between the legs and the U-shaped bundle. The steam inlet is located at the warm outlet side of the tubes and the housing forms a steam chest around the tubes. Deaerating pipes are provided on each side of the partition in the center of the bundle of heater tubes with openings spaced along the length of the deaerating pipes for receiving the noncondensable gases from the steam, and to draw off the gases through the deaerating pipes.

Abstract: A tubular heat exchanger comprises tubes mounted between upper and lower plates employing a heat- and acid-sensitive resin at the upper plate. To prevent a fluid medium from corroding the resin, a further plate comprising an acid- and heat-resistant material is provided separating the medium from the resin, and a cooling medium is flowed through the separating space.

Abstract: Means for increasing heat transfer characteristics between the surface of a solid and a boiling liquid in which the solid is immersed comprising providing a solid with passages which extend therethrough to the surface for the circulation of liquid through said passages for emergence from the surface to eliminate at least a portion of the unstable vapor film otherwise formed on the surface.

Abstract: An improved reheater for a moisture separator reheater includes an inlet header, an outlet header and a plurality of heat-exchange tubes connected therebetween. The inlet header is partitioned to provide at least two separate sections. Piping and control valves are also provided to supply steam to each section of the inlet header from the reheater inlet pipe. The improved reheater includes at least one bundle of tubes communicating with the header(s) via tubesheet(s). The inlet ends of the tubes may be differentially orificed whereby in combination with a nominal flow rate to the partitions, in-tube condensate subcooling is substantially eliminated with minimal scavenging steam at design conditions. At off-design, or low power level, conditions, where fixed resistances of orifices and fixed partitions cannot accommodate changes in heat transfer demand from tube to tube, the aforementioned control valves are automatically adjusted.

Abstract: A heat-exchanger composed of a body of ceramic sponge defining randomly located interconnected walls bounding a plurality of randomly located interconnected cavities and a plurality of elongate heat-conductive members embedded in the body and having a surface in heat-exchanging relation with the body and an end zone at the surface of the body and another opposite end zone which is located depthwise in the body, so that, heat may be conducted between the interior of the body and the surface of the body along the heat-conductive members. The heat-conductive members may be of suitable material, such as silicon carbide or metallic glass. In another case a silicon carbide rod is attached to a ceramic plate so as to conduct heat directly from one side of the plate to the other. A method of increasing the efficiency of a tube heat exchanger with sponge baffles is described. A method of resistance heating of an auto catalytic converter is detailed.

Abstract: A tube-type vessel, such as a heat exchanger, has tubes that extend away from a tubesheet provided with holes which axially align with the tubes and open into the tube interiors. The diameter of each hole in the tubesheet is less than the outside diameter of the tube with which it aligns, but is greater than the inside diameter of the tube, thereby producing an offset between the inside surface of the tube and the surface of the hole. The tubes are attached to the tubesheet by welds, and each weld forms a fillet between exterior surface of its tube and the back face of the tubesheet and further forms a smooth beveled transition between the inside surface of the tube and the surface of the hole. The fillets eliminate the crevices that surround the tubes in conventional structures, and as a consequence no material will build up around the tubes and collapse them. To unite the tubes with the tubesheet, the latter at each hole is provided with a socket into which the end of a tube is fitted.

Abstract: A plate tube spacer structure operable for concomitantly effecting both the spacing and the supporting of the individual tubes of a tube bundle, the latter commonly constituting one of the components of a conventionally constructed heat exchanger. The subject plate tube spacer structure includes a plurality of elongated plates that are suitably disposed in stacked, spaced relation so as to allow for a layer of tubes to be interposed between each pair of adjacent plates. The plates each have a multiplicity of tube engaging means formed along each longitudinally extending side edge thereof. The multiplicity of tube engaging means are suitably disposed so as to effectively provide each plate with two parallel rows thereof. The arrangement of the rows of tube engaging means of each plate is such that the multiplicity of tube engaging means of one row thereof are aligned with, but face in a direction opposite to that of the multiplicity of tube engaging means of the other row thereof.

Abstract: Improved means for substantially eliminating condensate subcooling in single-stage moisture separator reheaters is provided by recirculating large quantities of scavenging steam through the reheater tube bundle. Heating steam for the tubeside (within the tubes of the tube bundle) of the reheater is extracted from the main steam supply upstream of the high-pressure turbine. This main steam is throttled before entering the tube bundle at part load conditions to reduce the temperature differential with respect to the high-pressure turbine exhaust steam which is to be reheated on the shellside. The tubes of the tube bundle are differentially orificed at their inlet to provide sufficient steam to each tube based on complete condensation at tube exit. At throttled, part load conditions, considerable excess scavenging steam is required to correct for the inefficiencies of the fixed orifices at these off-design conditions.