Abstract: A plant including a power station with power station buildings of a heavy construction and with a cooling tower surrounding the power station buildings, especially a steam power plant with natural draft-cooling tower for dry cooling. The cooling tower has a manner known per se designed as double mantle construction with an inner bowl and an outer bowl surrounding the inner bowl in spaced relationship thereto. The outer walls of the power plant buildings form a portion of the inner bowl or form the entire inner bowl. The remaining cooling tower portions and the outer bowl are designed as light structures. Any portion of the inner bowl which might possibly extend upwardly from the power plant buildings rest on the power plant buildings while the outer bowl on one hand rests on the ground by way of a support structure, and on the other hand by way of wind bracing members rests on the power plant buildings.

Abstract: There is provided a convector comprising a plastic tube arranged in the shape of a flattened helix, the major flat sides of which are displaced relative to each other in the axial direction of the helix, such that the bend radius of the tube at the minor sides of the helix is substantially longer than half the distance between the major sides of the flattened helix.The convector can be produced by starting with a supply of plastic tubing, forming a bend in the tube, inserting the bend in a slot in one of a pair of parallel support structures, each having a series of oblique and parallel slots, forming a fresh bend in the tube and inserting the bend in a slot on the other structure, and so on.

Abstract: An extruded back panel is adapted to be mounted to a wall so as to extend horizontally and in closely spaced relationship to the floor. The panel has integrally formed channels for slidably receiving projecting flanges provided for this purpose on longitudinally spaced support brackets located intermediate the end portions of the elongated heating element, or on utility boxes provided at either end of the elongated heating element. Each bracket is slotted to receive the elongated heating element intermediate the end portions of said element. The back panel defines a conduit channel which communicates with the utility boxes. Two versions of a front panel or enclosure are described, one of which provides for a top grille portion to be integrally formed with the front panel, and the other has a separate top grille portion connected to one or more of the underlying support brackets and to a rearwardly projecting flange on the front panel itself.

Abstract: A solar operated closed system power generator is provided in which a low boiling fluid is vaporized and superheated by the solar energy concentrated within a parabolic reflector upon an elongated boiler which extends along the focus of the reflector. Turbine means are connected to the boiler for obtaining power by the expansion of the superheated vapor and the expanded vapors are condensed in a condenser positioned in the shadow of the reflector. The condenser is cooled by cooling air which is moved through the condenser by means of a draft provided by the convection discharge of gases heated by the reflector, and pump means are provided for transferring the liquefied exhaust gases in the condenser to the boiler at the greater pressure prevailing therein.

Abstract: A power plant, especially a nuclear power plant, is positioned within the interior of a double walled dry cooling tower, the cooling tower having its own foundation and encompassing the power plant site. The inner and outer walls of the cooling tower are adapted to form a relatively small ring zone as compared to the basis area of the power plant, said ring zone having a cooling air entrance at the lower end of the outer wall and an exit at its upper end. Within the ring zone, at its lower end, there are arranged cooling elements of heat exchangers, being exposed to the upwardly flowing cooling air stream. Through this arrangement the break in of cool winds or cool air, otherwise flowing reversely to the cooling air stream, from the exterior via the exit, is prevented.

Abstract: The radiator consists of a plurality of tubular elements A arranged side by side and in successive order to one another, said elements being connected at the lower and upper ends thereof.Each element is made of a parallelipipedically shaped block, the upper end whereof is tapered, whilst wings 32 and and edges 22 are provided at the opposed faces of said block to engage head against head, in order to form, between the various elements, chimney-like ducts 28, the upper openings 36-38 whereof have a smaller cross section than the lower ones, in order to increase the circulation of hot air.

Abstract: Radiator for transmitting heat from a fluid medium to a surrounding atmosphere. The radiator of the invention contemplates rapid and efficient manufacture of radiator units of different sizes from stock material and is arranged for such manufacture either in a factory or at a construction site. Preferably identical top and bottom channeled parts are provided as top and bottom headers of the radiator and extrudable connecting channels are provided for connecting the top and bottom headers. The connecting channels may be cut in any desired length to provide the radiator units of selected sizes and radiating capacity but without change in the manner of connecting the connecting units into and with respect to the top and bottom headers. A variety of ways are shown for effecting such connecting as well as for providing appropriate fluid connections to and from the radiator units.

Abstract: A cooling tower is described employing a heat exchanger and duct means defining a passage for directing the air over the heat exchanger for cooling same. The duct means have upper and lower air intake orifices, the former being positioned a substantial distance above ground level and the latter being positioned substantially at ground level. Means are provided for selectively drawing air into the duct means through either of said orifices.

Abstract: The difference in density between heated and unheated air is used to provide flow of air across a heat transfer means located underground. An underground passageway connects an inlet orifice with an outlet orifice for flow of ambient air therethrough. The passageway comprises at least one essentially vertical shaft, said vertical shaft terminating at the outlet orifice and containing proximate its lower end said heat transfer means.

Abstract: A heat dispersion device for use in an apparatus having at least one heat-generating electronic element, such as, a power transistor, includes a thermally conductive heat dispersion member having a portion on which the heat-generating electronic element is mounted and a set of fins defining channels therebetween opening at the top and bottom of the set of fins, and a duct extending upwardly from the set of fins and communicating with the channels between the latter so that the generated heat is dispersed to air flowing upwardly in the channels and the heated air is conducted upwardly in the duct away from the heat dispersion member. For maximum effectiveness, the distance from the bottom of the set of fins to the top of the duct is made at least twice as large as the distance between the top and bottom of the set of fins.

Abstract: A cooling tower has circumferentially distributed inlet openings at the lower end for the entrance of cooling air and a central upper outlet opening. Cooling air flows through the tower, on the one hand, counter-currently to a medium to be cooled which flows in downward direction over a trickling unit (wet cooling section), and on the other hand, parallel thereto about heat-exchanger elements, flown through by a medium to be cooled (dry cooling section). The trickling unit and the heat-exchanger elements are separated from each other.

Abstract: A cooling tower with a plurality of radially extending circumferentially spaced tubular heat exchanger units having their heat exchanger surfaces in vertical planes, preferably upwardly and outwardly inclined vertical planes, with the radial outer end of each unit having a greater width (in the vertical direction) than the radial inner end of each unit.

Abstract: This invention relates to a convector heater for use in buildings, constituted of columns, wherein each column constituted by a section comprises a pipe in which a fluid circulates and which is integral with heat exchange ribs, said heating columns being connected at their ends by means of a separate collector acting as fluid distributor and means of assembly between several colums.

Abstract: Movable shutting up elements are provided for eliminating the diminishing effect of the wind on cooling equipment erected in open air. The movable openings shutting up elements are adjusted by a control or regulating device according to actual wind conditions, to effect a damming of pressure in the path of the streaming air in front of the heat exchanging surface, enabling the wind energy to be used to aid in increasing the cooling effect. The opening and closing of elements rotatable around a vertical axis may be used to utilize to a greater extent the wind energy in addition to their wind reflecting effects.