Casing Or Tank Enclosed Conduit Assembly Patents (Class 165/157)
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Patent number: 7055583Abstract: A heat exchange unit for isothermal radial or axial-radial chemical reactors (1), with an overall configuration which is substantially annular and cylindrical having a passage (11) with a predetermined diameter running through it axially, is distinguished in that it comprises a plurality of substantially rectangular, flattened box-shaped heat exchangers (13), distributed in many coaxial and concentric arrays, defining in the unit (12) a plurality of radial alignments with a substantially radial arrangement, and wherein the exchangers (13) have long sides (13a) parallel to the axis of the unit (12) and short sides (13b) extending radially, each of the exchangers (13) comprising an inner chamber (17), intended to be passed through by an operating heat exchange fluid, at least one distributor pipe (19) and at least one collector pipe (20) of the operating fluid, associated with two respective opposing sides (13a) of the exchanger (13) and extending along them, the pipes (19, 20) being in fluid communication, onType: GrantFiled: October 2, 2002Date of Patent: June 6, 2006Assignee: Methanol Casale S.A.Inventors: Ermanno Filippi, Enrico Rizzi, Mirco Tarozzo
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Patent number: 7028762Abstract: This invention provides a condenser for a refrigerating machine which can improve the condensation characteristics by eliminating the accumulation of the condensed refrigerant in the condenser vessel. The condenser comprising the vessel 14 and a group of heat exchanger tubes 15 disposed in the vessel is used for condensing and liquefying the gaseous refrigerant by heat exchange between the gaseous refrigerant and cooling water circulating in the heat exchanger tubes. The condenser is constituted such that accumulated liquefied refrigerant is removed by forming one or a plurality of spaces in the area wherein the heat exchanger tubes are disposed.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2005Date of Patent: April 18, 2006Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Yoichiro Iritani, Akihiro Kawada, Yoshinori Shirakata, Wataru Seki, Koji Hirokawa
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Patent number: 7013963Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for improving heat transfer in a circular plate heat exchanger (1), as well as a heat transfer plate to be used therein. The invention is based on changing the flow conditions in the radial direction in such a way that the heat transfer remains even. The ridges between the grooves of the heat transfer plates (10) may be, in their shape, evolvent graphs or the like.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2002Date of Patent: March 21, 2006Assignee: Vahterus OyInventors: Jouko Laine, Mauri Kontu
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Patent number: 6983105Abstract: Heat exchanger transfers heat from a fluid transfer device to the environment, to another object, or to another heat transfer device, and includes one or more insulating segments disposed along the fluid path. The insulated segments thermally interrupt adjacent sections of the fluid transfer device for preventing heat transfer along the length of the fluid transfer device; rather, heat is transferred outwardly away from each thermally interrupted or isolated section of the fluid transfer device. In the case where the thermally isolated section fluid transfer pipe is used for waste heat recovery, a further fluid transfer device may be provided adjacent the fluid transfer device. Each fluid transfer device may have respective thermally isolated sections for maximizing the temperature gradient and, hence, the heat transfer between adjacent fluid transfer devices, and devices for enhancing such maximization.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2004Date of Patent: January 3, 2006Inventor: Randolph W. Greene
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Patent number: 6976530Abstract: A profile of the casing 20 is formed into a circular pipe shape, and the two gas coolers 10a, 10b are integrated into one body so that the longitudinal directions of the respective gas coolers can be substantially parallel with each other. Due to the above structure, it is possible to make the coolant flow smoothly in the casing 20 and stagnation of the coolant seldom occurs. Accordingly, as boiling of the coolant can be suppressed, it is possible to prevent the heat transfer coefficient from being remarkably deteriorated. Further, it is possible to suppress the generation of cracks, in the tubes 11, which are caused by heat stress.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2003Date of Patent: December 20, 2005Assignees: DENSO Corporation, Sankyo Radiator Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takayuki Hayashi, Youji Yamashita
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Patent number: 6966200Abstract: An evaporator is constructed such that bundles of heat exchanger tubes for flowing cold water are disposed inside a container for admitting the cooling medium. When a total cross sectional area of the heat exchanger tubes at various locations in a flow passage of the cold water is compared, the total area in a downstream location is less than a total area in an upstream location of the flow passage. Therefore, even though the temperature differential between the cold water and the cooling medium is small, the flow speeds of the cold water in the downstream tubes become faster than that in the upstream tubes, so that the heat flux is increased and heat transfer rate is improved.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2001Date of Patent: November 22, 2005Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Yoichiro Iritani, Akihiro Kawada, Koji Hirokawa, Sunao Aoki, Yoshinori Shirakata, Wataru Seki
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Patent number: 6920918Abstract: An economically manufactured heat exchanger is provided and includes a plurality of elongated, straight, flat tubes (16), each formed of two identical halves (78,80) joined to each other in mirror image fashion and each having opposed open ends and all arranged in a stack (18). At least one spacer wall (36) is disposed within each tube and extends generally from end to end thereof to define at least two side-by-side first fluid flow paths within a tube. An elongated housing (10) contains the stack and includes spaced headers (20,22) with each header including a tube slot for the adjacent end of each tube (16) in the stack (18). Spacers (26) in the stack separate adjacent tubes in the stack from one another and the spacers include ribs defining a serpentine flow path for a second fluid. An opening (30) is located in the housing (10) near each end thereof and is in fluid communication with the second fluid flow path (28).Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2003Date of Patent: July 26, 2005Assignee: Modine Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Wolfgang Knecht, Roland Strähle, Jörg Soldner, Walter Gühring, Rainer Kaissling, Harald Schatz, Andreas Stolz
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Patent number: 6899169Abstract: A shell and tube heat exchanger has two shell coolant and two tube coolant passageways communicating with a cavity in a shell. Removably received in the shell cavity is a tube bundle with tube headers. A locating screw extends through the shell to engage a locating recess in one tube header. The screw locates the tube bundle angularly about the central axis and longitudinally along the central axis, and is also used to electrically ground the tube bundle. An end cover, a flow separator, and resilient disc to take up thermal expansion are installed in each end of the shell to direct coolant through the tube bundle in multiple passes. Receivers with rotatable connectors are bonded to each shell coolant and tube coolant passageway. Angled connector nozzles can be connected to external conduits in any orientation.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2004Date of Patent: May 31, 2005Inventor: Richard D. Cox
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Patent number: 6892797Abstract: A heat exchanger, including a core having a variable size or length and a support structure connected to the core, the support structure accommodating variations in the size of the core.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2001Date of Patent: May 17, 2005Assignee: Honeywell International, Inc.Inventors: David W. Beddome, Steven M. Ayres, Edward Yuhung Yeh
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Patent number: 6869578Abstract: A process and apparatus cools a heat exchange type reaction zone by passing the incoming reactants through heat exchange channels in heat exchange relationship with the reaction zone. The invention simplifies the operation and construction of the heat exchanging type reaction zone by directly communicating reaction channels that contain the reaction with the heating channels that heat reactant across an open manifold located at the end of the channels. Additional reactants, cooling fluids, or other diluents may enter the process directly through the manifold space to permit further temperature control of the reaction zone. The invention promotes better heat transfer efficiency than tube and shell heat transfer arrangements that have been used for similar purposes. The narrow channels are preferably defined by corrugated plates. The reaction channels will contain a catalyst for the promotion of the primary reaction.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2001Date of Patent: March 22, 2005Assignee: UOP LLCInventors: Philippe Hebert, Jacques J. L. Romatier, Peter R. Pujado, Bipin V. Vora
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Patent number: 6845732Abstract: The present invention provides a gas heating apparatus that activates reaction gases for a chemical vapor deposition. The gas heating apparatus includes a chamber becoming enclosures of the gas heating apparatus; a heat insulating material 20 formed on an inner surface of the chamber so as to thermally insulate the inside of the chamber from the outside; a quartz tube having a gas inflow pipe, a gas outflow pipe, enlarged-pipe portions and abridged-pipe portion, wherein the enlarged-pipe portions and the abridged-pipe portions are alternately repeated and constitute a zigzag shape in an up-and-down direction in the chamber; a plurality of ceramic balls located inside the enlarged-pipe portions of the quartz tube; and a heater having a shape of coil spring and surrounding the zigzag shape of the quartz tube in the chamber.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2003Date of Patent: January 25, 2005Assignee: Jusung Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventor: You-Dong Lim
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Publication number: 20040251010Abstract: An exchange apparatus comprised of hollow thermoplastic tubes infusion bonded into a thermoplastic material is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment the hollow tubes are shaped by plaiting the tubes into cords and then thermally annealing the cords to set the crests and bends of the plait. The cords provide improved flow distribution of fluid about the hollow tube tubes in the exchange apparatus. The exchange apparatus is chemically inert and is useful for cross flow filtration, as well as heat and mass transfer in harsh chemical environments.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventors: Cha P Doh, Kwok-Shun Cheng, Alicia Briggs LaForge
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Publication number: 20040251005Abstract: To protect a plate-type heat exchanger (1) against corrosion due to the attack of sulfuric acid, it is proposed in accordance with the invention that the region through which flows sulfuric acid has at least one metal cathode (16, 17) and one reference electrode (27), that at least half the metal plates (7) have an electric contact (23) which is connected with the anode (21) of an electric d.c. voltage source of variable electric voltage, that the metal cathode (16, 17) likewise is electrically connected with the d.c. voltage source, and that the d.c. voltage source belongs to a potentiostat (20) which is electrically connected with the reference electrode (27).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventors: Nikola Anastasijevic, Karl-Heinz Daum, Wolfram Schalk, Stefan Laibach
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Publication number: 20040251006Abstract: A heat exchanger system for cooling a fiber includes an outer tube section, an inner tube section disposed within and separated a selected distance from the outer tube section to form an annular gap therebetween, and a plurality of fins extending transversely from internal peripheral wall portions of the inner tube section toward a central axis of the inner tube section. The inner tube section includes an internal passage configured to receive and cool the fiber as the fiber moves through the heat exchanger, and the fins facilitate heat transfer between a cooling medium flowing through the annular gap and a coolant fluid flowing within the inner tube section during system operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventors: Ovidiu Marin, Frederick W. Giacobbe, M. Usman Ghani
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Publication number: 20040251007Abstract: A pressure tank includes a liner separated into a cap and a main body. A shell covers the outer surface of the liner. The shell is formed of a fiber reinforced plastic. A heat exchanger is arranged in the liner. A header is connected to the heat exchanger. The heat exchanger is supported on the liner by fastening the header to the cap or the main body.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventors: Keiji Toh, Hidehito Kubo, Katsuyoshi Fujita, Akiko Kumano, Masahiko Kimbara, Yoshihiro Isogai, Daigoro Mori
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Publication number: 20040206342Abstract: An EGR cooler comprises a cooling core having a plurality of passages for accommodating the flow of exhaust gas therethrough, an exhaust gas inlet chamber connected to the cooling core, for receiving exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine and passing the exhaust gas to the cooling core, and an exhaust gas outlet chamber separate from the exhaust gas inlet chamber and connected to the cooling core for receiving exhaust gas from the core. The cooler further includes means for permitting the controlled passage of exhaust gas from the exhaust gas inlet chamber to the exhaust gas outlet chamber without passing through the cooling core, said means being positioned upstream from the exhaust gas outlet chamber. Configured in this manner, the EGR cooler permits the mixing of cooled exhaust gas with uncooled exhaust to provide a desired exiting gas temperature that is below an exhaust gas dew point.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2003Publication date: October 21, 2004Inventors: Michael A. Moyer, Glenn F. Thompson, Roland Dilley, Kristian Dullack, Sara Chastain, Freidoon Rastegar
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Publication number: 20040163800Abstract: A heat exchanger for a solid-oxide fuel cell assembly. A plurality of parallel tubes conveys fuel cell stack exhaust gas from a first manifold means to a second manifold means. The tubes are highly corrugated to increase the wall area and decrease the wall thickness. The tubes are disposed in a jacket through which is passed incoming air to be heated. The tubes may be linear between two manifolds, or they may be curved such that the first and second manifold functions are accommodated within a single component.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2003Publication date: August 26, 2004Inventor: Curtis A. Richardson
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Publication number: 20040104017Abstract: The aim of the invention is a device (100) for coolant cooling in a gas turbine (2) which, with a relatively simple construction and low plant complexity permits a particularly high degree of efficiency in using the heat produced on cooling the coolant from a gas turbine (2). Said aim is achieved, whereby a number of interconnected evaporator tubes (140, 150, 160, 170) for a flow medium, are arranged in a coolant channel (102), connected to the gas turbine (2), to form a forced throughflow steam generator. Said device (100) is preferably used in a gas and steam turbine unit (1, 1′, 1″) with a waste heat steam generator (30) on the exhaust gas side of a gas turbine (2), the heating surfaces of which are connected into the water-steam circuit (24) of a steam turbine (20). The evaporator tubes (140) of the device (100) are thus connected on the inlet side by means of a supply line (112) to the feed water train of the water-steam circuit (24) of the steam turbine (20).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2003Publication date: June 3, 2004Inventors: Joachim Franke, Erich Schmid
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Publication number: 20040089440Abstract: A cellular reservoir flexible pressure vessel is formed as a series of closely packed tubes fitted into a pair of opposing end caps. The end caps have individual receptacles sized and shaped to receive the tube ends that are secured with adhesive or radio frequency welding. At least one end cap has a passageway for connection of the vessel. The vessel may be formed in a variety of useful shapes and the tubes may have various internal and external cross-sections. The end caps may be filled with sintactic foam with canals leading to the passageway. Microtubes through the syntactic foam may connect the tubes to the passageway. The vessel is further strengthened by overwrapping with high-strength braiding material, hoop winding or by overlayment with high-strength fabric. The vessel is further strengthened by coating with plastic resin. Apparatus and methods for forming the cellular reservoir flexible vessels are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2002Publication date: May 13, 2004Inventor: Stan A. Sanders
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Publication number: 20040069470Abstract: The invention creates a new type of heat exchangers—Bent-Tube Heat Exchanger. It solves thermal expansion problem, allowing airtight connections for both sides of tube connection to tube sheets instead of a sliding connection on one side. Additionally, unlike in spiral-tube heat exchangers, the use of straight tube sections allows for uniform tube spacing and having the same length for all parallel tubes.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2003Publication date: April 15, 2004Inventor: Jacob Gorbulsky
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Patent number: 6714412Abstract: A scalable coolant conditioning unit (SCCU) is designed to accommodate removable modular pumping units (MPU's). The MPU's may comprise one or a plurality of pump/pump motor combinations. The MPU's are connected to coolant supply and discharge mechanisms by an insertion facilitation mechanism comprising an automatic coupling assembly and an isolation valve mechanism and are placed into and removed from the SCCU body with the aid of a seating mechanism. MPU's are added to an operating SCCU as needed to support increased heat loads of electronics frames. A plate heat exchanger is physically integrated within the expansion tank, reducing volumetric requirements for the SCCU and is sized to accommodate the maximum heat load.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2002Date of Patent: March 30, 2004Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Richard C. Chu, Michael J. Ellsworth, Jr., Roger R. Schmidt, Robert E. Simons
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Publication number: 20040035566Abstract: A profile of the casing 20 is formed into a circular pipe shape, and the two gas coolers 10a, 10b are integrated into one body so that the longitudinal directions of the respective gas coolers can be substantially parallel with each other. Due to the above structure, it is possible to make the coolant flow smoothly in the casing 20 and stagnation of the coolant seldom occurs. Accordingly, as boiling of the coolant can be suppressed, it is possible to prevent the heat transfer coefficient from being remarkably deteriorated. Further, it is possible to suppress the generation of cracks, in the tubes 11, which are caused by heat stress.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2003Publication date: February 26, 2004Inventors: Takayuki Hayashi, Youji Yamashita
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Publication number: 20040035565Abstract: A heat exchanger for swimming pools, formed of an essentially cylindrical housing through which a first medium flows axially, while a second medium flows through a conduit that is installed in the housing and that is fashioned as a coil. The coil-shaped conduit is formed of a corrugated hose, and has separate connections for the second medium, or for the corrugated hose. The corrugated hose is connected at its end segments to separate connections for the second medium via a plug connection. The connections extend from the outside to the inside of the housing, passing through the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2003Publication date: February 26, 2004Applicant: Witzenmann GmbHInventors: Bernd Michelfelder, Bernd Seeger
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Publication number: 20040011504Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling the temperature of at least one gas flowing into a processing chamber is provided. In one embodiment, a gas temperature control apparatus for semiconductor processing includes a gas delivery line coupled between a processing chamber and a gas source. An enclosure substantially encloses the gas delivery line and is adapted to flow a heat transfer fluid away from the processing chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2002Publication date: January 22, 2004Inventors: Vincent W. Ku, Ling Chen, Dien-Yeh Wu, Alan H. Ouye, Irena Wysok
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Patent number: 6663694Abstract: Heat exchanger packs having a first set of passageways for receiving a stream of ambient air and a second set of passageways for receiving a stream of warm water laden air is disclosed. The first set of passageways and second set of passageways being separate and permitting the warm water laden air stream to be cooled by the stream of ambient air so that water can condense out of the warm water laden air stream. Cooling tower configurations including the heat exchanger pack are disclosed for achieving effluent plume abatement, and capture of a portion of the effluent for replacement back into the cooling tower reservoir or as a source of purified water.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2001Date of Patent: December 16, 2003Assignee: Marley Cooling Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Bryan J. Hubbard, Eldon F. Mockry, O. L. Kinney, Jr.
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Publication number: 20030226654Abstract: To create a heat exchanger which provides for a high temperature compensation between the media, can at the same time be produced at low cost and satisfies the thermal stresses, it is proposed that the heat exchanger has a first distribution chamber (5) which is connected with a second distribution chamber (7) by means of tubes (22, 6) for the passage of hot medium (2), the tubes (6) extending through the inlet region (11) of the cooling medium (3) and an outer chamber (12), that lateral ports (9) introduce the cooling medium (3) into an inlet region (10) which is adjoined by an inner chamber (11) defined by a sealing plate (16) for flow deflection of the cooling medium (3), that the sealing plate (16) guides the cooling medium (3) from the inner chamber (11) into the outer chamber (12), the outer chamber (12) enclosing the inner chamber (11), and this outer chamber (11) is provided with ports (18) for discharging the cooling medium (3).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2003Publication date: December 11, 2003Applicant: Lurgi AktiengesellschaftInventor: Hermann Gohna
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Publication number: 20030205365Abstract: A single heat exchanger includes a first core and a second core and a connecting mechanism interconnecting the first core and the second core. The first core and the second core are positioned at an angle relative to each other via the connecting mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2001Publication date: November 6, 2003Inventors: Christopher C. Brochin, Jeffrey Avedesian, Jeff Southwood
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Patent number: 6640579Abstract: A laminated heat exchanger includes a plurality of laminated plates, in which a plurality of heat transfer tubes bent into a zigzag form are arranged in contact with each surface of each of the plates, and the plates are laminated so that the heat transfer tubes on one of adjacent plates intersect with the heat transfer tubes on the other of the adjacent plates.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2002Date of Patent: November 4, 2003Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd. for the Benefit of Hitachi Air Conditioning Systems Co. Ltd.Inventors: Hitoshi Matsushima, Mari Uchida, Mitsugu Aoyama
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Patent number: 6634420Abstract: In order to provide an intercooler assuming a simple structure that enables cooling of supercharging air and absorption of any expansion/contraction of the cooling water pipe and the casing attributable to the heat of the supercharging air, intake/outlet pipes of a heat exchanger housed inside a cooling space formed within a case are inserted at cylindrical pipe insertion portions formed at the case, and any gap present between the intake/outlet pipes and the insertion portions are sealed by seal members each constituted of an elastic material formed in a staged cylindrical shape having a first cylindrical portion placed in complete contact with one of the pipe insertion portions and a second cylindrical portion placed in complete contact with either one of the intake/outlet pipes, which are also utilized to fit the heat exchanger in the case with a gap.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2002Date of Patent: October 21, 2003Assignees: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Zexel Valeo Climate Control CorporationInventors: Yoshitsugu Gokan, Fujio Umebayashi, Kazuhiko Tomoda, Kenji Okubo, Kouichi Takeshita, Kazuhiro Yamashita, Naoto Hayashi, Yoshihisa Eto
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Publication number: 20030173066Abstract: The invention relates to a cylindrical vessel having a cylindrical shell provided internally with a tube bundle having a number of parallel tubes and axially spaced apart transverse supports for supporting the tubes in the cylindrical vessel, wherein each transverse support is a sheet of expanded metal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2003Publication date: September 18, 2003Inventor: Dominicus Fredericus Mulder
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Publication number: 20030159815Abstract: A heat exchanger comprising a pressure vessel (1). A plurality of serpentines (8) convey a fluid to be heated through the pressure vessel (1) in one direction. A duct (9) surrounding the serpentines (8) conveys a second fluid in the opposite direction to give up its heat to the first fluid. The duct (9) is spaced from the pressure vessel (1) and is surrounded with thermal insulation (23). An opening in the duct (9) equalises the pressure between the inside and the outside of the duct (9) which is also supported against expansion caused by the pressure inside the duct (9) exceeding the pressure outside the duct (9).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2003Publication date: August 28, 2003Inventors: Alexandria Bruce Wilson, Michael Willboughby Essex Coney, David John Gooch, Birendra Nath, Andrew Powell
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Publication number: 20030116305Abstract: A heat exchanger, including a core having a variable size or length and a support structure connected to the core, the support structure accommodating variations in the size of the core. This abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. 37 C.F.R. 1.72(b).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2001Publication date: June 26, 2003Inventors: David W. Beddome, Steven M. Ayres, Edward Yuhung Yeh
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Publication number: 20030089491Abstract: A shell-and-tube type heat exchanger of the smallest possible length necessary for heat exchange is disclosed which is capable of obtaining uniform distribution of flow of a shell side fluid and substantially eliminating the structural restriction imposed on the shell side. This shell-and-tube type heat exchanger is provided with one annular conduit furnished with not less than two partitions concurrently serving as an expansion joint for introducing and discharging a shell side fluid and allowing the flow path for said shell side fluid to be separated into an introducing part and a discharging part and which comprises a place having no array of heat-transfer tubes in the flow path for said shell side fluid. It prevents the equipment from necessitating an unnecessary enlargement due to the structural restriction on the shell side and enables the shell side fluid to produce a uniform flow.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2002Publication date: May 15, 2003Inventors: Tetsuji Mitsumoto, Takeshi Nishimura, Sei Nakahara, Osamu Dodo
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Patent number: 6561265Abstract: A heat exchanger having an intermediate heating medium is provided. A multiplicity of inner tubes 2 are disposed in a shell 1 of a heat exchanger 10. A low-temperature heating medium Y (water) flows in these inner tubes and a high-temperature heating medium X (liquid sodium) flows in the shell. These inner tubes are divided into a plurality of groups so that each group has a plurality of said inner tubes. The plural inner tubes constituting one group are disposed in one outer tube 3, and an intermediate heating medium Z chemically inactive with respect to both the high-temperature heating medium and the low-temperature heating medium and excellent in heat transferring performance is passed through each outer tube. The possibility that the high-temperature heating medium and the low-temperature heating medium contact each other can be reduced to an extremely low level.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2002Date of Patent: May 13, 2003Assignee: Japan Nuclear Cycle Development InstituteInventors: Hiroaki Ohira, Hitoshi Hayashida, Kuniaki Ara
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Publication number: 20030079869Abstract: The invention pertains to a tube plate made of stainless steel for exhaust heat exchangers, with punched openings to hold the tube ends of a tube bundle, wherein the openings preferably have a rectangular cross section and are arranged grid-like with a web width b. Each of the openings has a shear surface with height h produced by punching, and which is adjoined by a bevel of depth t, that is manufactured before punching, and wherein the height h is roughly the same as or smaller than the web width b.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2002Publication date: May 1, 2003Applicant: BEHR GmbH & Co.Inventors: Steffen Brunner, Thomas Bachner
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Publication number: 20030070794Abstract: A heat exchanger having an intermediate heating medium is provided. A multiplicity of inner tubes 2 are disposed in a shell 1 of a heat exchanger 10. A low-temperature heating medium Y (water) flows in these inner tubes and a high-temperature heating medium X (liquid sodium) flows in the shell. These inner tubes are divided into a plurality of groups so that each group has a plurality of said inner tubes. The plural inner tubes constituting one group are disposed in one outer tube 3, and an intermediate heating medium Z chemically inactive with respect to both the high-temperature heating medium and the low-temperature heating medium and excellent in heat transferring performance is passed through each outer tube. The possibility that the high-temperature heating medium and the low-temperature heating medium contact each other can be reduced to an extremely low level.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2002Publication date: April 17, 2003Inventors: Hiroaki Ohira, Hitoshi Hayashida, Kuniaki Ara
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Publication number: 20030051501Abstract: A laminated heat exchanger includes a plurality of laminated plates, in which a plurality of heat transfer tubes bent into a zigzag form are arranged in contact with each surface of each of the plates, and the plates are laminated so that the heat transfer tubes on one of adjacent plates intersect with the heat transfer tubes on the other of the adjacent plates.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2002Publication date: March 20, 2003Inventors: Hitoshi Matsushima, Mari Uchida, Mitsugu Aoyama
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Publication number: 20030010479Abstract: An exhaust gas heat exchanger has a tank, laminated exhaust gas tubes where the exhaust gas flows, a cooling water inlet pipe and a cooling water outlet pipe. The cooling water flows into the tank and flows through water passages between adjacent exhaust gas tubes and between an inner wall of the tank and an outermost exhaust gas tube. Ribs are formed on the exhaust gas tubes so as to lead the cooling water after colliding with an inner wall toward an upstream side of the exhaust gas tubes to prevent the cooling water from being stuck. Otherwise, spaces between an inner wall of a casing and the exhaust gas tubes are regulated to keep the flow rate of the cooling water in the casing so that the cooling water is prevented from being boiled locally by slow flow rate of the cooling water.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2002Publication date: January 16, 2003Inventors: Takayuki Hayashi, Akihiro Maeda
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Publication number: 20030010480Abstract: A tube 101 is constituted by a pair of plates 111a, 111b which are fitted with each other in such a manner as to put an inner fin 101b between the plate 111a and the plate 111b. Differences in level 111c are formed on the second plate 111b, which fits inside, which differences in level each protrude inwardly by a distance equal to the thickness of the first plate 111a, whereby the outer wall surface of the tube 101 is made substantially level thereover. A gap which is formed between the outer wall surface of the tube 101 and a core plate, when the tube is passed through the core plate, can be as small as possible whereby the brazing properties can be improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2002Publication date: January 16, 2003Inventors: Kazuhiro Shibagaki, Akihiro Maeda
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Publication number: 20030006026Abstract: A shell-and tube reactor including at least one reaction tube with a measuring means, substantially same solid particles being filled in the reaction tubes with or without the measuring means, a length of the filled solid particle layer, and a pressure drop thereof while passing a gas through the reaction tube, per each reaction tube, being substantially the same, respectively. By measuring the temperature of the catalyst particle layer, such a temperature as a representative can be gasped.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2002Publication date: January 9, 2003Inventors: Yukihiro Matsumoto, Takeshi Nishimura, Sei Nakahara, Naoto Kasaya
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Publication number: 20020179293Abstract: The invention provides a method for activating impurity element added to a semiconductor and performing gettering process in shirt time, and a thermal treatment equipment enabling to perform such the heat-treating.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2002Publication date: December 5, 2002Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shunpei Yamazaki
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Publication number: 20020174977Abstract: A condenser (20) includes within its shell (22) a reservoir (22b) for condensed solvent used in biomass extraction. The reservoir (22b) supplies liquid solvent (23) to an extraction vessel (11) via an inverted lute (30). The height of the uppermost part (35) of the lute (30) determines the level of liquid (28) in the reservoir. In an embodiment the height of the uppermost part (35) is adjustable, to control the liquid level.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2002Publication date: November 28, 2002Inventors: Robert E. Low, Stuart Corr, James David Morrison, Frederick Thomas Murphy
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Publication number: 20020157417Abstract: This evaporator (12) is constructed such that bundles of heat exchanger tubes (15) for flowing cold water are disposed inside the container (14) for admitting the cooling medium. When a total cross sectional area of the heat exchanger tubes (15) at various locations in the flow direction of the cold water is compared, the total area in a downstream location is less that a total area in an upstream location of the flow passage. Therefore, even though the temperature differential between the cold water and the cooling medium is small, the flow speeds of the cold water in the downstream tubes become faster than that in the upstream tubes, so that the heat flux is increased and heat transfer rate is improved even in tube group D.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2001Publication date: October 31, 2002Inventors: Yoichiro Iritani, Akihiro Kawada, Koji Hirokawa, Sunao Aoki, Yoshinori Shirakata, Wataru Seki
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Publication number: 20020144806Abstract: In order to provide an intercooler assuming a simple structure that enables cooling of supercharging air and absorption of any expansion/contraction of the cooling water pipe and the casing attributable to the heat of the supercharging air, intake/outlet pipes of a heat exchanger housed inside a cooling space formed within a case are inserted at cylindrical pipe insertion portions formed at the case, any gap present between the intake/outlet pipes and the insertion portions are sealed by seal members each constituted of an elastic material formed in a staged cylindrical shape having a first cylindrical portion placed in complete contact with one of the pipe insertion portions and a second cylindrical portion placed in complete contact with either one of the intake/outlet pipes, which are also utilized to fit the heat exchanger in the case with a gap.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2002Publication date: October 10, 2002Inventors: Yoshitsugu Gokan, Fujio Umebayashi, Kazuhiko Tomoda, Kenji Okubo, Kouichi Takeshita, Kazuhiro Yamashita, Naoto Hayashi, Yoshihisa Eto
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Publication number: 20020129930Abstract: Reactor device (R) for carrying out chemical reactions requiring heat exchange, the reactor is elongate along an axis (XX′), and has, at a first end, at least one orifice (16) for supplying at least one reactant, at an opposite end, at least one orifice (18) for evacuating the effluents formed, a plurality of heat exchangers (12) separated by at least one internal partition (14) and passages for circulating the reactant or reactants and/or effluents, provided between the heat exchangers and the internal partitions. The reactor (R) has at least one enclosure (10) made of refractory material providing heat insulation and containing a heat exchangers (12) and internal partitions (14). The enclosure is contained in an envelope (20) to contain the reactant or reactants and/or effluents circulating inside the reactor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2002Publication date: September 19, 2002Inventors: Luc Nougier, Eric Lenglet
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Patent number: 6427768Abstract: An assembly (oil cooler unit), under the state where first and second plates (130, 140) prevent a heat exchange core (110) from falling from a casing (120), is provisionally assembled, and this oil cooler unit is dipped in a flux to apply the flux. A seal surface plate (150) is then assembled to the second plate (140) and is brazed by heat-brazing in an inert gas atmosphere. Since a flux residue on the seal surface plate (150) can be drastically reduced in this manner after brazing is complete, the seal surface plate (150) can secure predetermined surface texture even after brazing is complete while the number of process steps necessary for applying the flux is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2001Date of Patent: August 6, 2002Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Shuji Komoda, Takayoshi Harada, Shinichi Hamada
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Publication number: 20020046572Abstract: This invention provides a condenser for a refrigerating machine which can improve the condensation characteristics by eliminating the accumulation of the condensed refrigerant in the condenser vessel. The condenser comprising the vessel 14 and a group of heat exchanger tubes 15 disposed in the vessel is used for condensing and liquefying the gaseous refrigerant by heat exchange between the gaseous refrigerant and cooling water circulating in the heat exchanger tubes. The condenser is constituted such that accumulated liquefied refrigerant is removed by forming one or a plurality of spaces in the area wherein the heat exchanger tubes are disposed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2001Publication date: April 25, 2002Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yoichiro Iritani, Akihiro Kawada, Yoshinori Shirakata, Wataru Seki, Koji Hirokawa
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Publication number: 20020020516Abstract: The present invention relates to a thermal transfer system for heating or cooling a medium. A structure positioned inside a container. The structure segments the container into a plurality of compartments wherein a distal end of the structure is in close proximity to an interior surface of the container to allow formation of a thermal transfer bridge that conducts heat into or out of the medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2001Publication date: February 21, 2002Inventors: Richard Wisniewski, Leonidas Cartwright Leonard
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Patent number: 6341650Abstract: Parallel flat tubes are juxtaposed in a direction perpendicular to their greater axis, spaced from one another, the internal space of the tubes being divided by intercalary strips of a thermally conducting material into parallel first flowing channels as first flowing paths for a first fluid, a second fluid flowing through spaces between adjacent flat tubes.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 1999Date of Patent: January 29, 2002Assignee: Societe d'Etudes et de Constructions Aero-NavalesInventor: Pierre Carpentier
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Publication number: 20010023665Abstract: During the assembly of a steam generator, the boiler columns are assembled, and, in parallel, headers and other wall boxes are assembled on booms of the boiler columns, so that when the boiler columns are completed, the headers and wall boxes are also finally assembled. Next, the peripheral roof section is assembled onto the boiler columns, and the vertical steam generator-containing walls are suspended from the peripheral roof section. Parallel to this, the inner roof section is constructed and the convection heating surfaces are successively mounted to the inner roof section and lifted upward from the base. The assembled inner roof section and convection heating surfaces are then lifted to the height of the peripheral roof section, and the two parts of the roof are connected. Finally, the furnace walls having a vertical or inclined tube arrangement, including the furnace hopper, are assembled.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2001Publication date: September 27, 2001Inventor: Jurgen Heidrich