Indirect-contact Condenser Patents (Class 165/DIG184)

Digests

Having stacked plates forming flow channel therebetween (Class 165/DIG185)

Stacked plates surrounded by housing confining another fluid (Class 165/DIG186)

Having pump downstream of condenser (Class 165/DIG187)

Pump to remove only uncondensed vapor or air (Class 165/DIG188)

Including means to heat collected condensate (Class 165/DIG192)

First-stage condenser serially connected to second-stage condenser (Class 165/DIG193)

First stage direct-contact condenser (Class 165/DIG194)

Including condensate collecting tray connected to condensate drain conduit to divert condensate around a section of heat transfer surface (Class 165/DIG195)

Baffle defines flow passage within header for condensate to bypass portion of vapor flow path (Class 165/DIG196)

Including means for (removing) condensate (from vapor flow path) to bypass portion of vapor flow path (Class 165/DIG197)

Condensate guiding means attached to heat transfer surface (Class 165/DIG198)

Vapor flow passage between vapor inlet and outlet has decreasing cross- sectional area (Class 165/DIG202)

Coolant tubes arranged in groups to form vapor flow lanes of decreasing cross-sectional area (Class 165/DIG203)

Including a direct-contact heat exchange chamber (Class 165/DIG204)

Space for condensable vapor surrounds space for coolant (Class 165/DIG205)

Space for coolant surrounds space for vapor (Class 165/DIG217)

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