Abstract: In a cross finned tube heat exchanger including a multiplicity of side-by-side fin plates, and a plurality of heat transfer tubes extending through the fin plates at least in one row to provide a serpentine flow passage for a heat transfer medium which exchanges heat with another heat transfer medium flowing across the surfaces of the fin plates, a multiplicity of stepped louvers are formed on the wall of each fin plate between the adjacent heat transfer tubes of the same row. The stepped louvers each extending in a direction at right angles to the direction of air flow across the surfaces of the fin plates include at least one tilting rise wall and may differ from one another in shape depending on their positions. The stepped louvers on each fin plate may be arranged in the form of waves or uniform in height with respect to the direction in which each fin plate extends. The adjacent stepped louvers have edges varying in vertical positions.

Abstract: A cooling capsule for disc-type thyristors consists of two half-shells containing spherical depressions. A lens-shaped core, arranged between the two half-shells, guides the coolant, so that only a small pressure drop takes place. In addition, large-area and uniform heat removal at both end faces of the cooling capsules is obtained. The cooling capsule can be produced and machined efficiently, since screw machine parts are used exclusively.

Abstract: A structural support for a module of a concentric tube type recuperative heat exchanger. A plurality of support beams 18 extend laterally across each module to support upper and lower tube sheets 22-24 independent from surrounding housing structure. The support beams are attached to the tube sheets by pivotal hangers 26 that permit relative movement therebetween, while said support beams are themselves supported at their ends on lateral shelf units affixed to the housing that surrounds each module.

Abstract: A heat exchanger such as an oil cooler for exchanging heat between two fluids such as coolant water and oil in which the heat exchanger has a tank or casing through which coolant is circulated and containing a stack of heat exchange units each comprising a pair of plates joined together at peripheral edges but spaced apart to provide an oil path defined also by spacer means through the successive internal fluid chambers of the units and a coolant path also defined by spacer means between the units. The spacers between the units comprise sections of the plates making up the units and spacers. The disclosure also includes a bypass valve for bypassing most of the internal fluid chambers in the successive units when fluid such as oil is above a selected viscosity which indicates that much less cooling is required.

Abstract: A heat exchanger having a disc and doughnut baffle configuration, in which the tubes are laid out in a set of concentric rings. Each ring of a set contains the same number of tubes as each other ring of the set, and the tubes in each ring are spaced uniformly apart. Each tube in each ring is located circumferentially midway between the two adjacent tubes of each neighboring ring and is separated from each of the two adjacent tubes in each adjacent ring by a ligament distance h. The distance h is held constant for all tubes in the set, by varying the radial spacing between rings, and the distance between any two adjacent tubes in any ring of the set is made greater than or equal to 2 h. The ligament gaps h which are constant therefore determine the minimum flow area between adjacent rings, and therefore the mass flow velocity through the tube bundle is constant.

Abstract: The ends of the tubes of a heat exchanger condenser are provided with cage-like basket assemblies including tube cleaning brushes or the like. A distributor arm is disposed to move across the tube ends and cause a counter-flow of fluid to move the brushes through the tubes. The tubes are compartmentalized to form bundles. The compartmentalization of the tubes for fluid counter-flow is accomplished by the baskets themselves. Each basket of the assemblies arrayed to form the boundaries of a desired compartment is formed with an outwardly extending lip, with the lips of adjacent baskets joined to form an elongated contact surface for sealing engagement with the distributor arm. The lips of the adjacent baskets forming the respective compartments are generally arcuate, and the distributor arm portions adapted to engage the elongated contact surface are at least as wide as the arcuate extent of each basket lip. The radius of the lip arc is greater than that of the basket.

Abstract: A fluid-cooled element for partially defining hot gas flow passage extending upstream and downstream of a minimum area throat. A serpentine conduit of fluid communication with a coolant source routes cooling fluid within the downstream portion of the element wall bounding the hot gas passage to an internal pocket upstream of the throat. The coolant is thereafter exhausted upstream of the throat as a film over the wall. The upstream wall portion is cooled by the known impingement and film-cooling technique resulting in an element wherein all of the coolant enters the hot gas passage in a low Mach number region upstream of the throat, thereby minimizing momentum losses due to mixing. In the preferred embodiment, the passage throat is defined by a plurality of turbine nozzle vanes, the fluid-cooled element comprising a nozzle band thereof.

Abstract: There is disclosed a novel sieve assembly for collecting cleaning balls from a fluid passing through the tubes of a heat transfer system and comprised of a plurality of guide members having cleaning body support members disposed therebetween with the distance between guide members being at least equal to the diameter of the cleaning bodies and with the distance between the top surface of the guide members and the top surface of the cleaning body support members being at least 0.5 times such diameter.

Abstract: To provide for axial guidance of cooling fluid, typically water, through a double-jacketed cooling roller which has an outer jacket (5) rotatably positioned over an inner stationary displacement body (6), in which the inner displacement body is smaller than the inner surface of the outer jacket to define a space (19) for flow of cooling fluid therethrough, the inner surface of the outer rotating jacket (5) is formed with spirally extending surface deformations (16), such as grooves or ridges or ribs or vanes, to transport water being centrifugally pressed against the inner walls of the rotating jacket (5) in axial direction. The axial end of the chamber (19) preferably is formed by an enlarged radially extending chamber (21) in which guide vanes (22) are located to return water flow to a hollow central shaft (9) for removal of cooling fluid axially therethrough.

Abstract: A fluid-circulation system, specifically a heat exchanger with entrance and exit ducts interconnected by a bank of tubes, is provided in its exit duct with an extractor for intercepting generally spherical cleaning bodies of sponge rubber or the like which are to be returned to the inlet duct via a bypass connection for recirculation through the tubes. The extractor comprises two substantially symmetrical screens, converging downward in the direction of fluid flow, which direct the oncoming cleaning bodies into a narrow collecting box having a sloping bottom near one or more outlets forming part of the bypass connection. The two screens have generally planar confronting surfaces and are swingable about respective transverse axes into a downwardly diverging position in which their opposite surfaces are exposed to the flow for cleansing purposes during a regeneration phase.

Abstract: An internally manifolded plate for a plate/fin-type heat exchanger comprises a side port contiguous with and transverse to at least one channel, and wherein the channel is contiguous with an end port. The plate may be of unibody construction and also include integral side and end external manifolds.

Abstract: A plate type heat exchanger arranged so that heat exchange is effected between fluids through heat transfer plates. It comprises heat transfer plates serving as heat transfer elements, and jet plates each having a number of small holes. One fluid is jetted through the small holes in the jet plates towards the heat transfer plates opposed to the jet plates while the other fluid flows along the respective opposite heat transfer surfaces of the heat-transfer plates or is jetted toward the respective opposite heat transfer surfaces as in the case of the first fluid.

Abstract: A heat-reclaiming system is especially adapted for reclaiming heat from used laundry water. It comprises a heat exchanger providing for heat transfer from warm used laundry water to cold incoming water intended for use as fresh laundry water. The heat exchanger is formed with interior ducts and an outer shell. The interior ducts, preferably concentric coils hydraulically in parallel, define a space for the transport through the heat exchanger of the cold incoming water. The outer shell encloses the ducts, and the ducts and shell together define a space providing for the transport through the heat exchanger of the warm used laundry water. The flows of the warm and cold water through the heat exchanger are generally in opposite directions. Maximum heat-transfer efficiency is accomplished by simultaneously pumping both the shell and the duct sides of the exchanger at design flow condition, and maximizing the log mean temperature difference across the heat exchanger.

Abstract: A tube bundle heat exchanger having an additional tube bottom with insertion tubes arranged in the inlet chamber upon the inlet side of the hot gases for the tubes located between the tube bottoms of the tube bundle. The additional tube bottom is arranged in such a way that both tube bottoms in the inlet chamber define another inlet chamber for colder, slag-free gases, which inlet chamber is accessible through an inlet in the shell of the tube bundle heat exchanger. The insertion tubes project far into, but not to the end of, the tubes of the tube bundle. The insertion tubes, with the outer tubes, form relatively narrow annular spaces suitable for generating high discharge speed. Four spiral formed strips respectively located in the annular spaces impart a twist to the gas flow discharging from the annular spaces to assure that gas discharging between the insertion tubes and the tubes of the tube bundle remain in flowing contact along the inner walls of the tubes.

Abstract: Rows of heat exchange tubes are supported by transversely disposed support strips having a plurality of U-shaped members interconnected end to end in a manner so that said strips act as a structural member supporting the weight of the tubes and additional support elements from all rows above a given row. Each leg of each U-shaped member converges upwardly or downwardly at an angle of about 8.degree. to 15.degree. with the vertical.

Abstract: In a counterflow heat exchanger a manifold is attached at two points to the ram and bleed closure bars. The bleed closure bar defines a bleed inlet from the manifold and is constructed to reduce the mechanical stresses in the ram closure bar between those attachment points.

Abstract: A low stress heat exchanger (50) and method for making the same is provided wherein thin heat exchange members (18, 20, 64, 66) are joined to thicker support members (44, 84) by causing the thin members (18, 20, 64, 66) to extend tangentially from a radiused surface (84) of the support member (44, 84). The thin members (18, 20, 64, 66) are then secured to the support member (44, 84) in an area (42, 88) remote from the area (46, 48) where the thin members (18, 20, 64, 66) extend tangentially from the support member (44, 84).The heat exchanger (50) includes closure tabs (14, 16) for bridging a space at the ends of fluid passages (36) defined by spaced wall members (18, 20).

Abstract: A counterflow heat exchanger comprises two upper and lower parallely and coaxially facing tube plates wherebetween extends a tube nest incuding a plurality of tubes connected to the tube plates. Each tube has at one end an U bent over portion and the rectilinear portion of the tube nest, substantially constituting the heat exchange region, is included with an even distribution within an annular interspace defined between an inner jacket and an outer shroud affixed to the tube plates.

Abstract: An essentially tubeless heat exchange structure and an attendant controlled evaporative or condensing process is disclosed. A finned heat exchanger body has multiple spaced through passages constructed by locally deforming the fin metal. Each through passage includes multiple terraced liquid traps and coaxial orifices for counter-flowing gas. A liquid supply device and gas pressure relief device is provided for each through passage. The physical construction of the finned heat exchanger body can vary widely depending upon application.

Abstract: Apparatus for encasing a heat exchange unit. A wrapper is disclosed having solid portions for structural support of the heat exchange unit and fastening means including closure means formed on each end of the wrapper and a fastener strip which co-acts with said closure means to secure the wrapper in its appropriate position. Louver portions and solid portions of the wrapper are additionally disclosed to provide a structurally sound wrapper having spaced louver openings to allow air flow therethrough.