Cross Patents (Class 122/253)
  • Patent number: 8752510
    Abstract: A steam generator includes a lower integrated tubesheet and plenum (ITP) configured to receive feedwater and a first set of heat transfer tubes fluidly coupled to a plurality of stubs protruding from a first side of the lower ITP. A second set of heat transfer tubes fluidly couples to plurality of stubs protruding from a second side of the lower ITP. The first set of heat transfer tubes is coiled in a substantially clock-wise direction, and the second set of heat transfer tubes is coiled in a substantially counter-clockwise direction. The steam generator further includes an upper ITP fluidly coupled to the first and second set of heat transfer tubes, wherein the feedwater entering the lower ITP is converted to steam in the first and second sets of heat transfer tubes. The upper ITP is configured to transport the steam away from the steam generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: NuScale Power, LLC
    Inventors: Dennis Keith Williams, Douglas Paul Fassett, Brent J. Webb, William J. Bees, Alex Scott Kruskamp
  • Patent number: 8662023
    Abstract: A steam boiler, comprising a boiler body accommodating water and steam therein and a burner throwing flames toward a central through-hole of the boiler body and water pipes formed to cross the inside of the central through-hole of the boiler body, and directly heated by the flames of the burner and an internal cylinder formed to cover the outside of the boiler body so as to form a space between the internal cylinder and the outer wall surface of the boiler body where burned discharge gas flows from the lower side to the upper side and an external cylinder formed to cover the outside of the internal cylinder so as to form a space between the external cylinder and the outer wall surface of the internal cylinder where air for combustion flow such that heat exchange between the air for combustion and the discharge gas is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: SJE Corporation, Ltd.
    Inventor: Ho Moog Yoo
  • Patent number: 5295457
    Abstract: A heat exchanger for use with a heat source for heating a vaporized liquid includes a housing composed of at least two essentially cuboid chambers that lie opposite one another and are connected to one another by at least one inclined pipe and has an arrangement for filling the housing with a vaporized liquid to an adjustable level. Preferably, a plurality of pipes are provided, which are arranged in vertically-extending planes, with the pipes of adjacent planes sloping in opposite directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1994
    Assignee: Rational Grosskuechentechnik Service GmbH
    Inventors: Gerd Gumienny, Jaroslav Klouda, Franz Koch