Additional Transverse Baffle Patents (Class 165/161)
  • Patent number: 11936279
    Abstract: Various disclosed embodiments include oil systems, electric motors, and vehicles. In an illustrative embodiment an electrical motor system includes an oil reservoir, a motor, and an oil delivery system. The oil reservoir is configured to hold oil therein. The oil delivery system includes a heat exchanger. The oil delivery system is configured to operate in a low-temperature mode, bypassing the heat exchanger, while the oil temperature is below a first predetermined temperature; operate in a high-temperature mode, directing oil traversing the oil delivery system through the heat exchanger while the oil temperature is above a second predetermined temperature; and operate in an intermediate-temperature mode, partially bypassing the heat exchanger while the oil temperature is between the first predetermined temperature and the second predetermined temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Rivian IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Venkata Harish Kunatharaju, Dang Dinh Dang
  • Patent number: 11859917
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a vapor collection pipe, a liquid collection pipe, and an exchange pipeline. The exchange pipeline includes a condensing section, an evaporation section, and a transition section. An upper end of the condensing section is connected to the vapor collection pipe. A lower end of the condensing section is connected to a first end of the transition section. An upper end of the evaporation section is connected to a second end of the transition section. A lower end of the evaporation section is connected to the liquid collection pipe. The evaporation section and the condensing section respectively extend in directions opposite to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Chen, Xiaowei Hui, Zhisheng Lian
  • Patent number: 11828542
    Abstract: A shell and tube apparatus (1) includes an outer shell (2); a first tube bundle (3) and a second tube bundle (4) coaxial with each other; a first inner shell (5) and a second inner shell (6); the first inner shell surrounds the first tube bundle and is arranged between the two tube bundles; the second inner shell surrounds the second tube bundle and is arranged in the space between the second tube bundle and the outer shell (2); the first tube bundle (3) operates as a preheater; the second tube bundle (4) operates as a boiler; the coaxial inner shells (5, 6) define a counterflow path for a hot fluid which passes through the shell side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: CASALE SA
    Inventors: Cristiano Caselli, Luca Redaelli
  • Patent number: 11619169
    Abstract: A matrix for exchanging heat between a first fluid and a second fluid, in particular for an air-oil application in a turbine engine, includes an envelope defining a flow path of the first fluid and a network extending into the flow path and in which the second fluid flows. Along the axis defined by the curvature of the matrix, the dimensions of the envelope vary circumferentially (T(A)) and radially (R(A)). The matrix may be used with a heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AERO BOOSTERS SA
    Inventors: David Weicker, Roel Vleugels, Nicolas Fellin
  • Patent number: 11585273
    Abstract: A turbine engine heat exchanger has: a manifold having a first face and a second face opposite the first face; a plurality of first plates along the first face, each first plate having an interior passageway; and a plurality of second plates along the second face, each second plate having an interior passageway. A first flowpath passing through the interior passageways of the first plates, the manifold, and the interior passageways of the second plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: James F. Wiedenhoefer, Russell J. Bergman, William P. Stillman, Patrick M. Hart
  • Patent number: 11506459
    Abstract: A double pipe includes an inner pipe through an interior of which low pressure gaseous cooling medium flows and an outer pipe having the inner pipe in its interior, the outer pipe being configured such that high-pressure liquid cooling medium flows between the inner pipe and the outer pipe, wherein the inner pipe has a plate member that extending in the longitudinal direction so as to partition the interior of the inner pipe into a plurality of chambers. The plate member has a helical shape along the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: MARELLI CABIN COMFORT JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yoshida, Jun Hatakeyama, Hiroyuki Oono
  • Patent number: 11466912
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed toward purge units of vapor compression systems, and methods of control thereof, that selectively activate and deactivate the purge unit in response to one or more conditions to, for example, control refrigerant-to-air ratios while still minimizing the durations of the purge cycles. For example, in certain embodiments, these conditions may include conditions within the chiller condenser, time since last purge activation, time since last venting of non-condensables, and combinations thereof. By reducing an amount of time that the purge unit would be active without removing a substantial amount non-condensables from the vapor compression system, present embodiments reduce the power consumption of the purge unit, as well as the vapor compression system as a whole, while still being responsive to prevent or mitigate a loss of efficiency due to a substantial accumulation of non-condensables in the condenser of the vapor compression system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Johnson Controls TYCO IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: David Andrew Bradshaw, Andrew Michael Welch, Curtis C. Crane, Calvin Andrew Nelson
  • Patent number: 11441850
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a central spar, a body, and a mounting arm. The central spar is disposed along an axial centerline of the heat exchanger. The body is disposed around the central spar. The body includes an exterior wall and heat exchanger core disposed within the exterior wall and integrally formed with the central spar. The mounting arm is integrally formed with and extends radially from the central spar. The mounting arm extends through a portion of the body and is integrally formed with the central spar via additive manufacturing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventor: Paul M. Colson
  • Patent number: 11287196
    Abstract: A heat exchanger including a shell having a longitudinal axis, a plurality of baffles, such as elliptical sector-shaped baffles, each mounted in the shell at a helix angle HB to guide a fluid flow into a helical pattern through the shell. Each of the plurality of baffles includes an outer circumferential edge, a proximal radial edge, a distal radial edge, a proximal side, a distal side, and a plurality of spaced apart holes that are traversed by a plurality of axially extending tubes. Each of the first plurality of seal strips is disposed from a proximal of the plurality of baffles to a distal of the plurality of baffles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: LUMMUS TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Eric Drew Macedo, Richard John Jibb, Sherif Elsayed, Melanie O'Sullivan
  • Patent number: 11215400
    Abstract: A tube plate of a heat exchanger includes a tube plate base material to which ends of a plurality of heat transfer tubes are fixed, a first backplate that covers a surface of the tube plate base material on a first tube chamber side, and a fastener that includes at least a shaft section and fixes the first backplate to the tube plate base material. The first backplate includes heat transfer tube insertion holes through which a plurality of heat transfer tubes are inserted, and an insertion hole through which the shaft section is loosely inserted. The first backplate is joined to an end section of a second partition wall on a first end side. The second partition wall, the first backplate, and the fastener are formed of a material having higher corrosion resistance than the tube plate base material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Taichi Nakamura, Hiroshi Yano, Shungo Fukuma, Satoshi Hiraoka, Masanori Tagashira, Kenji Kirihara
  • Patent number: 10941988
    Abstract: A heater assembly includes a continuous series of perforated helical members and a plurality of heating elements. The perforated helical members cooperate to define a geometric helicoid disposed about a longitudinal axis of the heater assembly. Each perforated helical member defines opposed edges and a predetermined pattern of perforations. The perforations extend through each perforated helical member parallel to the longitudinal axis. The heating elements extend through the perforations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Watlow Electric Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Satya Tatavarthy, Ethan Dinauer, Sanhong Zhang, Scott Boehmer
  • Patent number: 10627170
    Abstract: A heat transfer device for transferring heat energy to or from a gas or fluid flowing radially across a plurality of posts or tubes includes a plate having a plate surface. A plurality of posts or tubes are disposed on and protrude substantially perpendicular to the plate surface. At least about 50% of the plurality of posts or tubes are disposed according to a phyllotaxis layout. Each arc of a plurality of phyllotaxis spiral arcs of the phyllotaxis layout terminates at different locations along an arc radius on the plate at a phyllotaxis arc termination radius less than a perimeter radius.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Aerco International, Inc.
    Inventors: Gerald A. Fioriti, Kyle T. Morgan
  • Patent number: 10365044
    Abstract: The heat exchanger is provided with a body, multiple heat transfer tubes (20) which are arranged inside of the body, and multiple support plates (30) which are arranged at intervals along the longitudinal direction of the heat transfer tubes (20) and in which multiple tube insertion through-holes (40) for inserting the multiple heat transfer tubes (20) are formed. Between two support plates (30) adjacent in the longitudinal direction among the plurality of support plates (30), the shapes of the tube insertion through-holes (40) for one heat transfer tube (20) are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Issaku Fujita, Taichi Nakamura, Satoshi Hiraoka
  • Patent number: 9702351
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus related to a convection pump. In one aspect, an apparatus includes a chamber, the chamber having an inlet at a first end of the chamber and an outlet at a second end of the chamber. The chamber further has a first surface and a second surface, the first surface being opposite to the second surface. A baffle having a substantially helical shape is disposed inside the chamber. A heating device is configured to heat the first surface of the chamber. A cooling device is configured to cool the second surface of the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Inventor: Leif Alexi Steinhour
  • Patent number: 9657733
    Abstract: A compressor for a vehicle air supply system includes a manifold, a cover, a gasket, an inlet, and an outlet. The manifold and cover are fixedly stacked together, and define a fluid channel system between them. The gasket extends laterally from between the manifold and cover. The fluid channel system includes an inlet air passage extending from the inlet to a cylinder inlet, a discharge air passage extending from a cylinder outlet to the outlet for discharging compressed air to the outlet, and one or more coolant channels that can be fed with a coolant to cool at least the discharge air passage. The inlet air passage, the discharge air passage, and the coolant channel(s) extend laterally, defined by wall faces of the discharge air passage. The wall faces comprise turbulator fins protruding into the discharge air passage. The turbulator fins create turbulence in the discharged compressed air flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: WABCO Compressor Manufacturing Co.
    Inventors: Thomas Chadwick, Michael Klatt, Ramesh Pai, Steven Wolverton
  • Patent number: 9459052
    Abstract: A co-axial gas-liquid heat exchanger such as a charge air cooler comprises at least three concentric tubes forming at least two annular flow passageways. One end of the inner tube is rigidly attached to the middle tube by a thermal expansion connector including an inner connecting portion secured to the first end of the inner tube, an outer connecting portion secured to an inner surface of the middle tube; and one or more webs connecting the inner connecting portion to the outer connecting portion. The webs extend across the annular gas flow passageway but permit the hot gas to flow therethrough. The other end of the inner tube is free to expand in the longitudinal direction, relative to the middle and outer tubes. In some embodiments, the inner connecting portion forms part of a central plug portion which blocks an end of the inner tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Dana Canada Corporation
    Inventors: Lee M. Kinder, Michael Bardeleben, Doug Vanderwees, Brian E. Cheadle
  • Patent number: 9328974
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for cooling particulates are provided. The apparatus can include one or more coils at least partially disposed within a cylindrical housing. The one or more coils can include a plurality of tubulars connected by return bends disposed at one or more ends thereof. The apparatus can further include a support grid at least partially disposed within the housing and secured to one or more inner surfaces of one or more sidewalls thereof. The support grid can include a plurality of cross members formed of a series of concentric cylinders connected together by a plurality of radially disposed gussets. An outermost concentric cylinder can be disposed proximate the one or more inner surfaces of the one or more sidewalls, and at least one of the one or more coils can be secured to at least one of the cross members, at least one of the gussets, or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Kellogg Brown & Root LLC
    Inventors: Lloyd Edward Cizmar, William E. Phillips
  • Patent number: 8973648
    Abstract: A tubesheet anchor for suspending a tool from the underside of a heat exchanger tubesheet that inserts one end of two fingers into corresponding openings in the tubesheet and leverages one finger off the other to apply a frictional force to the sides of the tubesheet openings in which the fingers are inserted to clamp the fingers to the tubesheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Company LLC
    Inventor: Lyman J. Petrosky
  • Patent number: 8925625
    Abstract: A heat exchanger has a flat tube (10) having a curved portion (13). A part of the curved portion (13) is formed by overlapping an outer rim (22) on an inner rim (21). The inner rim (21) has a small curvature region (102). The small curvature region (102) is inclined to a flat plate portion (11), and is defined by a radius larger than a difference between a half of a thickness of the flat tube (10) and a thickness of the outer rim (22). The small curvature region (102) is not beyond a center line (C1) in a thickness of the flat tube (10). The outer rim (22) extends beyond the center line (C1). The outer rim (22) has an end face (22a) placed on the small curvature region (102). The flat tube (10) has flared portions (15, 16) expanded at insertion holes (54).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihide Ninagawa, Tatsuo Ozaki, Takahide Oohara, Noriyuki Miyazaki, Mitsuyoshi Saito, U Ou, Norio Yoshida, Tetsuya Sakakibara, Kazuhiro Mitsukawa
  • Patent number: 8833436
    Abstract: The heat exchange assembly (1) for exchanging heat between a first and a second fluid comprises: a plurality of heat exchange modules (12) for exchanging heat between the first and second fluids, these being distributed about a central axis (X) and having opposing respective lateral faces (47); feed manifolds (14, 16) for feeding the modules (12) with primary and secondary fluid and collection manifolds (18, 20) for removing these fluids. At least some of the said manifolds (14, 16) or parts of the said manifolds (18) run between the modules (12), the said manifolds (14, 16) or parts of manifolds (18) flanking one and the same module (12) being positioned substantially symmetrically with respect to the mid-plane situated between the two lateral faces (47) of the said module (12) in such a way that the said manifolds (14, 16) or parts of manifolds (18) create substantially identical thermal stresses in the lateral faces (47) of the module (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Areva NP
    Inventor: Gilles Francois
  • Patent number: 8833437
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating steam within a heat exchanger. In one aspect, the invention can be a heat exchanger comprising: a shell having an inner surface forming a cavity, the shell comprising an inlet for introducing the shell-side liquid into the cavity and an outlet for allowing the vapor to exit the cavity; a tube bundle comprising a plurality of tubes for carrying a tube-side fluid located in the cavity and having a longitudinal axis; a shroud circumferentially surrounding the tube bundle and positioned between the tube bundle and the inner surface of the shell so that an annular space exists between the shroud and the inner surface; an opening in a bottom portion of the shroud that forms a passageway between the annular space and the tube bundle; and an opening in a top portion of the shroud that forms a passageway between the annular space and the tube bundle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Inventors: Krishna P. Singh, Ranga Nadig
  • Patent number: 8721975
    Abstract: Plant for urea production from ammonia and carbon dioxide having a so-called high-pressure section which comprises a synthesis reactor and a condensation unit (7, 107) positioned inside the reactor, all substantially operating at the same pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Urea Casale SA
    Inventors: Ermanno Filippi, Enrico Rizzi, Mirco Tarozzo, Federico Zardi
  • Patent number: 8540011
    Abstract: The present invention provides a single shell-pass shell-and-tube heat exchanger with helical baffles, where within a single pitch, the helical baffles are separated into inner and outer parts along the radial direction of the shell. In the central portion of the inner space of the shell, an inner non-continuous helical form is employed; in other portion outside the central portion, doughnut shaped helical baffles with continuous curved surfaces are arranged to form an outer continuous helical baffle, and the outer helical baffles are arranged to surround the inner helical baffles. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a multiple shell-pass shell-and-tube heat exchanger with helical baffles, in which complete continuous helical baffles are provided in shell-sides other than the inner shell-pass, while non-continuous helical baffles or other flow guide means are employed in the inner shell-pass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Xi'an Jiaotong University
    Inventors: Qiuwang Wang, Qiuyang Chen, Dongjie Zhang, Min Zeng, Yining Wu, Qiang Gao
  • Patent number: 8453721
    Abstract: A stacked plate heat exchanger includes a core having an outer periphery and a longitudinal axis, a shell having an inner periphery and at least partially surrounding the core to define a fluid gap therebetween. A seal between the shell and the core at least partially divides the fluid gap into an inlet chamber and an outlet chamber, and includes at least one core fin projecting generally radially outwardly and having at least one core fixed end proximate the outer periphery of the core and at least one core free end distal the outer periphery of the core, and also includes at least one shell fin projecting generally radially inwardly and having at least one shell fixed end proximate the inner periphery of the shell and at least one shell free end distal the inner periphery of the shell, and being interleaved with the at least one core fin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Tranter, Inc.
    Inventors: Achint P. Mathur, Cesar M. Romero
  • Patent number: 8276653
    Abstract: A heat exchanger for transfer of heat from a first fluid to a second fluid, including: a housing defining an interior space, a plurality of tubes spaced apart from each other and extending in a first direction in the interior space in the housing, a first inlet for flow of the first fluid into the tubes, a second inlet for flow of the second fluid into the interior space about the external surfaces of the tubes, the second fluid flowing in a direction generally transverse of the first direction, and an impingement plate assembly situated in the interior space between the second inlet and the plurality of tubes, the impingement plate assembly including: (a) a top plate facing the second inlet, and (b) a bottom plate spaced from and generally parallel to and underlying the top plate with an aperture extending through said bottom plate from top to bottom thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Salamah S. Al-Anizi, Abdullah M. Al-Otaibi
  • Patent number: 8261700
    Abstract: Process for the production of ammonia from a hydrocarbon feedstock all steam produced in the waste heat boilers of the reforming and ammonia section of the plant is superheated in one or more steam superheaters located downstream the ammonia converter in the ammonia section of the plant. There is no need for steam superheater (s) in the reforming section of the plant to cool the synthesis gas. A steam superheater for use in the process is also provided. The superheater comprises two compartments in which the first and second compartments are connected in series with respect to the steam flow and in parallel with respect to the process gas flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Haldor Topsoe A/S
    Inventors: Henrik Otto Stahl, Pat A. Han
  • Patent number: 8216531
    Abstract: Disclosed are a syngas production process and a reforming exchanger 100. The process involves passing a first portion of hydrocarbon feed mixed with steam and oxidant through an autothermal catalytic steam reforming zone to form a first reformed gas of reduced hydrocarbon content, passing a second portion of the hydrocarbon feed mixed with steam through an endothermic catalytic steam reforming zone to form a second reformed gas of reduced hydrocarbon content, and mixing the first and second reformed gases and passing the resulting gas mixture through a heat exchange zone for cooling the gas mixture and thereby supplying heat to the endothermic catalytic steam reforming zone. The endothermic catalytic steam reforming zone and the heat exchange zone are respectively disposed tube side and shell side within a shell-and-tube reforming exchanger 100.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Kellogg Brown & Root LLC
    Inventors: Robert Burlingame, Thomas Czuppon, Larry G. Hackemesser
  • Patent number: 8079410
    Abstract: An EGR cooler having an inlet/outlet tube installed by insertion is provided, and can have a curved gas flow path defined at least in part by a tank body. The inlet/outlet tube can include a first inlet/outlet tube and a second inlet/outlet tube to introduce and to exhaust gas. The tank body can have a configuration such that a connection housing is installed to establish fluid communication between individual ends of both the first inlet/outlet tube and second inlet/outlet tube, so that heat exchange efficiency between the inflow gas and the cooling fluid can be improved, and effective space utilization can be promoted in equipping an vehicle with the EGR cooler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Modine Manfacturing Company
    Inventor: IlHwan Kim
  • Patent number: 8006651
    Abstract: A condensing heat exchange economizer wherein upwardly flowing hot flue gas is redirected to flow in a downward direction over a bundle of heat exchange tubes carrying a counter-flowing heat exchange medium to form condensate and cool the flue gas, and the condensate is forced by gravity to flow in the downward direction. The economizer may be in the form of a cylindrical economizer adapted for insertion in an exhaust stack for flue gas. The cooled flue gas may be redirected to flow in an upward direction and merged with a primary flow passage leading to the stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Combustion & Energy Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Daniel H. Veitch, Cameron S. Veitch
  • Patent number: 7997329
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventor: Dominicus Fredericus Mulder
  • Patent number: 7967946
    Abstract: An improved boiler that allows distillation of ethanol from a continuous flow of a hydrous feedstock compound, which may be beer or other semi-solid substance. The internal compartment of the boiler is separated into different zones by a plurality of primary baffle plates and secondary baffle plates. The hydrous feedstock compound is heated as it passes from one zone to another zone and ethanol inside the hydrous feedstock compound vaporizes. The ethanol rich vapor is channeled through a collector column and then collected for further processing. The temperature of the hydrous feedstock compound is slightly different from one zone to another zone because of ethanol concentration changes as the hydrous feedstock compound moves from one zone to another. At the last zone, where most of ethanol is removed, the remaining hydrous feedstock compound is removed from the boiler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Inventor: Michael R. Ling
  • Publication number: 20110094720
    Abstract: The present invention provides a single shell-pass shell-and-tube heat exchanger with helical baffles, where within a single pitch, the helical baffles are separated into inner and outer parts along the radial direction of the shell. In the central portion of the inner space of the shell, an inner non-continuous helical form is employed; in other portion outside the central portion, doughnut shaped helical baffles with continuous curved surfaces are arranged to form an outer continuous helical baffle, and the outer helical baffles are arranged to surround the inner helical baffles. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a multiple shell-pass shell-and-tube heat exchanger with helical baffles, in which complete continuous helical baffles are provided in shell-sides other than the inner shell-pass, while non-continuous helical baffles or other flow guide means are employed in the inner shell-pass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2010
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: Xi'an Jiaotong University
    Inventors: Qiuwang Wang, Qiuyang Chen, Dongjie Zhang, Min Zeng, Yining Wu, Qiang Gao
  • Patent number: 7842255
    Abstract: Method for carbamate condensation of a carbon dioxide/ammonia gaseous phase in a liquid phase in a condensation unit of the so-called submerged type comprising a heat exchange tube bundle having a predetermined number of tubes intended for carbamate condensation, wherein the gaseous phase and the liquid phase are fed contemporaneously and independently to each of the tubes intended for condensation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Urea Casale S.A.
    Inventor: Lorenzo Pennino
  • Patent number: 7771674
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a multitubular catalytic gas-phase reaction apparatus, comprising a plurality of reaction tubes arranged in parallel, a baffle capable of changing the direction of movement of a heat medium introduced into a reactor shell to a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the reaction tubes, a space that is disposed in a region including a part of a section where the heat medium flows in the direction of the face of the baffle and does not have the reaction tubes arranged therein, and flow-adjusting rods, disposed in between the space and the reaction tubes, having the same longitudinal direction as that of the reaction tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Tetsuya Suzuta, Yasuhiko Mori, Takaaki Tanaka, Tadashi Abe
  • Patent number: 7740057
    Abstract: The present invention provides a single shell-pass shell-and-tube heat exchanger with helical baffles, where within a single pitch, the helical baffles are separated into inner and outer parts along the radial direction of the shell. In the central portion of the inner space of the shell, an inner non-continuous helical form is employed; in other portion outside the central portion, doughnut shaped helical baffles with continuous curved surfaces are arranged to form an outer continuous helical baffle, and the outer helical baffles are arranged to surround the inner helical baffles. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a multiple shell-pass shell-and-tube heat exchanger with helical baffles, in which complete continuous helical baffles are provided in shell-sides other than the inner shell-pass, while non-continuous helical baffles or other flow guide means are employed in the inner shell-pass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Xi'An Jiaotong University
    Inventors: Qiuwang Wang, Qiuyang Chen, Dongjie Zhang, Min Zeng, Yining Wu, Qiang Gao
  • Patent number: 7731917
    Abstract: The present invention provides a heat exchange reactor comprising a reaction tube for obtaining a product (B) by exothermic reaction while passing a starting compound (A) therethrough and a reactor shell covering the surrounding of the reaction tube and having its interior divided into a plurality of regions along the passing direction of the starting compound (A), each of which regions is filled with a heat medium for carrying out heat exchange between the inside of the reaction tube and the heat medium independently for the respective separate regions; wherein the reactor is provided with a heater for heating the heat medium charged in the most upstream region among the separate regions independently from the heat media charged in other regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventor: Yasuhiko Mori
  • Patent number: 7635456
    Abstract: A syngas reforming reactor has a shell-and-tube configuration wherein the shell-side fluid flow path through the tube bundle has a longitudinal configuration. The reactor can include a shell-side inlet fluid distributor plate below the lower end of the tube bundle, and a flow sleeve in an enlarged-diameter discharge annulus at an upper end adjacent the tube sheet to prevent short-circuiting of the shell-side fluid into the shell-side fluid outlet. The tube bundle can include a plurality of ring baffles and lattice baffles. The longitudinal flow configuration can provide a lower shell-side pressure drop and lower cost compared to a conventional cross-flow reforming exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2009
    Assignee: Kellogg Brown & Root LLC
    Inventors: Robert Stevens Burlingame, Lloyd Edward Cizmar, Larry Gene Hackemesser, Laura Beth Aguilar
  • Patent number: 7622094
    Abstract: The invention provides a method and apparatus for integrating the heat transfer zones of plate fin and tube and finned tube exchangers and a catalytic mass transfer zone. The invention also provides a method for in situ regeneration of existing coated surface and augmentation of existing coated surface, or catalyst performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Inventors: Larry Lewis, Jeff Diaz
  • Patent number: 7610953
    Abstract: An assembly of baffles and seals for mounting in a heat exchanger shell, comprising a plurality of longitudinal baffles; a plurality of longitudinal seals for sealingly engaging longitudinal rims of the longitudinal baffles against the heat exchanger shell after mounting, and further a wall member that is arranged to extend between longitudinal seals of adjacent longitudinal baffles so as to form a double wall with the heat exchanger shell after mounting. A method of assembling a heat exchanger, comprising providing a heat exchanger shell and an assembly of baffles and seals according to the invention; assembling the assembly of baffles and seals outside the heat exchanger shell and introducing the assembled arrangement into the heat exchanger shell so that each wall member forms a double wall with the heat exchanger shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventor: Dominicus Fredericus Mulder
  • Publication number: 20090178790
    Abstract: An evaporator for use in a vapor compression system is disclosed. The evaporator may include an enclosure that covers a substantial portion of a tube bundle in the evaporator. The enclosure substantially prevents refrigerant vapor, generated as a result of the heat transfer with the tube bundle, from flowing laterally between tubes of the tube bundle. Various configurations of a distributor for distributing refrigerant to at least a portion of a tube bundle in the evaporator provides increased performance of the evaporator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2009
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Applicant: JOHNSON CONTROLS TECHNOLOGY COMPANY
    Inventors: Jeb SCHREIBER, Jay A. KOHLER, John C. HANSEN, Mustafa Kemal YANIK, William F. MCQUADE, Justin KAUFFMAN, Satheesh KULANKARA, Soren Bierre POULSEN, Lee Li WANG
  • Publication number: 20090084520
    Abstract: A heat exchanger is disclosed. The heat exchanger may have a conduit configured to conduct a fluid and at least one body of metal foam surrounding the conduit. The at least one body of metal foam may have a radially inner portion, a radially outer portion, and a radially intermediate portion between the radially inner portion and the radially outer portion. The at least one body of metal foam may have a lower percentage of void space at the radially outer portion as compared to the radially intermediate portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Publication date: April 2, 2009
    Inventors: Michael J. Campagna, Robert John Moffat
  • Patent number: 7468167
    Abstract: A method for quickly starting up a reactor and a reactor system therefor are provided. A shell-and-tube reactor in the system is adapted to circulate a heat medium having a solid point in the range of 50-250° C. to the outside of the reaction tubes and characterized by initiating temperature elevation of the reactor by introducing a gas of a temperature in the range of 100-400° C. to the reaction tubes' side and then circulating the heat medium in a heated state to the outside of the reaction tubes. By introducing a gas of an elevated temperature preparatorily to the reaction tubes, it is made possible to prevent the heat medium after circulation from being solidified again and enable the reactor to be quickly started up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukihiro Matsumoto, Takeshi Nishimura, Hideki Sogabe, Kazuhiko Sakamoto, Osamu Dodo
  • Patent number: 7328738
    Abstract: An improved heat exchanger which resists fouling of the heat exchange surface by minimizing the temperature difference between the heat exchanger surface and the fluid stream in contact with the heat exchange surface. In one embodiment, a heat exchanger comprises an outer shell, the outer shell comprising a first inlet operable to pass a first fluid stream, an inner shell at least partially disposed within the outer shell, the inner shell comprising a second inlet and an outlet operable to pass the first fluid stream, and a heat exchange surface comprising a plurality of tubes operable to pass a second fluid stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2008
    Assignee: Cabot Corporation
    Inventors: Martin C. Green, William L. Sifleet
  • Patent number: 7284598
    Abstract: A support for a bundle of parallel tubes, comprising at least two spaced apart transverse support plates, wherein each plate is provided with a plurality of openings of substantially rhombical or substantially frustro-rhombical shape, each of which openings having a maximum of two mirror symmetry axes including a characteristic mirror symmetry axis, the openings being large enough to accommodate at least two tubes, wherein openings in different support plates are arranged to form support passages for parallel tubes so that support passages extending through the same opening in one support plate extend through different openings in another support plate, and wherein the characteristic mirror symmetry axes of at least two openings belonging to the same support passage are arranged to extend in different directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventor: Dominicus Fredericus Mulder
  • Patent number: 7219718
    Abstract: A tube bundle device useful in heat exchangers, condensers and other devices which has a number of tube support cages placed at extended locations along the length of the tubes. After the initial construction of the bundle in which the tubes are inserted into the support cages the tube bundle is stiffened by inserting sets of tube stakes between the tube support cages, preferably at the midpoint of the tube span between the cages. The tubes are supported by rods or bars in each tube lane at the tube support cage locations and the rods in each cage are rotated axially with respect to the rods in the next adjacent cage; in a similar manner, the stakes in each set are rotated axially with respect to the stakes in the next axially adjacent set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Company
    Inventors: Amar S. Wanni, Thomas M. Rudy, Louis A. Curcio
  • Patent number: 7191824
    Abstract: A core for a charge air cooler comprises inner and outer concentric tubes providing an axially extending annular passageway for flow of a fluid, preferably a liquid coolant. A first inlet and a first outlet are provided at the ends of the axial annular passageway. Arranged on an outer surface of the outer tube is at least one circumferential fluid flow passageway for flow of a fluid, preferably air. Each circumferential flow passageway is provided with a corrugated strip fin comprising a plurality of rows of corrugations. The core is combined with an outer housing to form a heat exchanger. The housing is provided with an inlet and an outlet for the fluid flowing through the circumferential flow passageways. Other embodiments are disclosed in which the heat exchanger is adapted for use with three fluids and in which additional cooling capacity is provided by the provision of coolant passageways in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: Dana Canada Corporation
    Inventors: Alan K. Wu, Brian E. Cheadle, Eric Luvisotto
  • Patent number: 7131489
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2006
    Assignee: Lurgi AG
    Inventor: Hermann Göhna
  • Patent number: 7117934
    Abstract: A heat exchange reactor including a housing, a plurality of tubes mounted in the housing and configured to carry a first fluid, and a baffle having a plurality of holes receiving the tubes. The baffle is configured to guide a second fluid provided within the housing to flow in a direction generally perpendicular to the tubes. The reactor includes various configurations for minimizing adverse effects of thermal expansion of the baffle and the tubes. The reactor is configured to minimize mechanical interference between the baffle and the tubes in both an operational state and a non-operational state, for example, by shaping the holes in the baffle to take into account thermal expansion. The reactor also includes a thermal insulator along a length of the tubes at a large temperature gradient zone within the reactor. The reactor further includes a heat transfer fin in contact with only one of the tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Assignee: H2Gen Innovations, Inc.
    Inventors: Franklin D. Lomax, Jr., Michael Sean Streeks, Stephen Waide
  • Patent number: 6918433
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger (1) with plate structure, comprising a stack (6) of plates composed of circular heat transfer plates (10) by welding and fitted inside a housing unit (2) used as a pressure vessel, whose periphery is provided with flow guides (21, 22), by means of which the second heat transfer medium is guided to desired ducts in the stack (6) of plates. By means of spacing plates (32) fixed inside the flow guides (21, 22), it is possible to arranged several draughts for the stream of the heat transfer medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: Vahterus Oy
    Inventor: Mauri Kontu
  • Patent number: 6914955
    Abstract: A support plate for retaining tube array spacing within a heat exchanger tube and shell structure. The support plate having a plurality of individual tube receiving apertures formed therein. Each aperture has at least three inwardly protruding members and bights are formed therebetween when the tube associated therewith is lodged in place to establish secondary fluid flow through the support plate. The inwardly protruding members terminate in flat lands that restrain but do not all contact the outer surface of the respective tube. These flat lands minimize fretting wear and eliminate potential gouging of the outer wall of the tube. The plate wall forming each aperture has an hourglass configuration which, inter alia, reduces pressure drop, turbulence and local deposition of magnetite and other particulates on the support plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2005
    Assignee: Babcock & Wilcox Canada Ltd.
    Inventor: Richard G. Klarner