Abstract: An exhaust filter system for filtering a creosote component from exhaust gases of a combustion chamber burning wood, primarily for use with airtight wood burning stoves, comprises an airtight filter apparatus arranged between a combustion chamber outlet for the exhaust gases and a flue for removing the filter exhaust gases. The filter includes a gas distributing chamber in communication with the combustion chamber outlet and receiving hot exhaust gases therefrom and a gas collecting chamber in communication with the flue and delivering filtered exhaust gases thereto. A heat exchange unit airtightly connects the gas distributing and collecting chambers. The unit defines a vertical flow path for the exhaust gases and is capable of cooling the gases to a temperature range wherein the creosote component present in the hot exhaust gases in vaporized form is condensed to a liquid. A sump is mounted to receive the condensed liquid by gravity from the heat exchange unit.

Abstract: A U-tube heat exchanger for the heat transfer from a primary gas circuit to a secondary gas circuit in a high temperature reactor. At the high temperatures of approximately 950.degree. C., the additionally permissible stresses on the used materials are low. The cold gas collector is therefore flexibly attached at the housing. The arrangement permits complete and also remote-controlled testing from the secondary gas-side of all parts of the primary gas circuit which are stressed by pressure. The flexible elements are neither stressed by the weight of the heat exchanger nor endangered by high temperatures.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a heat exchanger-type laminated evaporator, in which a plurality of liquid passage pipe units are arranged in side-by-side relation to form flat liquid passage pipes which communicate at their ends, with enlarged portions forming reservoirs, each of which communicates through a perforation in the wall thereof with an adjacent liquid reservoir, thereby forming an inlet manifold and an outlet manifold and intermediate manifolds. Adjacent manifolds are separated from each other by a common imperforate wall and the imperforate walls at one end are staggered relative to those at the other end, so that refrigerant introduced into the inlet manifold flows through a set of the flat liquid passage in one direction and then through an adjacent set of flat liquid passage pipes in the other direction, and so on, until the outlet manifold is reached.

Abstract: A heat exchanger adapted particularly for use in embedded radiant heating systems and including a plurality of webbed tube mats and associated manifolds, wherein the webs are separated from their adjacent tubes along tear lines at at least two longitudinally spaced portions of the mat.

Abstract: A heat exchanger adapted for use as a hot water radiator for a car heater, or the like, in which a plurality of tubes and a plurality of fins secured thereon extend between two fluid tanks. The fluid tanks each comprise an inner and an outer tank element, both made of synthetic resin. The inner tank element is joined via gaskets with the end portions of the tubes extending therethrough, by means of tube-expansion working, while the outer tank element is united with the inner tank element along corresponding opposed peripheral edges thereof arranged in abutting relation. A pair of partition walls are provided in opposed relation between the inner and outer tank elements, which are joined together in an abutting manner directly or via part of the gasket, to provide a fluid tight partition between an inlet chamber and an outlet chamber defined by the partition walls and the tank elements.

Abstract: There is disclosed an air dryer system for removing moisture from compressed air. The system includes a coil means including a plurality of axially spaced convoluted tubing sections wherein each tubing section has an inlet adapted to be coupled to the compressed moist air to be dried and an outlet. The system further includes a cooling means for reducing the temperature of the moist air within the tubing sections for causing the moisture within the compressed air to condense for forming moisture laden air at the outlets, and a moisture separater directly connected to each of the tubing sections for removing the condensed moisture from the moisture laden air to thereby provide dried air for use by pneumatically operated or controlled tools or the like.

Abstract: The spaced apart elongated supporting members for the various tubular coils of a heat exchanger include vertically spaced apart openings in a wall portion thereof which faces an associated supporting member, the tubular coil being fitted to extend through the openings and thus be supported by the supporting members. A pair of such members, together with the supported tubular coil, comprise a heat exchange section, the entire heat exchanger including a multiplicity of such sections. Each individual section can be separately disconnected and removed from the heat exchanger if a leak develops in the supported tubular coil in a fast and efficient manner.

Abstract: Solar heat collector apparatus wherein each solar collector unit comprises a modular collector box having multiple collector tubes with their respective inlet and out ends grouped together and connected to an inlet manifold pipe and an outlet manifold pipe, the manifold pipes being outside the box and axially aligned with their bores non-communicating, several collector boxes being placed together side-by-side with their aligned manifolds interconnected, and the boxes having covers which completely enclose the manifold pipes and have no connections to external fluid circuitry exposed.

Abstract: An improved reheater for a moisture separator reheater includes an inlet header, an outlet header and a plurality of heat-exchange tubes connected therebetween. The inlet header is partitioned to provide at least two separate sections. Piping and control valves are also provided to supply steam to each section of the inlet header from the reheater inlet pipe. The improved reheater includes at least one bundle of tubes communicating with the header(s) via tubesheet(s). The inlet ends of the tubes may be differentially orificed whereby in combination with a nominal flow rate to the partitions, in-tube condensate subcooling is substantially eliminated with minimal scavenging steam at design conditions. At off-design, or low power level, conditions, where fixed resistances of orifices and fixed partitions cannot accommodate changes in heat transfer demand from tube to tube, the aforementioned control valves are automatically adjusted.

Abstract: A tube and shell heat exchanger of a brazeless type. A single header construction mounts tubes made for high efficiency heat transfer and supported for damage free operation. A removable mounting plate confines a tube and header core in a shell and is adapted for free mounting and for controlled inflow and outflow of the tube side and shell side fluids. By-passing flow of shell side fluid within the shell is obviated by a recessed mounting of the header allowing a standard spacing of the tube bundle relatively to shell interior wall surfaces.

Abstract: The 1st type of parallel flow evaporator, comprising an upper tank and a lower tank, a plurality of flat pipes communicating said upper and lower tanks, fins inserted between each of said flat pipes, having an outlet pipe and an inlet pipe respectively, said outlet pipe being inserted into the innermost of said upper tank and provided with bores at respective positions above each of said flat pipes, and said outlet and inlet pipes are respectively inserted on the windward of said upper and lower tanks.

Abstract: A heat-exchanger shell comprises a tube of generally cylindrical shape subdivided by a planar diametral partition plate into a pair of compartments. At each axially extending outer edge of the partition plate there is provided a one-piece seal unitarily formed of a pair of generally parallel inner flanges defining a groove in which the respective outer edge of the plate is snugly received and a pair of oppositely outwardly directed flanges bearing tightly radially outwardly on the inner wall of the tube. The seal may be made of a profiled piece of elastomeric synthetic-resin material, or of a piece of austenitic sheet steel. The shell is assembled by deflecting the inner flanges elastically apart and fitting them over the outer edges of the plate, then sliding the plate with the seals into the tube with simultaneous inward deflection of the outer flanges of the seals.

Abstract: A device is disclosed for recovery of heat from hot shell devices, particularly from motor-compressor units such as used in air conditioners, refrigeration systems and the like and which comprises a heat exchange coil in encircling, contacting heat exchange relationship to the hot shell device with circulation of a fluid through the heat exchange coil to recover normally wasted heat. Heat absorbed can be utilized to heat domestic hot water for home heating or for tap use.

Abstract: A Moisture Separator Reheater (MSR) has a plurality of tube bundles which receive high-pressure saturated (tubeside) steam therein. Steam to be reheated (shellside steam) is passed in heat-exchange relationship with the tubes of the first and second reheater tube bundles after first being dried by the panels of a moisture separator. It emerges from the shell of the reheater dried and heated. In the reheater tube bundles saturated steam at temperatures and pressures substantially higher than the shellside steam transfers heat to the shellside steam by condensation within the tubes. The steam in the second stage tube bundle is at a temperature and pressure that is substantially higher than that of the steam in the first stage tube bundle and is heating shellside steam at a higher temperature than the shellside inlet steam to the first stage tube bundle. A greater quantity of tubeside steam than is theoretically necessary is passed through the tube bundles.

Abstract: There is disclosed an air cooled condenser comprising a tube bundle having rows of tubes arranged to be successively contacted by cooling air, an inlet header at one end of the bundle connected to the tubes of one of the outermost rows and the row adjacent thereto, an outlet header at the one end of the bundle connected to the tubes of the other outermost row and the row adjacent thereto, and means at the other end of the bundle connecting the tubes of the outermost rows to one another and the tubes of the adjacent rows to one another.

Abstract: A base housing section, a plurality of intermediate housing sections, and a head housing section are stacked one above the other in a gas-tight but readily removable manner, to form a hollow housing. The base housing section and head housing section are equipped with gas connections so that a gas from a coke plant may be circulated through the hollow housing. Each intermediate housing section has extending transversely across the interior thereof at least one group of a plurality of heat exchange tubes. Cooling fluid connection means are connected to the uppermost and lowermost groups of tubes for the passage therethrough of a cooling fluid. Adjacent ends of adjacent groups of the tubes are connected such that the heat exchange fluid passes through all of the tubes of the intermediate housing sections in a substantially sinusoidal manner.

Abstract: Improved tube bundle-type heat exchanger comprising at least one tube base cast from a plastic material, such as poly laurin lactam, with a tube bundle cast in the tube base. Several optional features are also disclosed.

Abstract: A heat exchange vessel has a plurality of tubes disposed therein. A tube sheet section in the vessel has a plurality of ports formed therein for receiving one end of each of said tubes, and at least one channel is formed in said first tube sheet section for communicating with said ports. An additional tube sheet section disposed in said vessel has a plurality of ports formed therein for receiving the other ends of said tubes and at least one channel formed in said additional tube sheet section is provided for communicating with said latter ports. Means is provided for introducing a heat exchange fluid to the channel associated with one of said tube sheet sections for passing through its respective ports through said tubes. Likewise means is provided for collecting the fluid from the channel associated with the other tube sheet section for passing the fluid externally of the vessel.

Abstract: A compact yet efficient auxiliary transmission oil cooler of simple design and adapted to be installed within the engine coolant hose of a vehicle. The oil cooler consists of two basic parts. The first part is an outer tubular sleeve that serves as a housing and has opposite open ends adapted to be attached at its ends to a radiator hose for passage of coolant through the tube. The second part is the oil passage means to accomplish heat transfer to the coolant and it consists of a tubular member having a plurality of generally parallel runs or passes extending inside the coolant hose.

Abstract: A tubesheet in which an integral annular concentric support formed on a tubular rim, holds a tube plate in spaced relation to the rim, so as to allow the support to deflect during transient temperature and pressure changes without becoming overstressed.

Abstract: A heat exchanger for flue gas in which water tubes are inserted through the flue wall into the flue from the exterior thereof so as to be adjustable in the depth of insertion. Each of the water tubes has a structure comprising an inner water feed tube and an outer recovering tube for recovery of the waste heat by returning the water from the water feed tube to generate steam by heat transferring from the waste gas passing through the flue. Headers are provided at each exterior top of the feed water tubes and recovering tubes and are connected respectively to a water-steam drum through movable connecting tubes. The headers are movable in co-operation with driving means provided at the exterior of the flue so as to adjust the heating surface of the water tubes inserted into the flue by the action of the driving means.

Abstract: An evaporator including a side plate formed with a number of openings each having rigidly secured therein the upper end portion of one of a number of U-shaped refrigerant tubes, a cover plate attached to the upper surface of the side plate and formed, by recessing its inner surface, with a plurality of bend sections each intercommunicating the upper end portions of the two tubes of the adjacent U-shaped refrigerant tubes forming a set, a distributor section for supplying a suitable refrigerant to refrigerant passages provided by the U-shaped tubes and the bend sections, a manifold section for collecting the refrigerant from the refrigerant passages and discharging same therefrom, and an expansion valve section extending between the distributor section and the manifold section in a manner to intercommunicate the two sections, and an expansion valve assembly mounted in the expansion valve section.

Abstract: The feedwater heater of this invention comprises a plurality of heating tubes arranged in U form, with feedwater being passed therethrough, a feedwater inlet chamber having a feedwater inlet for introducing feedwater thereinto and a tube plate assembling the ends of said heating tubes and also having formed therein a feedwater reservoir, a feedwater outlet chamber having a feedwater outlet for discharging the heated feedwater and a tube plate assembling the other ends of said heating tubes and also having formed therein a feedwater reservoir, a first cylindrical body or shell having disposed therein a tube nest consisting of the U-formed heating tube portions positioned on one side as well as support plates holding said heating tubes in position, said cylindrical body having its one end communicated with said feedwater outlet chamber and also provided with a hot steam inlet for introducing hot steam that serves as the feedwater heating source, a second cylndrical body or shell having disposed therein a tube n

Abstract: In a heat exchanger for condensing a gas by passage through vertically spaced heat exchange tubes, flooding of the lower tubes is prevented. A return flow header includes nested baffles which define isolated flow channels connecting one or more predetermined upper heat exchange tubes with a single predetermined lower heat exchange tube. This prevents the condensed liquid in the header from completely filling the lowermost tube or tubes. Removable plugs or plates permit access to the inside of the heat exchange tubes for cleaning.

Abstract: A heat exchange vessel has a plurality of tubes disposed therein. A tube sheet section in the vessel has a plurality of ports formed therein for receiving one end of each of said tubes, and at least one channel is formed in said first tube sheet section for communicating with said ports. An additional tube sheet section disposed in said vessel has a plurality of ports formed therein for receiving the other ends of said tubes and at least one channel formed in said additional tube sheet section is provided for communicating with said latter ports. Means is provided for introducing a heat exchange fluid to the channel associated with one of said tube sheet sections for passing through its respective ports through said tubes. Likewise means is provided for collecting the fluid from the channel associated with the other tube sheet section for passing the fluid externally of the vessel.

Abstract: The practical large scale use of solar energy depends primarily upon the first cost of solar collectors per unit area being greatly reduced below known designs without loss of efficiency. The subject invention introduces a method of making flat plate solar collectors for heating liquid in which the use of metal and glass is almost totally eliminated, weight is greatly reduced, and assembly of the components is done at the site from rolls of flexible materials in lengths to fit the available space. While materials of much lower thermal conductivity than metal are used, the increased surface area and close spacing of liquid tubes provided by employing this invention more than make up for the lower conductivity. Standard insulation board covered with roofing cement and other adhesives serves as the base and frame to hold small synthetic rubber tubes, headers, and flexible cover material made of transparent fiberglass reinforced plastic.

Abstract: A control device regulating flow rate of a two-phase mixture of steam and water through a vent conduit in fluid communication with the exit from the fourth pass of a four-pass heat exchanger and a low pressure source. The heat exchanger conducts a first fluid vapor through the first and second tube side passes while condensing a portion of the first fluid vapor therein and separating the resulting mixture into condensate and vapor portions at the exit of the second pass. The separated first fluid vapor is then routed through the third and fourth passes where additional condensation of first fluid vapor takes place. A high ratio of first fluid vapor to first fluid condensate is maintained in all four passes to prevent tube failure due to cyclic tube temperatures resulting from alternate flooding and draining of the tubes' interior. The first fluid exiting from the fourth pass is a two-phase mixture of vapor and condensate which must both be vented to a lower pressure source.

Abstract: In a heater head for a hot gas engine the connection between the regenerator tops and the cylinder tops consists of pipes of equal shape and dimensions. The pipes are shaped partly as involutes on a cone partly as straight tubes on a cylinder surface to ensure uniform gaps between them.

Abstract: A heat exchanger for central heating in which water to be heated passes through a circular array of parallel tubes. Hot gas passes over the outside of the tubes and heats the water up. Metal wire interlaces the tubes and helps conduction heat from the gas to the water. Preferably the arrangement of tubes and wires is metal coated to further help the heat conduction.

Abstract: The end of the heat exchanger into which the vaporized heat-containing medium enters is divided into at least three chambers by partitions. The U-shaped tubes which pass the heat-containing medium into a heat exchange relation with a medium to be heated connect the three chambers sequentially in the flow path of the heat-containing medium but with a diminishing number of tubes connecting each sequential pair of chambers. The intermediate chambers allow the condensate formed by the heat-containing medium to be separated from the remaining vapor prior to passage of the vaporized medium into the next set of tubes.

Abstract: A cross-current pipe heat-exchanger for gases, especially for a gas turbine installation, with at least one collective space for the heat-absorbing gas and a bundle of pipes adjoining a wall of the collective space and formed of a large number of individual pipes fastened in the wall and conductively connected with the collective space; the gas stream which gives off heat thereby flows transversely through the pipe bundle; a number of pipes in the pipe bundle arranged on the inlet side are constructed relatively thick-walled, at least within the area of their fastening in the wall; preferably these thick-walled pipes have a wall thickness of about 50 to 100% of the wall thickness of the wall portion forming the adjacent collective space.

Abstract: An air heater comprising a pipe assembly having an intake opening and an outlet opening which is horizontally supported by a stand and protected by a removable, open-topped sleeving. The pipe assembly is a series of internally interconnected pipes which provides a continuous air flow passageway from the intake opening to the outlet opening. The pipe assembly is heated by a small fire inside the sleeving while a pump forces cold air into the intake opening. As the pumped, cold air circulates through the heated pipe assembly, the air becomes heated, and hot air is expelled at the outlet opening.

Abstract: A finned tube heat exchanger for isolating sublimates, especially phthalic anhydride, in which the finned tubes arranged in parallel alongside one another and above one another and connected by headers and tube bends permit flow through them successively in the first, then the third, then the second and then the fourth row, and that the transverse fins are arranged in rows staggered laterally in opposite directions by an amount corresponding to from half the spacing to the whole spacing between adjacent fin edges.

Abstract: A heat exchanger comprising an A or V frame with finned tubes running parallel with the apex of the V in which the apex of the frame is filled with tubes rather than being blanked off thus increasing the available heat-exchange area. Also an assembly of such heat exchangers arranged side by side to have a zig-zag section and in which all apices of the section are tubed. An assembly or assemblies of such heat exchangers may be arranged in a natural draught tower or have fan means associated therewith.

Abstract: An improved shell and tube heat exchanger is described wherein power steam for driving a turbine is reheated between successive stages of the turbine. The power steam passing through the shell is heated by heating steam passing through heating tubes, the exchanger being of the type having steam distribution elements including a main inlet header adapted to distribute heating steam to the heating tubes, a main outlet header located to collect the heating steam from the heating tubes, a plurality of pairs of inlet and outlet subheaders, feeder tubes for coupling each of the inlet and outlet subheaders to the main inlet header and main outlet header respectively, and heating tubes coupling the inlet and outlet subheaders of each pair.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine cooling system is disclosed which utilizes a coolant having a greater viscosity and film strength than water. Heat is transferred from the coolant as it flows through a radiator assembly. The coolant is directed through multiple heat transfer passes defined by core tubes and headers of the radiator with the coolant moving through the core tubes of each pass at a flow velocity which insures a Reynolds number of no less than 5000. The flow velocity is substantially reduced in a header communicating the core tubes of successive heat transfer passes so that a region of substantially quiescent coolant is produced in the header. Air or gas in the coolant is collected and expelled from the header adjacent the quiescent coolant region.