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US 10,557,669 B2Granted
Countercurrent heat exchanger/reactor
AssigneeThar Energy LLC
InventorsLalit Chordia, John C. Davis
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Abstract
Counter-flow heat exchanger is constructed with plenums at either end that separate the opposing fluids, the channels of which are arrayed in a checkerboard patterns, such that any given channel is surrounded by channels of opposing streams on four sides—laterally on both sides and vertically above and below.
Claims3
A method of heat transfer between a first fluid stream and a second fluid stream in a countercurrent single pass heat exchanger, the method comprising:
- flowing the first fluid stream and the second fluid stream in a bundle of channels such that the first and second fluid streams flow countercurrently to each other to exchange heat within an interior region of the bundle along a longitudinal axis of the bundle in four directions with respect to an individual channel without mixing the first and second fluid streams, the four directions comprising above the individual channel, below the individual channel, and along at least a portion of each lateral side of the individual channel;
- collecting the first fluid stream in a first fluid receiving member, the second fluid stream being confined within a plurality of channels extending through the first fluid receiving member to separate the first and second fluids;
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- collecting the second fluid stream in a second fluid receiving member.
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