Advanced large scale field-erected air cooled industrial steam condenser
AssigneeEvapco, Inc.
InventorsThomas W. Bugler, Jean-Pierre Libert, Mark Huber
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Abstract
A large scale field erected air cooled industrial steam condenser. A bottom bonnet runs along the bottom length of the heat exchanger bundle for delivering steam to the bottom end of the condenser tubes and for receiving condensate formed in those same tubes. The tops of the tubes are connected to a top bonnet. Uncondensed steam and non-condensables flow into the top bonnet from the condenser tubes. Each cell of the ACC is fed by steam distribution manifold suspended from and directly below the bundle support framework.
Claims12
A large scale field erected air cooled industrial steam condenser connected to an industrial steam producing facility, comprising:
- a single or plurality of condenser section streets, each condenser section street comprising a row of condenser section cells, each cell comprising a single fan drawing air through a plurality of heat exchanger bundles, and each heat exchanger bundle having a longitudinal axis and a transverse axis perpendicular to its longitudinal axis,
- each heat exchanger bundle comprising a secondary condenser, a primary condenser section and a top bonnet connected to and in fluid communication with a top end of each tube in said secondary condenser section and said primary condenser sections, a primary bottom bonnet connected to and in fluid communication with a bottom end of each tube in said primary condenser sections, an internal secondary chamber inside the bottom bonnet connected to and in fluid communication with a bottom end of each tube in said secondary condenser section, said secondary bottom bonnet connected to a top side of said primary bottom bonnet, each said primary bottom bonnet having a single stem inlet;
- each condenser section cell comprising an upper steam distribution manifold suspended from and directly adjacent a bottom side of said heat exchanger bundles arranged along an axis that is perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of said heat exchanger bundles at a midpoint of said heat exchanger bundles, said upper steam distribution manifold comprising a cylinder closed at both ends having at its top surface a plurality of connections adapted to connect to said primary bottom bonnet inlets, and having at a bottom surface a single connection to a steam riser.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.