Stacked panel heat exchanger for air cooled industrial steam condenser
AssigneeEvapco, Inc.
InventorsMark Huber, Jean-Pierre Libert
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Abstract
A stacked panel tube bundle for an air cooled steam condenser having two sets of condensing tubes, one set arranged above the other, the first (lower) set of tubes in direct fluid communication with a combined steam delivery/condensate collection manifold at a bottom end and in indirect fluid communication with a non-condensable collection manifold via an L-shaped extension member; the second (upper) set of tubes in direct fluid communication with the non-condensable collection manifold at the top, and in indirect fluid communication with the combined steam delivery/condensate collection manifold via an L-shaped extension member.
Claims9
A heat exchange tube bundle comprising:
- a first set of flat finned tubes arranged in a single row parallel to one-another;
- a second set of flat finned tubes arranged in a single row parallel to one-another, above said first set of flat finned tubes;
- a first conduit, having a first conduit vertical segment and a first conduit horizontal segment, said first conduit vertical segment and said first conduit horizontal segment in fluid communication with one-another;
- a bottom of said first conduit vertical segment in fluid communication with a bottom manifold;
- a top of said first conduit horizontal segment in fluid communication with bottoms of said second set of flat finned tubes;
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- a second conduit, having a second conduit horizontal segment and a second conduit vertical segment, said second conduit horizontal segment and said second conduit vertical segment in fluid communication with one-another;
- a bottom of said second conduit horizontal segment in fluid communication with tops of said first set of flat finned tubes;
- a top of said second conduit vertical segment in fluid communication with a top manifold;
- said second set of flat finned tubes separated from said first set of flat finned tubes by said first conduit horizontal segment and said second conduit horizontal segment;
- said first conduit horizontal segment located above said second conduit horizontal segment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.