Method and Apparatus for Condensing Charges of Vapor
AssigneeSolutherm B.V.
InventorsPieter Jellema, Jelle Luutzen Nijdam
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Abstract
A method for condensing on a heat buffer body in a condenser condensable components of charges of vapor intermittently released from a process vessel, wherein, while a part of a vapor charge is supplied directly to the heat buffer body for condensation, another part of the vapor charge is first supplied to a vapor buffer space for buffering, and wherein the other part of the vapor charge is supplied to the heat buffer body only after at least partial condensing of the first part of the vapor charge. The invention also concerns an apparatus for condensing on a heat buffer body in a condenser condensable components of charges of vapor intermittently released from a process vessel.
Claims35
A method for condensing on a heat buffer body in a condenser housing condensable components of charges of vapor intermittently released from a process vessel, the method comprising:
- transporting a first part of a vapor charge directly to the heat buffer body for condensation thereon, transporting a second part of the vapor charge to a vapor buffer space for volume buffering, providing fluid communication between the condenser housing and the vapor buffer space and transporting the second part of the vapor charge downwardly from the vapor buffer space to the heat buffer body only after at least partial condensing of the first part of the vapor charge.
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An apparatus for condensing condensable components of charges of vapor intermittently released from a process vessel, the apparatus comprising:
- a condenser housing provided with a heat buffer body disposed therein for condensing on the heat buffer body the condensable components of the released vapor charges;
- a supply for transporting therethrough the released vapor charges from the process vessel to the heat buffer body;
- a vapor buffer space bounded by a casing, at least partly above the heat buffer body, which is configured for, while a first part of a released vapor charge is condensing in the condenser, therein collecting a second part of the vapor charge, the vapor buffer space in fluid communication with the condenser and the heat buffer body disposed therein for supplying the second part of the vapor charge downwardly to the heat buffer body after the first part of the vapor charge has at least partly condensed thereon.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.