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US 2019/0154351 A1Published application
Shear flow condenser
AssigneeHamilton Sundstrand Corporation
InventorRobert Scott Downing
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Abstract
A plate-fin condenser includes a plate body defining an interior channel having a fluid inlet, a first interior channel section having a first cross-sectional area in fluid communication with the inlet, a second interior channel section downstream of the first interior channel section, and a fluid outlet in fluid communication with the converging interior channel. The second interior channel section has a second cross-sectional area that is smaller than the first cross-sectional area.
Claims4
A method of condensing a fluid, comprising:
- increasing a velocity of a working fluid within an interior channel of a plate condenser between a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet thereof while condensing the working fluid within the interior channel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.