Demister evaporator displacement array

Abstract

An evaporator is for a heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVACR) system and includes a shell with an internal space, tubes for a process fluid extending through the internal space, and a displacement array disposed in the internal space. The displacement array includes baffles, demisters, and channels that extend through the displacement array. Each channel includes a demister portion and a baffle portion configured to discharge gaseous working fluid into the demister portion shaped to remove entrained liquid working fluid. A method for operating an evaporator includes directing working fluid into an internal space of a shell, and heating, with working fluid flowing though tubes, the working fluid within channels of a displacement array to generate gaseous working fluid. The method further includes directing gaseous working fluid from a baffle portion through a demister portion in each channel to remove entrained liquid working fluid.

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