US 3,942,482 AGranted

Bayonet tube steam generator

AssigneeFoster Wheeler Energy Corporation

InventorsRobert O. Barratt, John Polcer, Richard James Swift

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Abstract

Water is flowed through bayonet tubes where it is heated to steam which is superheated in other bayonet tubes all the bayonet tubes extending from a single tube sheet. Heated water enters the inner tube of a bayonet tube assembly so that it is heated in the annulus between the inner tube and its associated outer tube and then flows into the annular space between the inner and outer tube of the second bayonet tube assembly so that it is is heated to steam to leave by the inner tube of the second bayonet tube assembly to then flow into the annular space between the inner and outer tubes of the third bayonet tube assembly to be superheated and leave the third bayonet assembly by the inner tube thereof, the flow between one or more of the bayonet tube assemblies being connected by connecting tubes which connect with thermal sleeves covering the inner tubes of the bayonet tube assemblies below the single tube sheet.

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Dependent claims

A helium heated steam generator comprising:

an outer shell;
a helium intake in said outer shell;
a helium exhaust in said outer shell;
a tube sheet in said outer shell;
an economizer bayonet tube assembly extending upward from said tube sheet;
an evaporator bayonet tube assembly extending upward from said tube sheet;
a superheater bayonet tube assembly extending upward from said tube sheet;
each of said bayonet tube assemblies having an inner tube and a coaxial outer tube of larger diameter, said outer tubes having a closed upper end with said inner tubes extending below the bottoms of said outer tubes, said outer tubes and said inner tubes being joined together at the bottoms of said outer tubes;
a connecting pipe for connecting the space between the inner and outer tubes of said economizer bayonet tube assembly with the space between said inner and outer tubes of said evaporator bayonet tube assembly;
another connecting pipe for connecting the space within the inner tube of said evaporator bayonet tube assembly with the space between the inner and outer tubes of said superheater bayonet tube assembly;
a feedwater lead for supplying feedwater to said economizer bayonet tube assembly;
and
a steam outlet in said shell connected with the inner tube of said superheater bayonet tube assembly.

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