Heat exchanger with controls therefor
AssigneeSea Solar Power
InventorJ. Hilbert Anderson
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Abstract
A heat exchanger fabricated from a plurality of plates arranged in spaced parallel relation with one another as a stack or assembly that is positioned between pressure plates. The stack of plates are arranged to define fluid and vapor passages with the entire assembly, including cover members, being held together by suitable clamp plates. A flow control element is positioned in the exchanger to control the flow of the incoming liquid, as well as any recirculating liquid, in the delivery of said liquid to the boiling passages.
Claims20
A boiler module or unit comprising a heat exchanger having a plurality of plates arranged in pairs in vertical planes and in spaced parallel relation to one another between a pair of pressure plates, each pair of plates defining a passageway therebetween and each pair of plates defining a passage between adjacent pairs of plates, cover members for the top and the bottom of said plates, said cover members terminating in offset projection, fastening means securing said projections to one another in vertical compression and fastening means carried by said projections and engaging said pressure plates for forcing said plates towards one another in horizontal compression.
A boiler module or unit comprising a plurality of heat exchangers stacked on top of each other as a unitary vertical assembly, each heat exchanger having a plurality of plates arranged in pairs in vertical planes and in spaced parallel relation to one another between a plurality of pressure plates, each pair of plates defining a passageway therebetween and each pair of plates defining a passage between adjacent pairs of plates, a cover member for the top of the uppermost heat exchanger of said stack, a cover member for the bottom of the lowermost heat exchanger of said stack, a cover member for the bottom of each remaining heat exchanger of said stack with said bottom cover constituting top covers for each subjacent heat exchanger of said stack, said top cover and said bottom cover and each intermediate bottom cover terminating in offset projections, fastening means securing said projections to one another in vertical compression and fastening means carried by said projections and engaging said pressure plates for forcing said plates towards one another in horizontal compression contemporaneous with retaining each heat exchanger in an assembled condition.
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