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US 4,398,595 AGranted
Vortex generators
AssigneePhillips Petroleum Company
InventorWilliam M. Small
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Abstract
The heat transfer coefficient of a tube bundle is improved by providing the bundle with at least one transverse vortex generating member.
Claims11
Apparatus comprising:
- (a). a plurality of parallel tubes arranged to form at least a first and second plurality of parallel tube rows with lanes between adjacent tube rows;
- (b). a ring surrounding said plurality of tubes in a plane about normal to said plurality of tubes;
- (c). a plurality of non-supportive vortex generators affixed to and spaced across said ring, forming chords across a first end of said ring, each of said plurality of non-supportive vortex generators extending between two different adjacent tube rows of said first plurality of parallel tube rows;
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- (d). support means cooperating with the plurality of parallel tubes in the first and the second plurality of parallel tube rows to support the tubes in the first and second plurality of parallel tube rows.
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