Scraped surface heat exchanger
AssigneeVan den Bergh Foods Co., Division of Conopco, Inc.
InventorAlbertus G. Hendriks
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Abstract
Scraped surface heat exchanger, the shape of the chamber thereof and the positioning and direction of feed and discharge conduits opening into said chamber being such that, on feeding a liquid through these conduits and the chamber, the flow of said liquid will cover the entire chamber.
Claims8
A scraped surface heat exchanger having a cylindrical chamber surrounded by heat-exchanging means, at least one feed conduit means and at least one discharge conduit means for feeding and discharging a product to be treated in the heat exchanging means and a rotor provided with scraper elements rotatably arranged in said chamber, wherein the improvement comprises:
- arranging the feed conduit means and the discharge conduit means tangentially relative to the cylindrical chamber whereby fluid passing through the chamber from the feed conduit means and out the discharge conduit means is rotated to form a helical flow in the chamber and the helical flow covers the entire chamber.
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