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US 5,518,067 AGranted
Scraped surface heat exchanger
AssigneeCrown Chemtech Limited
InventorsDavid G. Finch, Nicholas S. Hall-Taylor
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AssigneeCrown Chemtech Limited
InventorsDavid G. Finch, Nicholas S. Hall-Taylor
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A scraped surface heat exchanger comprises a pair of concentric heat exchange tubes. A heat exchange medium passes through the annular chamber between the tubes and a fluid, in particular one whose viscosity increases as it passes through the heat exchanger and whose temperature is to be modified by heat exchange with the heat exchange medium in the annular chamber, passes through the inner of the tubes. A helical scraper blade arrangement extends along the length of the shaft within the inner chamber. The scraper blade arrangement comprises one or more thin plastics or metal blades set within a helical slot which is angled against the direction of flow of the fluid medium and makes with the internal surface of the inner tube a contact sufficient to allow the blade arrangement to rotate within the inner tube when conveying through it the fluid whose temperature is to be modified.
A scraped surface heat exchanger comprising a pair of concentric heat exchanger tubes with a scraper blade-carrying shaft being disposed axially within the inner of the tubes and adapted for connection to rotational drive means, inlet and outlet means being provided to both a chamber defined by the inner tube and to an annular chamber formed between the two tubes, in which heat exchanger a helical scraper blade arrangement extends along the length of the shaft within the inner chamber, which blade arrangement includes a helical slot angled against the direction of flow of the fluid medium provided on said shaft and in which is set thin strip-form metal or plastics material which presses against the internal surface of the inner tube with a contact sufficient to allow the shaft to rotate within the inner tube when the blade arrangement is conveying through the inner tube a fluid medium to undergo heat exchange with a heat exchange medium in the outer chamber.
A method of effecting heat exchange between a heat exchange medium and a medium which is to undergo heat exchange with such medium in a heat exchanger under conditions such that the latter medium will increase in viscosity as it passes through the heat exchanger, which comprises conveying the latter medium through the interior of the inner of a pair of concentric tubes between which flows a heat exchange medium, under the action of a rotating helical scraper blade arrangement against one surface of which the fluid medium presses, said one surface being provided by thin strip-form metal or plastics material set in a helical slot on a shaft carrying the blade arrangement, the slot being angled against the direction of flow of the fluid medium and said thin strip-form metal or plastics material making intimate contact with the inner wall surface of the inner of the concentric tubes.
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