Method of making a heat exchange component using wire mesh screens
AssigneeBrayton Energy Canada, Inc.
InventorsAntoine Corbeil, Gregoire Berube, Michel Houde, Eric Matte
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Abstract
A heat exchanger component is made by forming a wafer having a pair of opposed outer major faces with interstices between them from a stack of wire mesh screens. The outer major surfaces of the wafer are sealed by depositing a metal coating on them. The deposited metal coatings define between them a flow path for a heat exchange fluid extending through the interstices of the wafer.
Claims19
A method of making a heat exchange component, comprising:
- compressing together a stack of woven wire mesh screens;
- dicing the stack in a plane perpendicular to a plane of the individual screens to form a wafer having a pair of opposed outer major faces with interstices between them;
- and
- sealing the outer major faces of the wafer by depositing a metal coating thereon, the deposited metal coatings defining between them a flow path for a heat exchange fluid extending through the interstices of the wafer.
A method of making a heat exchanger, comprising:
- compressing together a stack of woven wire mesh screens;
- dicing the stack in a plane perpendicular to a plane of the individual screens to form a wafer having a pair of opposed outer major faces with interstices between them;
- and
- sealing the outer major faces of the wafer by depositing a metal coating thereon, the deposited metal coatings defining between them a first flow path for a first heat exchange fluid extending through the interstices of the wafer;
- attaching fins to each of the metal coatings;
- providing a header manifold at opposite ends of the wafer to deliver and collect the first heat exchange fluid;
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- providing a second flow path for a second heat exchange fluid between the heat exchange fins.
A turbine stator comprising a turbine vane made of a heat exchange component, the heat exchange component comprising:
- a wafer comprising a slice of a stack of woven wire mesh screens in a plane perpendicular to a plane of the stack and having a pair of opposed outer major faces with interstices between them;
- and
- a metal coating deposited on each of the outer major faces of the wafer to confine a flow path for a heat exchange fluid extending through the interstices of the wafer between the metal coatings.
A heat exchanger comprising:
- a wafer comprising a slice of a stack of woven wire mesh screens in a plane perpendicular to a plane of the stack and having a pair of opposed outer major faces with interstices between them;
- and
- a metal coating deposited on each of the outer major faces of the wafer to confine a flow path for a first heat exchange fluid extending through the interstices of the wafer between the metal coatings;
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- cooling fins on the metal coating defining between them a flow path for a second heat exchange fluid.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.