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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7954542 | Heat exchanger Heat exchanger which mainly consists of a housing with a bottom, an upper wall and side walls, whereby onto two pairs of opposite side walls, the front wall and the back wall respectively, are connected a supply and a discharge for the gas to be cooled, and whereby ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7669643 | Plate heat exchanger device and a heat exchanger plate A device, including a heat exchanger plate and a plate package (2) of heat exchanger plates (1) which are provided beside each other to form a plate interspace between adjacent plates. The plate interspaces form, in an alternating order, first passages... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7610952 | Steam condenser with two-pass tube nest layout A compact two-pass steam condenser with at least one improved tube nest configuration, having, a steam inlet through which steam is received; at least one tube nest in two distinct bundles, the top and the bottom bundle each have a plurality of cooling tubes arrange... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7481264 | Steam condenser A steam condenser which condenses steam exhausted from a steam turbine. Heat transfer tubes are arrayed below the steam turbine inside the container. Cooling medium flows inside the heat transfer tubes. The heat transfer tubes extend horizontally, and include at lea... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7370694 | Condenser Vertical sectional shapes of portions in which condenser tubes of the upper tube bundle 51 and the lower tube bundle 52 are arranged, in vertical sections of the upper tube bundle 51 and the lower tube bundle 52, are formed to be approxim... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7350560 | Heat exchangers The invention concerns a heat exchanger with a large number of U-shaped tubes (3), preferably brought together to form at least one tubular bundle and arranged in a housing 2, and several partitions (4) subdividing the housing (2) into se... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7284380 | Method for heat energy transmission The invention relates to a method for heat energy transmission between a gaseous, warmer medium on one hand and a liquid, colder medium on the other hand. In order to provide an improved method for heat energy transmission, the invention suggests a method in which t... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7237406 | Condenser/separator and method A condenser (10) and method for separating a fluid flow is provided. The condenser (10) maybe used for separating a cathode exhaust flow (60) into a condensed liquid (86) and a non-condensed gas (70). The condenser (10) incl... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7124580 | Sub-zero condensation vacuum system A pre-condenser is provided for condensation of water at sub-zero degree Celsius temperatures. A brine solution is cooled below 0 degrees Celsius and delivered to the pre-condenser. The brine solution contacts the vapors and gases from a scrubber, thereby condensing... | 10/24/2006 |
| 6953083 | Condenser A condenser is provided that makes a liquid droplet of a liquid phase medium drop effectively, the liquid phase medium residing in a lower end opening of a medium passage of the condenser, thereby preventing any degradation in the performance of the condenser. In th... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6296049 | Condenser A condenser including a steam cooling tube bundle having a number of steam cooling tubes, an enclosure enclosing a central space formed at an inside of the steam cooling tube bundle, an air cooling tube bundle disposed in the enclosure and having a number... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6276442 | Combined condenser/heat exchanger A combined steam condenser and liquid-to-liquid heat exchanger has an outer shell forming an enclosure within which a first plurality of tubes are supported at opposite ends by tube sheets to provide a steam condenser. Within the outer shell an inner shel... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6269867 | Condenser and power plant A steam condenser according to the present invention has a tube nest which has a massed region of cooling tubes and a plurality of tube bundles with flow passages. A noncondensable gas extracting tube is arranged among the cooling tubes in the massed regi... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6189338 | Brazed-plates condenser and its application to double air-distillation columns In this condenser in which the fluid as it condenses flows downward, in cross section, that part of the outlet box (18) which lies between its lowermost point (28) and the point (31) of a liquid-outlet pipe (30; 35) connected to this box, lies completely ... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6095238 | Feed water heater A feed water heater has a longitudinally cylindrical body comprising a cylindrical shell portion constituting a main body portion of a feed water heater and a water box-shaped chamber operatively connected to the cylindrical shell portion and partitioned ... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6041852 | Condenser The present invention provides a condenser which is free from pressure loss of air stream due to an air exhaust pipe and loss of thermal energy, and which is compact. In the condenser according to the present invention, deflector plates 27b are disposed i... | 03/28/2000 |
| 5983996 | Steam condenser A steam condenser has a perforated plate extending transversely in a housing, a pipe extending upwardly from an opening in the plate and having openings in its upper portion, at least one steam inlet, and a deflector adjacent to said inlet extending inwar... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5960867 | Condenser and power plant A tube nest of a compact condenser has flow passages, tube bundles and a noncondensable gas extracting opening. The tube nest is installed in a vessel having a bottom surface. The tube nest is spaced from the bottom surface and the side walls of the vesse... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5941301 | Steam condenser In a steam condenser which is set up in an on-floor arrangement and in which the steam is condensed on tubes through which cooling water flows and which are combined in separate banks, the tubes of a bank arranged in rows enclosing a hollow space, a coole... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5896918 | Heat exchanger tube A heat exchanger tube for condensing steam with the use of cooling air includes an upper steam supply and a lower condensate discharge. The heat exchanger tube has an elongated cross-section in the flow direction of the transversely flowing cooling air. T... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5810074 | Serial heat exchanger and cascade circuitry A serial heat exchanger. The heat exchanger comprises a serial passage extending from an inlet to an outlet and a plurality of vapor liquid separators extracting vapor from the passage.... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5794686 | Steam condenser In a steam condenser in which the steam is condensed on tubes (13) through which cooling water flows and which are combined in separate banks (20), each bank (20) being subdivided into compartments (10) by supporting plates (5) arranged perpendicularly to... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5667005 | Heat exchanging unit and heat exchanging apparatus A heat exchanging unit is provided that includes a closed vessel separated into first and second compartments by a vertical partition plate thereby leaving a passage above the vertical partition plate. The first compartment has a cooling medium inlet pipe... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5465784 | Steam condenser A steam condenser wherein the steam is precipitated on tubes (13), through which cooling water flows and which are gathered into separate bundles. Each bundle is divided into compartments by support plates, the support plates being arranged perpendicularl... | 11/14/1995 |
| 5172760 | Heat exchange apparatus for separating a resin phase from a solvent solution containing a solvent, demetallized oil and a resin A heat-exchange apparatus for separating a resin phase from a solvent solution containing a solvent, demetallized oil and resin which comprises: (a) at least one generally vertically positioned heat-exchange surface; (b) a means for directing the flow of ... | 12/22/1992 |
| 5154227 | Jet condenser A jet condenser of the type comprising a water chamber in a mixing chamber (24) and an after-cooler (52), wherein the water chamber is subdivided in a narrower upper water chamber portion (38a) and a broader lower water chamber portion (39b). The after-co... | 10/13/1992 |
| 5139083 | Air cooled vacuum steam condenser with flow-equalized mini-bundles There is disclosed a new and improved single-row, two-pass steam condensing bundle used for condensing steam in air-cooled vacuum steam condensers in power plant applications and the like. The new bundle is divided into a plurality of identically built mi... | 08/18/1992 |
| 5033541 | Double pass tandem cooling aerosol condenser A double pass tandem cooling aerosol condenser apparatus for receiving aerosol from a liquid solution for a specimen sample which has been prepared for injection into an inductively coupled plasma associated with an emission spectra or mass spectrometer c... | 07/23/1991 |
| 5018572 | Steam condenser In a steam condenser erected on-floor, in which the steam is precipitated on pipes through which cooling water flows and which are combined into separate clusters (2), the pipes of a cluster, which are arranged in rows, enclosing a cavity (13), a cooler (... | 05/28/1991 |
| 4967833 | Steam condenser In a steam condenser in which the steam is condensed on tubes which are grouped together in separate nests (2) and through which cooling water flows, the tubes, arranged in rows, of a nest enclosing a hollow space (13), a cooler (14) for the non-condensab... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4926931 | Freeze protected, air-cooled vacuum steam condensers An improved steam power system comprising a turbine for converting steam energy into mechanical energy upon expansion of steam therein, a boiler for generating steam to be fed to the turbine, and a conduit arrangement coupling the boiler to the turbine in... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4905474 | Air-cooled vacuum steam condenser An improved air-cooled vacuum steam condenser in a steam turbine cycle comprising a turbine for generating mechanical power, a boiler for generating steam, a conduit arrangement coupling the boiler to the turbine and then another conduit arrangement coupl... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4878535 | Selective condensation apparatus Heating elements formed by joining a pair of plates around most of their peripheries are provided with an internal partition which separates upper and lower internal spaces within the element so that separate streams of condensate are discharged from the ... | 11/07/1989 |
| 4858564 | Feedwater heater with improved steam distribution A feedwater heater in which a bundle of tubes is disposed in a vessel in the flow path of steam through the vessel. Feedwater is introduced into the tubes for passing in a heat exchange relation with the steam to condense at least a portion of the steam a... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4765398 | Vaporization of liquids Two immiscible liquids are vaporized in heat exchanger tubes in a manner such that each tube receives both liquids and neither liquid is completely vaporized in the tubes.... | 08/23/1988 |
| 4726418 | Vacuum condensor with condensate trap A vacuum condensor with a condensate trap consisting of a horizontal cylindrical housing with a neck has two bottoms which are closed by covers, and inside the housing there are mounted heat-exchange bodies. Externally of the housing there are connected a... | 02/23/1988 |
| 4598767 | Multiple pressure condenser for steam turbines, with heating devices for suppressing condensate overcooling A multiple pressure condenser has heating devices for the overcooled parts of the condensate, which devices are accommodated alone or preferably in pairs in one or more of the condenser parts. The heating devices have perforated droplet plates located one... | 07/08/1986 |
| 4577682 | Heat exchanger Heat exchange apparatus comprises a generally cylindrical tank having an inlet port for entry of gas and an outlet port for exit of the gas after it is cooled, and an annular bundle of tubes disposed within the tank. The tank includes a cylindrical side w... | 03/25/1986 |
| 4550775 | Compressor intercooler A heat exchanger of the shell and tube type particularly suitable as an intercooler between compression stages of a compressor is disclosed. The heat exchanger includes a generally cylindrical shell having first and second coil banks disposed therein. The... | 11/05/1985 |
| 4541366 | Feed water preheater In a feed water preheater of horizontal type with an integrated desuperheater, the last deflection chamber of the desuperheater is provided with lateral steam outlet ports (13). As a result, the desuperheated steam does not reach the condensation zone dir... | 09/17/1985 |
