Liquid heaters and vaporizers – Indirectly heated – Separate fluid
Patent
1976-12-20
1979-01-30
Sprague, Kenneth W.
Liquid heaters and vaporizers
Indirectly heated
Separate fluid
122382, 165163, F22B 102, F22B 3754
Patent
active
041366441
ABSTRACT:
A tube heat exchanger having a substantially cylindrical housing, a pair of adjacent cylindrical headers disposed in the housing, and a multiplicity of downwardly extending U-shaped heat exchanger tubes connecting the headers to one another, one of the headers being an inlet header and the other thereof being an outlet header, both of the headers being connectible to pressurized water lines of a pressurized water nuclear reactor, includes a feedwater supply connected to the housing below the outlet header for supplying a quantity of feedwater into the housing up to a given level partly filling the housing during operation of the heat exchanger, the heat exchanger tubes extending upwardly from the outlet header above the given feedwater level and being formed with a U-shaped bend located above the given level.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3216400 (1965-11-01), Taylor
patent: 3376858 (1968-04-01), Romanos
patent: 3693597 (1972-09-01), Kelp
patent: 3942481 (1976-03-01), Bennett
patent: 3949710 (1976-04-01), Reisacher
Hoffmann Jurgen
Tratz Herbert
Welch Richard
Kraftwerk Union Aktiengesellschaft
Lerner Herbert L.
Sprague Kenneth W.
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