| 序号 | 专利名 | 申请号 | 申请日 | 公开（公告）号 | 公开（公告）日 | 发明人 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 81 | Heat exchanger with multiple channels and insulating channels | US12485311 | 2009-06-16 | US08122946B2 | 2012-02-28 | Phillip F. Daly; Kurt M. Vanden Bussche |
| An inexpensive heat exchanger is disclosed, wherein the heat exchanger is made up of a plurality of plates and each plate has at least one channel defined in the plate. The plates are stacked and bonded together to form a block having conduits for carrying at least one fluid and where the exchanger includes an expansion device enclosed within the unit. The plates include construction to thermally insulate the sections of the heat exchanger to control the heat flow within the heat exchanger. | ||||||
| 82 | Efficient self cooling heat exchanger | US12485301 | 2009-06-16 | US08118086B2 | 2012-02-21 | Phillip F. Daly; Kurt M. Vanden Bussche |
| An inexpensive heat exchanger is disclosed, wherein the heat exchanger is made up of a plurality of plates and each plate has at least one channel defined in the plate. The plates are stacked and bonded together to form a block having conduits for carrying at least one fluid and where the exchanger includes an expansion device enclosed within the unit. The plates include construction to thermally insulate the expansion region from the heat exchange region to improve efficiency of the heat exchanger. | ||||||
| 83 | DISTILLATION COLUMN WITH FIREBREAK DEVICE | US11911329 | 2006-03-29 | US20110139598A1 | 2011-06-16 | Marc Wagner; Phillippe Grigoletto; Jean-Marc Bernhardt; Emmanuel Fano |
| The invention concerns a distillation column (1) comprising means (21) for conveying at least one mixture to be distilled to the column, means (23) for drawing at least one fluid enriched in one constituent of the mixture from the column, inside the column, an evaporator-condenser (3) and means (25) for conveying a gas to be condensed and a liquid to be evaporated to the evaporator-condenser as well as means for removing the condensed gas and the evaporated liquid, at least one module of packing materials (5) located above the evaporator-condenser and at least one firebreak barrier (7A, 7B, 7C) between the evaporator-condenser and the module of packing materials. | ||||||
| 84 | Efficient Self Cooling Heat Exchanger | US12485311 | 2009-06-16 | US20100314087A1 | 2010-12-16 | Phillip F. Daly; Kurt M. Vanden Bussche |
| An inexpensive heat exchanger is disclosed, wherein the heat exchanger is made up of a plurality of plates and each plate has at least one channel defined in the plate. The plates are stacked and bonded together to form a block having conduits for carrying at least one fluid and where the exchanger includes an expansion device enclosed within the unit. The plates include construction to thermally insulate the sections of the heat exchanger to control the heat flow within the heat exchanger. | ||||||
| 85 | Method for making brazed heat exchanger and apparatus | US11824263 | 2007-06-29 | US07677300B2 | 2010-03-16 | Patrick S. O'Neill; Dennis P. Held, Sr.; Thomas J. Godry |
| Disclosed is a heat exchanger comprising a boiling passage and cooling passage defined by opposite sides of metal walls. Layers of brazing material between the metal walls and a spacer member bond components of the heat exchanger together. An enhanced boiling layer (EBL) comprising metal particles bonded to each other and to a boiling side of the metal wall provides nucleate boiling pores to improve heat transfer. The EBL has a melting temperature that is higher than the melting temperature of the brazing material. Also disclosed is a process for assembling the heat exchanger. | ||||||
| 86 | COILED HEAT EXCHANGER HAVING DIFFERENT MATERIALS | US11997281 | 2006-07-06 | US20100005833A1 | 2010-01-14 | Juergen Spreemann; Manfred Schoenberger; Christoph Seeholzer; Eberhard Kaupp; Stefan Bauer |
| A coiled heat exchanger having a plurality of tubes which are wound around a core tube is disclosed. The coiled heat exchanger having a casing which delimits an outer space around the tubes, and wherein a first and a second component of the coiled heat exchanger are composed of different materials. | ||||||
| 87 | Heat exchanger design for natural gas liquefaction | US11610589 | 2006-12-14 | US07637112B2 | 2009-12-29 | Kurt M. Vanden Bussche; Phillip F. Daly |
| An inexpensive heat exchanger is disclosed, wherein the heat exchanger is made up of a plurality of plates and each plate has at least one channel defined in the plate. The plates are stacked and bonded together to form a block having conduits for carrying fluids, and where each fluid is in thermal communication with the other fluids. | ||||||
| 88 | Apparatus for the liquefaction of natural gas and methods relating to same | US11381904 | 2006-05-05 | US07594414B2 | 2009-09-29 | Bruce M. Wilding; Michael G. McKellar; Terry D. Turner; Francis H. Carney |
| An apparatus and method for producing liquefied natural gas. A liquefaction plant may be coupled to a source of unpurified natural gas, such as a natural gas pipeline at a pressure letdown station. A portion of the gas is drawn off and split into a process stream and a cooling stream. The cooling stream passes through an expander creating work output. A compressor may be driven by the work output and compresses the process stream. The compressed process stream is cooled, such as by the expanded cooling stream. The cooled, compressed process stream is divided into first and second portions with the first portion being expanded to liquefy the natural gas. A gas-liquid separator separates the vapor from the liquid natural gas. The second portion of the cooled, compressed process stream is also expanded and used to cool the compressed process stream. | ||||||
| 89 | Method for making brazed heat exchanger and apparatus | US11824263 | 2007-06-29 | US20080041573A1 | 2008-02-21 | Patrick O'Neill; Dennis Held; Thomas Godry |
| Disclosed is a heat exchanger comprising a boiling passage and cooling passage defined by opposite sides of metal walls. Layers of brazing material between the metal walls and a spacer member bond components of the heat exchanger together. An enhanced boiling layer (EBL) comprising metal particles bonded to each other and to a boiling side of the metal wall provides nucleate boiling pores to improve heat transfer. The EBL has a melting temperature that is higher than the melting temperature of the brazing material. Also disclosed is a process for assembling the heat exchanger. | ||||||
| 90 | Multi-phase contacting process using microchannel technology | US11483136 | 2006-07-07 | US20070085227A1 | 2007-04-19 | Anna Tonkovich; Maddalena Fanelli; Ravi Arora; Timothy Sullivan; Steven Perry; David Kuhlmann |
| The disclosed technology relates to a process for contacting a liquid phase and a second fluid phase, comprising: flowing the liquid phase and/or second fluid phase in a process microchannel in contact with surface features in the process microchannel, the contacting of the surface features with the liquid phase and/or second fluid phase imparting a disruptive flow to the liquid phase and/or second fluid phase; contacting the liquid phase with the second fluid phase in the process microchannel; and transferring mass from the liquid phase to the second fluid phase and/or from the second fluid phase to the liquid phase. | ||||||
| 91 | Method and system for treating an oxygen-rich liquid bath collected at the foot of a cryogenic distillation column | US10552124 | 2004-03-29 | US20060075778A1 | 2006-04-13 | Jean-Yves Lehman; Bernard Saulnier |
| Methods and apparatus for treating a liquid bath of oxygen. A liquid bath of at least 70 mol % of oxygen is located at the base of a cryogenic distillation column. The bath is continuously boiled by an aluminum reboiler. A portion of the liquid bath is purged to prevent a build up of inflammable impurities in the bath. A portion of the purge is sent to a second reboiler, which is less inflammable than the first reboiler. Oxygen boiled by the second reboiler is sent back to the column, and a portion of the oxygen rich liquid bath treated by the second reboiler is also purged. The invention also relates to an apparatus of carrying out this method. | ||||||
| 92 | Plate-fin exchangers with textured surfaces | US10243149 | 2002-09-13 | US06834515B2 | 2004-12-28 | Swaminathan Sunder; Patrick Alan Houghton; Vladimir Vasilievich Kuznetsov |
| In a plate-fin exchanger having a plurality of fins disposed between neighboring parting sheets, at least a portion of at least one of the fins has a textured surface. The textured surface is in the form of grooves or fluting formed on or applied to the surface of the fin material used in the plate-fin exchanger. | ||||||
| 93 | Process for cooling a product in a heat exchanger employing microchannels | US10636659 | 2003-08-08 | US20040055329A1 | 2004-03-25 | James A. Mathias; Ravi Arora; Wayne W. Simmons; Jeffrey S. McDaniel; Anna Lee Tonkovich; William A. Krause; Laura J. Silva; Dongming Qiu |
| This invention relates to a process for cooling or liquefying a fluid product (e.g., natural gas) in a heat exchanger, the process comprising: flowing a fluid refrigerant through a set of refrigerant microchannels in the heat exchanger; and flowing the product through a set of product microchannels in the heat exchanger, the product flowing through the product microchannels exchanging heat with the refrigerant flowing through the refrigerant microchannels, the product exiting the set of product microchannels being cooler than the product entering the set of product microchannels. The process has a wide range of applications, including liquefying natural gas. | ||||||
| 94 | Apparatus for the liquefaction of natural gas and methods relating to same | US10414991 | 2003-04-14 | US20030192343A1 | 2003-10-16 | Bruce M. Wilding; Dennis N. Bingham; Michael G. McKellar; Terry D. Turner; Kevin T. Raterman; Gary L. Palmer; Kerry M. Klingler; John J. Vranicar |
| An apparatus and method for producing liquefied natural gas. A liquefaction plant may be coupled to a source of unpurified natural gas, such as a natural gas pipeline at a pressure letdown station. A portion of the gas is drawn off and split into a process stream and a cooling stream. The cooling stream passes through a turbo expander creating work output. A compressor is driven by the work output and compresses the process stream. The compressed process stream is cooled, such as by the expanded cooling stream. The cooled, compressed process stream is divided into first and second portions with the first portion being expanded to liquefy the natural gas. A gas-liquid separator separates the vapor from the liquid natural gas. The second portion of the cooled, compressed process stream is also expanded and used to cool the compressed process stream. Additional features and techniques may be integrated with the liquefaction process including a water clean-up cycle and a carbon dioxide (CO2) clean-up cycle. | ||||||
| 95 | Apparatus for the liquefaction of natural gas and methods related to same | US10086066 | 2002-02-27 | US20020174678A1 | 2002-11-28 | Bruce M. Wilding; Dennis N. Bingham; Michael G. McKellar; Terry D. Turner; Kevin T. Raterman; Gary L. Palmer; Kerry M. Klingler; John J. Vranicar |
| An apparatus and method for producing liquefied natural gas. A liquefaction plant may be coupled to a source of unpurified natural gas, such as a natural gas pipeline at a pressure letdown station. A portion of the gas is drawn off and split into a process stream and a cooling stream. The cooling stream passes through a turbo expander creating work output. A compressor is driven by the work output and compresses the process stream. The compressed process stream is cooled, such as by the expanded cooling stream. The cooled, compressed process stream is divided into first and second portions with the first portion being expanded to liquefy the natural gas. A gas-liquid separator separates the vapor from the liquid natural gas. The second portion of the cooled, compressed process stream is also expanded and used to cool the compressed process stream. Additional features and techniques may be integrated with the liquefaction process including a water clean-up cycle and a carbon dioxide (CO2) clean-up cycle. | ||||||
| 96 | Variable density structured packing cryogenic distillation system | US555039 | 1990-07-20 | US5100448A | 1992-03-31 | Michael J. Lockett; Richard A. Victor; Robert Zawierucha; Kenneth McIlroy; Scott L. Cooper |
| A cryogenic distillation system employing a multisection column wherein structure packing of different packing density is employed in at least two sections of the column. | ||||||
| 97 | Liquefied gas boilers | US232394 | 1988-08-12 | US5014773A | 1991-05-14 | Carlo Beduz; Ralph G. Scurlock |
| An improved boiler for liquefied gases comprises at least one heat transfer surface having means for creating a falling film of liquefied gas from its upper to lower end and means to heat the surface above the temperature at which the liquefied gas boils at the prevailing pressure. The subject apparatus is particularly suited for reboiling liquid nitrogen or liquid oxygen. | ||||||
| 98 | Parallel wrapped tube heat exchanger | US74301 | 1987-07-16 | US4785879A | 1988-11-22 | Ralph C. Longsworth; William A. Steyert |
| A counter flow heat exchanger comprising a plurality of tubes disposed in a bundle array or tube within tube configuration to enhance heat transfer between high and low pressure tubes in the array or tube in tube configuration. Also disclosed are a method of increasing the heat transfer capacity of a tube bundle heat exchanger and a liquid helium temperature refrigerator or a reliquefier utilizing the heat exchanger. | ||||||
| 99 | Parallel wrapped tube heat exchanger | US074302 | 1987-07-16 | US4763725A | 1988-08-16 | Ralph C. Longsworth; William A. Steyert |
| A counter flow heat exchanger comprising a plurality of tubes disposed in a bundle array or tube within tube configuration to enhance heat transfer between high and low pressure tubes in the array or tube in tube configuration. Also disclosed are a method of increasing the heat transfer capacity of a tube bundle heat exchanger and a liquid helium temperature refrigerator or a reliquefier utilizing the heat exchanger. | ||||||
| 100 | Reboiler-condenser with boiling and condensing surfaces enhanced by extrusion | US872310 | 1986-06-09 | US4715431A | 1987-12-29 | Alexander Schwarz; Charles E. Kalb; Charles C. Goebel |
| The invention relates to a heat exchanger for use as a reboiler-condenser which increases the efficiency of heat transfer between boiling and condensing fluids such as cryogens, e.g. oxygen and nitrogen in an air separation unit. The exchanger has enhanced boiling and condensing surfaces and slightly inclined condensing passages built up from individually extruded passageway elements. | ||||||
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