Advanced large scale field-erected air cooled industrial steam condenser

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12460866-B2
Application number	US-202418753536-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 25, 2024
Priority date	Jun 21, 2016
Publication date	Nov 4, 2025
Grant date	Nov 4, 2025

Abstract

A large-scale field erected air cooled industrial steam condenser having heat exchanger panels independently loaded into and supported in a frame with flexible hanging supports each comprising a central rod connected at each end to a connection sleeve, wherein one connection sleeve of each flexible hanging support is connected to the frame and a second connection sleeve of each flexible hanging support is connected to a heat exchanger panel.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1 . A large scale field erected air cooled industrial steam condenser connected to an industrial steam producing facility, comprising:
a a plurality of heat exchanger panels supported in a frame, wherein each said heat exchanger panel is independently suspended from the by a plurality of flexible hanging supports.

2 . The large scale field erected air cooled industrial steam condenser according to claim 1 , wherein said flexible hanging supports each comprise a central rod connected at each end to a connection sleeve, and wherein one connection sleeve of each flexible hanging support is connected to said frame and a second connection sleeve of each flexible hanging support is connected to said heat exchanger panel.

3 . The large scale field erected air cooled industrial steam condenser according to claim 1 , wherein each heat exchanger panel comprises a primary condenser section and a secondary condenser section, and a top manifold connected to an in fluid communication with a top end of each tube in said primary condenser section and said secondary condenser section, a primary bottom manifold connected to an in fluid communication with a bottom end of each tube in said primary condenser section and a secondary bottom manifold located inside said primary bottom manifold and in fluid communication with a bottom end of each tube in said secondary section, a bottom surface of said primary bottom manifold having a single steam inlet.

Assignees

• Evapco Inc

Inventors

• Bugler Thomas W
• Libert Jean-Pierre
• Huber Mark
• Athron Toby
• Sexton Wayne
• Hildebrandt Ben

Classifications

• F28B9/02

  for feeding steam or vapour to condensers · CPC title

• F28B1/06 Primary

  using air or other gas as the cooling medium · CPC title

• F28D1/0443

  Combination of units extending one beside or one above the other (F28D1/0452 takes precedence) · CPC title

• F28D1/05366

  Assemblies of conduits connected to common headers, e.g. core type radiators · CPC title

• F28D1/0426

  with units having particular arrangement relative to the large body of fluid, e.g. with interleaved units or with adjacent heat exchange units in common air flow or with units extending at an angle to each other or with units arranged around a central element · CPC title