Hudson Products Corporation

George Edward Kluppel

Thomas W Strock

Robert C Monroe

George S Millas

John Lawrence Berg

William Joseph Oberjohn

James David Goldsmith

A method and apparatus for protecting personnel required to work inside of a heat exchanger unit when the cooling air fan has been taken out service for maintenance or repair of the fan or other mechanical equipment, while hot fluid continues to flow through the heat exchanger tubes, and adjacent heat exchanger units continue to operate. An inflatable heat shield is inserted into the out of service heat exchanger unit, and inflated therein to block the convective heat generated by the hot fluid and the adjacent operating units from reaching the personnel working inside the heat exchanger unit.

Heat shield

A two-stage steam condenser that prevents freezing from occurring in the tube rows by continual purging of the tube rows. Such continual purging prevents any steam from back-flowing into a tube row thereby eliminating the possibility that condensate or noncondensable gases will become trapped therein. This is achieved by isolating each of the tube rows in the second stage of the condenser so that the pressure of one tube row is not exposed to the pressure occurring in another adjacent tube row. The condensate collected in the various tube rows of this second stage is delivered to a common drain pot that is hydraulically balanced to accommodate the various pressures in these tube rows. Such hydraulic balancing also prevents any back-flowing from occurring from one tube row into another. Furthermore, in this second stage of the steam condenser, the steam and resulting condensate both flow concurrently downward while any noncondensable gases are vented counter-currently upward against such steam and condensate flow.

Steam condensing apparatus with freeze-protected vent condenser

An air-cooled steam condensing module with an integral vent condenser has a steam header, one or more rows of condensing tubes between the steam header and a (generally lower) common condensate header. The module also has at least one row of vent condenser or dephlegmator tubes located adjacent the condensing tubes which connect the lower header to a vent header. The dephlegmator tubes may be of the same or larger diameter than the condensing tubes.

Steam condensing module with integral, stacked vent condenser

A condensate storage tank assembly comprises a tank section having a condensate outlet at a lower end thereof. An upwardly enlarged steam chamber is connected to the upper end of the tank section and receives a condensate drain line which extends from the drain pot of a condenser. The upwardly enlarged steam chamber surrounds a portion of the condensate drain line at least up to the highest level of condensate in the drain line. A steam line from the source of steam which also feeds the condenser, is connected to the upper end of the tank section for supplying steam above the condensate level in the tank section. The steam heats the condensate drain line in the steam chamber to avoid freezing the condensate in the drain line. An upwardly enlarged deaerator may also be provided on the upper end of the tank section. The drain pot is also supplied with steam from the condenser for avoiding freezing of condensate in the condensate drain lines which supply condensate from the condenser to the drain pot.

Steam condensate storage tank with non-freezing feature

There are disclosed a blade for use as part of an axial flow fan and a method of forming such a blade wherein a large concentration of silica particles are molded into the leading edge of a hollow, one-piece molded body which includes a core of reinforced, thermosetting resin having relatively low abrasion resistance.

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Richmond, TX, United States of America

George Edward Kluppel