Babcock-hitachi Kabushiki Kaisha

Ikuo Kohtaka

Shigeyoshi Kawano

Hiroyuki Kaku

Takahiro Marumoto

Toshinori Shigenaka

Tetsuyoshi Ishida

Tetsuo Mimura

Yukitaka Machida

Tsuneo Narita

Kojiro Yamada

Fin tube heat exchanger

A heat exchanger apparatus has a hot-fluid casing and a cold-fluid casing which are separated from each other by a partition plate and through which a fluid of a higher temperature and a fluid of a lower temperature pass, respectively. The hot-fluid casing accommodates a plurality of heat transfer tubes charged with a heat medium and connected at their ends to respective headers so as to constitute an evaporator panel. The cold-fluid casing also accommodates a plurality of heat transfer tubes similar to that in the hot-fluid casing and connected at their ends to respective headers so as to constitute a condenser panel. The header on the medium outlet side of the evaporator panel and the header on the medium inlet side of the condenser panel are positioned substantially at the same level. The header on the medium outlet side of the condenser panel is disposed above the header on the medium inlet side of the evaporator panel and these headers are connected to each other through a connection pipe.

Heat exchanger apparatus

A hybrid Rankine cycle system comprises a boiler in which water steam is generated, a steam turbine which is worked by the water steam from the boiler to drive a generator to obtain an electric power, an absorber condenser for introducing thereinto strong absorbent solution to absorb the water steam from the steam turbine to produce weak absorbent solution, and a pump for delivering the weak absorbent solution from the absorber condenser to the boiler. The weak absorbent solution is heated in the boiler to produce the strong absorbent solution to be fed to the absorber condenser and the water steam to be fed to the steam turbine.

Hybrid Rankine cycle system

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Hiroshima, Japan

Ikuo Kohtaka