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The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.

The Furukawa Construction Co., Ltd.

Shiro Endo

Junji Sotani

Tatsuya Koizumi

Yuichi Kimura

Susumu Seo

Akiji Katsura

Nobuyoshi Mashino

An apparatus for heating fluid in a storage tank or transport pipe includes a elongated horizontally positioned tubular receiver having a cover plate at one end thereof through which an electric cartridge heater is inserted into a lower portion of the receiver. A vaporizable working fluid partially fills the lower portion of the receiver to a level sufficient to cover the heater and a temperature detector for controlling the heater is inserted through the cover plate into the receiver above the level of the fluid therein. A sealed tubular heat exchanger communicates with the receiver through a single passage through which vaporized working fluid enters the heat exchanger and condensed working fluid's returned to the receiver and the receiver and heat exchanger are evaculated of gasses. The heat exchanger may be disposed whithin a container holding fluid to be heated or constitute a jacket disposed around the container.

Electric fluid heating apparatus utilizing a vaporizable working fluid

A separate type heat exchanger characterized in that the evaporation section heated by the hot fluid is formed by fitting a plurality of the evaporation pipes horizontally between the vapor header pipe and the condensed liquid header pipe, the condensation section cooled by the cold fluid is formed above said evaporation section by fitting a plurality of the condensation pipes between the vapor header pipe and the condensed liquid header pipe, both vapor header pipes are connected through the vapor pipe and both condensed liquid header pipes are connected through the condensed liquid pipe to form a circulation path, and said path contains the working fluid is sealed within said path which circulates by evaporating at the evaporation section and condensing at the condensation section.

Separate type heat exchanger

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Tokyo, Japan

Shiro Endo