Carrier Corporation

Xinliang Qiu

Jack Leon Esformes

Marcel Christians

Satyam Bendapudi

Jian Sun

Sean P Breen

Martin C Bezon

Jianhua Zhou

A liquid distributor delivers a falling flow of the liquid to be distributed substantially uniformly along a longitudinal extent of the liquid distributor. The liquid distributor has a bottom wall including a longitudinally extending distribution plate having a plurality of laterally spaced and longitudinally extending channels. A shell and tube evaporator for chilling a working fluid incorporates the liquid distributor as a distributor of liquid onto the heat exchange tubes of a tube bundle disposed within an interior volume of the shell. Each channel is aligned with a respective column of the plurality of vertical columns of heat exchange tubes and is configured to deliver a falling flow of liquid refrigerant onto the respective tube column substantially uniformly along the longitudinal extent of the respective tube column.

Evaporator and liquid distributor

Growing community of inventors

East Syracuse, NY, United States of America

Xinliang Qiu