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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2014
Carrier Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
Abbas A. Alahyari, Manchester, CT (US);
Jack Leon Esformes, Jamesville, NY (US);
Thomas D. Radcliff, Vernon, CT (US);
Marcel Christians, Skaneateles, NY (US);
CARRIER CORPORATION, Palm Beach Gardens, FL (US);
Abstract
A falling film evaporator includes a plurality of evaporator tubes through which a volume of thermal energy transfer medium is flowed, and a distributor to distribute a flow of liquid refrigerant over the plurality of evaporator tubes. The distributor includes a distributor box and a distribution sheet positioned at a bottom surface of the distributor box having a plurality of peaks and valleys, with sidewalls extending between each peak and each valley. A plurality of ports is located in the sidewalls to distribute the flow of liquid refrigerant downwardly over the plurality of evaporator tubes.