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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2017
Carrier Corporation, Palm Beach Gardens, FL (US);
Bryce Kirk Moore, Syracuse, NY (US);
XingHua Huang, Shanghai, CN;
CARRIER CORPORATION, Palm Beach Gardens, FL (US);
Abstract
A falling film evaporator () includes an evaporator vessel (), a plurality of evaporator tubes () disposed in the in evaporator vessel () through which a volume of thermal energy transfer medium is flowed and a suction port () extending through the evaporator vessel () to remove vapor refrigerant from the evaporator vessel (). A refrigerant distribution system () is located in the evaporator vessel () to distribute a flow of liquid refrigerant over the plurality of evaporator tubes (). The refrigerant distribution system () is configured such that the refrigerant distribution system () has a first height at the suction port () and a second height greater than the first height at a longitudinal location () other than at the suction port ().