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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2021
Lummus Technology Llc, Bloomfield, NJ (US);
Richard Jibb, Monroe, NY (US);
David Thomas Creech, Glen Ellyn, IL (US);
Randy Lee Eberly, Plainfield, IL (US);
Elizabeth MacLean Meacham, Lombard, IL (US);
Henk Boekhouder, Zoetermeer, NL;
Roberto Groppi, Hague, NL;
Vincenzo Marco Brignone, Leiden, NL;
Trevor Jaye, San Diego, CA (US);
Lummus Technology LLC, Bloomfield, NJ (US);
Abstract
A heat exchanger assembly including an elongated tubular heat exchanger enclosure defining an interior chamber. A tube sheet is positioned within the interior chamber of the heat exchanger enclosure separating the interior chamber into a shell side and a channel side. The interior portion is configured to removably receive a tube bundle positioned within the shell side of the interior chamber. An annular sleeve member is positioned within the channel side of the interior chamber of the heat exchanger enclosure. An annular elastic torsion member is positioned within the channel side of the interior chamber of the heat exchanger such that the sleeve member is positioned between the tube sheet and the elastic torsion member. The elastic torsion member has an inner circumference deflectable relative to its outer circumference for torsioning the elastic torsion member.