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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2003
Filed:
May. 07, 2002
Alan P. Meissner, Franklin, WI (US);
Richard G. Parkhill, Racine, WI (US);
Modine Manufacturing Company, Racine, WI (US);
Abstract
A heat exchanger/evaporator for transferring heat from a first heat exchange fluid to a liquid to be evaporated into a gaseous second heat exchange fluid that includes a thermally conductive element separating a first flow path for the first heat exchange fluid and a second flow path for the second heat exchange fluid. A first surface is on the element in heat exchange relation with the first flow path and a second surface is on the element opposite the first surface and is in heat exchange relation with the second flow path A hydrophilic coating is bonded on part of the second surface and includes a powder of nominally spherically shaped particles including nickel, chromium, aluminum, cobalt and yttrium oxide bonded together with a braze metal predominantly made up of nickel, chromium and silicon and diffused into the nominally spherically shaped particles and the second surface. Also disclosed is a composition useful in forming a hydrophilic surface and a method of making a heat exchanger/evaporator.