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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2004
Filed:
May. 03, 2001
Mauri Salmisuo, Tuusula, FI;
Steris Europe Inc Suomen Sivuliike, Tuusula, FI;
Abstract
In the production of water vapor, particularly in the production of especially clean water vapor, dissolved gases, mainly atmospheric gases, are removed from feed water ( ). The feed water is sprayed by a spray nozzle ( ) mounted in a hemispherical chamber ( ) in a spray pattern which matches an area of an upper end ( ) of an arrangement of vertical feed tubes of a falling film evaporator. The dissolved gases are liberated quickly from the sprayed droplets and removed through outlets ( ) in the hemispherical chamber. The sprayed droplets collect at the upper ends of the vertical evaporation channels and are distributed evenly thereamong before atmospheric gases can be redissolved.