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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2004
Amar S. Wanni, Falls Church, VA (US);
Thomas M. Rudy, Warrenton, VA (US);
Marciano M. Calanog, Stafford, TX (US);
Amar S. Wanni, Falls Church, VA (US);
Thomas M. Rudy, Warrenton, VA (US);
Marciano M. Calanog, Stafford, TX (US);
ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company, Annandale, NJ (US);
Abstract
A tube bundle device such as a heat exchanger or condenser which has parallel tubes in a triangular configuration in which tubes are adjacent and spaced from six surrounding tubes. The tubes in the tube bundle have wire spacer/support elements comprising helically wound material which surrounds at least a portion of the length of each of the tubes; each tube with a spacer/support coil being in contact only with tubes which do not have a spacer/support coil and each tube without a spacer/support coil is in contact only with tubes which have a spacer/support coil.