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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2006
Henry Edward Howard, Grand Island, NY (US);
Richard John Jibb, Amherst, NY (US);
Henry Edward Howard, Grand Island, NY (US);
Richard John Jibb, Amherst, NY (US);
Praxair Technology, Inc., Danbury, CT (US);
Abstract
A plate-fin heat exchanger having a plurality of layers for indirectly exchanging heat between two or more fluids. The heat exchanger is provided with two sections and inlets and outlets to the sections to cause streams of the fluids to flow within the two sections parallel to the length of the heat exchanger between central locations and the ends of the heat exchanger. In such manner, the cross-sectional flow area of such a heat exchanger is greater than the heat exchanger in which the flow is from one end to the other end of the heat exchanger. This increase in cross-sectional flow area reduces the pressure drop within the heat exchanger.