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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2013
Carrier Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
Marcel Christians, Skaneateles, NY (US);
Jack L. Esformes, Jamesville, NY (US);
Satyam Bendapudi, Fayetteville, NY (US);
Martin Bezon, North Syracuse, NY (US);
Xinliang Qiu, East Syracuse, NY (US);
Sean P. Breen, Holyoke, MA (US);
CARRIER CORPORATION, Farmington, CT (US);
Abstract
A liquid distributor delivers a falling flow of the liquid to be distributed substantially uniformly along a longitudinal extent of the liquid distributor. The liquid distributor has a bottom wall including a longitudinally extending distribution plate having a plurality of laterally spaced and longitudinally extending channels. A shell and tube evaporator for chilling a working fluid incorporates the liquid distributor as a distributor of liquid onto the heat exchange tubes of a tube bundle disposed within an interior volume of the shell. Each channel is aligned with a respective column of the plurality of vertical columns of heat exchange tubes and is configured to deliver a falling flow of liquid refrigerant onto the respective tube column substantially uniformly along the longitudinal extent of the respective tube column.