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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2014
Nuscale Power, Llc, Corvallis, OR (US);
William Koski, Corvallis, OR (US);
Tamas Liszkai, Corvallis, OR (US);
Alex Kruskamp, Corvallis, OR (US);
Seth Cadell, Corvallis, OR (US);
Weston Pollock, Corvallis, OR (US);
NUSCALE POWER, LLC, Corvallis, OR (US);
Abstract
A tube support assembly for a steam generator system is disclosed herein, including a sheet or support bar configured to support a plurality of heat transfer tubes of the steam generator system and a set of projections extending from a surface of the sheet or support bar. A distance that the set of projections extend from the surface of the sheet or support bar may be greater than, or equal to, an external diameter of a heat transfer tube. The adjacent tubes of the plurality of tubes may be separated from each other by one or more projections.