LIQUID DRAINS IN CORE-IN-SHELL HEAT EXCHANGER

• Main Authors: PHADKE, Amal C, DAVIES, Paul
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 10.10.2018
• Subjects: BLASTING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; COMBINED OPERATIONS; DETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OFGENERAL APPLICATION; HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; HEAT-EXCHANGE APPARATUS, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN ANOTHER SUBCLASS,IN WHICH THE HEAT-EXCHANGE MEDIA DO NOT COME INTO DIRECT CONTACT; HEATING; LIGHTING; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES; LIQUEFACTION, SOLIDIFICATION OR SEPARATION OF GASES OR GASEOUS; MACHINE TOOLS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; MIXTURES BY PRESSURE AND COLD TREATMENT; OTHER WORKING OF METAL; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; TRANSPORTING; UNIVERSAL MACHINE TOOLS; WEAPONS

A core-in-shell heat exchanger, a method of fabricating the core-in-shell heat exchanger, and a method of exchanging heat in a core-in-shell heat exchanger disposed on a slosh-inducing moving platform are described. The method of exchanging heat includes introducing a shell-side fluid into a shell of the core-in-shell heat exchanger and introducing a fluid to be cooled into each of one or more cores of the core-in-shell heat exchanger, the one or more cores being arranged along an axial length of the shell with a plurality of baffles disposed on either side of the one or more cores along the axial length of the shell to reduce slosh of the shell-side fluid. The method also includes draining excess shell-side fluid using a plurality of drains, at least two of the plurality of drains being disposed on opposite sides of one of the plurality of baffles.