Support system for tube bundle devices
US7117935B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 12, 2004 |
| Grant date | Oct 10, 2006 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 8, 2024 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S165/406
- WIPO fieldThermal processes and apparatus
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
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.
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