HEAT EXCHANGER USING THERMAL CONVECTION TUBES

摘要

A heat exchanger is constructed with the hotter fluid in a lower region and the cooler fluid in an upper region. A single wall separates the two regions. Vertically mounted thermal convection tubes extending from the hotter fluid to the cooler fluid through the wall act to transfer heat between the fluids. The thermal convection tubes contain a working fluid and provide for substantially isothermal heat transfer, the latent heat of vaporization of the working fluid being the primary mechanism responsible for this heat transfer.