| 摘要 |
A multi-cell heating system for increasing the temperature of a slurry through a critical temperature range, the heater system comprising an array of heater cells, the array comprising a plurality of heater cell trains and a plurality of heater cell stacks, each stack being associated with and being in fluid communication with a respective evaporator, and each train being defined by aligned individual heater cells in adjacent stacks such that the slurry may be split to flow through two or more of the trains in order to be heated thereby. The array is configured such that there is an inlet temperature at one side thereof and an outlet temperature at the other side thereof, the critical temperature range corresponding to a region of high scale growth and being between the inlet and outlet temperatures. The interconnection between each evaporator and its respective heater cell stack is capable of allowing fluid communication between adjacent heater cell stacks and certain downstream heater cell stacks, and is also capable of allowing the number of heater cell stacks within the region of high scale growth to be increased or decreased and is capable of allowing the substitution of heater cell stacks already in the region of high scale growth with heater cell stacks not already within the region of high scale growth, such alteration of the number of heater cell stacks within the region of high scale growth being provided by the alteration of the fluid flow from various evaporators to various heater cell stacks. |
