Abstract:
A container (10) for holding a supply of compressed fluid such as carbon dioxide has a length of tube (12) formed into a multi turn helical coil (14). A first valve (16) is provided at the lowest end (18) of the coil (14) for controlling the flow of fluid out of the container (10). A thermal insulating setable foam (20) envelopes the tube (12) and coil (14), though not the valve (16) which is disposed outside of the foam (20). A strap (26) extends about the coil (14) to bind the turns of the coil (14) together for added safety and strength. Coil (14), and setable foam (20) are disposed within a heat insulating housing (28). Inlet valve (22) is attached to an upper end of the tube (12) proximate the highest one of the turns of the coil (14).
Abstract:
Process components, containers, and pipes are provided that are constructed from ultra-high strength, low alloy steels containing less than 9 wt % nickel and having tensile strengths greater than 830 MPa (120 ksi) and DBTTs lower than about −73° C. (−100° F.).
Abstract:
A cold surface is obtained by coating a mat of ceramic particles that are bound together with a sol-gel binder and cooling the surface with a cryogen that wicks to the surface through pores in the mat.
Abstract:
A portable air tank having a safety relief venting assembly formed in the bottom of the tank. The safety relief vent includes a tubular relief frame welded to the exterior of the tank about a relief hole punched in the tank's bottom near one end thereof. The tubular relief frame includes a channel therethrough which aligns with, and surrounds, the hole punched in the bottom of the tank. The legs of the tank are formed to maintain the tank in an angled relation, with respect to a horizontal plane, to ensure that condensation within the tank collects at the relief hole. The venting assembly includes a cup-shaped plug inserted into the relief frame. A concave surface of the cup-shaped plug is directed upward toward the interior of the tank to ensure that condensation collects within the cup. The cup-shaped plug is formed with a thickness substantially half that of the tank's outer wall to ensure that the plug will corrode and fail before any other portion of the tank wall is compromised. When the plug fails, air pressure within the tank is discharged through the relief frame and downward against the floor to minimize the danger to the user.
Abstract:
A heat transfer tube for the water-spray panel evaporator for the gasification of liquefied natural gases which includes a tube having a pair of planar members each projecting outwardly from its peripheral surface, radially with respect to its longitudinal axis and extending longitudinally along such axis, and an internal fin disposed within the tube and having at least three fin members each projecting radially with respect to the longitudinal axis to provide a helicoidal formation extending along and about the longitudinal axis, the helix of the helicoidal formation contacting the internal wall of the tube in a pressure-fitting relationship. These heat transfer tubes can be assembled to provide a panel evaporator. The method for fabricating such heat transfer tubes and assemblies is characterized in that the above pressure-fitting relationship is established by drawing the tube alone to reduce its internal diameter until the helix of the helicoid is abutted against the internal wall of the tube.
Abstract:
The heater includes a vessel containing a heat transfer fluid and a fire tube located adjacent the bottom to heat the heat transfer fluid. The fluid to be heated flows through a coil located in the vessel above the fire tube but submerged in the heat transfer fluid. The coil encircles two void boxes that occupy a substantial portion of the space in the vessel and reduce the volume of heat transfer fluid required to fill the vessel to a level above the boxes and the coil. The void boxes are spaced apart and positioned relative to the fire tube to cause the heat transfer fluid to flow upwardly between the boxes and downwardly past the coil between the boxes and the walls of the vessel due to the heat convection currents produced by the thermosyphonic effect. When the fluid being heated is a gas and the pressure of the gas is to be reduced, a choke is located in the coil adjacent its outlet to reduce the pressure after the gas has been heated. This reduces the condensation of liquids and the possibility of their freezing due to the reduction in temperature resulting from the pressure drop across the choke.
Abstract:
An apparatus for the evaporation of low-temperature liquefied gases which comprises a tube bundle immersed in a water bath which may be heated by steam. The tubes of the bundle each contain a plurality of turbulence-inducing baffles which are soldered or welded to the inner surface of the tube and are of plane undulating, zigzag or coiled configuration. Successive baffles may be angularly offset about the axis of the tube from one another.