ES407533A1 - Improvements introduced in a heat exchanger apparatus. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Improvements introduced in a heat exchanger apparatus that constitutes a chemical reactor to continuously perform a highly thermal chemical reaction involving liquid material, abundant amounts of a gas and a reaction mixture comprising a readily precipitable substance that tends to be deposited on tubes of heat exchange in contact with the reaction mixture under normal reaction conditions, said apparatus comprising bowl means for containing a mass of the reaction mixture and including means for introducing the liquid material into the mass and for removing the reaction mixture. Of the mass; and heat transfer means having a set of tubes for conducting a heat transfer fluid into and through the interior of the mass; characterized by gas discharge means for withdrawing from said gas tank means that the mass has left; and in that said set of tubes is an integral structure that is inside said tub means, and in that said heat transfer means include fluid supply and fluid discharge manifold means, and a plurality of heat conducting tubes for transporting the heat transfer fluid in heat exchange relationship with the mass from said fluid supply manifold means to said fluid discharge manifold means; said heat conducting tubes being flexible and being able to be vibrated by gas and liquid streams in the mass to thereby minimize the deposition of precipitate on said tubes under the normal reaction conditions; and by longitudinally and laterally rigid conduit means extending from both said collector means within said tub means to the outside thereof for transporting the heat transfer fluid to and from said heat transfer means; and finally, because said conduit means, in combination with said vat means, support and anchor said integral set of tubes within said vat means. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)