US3784450A - Evaporators with mixing condensers - Google Patents

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US3784450A
US3784450A US00144183A US3784450DA US3784450A US 3784450 A US3784450 A US 3784450A US 00144183 A US00144183 A US 00144183A US 3784450D A US3784450D A US 3784450DA US 3784450 A US3784450 A US 3784450A
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  • Sofer 1211 Appl- 1441183 Attorney-Waters, Roditi, Schwartz & Nissen [30] Foreign Application Priority Data May 18, 1970 South Africa 70/3313 57 BST AC [52] Cl 202/1851 202/185 A, 202/189 A condenser zone is located inside an evaporator [5 1 1 above an evaporation one the condenser zone having Fleld of Search 15, 27, an inlet for coolant andyan outlet for condensate the 2 A, 187489 condenser zone being insulated on those surfaces that 1 are cooled to prevent condensed vapours falling back References Clied 1 into the evaporation zone.
  • sugar vacuum pans include a zone at the top through which the vapour was conducted to a condenser located outside the pan.
  • the condenser was usually either a co-current or counter-current condenser and its requirements were considerable. For example, it occupied much space and the walls and the pipe joints had to be very strong to withstand the vacuum. Its erectionand maintenance were major operations. In addition, the conditions prevailing in the condenser were very conducive to metal corrosion with the result that some condensers were manufactured of very heavy cast iron, and later of stainless steel.
  • an evaporator including an evaporation zone, a condensing zone located above the evaporation zone, an inlet for vapour from the evaporation zone to the condensing zone, an inlet for supplying coolant to condensing zone to effect condensation, and an outletfor the condensate.
  • the condensing zone is insulated on those surfaces that would other wise be cooled and from which condensed vapours may fall back into the evaporator.
  • the insulator may take the form of an evacuated space, or else the space may be filled with a suitable insulating material, such as expanded polystryrene.
  • a jacket is provided through which the vapour can pass so that the surfaces referred to above will be maintained at the same temperature as the vapour.
  • the condensing zone may in plan, take the form of a sector of the pan and in one embodiment of the invention the angle of the sector is 60", but it will be ap preciated that greater angles may be selected depending upon the amount of condensation required which depends on the capacity of the pan.
  • the condensing zone may include a floor having vertical baffles and walls inside the baffles, the walls and baffles being so arranged as to define a passage through which vapour may enter the condensing zone.
  • the walls are preferably removable for easy maintenance.
  • the condensing zone may be located in the usual annular space of the known vacuum pans.
  • the floor of the condensing zone and the vertical curved portion corresponding to the annular space may be jacketed, preferably by providing a space in communication with the vapours so that the surface presented to the vapours is at the temperature of the vapours.
  • FIG. 1 is a sectional side view of one form of a sugar vacuum pan and condenser according to the invention
  • FIG. 2 is a sectional plan view of the pan and condenser
  • FIG. 3 is a sectional view-taken on line 3-3 in FIG. 2, and
  • the zone is defined by a pair of vertical-radial baffles 20, inside of which are suspended plates 22, the bottom edges of the plates being above the level of the floor of the zone but below the upper edges of the baffles 20 as shown in FIG. 3.
  • the vapours enter the condensing zone through the gap between the edges of the baffles and the edges of the plates.
  • the plates22 may be held in position by hooks or the like (not shown) and it will be appreciated that they may be very thin since the pressure on either side thereof will be equal.
  • the plates 22 are suspended, they can easily be removed for cleaning or replacing. In fact, the complete condensing zone is easily enter able for cleaning and maintainance services.
  • Non-condensed gases are exhausted through the opening 24.
  • Base plate 26 is spaced from the floor 27 of the condensing zone and also from the vertical curved portion 28 to provide a jacket for these surfaces. Vapors from the pan enter the jacket through opening 29 in a central duct 25, and vapors pass through the aforesaid jacket thereby maintaining the surfaces 26 at the temperature of the vapours in the pan. Any condensation which takes place on the surface of the condensing zone surfaces is drained off at .34 and it will be appreciated that such condensate will be of identical temperature as the vapours passing through the jacket. It will also be appreciated that the plates 22 arenot required to be insulated because anycondensation occuring thereon will flow downwardly behind the baffles and thence along the floor to the outlet 30.
  • the condensed vapours pass through outlet 30 together with the coolant into a downtake 32 and the insulating jacket carrying the vapours also exits into this downtake as shown at34.
  • the location of the inlet into the condensing zone and the cooling water arrangement are chosen as to whether countercurrent or co-current condensing is required.
  • the plates 22 will rest on the floor of the condensing zone as shown in FIG. 4 and a gap will be left between the ceiling of the pan and the top edges of the plates.
  • An evaporator comprising a casing including a lower evaporation zone and an upper condensing zone, an upper inlet for supplying coolant to the condensing zone, said condensing zone occupying that portion of the upper region of the evaporator depending on the amount of condensation required for the vapor capacity of the evaporation zone, said condensing zone extending to a central duct for evacuating vapors released in the evaporator, said condensing zone also including a floor, an interior vertical panel parallel to and spaced from the duct and two interior vertical side panels with a superposed array of trays therebetween to permit the coolant to cascade down thereover, outer bottom and side panels spaced from and parallel to the floor and side panels of the condensing zone and extending to the duct and casing forming a jacket around the condensing zone and openings in the central duct and jacket side panels permitting vapors from the evaporator to flow thru the duct and jacket side panel openings and into the con
  • jacket side panels are thin plates and are suspended from the casing roof and have lower edges spaced above the floor of said condensing zone to define said openings therein, the condenser side panels being sealed to the condenser floor and spaced from the casing roof.

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US6428656B1 (en) 1999-02-18 2002-08-06 Psi-Ets, A North Dakota Partnership Water-cooled distilling apparatus
US6635148B1 (en) * 1999-04-05 2003-10-21 Nippon Shokubai Method for refining easily polymerizable matter-contained substance and apparatus therefor
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US795650A (en) * 1904-01-15 1905-07-25 Charles T Rogers Combined vacuum-pan and condenser.
US1352648A (en) * 1919-01-25 1920-09-14 Ingersoll Rand Co Rectifier and condenser
US1756673A (en) * 1926-01-25 1930-04-29 Arnold W Baumann Vacuum pan
US1791262A (en) * 1927-12-27 1931-02-03 Arnold W Baumann Evaporating apparatus
US2093895A (en) * 1936-02-08 1937-09-21 Mojonnier Bros Co Condenser
US2103521A (en) * 1935-09-03 1937-12-28 Babcock & Wilcox Co Evaporator

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US795650A (en) * 1904-01-15 1905-07-25 Charles T Rogers Combined vacuum-pan and condenser.
US1352648A (en) * 1919-01-25 1920-09-14 Ingersoll Rand Co Rectifier and condenser
US1756673A (en) * 1926-01-25 1930-04-29 Arnold W Baumann Vacuum pan
US1791262A (en) * 1927-12-27 1931-02-03 Arnold W Baumann Evaporating apparatus
US2103521A (en) * 1935-09-03 1937-12-28 Babcock & Wilcox Co Evaporator
US2093895A (en) * 1936-02-08 1937-09-21 Mojonnier Bros Co Condenser

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
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US6428656B1 (en) 1999-02-18 2002-08-06 Psi-Ets, A North Dakota Partnership Water-cooled distilling apparatus
US6635148B1 (en) * 1999-04-05 2003-10-21 Nippon Shokubai Method for refining easily polymerizable matter-contained substance and apparatus therefor
US20040050681A1 (en) * 1999-04-05 2004-03-18 Takeshi Nishimura Method for refining easily polymerizable matter-containing substance and apparatus therefor
US7253314B2 (en) 1999-04-05 2007-08-07 Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd Method for refining easily polymerizable matter-containing substance and apparatus therefor
US20040079629A1 (en) * 2002-10-29 2004-04-29 Jim Wu Distillation and recycling treatment device

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