New Patents xiii

4454864 4455154
SOLAR COLLECTOR HEAT EXCHANGER FOR COAL
COMPRISING A HEAT GASIFICATION PROCESS
EXCHANGER
George A Blasiole assigned to The United States
Michiel Duncker, Johan R Kreetz, Arnhem, of America as represented by the United States
Netherlands assigned to Akzo N V Department of Energy

Solar collector comprising a closed housing of
mainly rectangular cross-section, a collector
thermally connected to the housing for con-
verting solar rays into heat, a working fluid
which, during operation, is partly liquid and
partly gaseous, an evaporation space within the
housing, a condensation space within the
housing, an internal connection between said
spaces, and a heat exchanger. An intensive ther-
mal contact between the heat exchanger and the
working fluid is obtained by providing the con-
densation space with a wall profiled inwardly of
the housing and forming a space substantially
shut off from the surrounding atmosphere, the
space being positioned within the outer boun-
dary of the housing but outside the internal por-
tion thereof, and by disposing the heat exchanger
within the space and in thermal contact with the
wall.
This invention provides a heat exchanger, par-
ticularly useful for systems requiring cooling of
hot particulate solids, such as the separated fines
from the product gas of a carbonaceous material
gasification system. The invention allows effec-
tive cooling of a hot particulate in a particle
stream (made up of hot particulate and a gas),
using gravity as the motive source of the hot par-
ticulate. In a preferred form, the invention sub-
stitutes a tube structure for the single wall tube of
a heat exchanger. The tube structure comprises a
tube with a core disposed within, forming a
cavity between the tube and the core, and vanes
in the cavity which form a flow path through
which the hot particulate falls. The outside of the
tube is in contact with the cooling fluid of the
heat exchanger.

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