Patent ID: 9581395
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: A61F,B01D,F28D,F28F,H01M,Y02E

Claim:
1. A tube sheet construction comprising a plurality of separate planar tube sheet segments, multiple holes being provided in each planar tube sheet segment in a predetermined pattern, each hole for accommodating an elongated tubular element, wherein all of the tube sheet segments aligned so that each of the predetermined pattern of each tube sheet segment being in alignment, a media layer disposed parallel with the tube sheet segments, at least one sensor element supported by the media layer, and fasteners for securing the planar tube sheet segments and the media layer together and arranged so that all planar tube sheet segments and said media layer are all maintained in intimate contact as a solid tube sheet structure, and wherein each elongated tubular element has a main shaft and an end flange that is integral with the main shaft and that is disposed between the two adjacently disposed tube sheet segments, said end flange having a diameter greater than a diameter of the main shaft of the elongated tubular element.