Patent ID: 9194609
Filing Date: 2015-11-24
Classification: F22B,F24S,Y02E,Y02P

Abstract:
1. A shop-assembled solar receiver heat exchanger comprising: a multi-sided arrangement of heat transfer surfaces, a vertical steam/water separator structurally and fluidically interconnected thereto; and a vertical support structure top supporting the vertical steam/water separator and the heat transfer surfaces, wherein each side of the multi-sided arrangement of heat transfer surfaces has both an evaporative heat transfer surface section and a superheater heat transfer surface section, such that both the evaporative heat transfer surface section and the superheater heat transfer surface section of each side of the multi-sided arrangement are each individually formed from a loose tangent tube panel having a plurality of individual tangent tubes, an upper header and a lower header, such that the tangent tubes of each loose tangent tube panel are operatively coupled to two or more collector beams along an inner surface thereof, wherein the two or more collector beams are located between the upper and lower headers of the loose tangent tube panels.