Patent ID: 6041852
Filing Date: 2000-03-28
Classification: F28B

Abstract:
A condenser comprising:a condenser body;a first cooling pipe bundle having a number of cooling pipes extending in a first horizontal direction and disposed in the condenser body;a pair of second cooling pipe bundles, each having a number of cooling pipes extending in the first horizontal direction and disposed at a substantially central part of the first cooling pipe bundle, the second cooling pipe bundles defining a gap therebetween;a partitioning element defining a pair of air cooling chambers each containing one of the second cooling pipe bundles respectively, the partitioning element defining an upper space above each of the second cooling pipe bundles and a lower space below each of the second cooling pipe bundles in each of the air cooling chambers, the partitioning element including a pair of deflector plates diverging as traveling downward in a second horizontal direction which is perpendicular to the first horizontal direction, wherein the air cooling chambers are defined below the deflector plates respectively, wherein the partitioning element is so disposed that the partitioning element is capable of preventing steam passing through the first cooling pipe bundle from directly intruding into the upper spaces of the air cooling chambers without first passing through the second cooling pipe bundles, and wherein the partitioning element defines a pair of openings for introducing the steam which has passed through the first cooling pipe bundle into the lower spaces of the air cooling chambers respectively; andan air exhaust inner pipe extended vertically in the first cooling pipe bundle, the air exhaust inner pipe having one end communicated with one or both of the upper spaces in the cooling chambers and the other end communicated with the outside of the condenser body.