Patent ID: 6101984
Filing Date: 2000-08-15
Classification: F28D,Y02E

Abstract:
A fluid heater, comprising a tank having an inner chamber for accommodating a fluid to be heated; a heat exchanger having a tube bundle and a shell surrounding said tube bundle, said shell being introduced in said tank so that a wall of said shell is in contact with the fluid in the interior of said tank, said shell having an inlet for introducing a heating fluid, said tube bundle having an outlet which communicates through an upwardly raising pipe with the interior of said tank and an inlet for introducing a fluid to be heated, so that when the heating fluid is introduced through said inlet of said shell into said shell heat of said heating fluid is transferred through the wall of said shell to the fluid in the interior of said tank and also heats the fluid inside the tube bundle so that the heated fluid from said tube bundle is supplied through said upwardly raising pipe into the interior of said tank.