Modular air cooled condenser apparatus and related methods are disclosed. An example mechanical draft modular air cooled condenser includes a first condenser bundle panel, a second condenser bundle panel, a third condenser bundle panel, and a fourth condenser bundle panel. The example condenser also includes a fan positioned to create a draft to flow over the first, second, third, and fourth condenser bundle panels.

An air-cooled condenser system for steam condensing applications in a power plant Rankine cycle includes an air cooled condenser having a plurality of interconnected modular cooling cells. Each cell comprises a frame-supported fan, inlet steam headers, outlet condensate headers, and tube bundle assemblies having extending between the headers. The tube bundle assemblies may be arranged in a V-shaped tube structure. A plurality of deflection limiter beams are arranged coplanar with the tube bundles. Top ends of each deflection limiter beam are slideably inserted in an associated floating end cap affixed to an upper tubesheet which moves vertically relative to the beams via thermal expansion/contraction concomitantly with the tubes. The deflection limiter beams provides guided restraint system for expansion/contraction of the tube bundles which prevents out of plane tube bowing.

An air-cooled condenser system for steam condensing applications in a power plant Rankine cycle includes an air cooled condenser having a plurality of interconnected modular cooling cells. Each cell comprises a frame-supported fan, inlet steam headers, outlet condensate headers, and tube bundle assemblies having extending between the headers. The tube bundle assemblies may be arranged in a V-shaped tube structure. A plurality of deflection limiter beams are arranged coplanar with the tube bundles. Top ends of each deflection limiter beam are slideably inserted in an associated floating end cap affixed to an upper tubesheet which moves vertically relative to the beams via thermal expansion/contraction concomitantly with the tubes. The deflection limiter beams provides guided restraint system for expansion/contraction of the tube bundles which prevents out of plane tube bowing.

The present invention relates to a high-vacuum serial condenser system that can minimize a pressure drop of fluid in condensers by disposing straight pipes between the condensers and installing baffles at predetermined angles in the condensers.

The present invention relates to a high-vacuum serial condenser system that can minimize a pressure drop of fluid in condensers by disposing straight pipes between the condensers and installing baffles at predetermined angles in the condensers.

A double turbine exhaust duct design and an inline V turbine exhaust duct design that both eliminate the need for the standard T-piece in a turbine exhaust duct assembly, substantially reducing the steam-side pressure drop, minimizing the sub-cooling in the steam cycle (the temperature difference between ACC condensate temperature out and turbine steam temperature), thus improving the overall efficiency of the steam cycle plant heat rate.

A double turbine exhaust duct design and an inline V turbine exhaust duct design that both eliminate the need for the standard T-piece in a turbine exhaust duct assembly, substantially reducing the steam-side pressure drop, minimizing the sub-cooling in the steam cycle (the temperature difference between ACC condensate temperature out and turbine steam temperature), thus improving the overall efficiency of the steam cycle plant heat rate.

A direct contact condenser for a steam turbine having an exhaust steam flow hood and a condenser connected to the hood. The condenser includes a downward flow condensing cell having a first liquid distribution assembly a first heat exchange media disposed below the first liquid distribution assembly. The condenser also includes an upward steam flow cooling cell and a second liquid distribution assembly along with a second heat exchange media disposed below the second liquid distribution assembly.

Vapor flow-diverting devices that re-direct upwardly flowing vapor, for example, in a downward direction across condenser tubes disposed in the upper or top section of a vapor-liquid contacting apparatus, are described. These devices are particularly beneficial in tubular condensers within distillation columns and may be used in combination with other associated equipment (e.g., a deflector plate and divider plate) as well as in combination with the tube surface enhancements to improve the heat transfer coefficient.

An air cooled condenser, and methods of manufacturing and field assembly of air cooled condensers in which one half of the primary heat exchanger coils are shop fitted with a length of steel configured to quickly and easily mate, during field assembly, with an opposing primary heat exchanger coil of standard configuration, thereby reducing material, shipping, and handling costs, improving positioning and orientation of HECs during assembly, and reducing the requirement for expensive field welding.