A heat exchanger having: front and aft ends; heat exchanger cores in an annular loop that define circumferential gaps between adjacent pairs of the cores, the cores, individually or as axially aligned sets, extend from the front to aft ends and have facing inlet sides and circumferentially facing outlet sides configured such that the inlet sides and the outlet sides from the adjacent pairs of the cores face into the same circumferential gaps; and core guide vanes disposed in the circumferential gaps, the core guide vanes have an aft portion that extends from the front end to the aft end of the heat exchanger, wherein: at the front end the heat exchanger, the core guide vanes are closer to the outlet side of the cores; and at the aft end the heat exchanger, the core guide vanes are closer to the inlet sides of the cores.

The present invention relates to an air conditioning module comprising a thermo electric cell having a first side and a second side; an conditioning duct attached to the first side of the thermo electric cell; and an exhaust duct attached to the second side of the thermoelectric cell; wherein the conditioning duct receives and conditions air from a room, and the exhaust duct vents unwanted thermal energy.

The present application provides a heat exchanger for exchanging heat between two fluid flows in cross-flow arrangement. The heat exchanger includes at least one heat exchanging module including a first heat exchanging component and a second heat exchanging component. The first heat exchanging component including a fluid inlet header, a fluid outlet header, and at least one heat exchanging passageway defining a first tube-side fluid flow path of a first portion of a fluid in a first direction. The second heat exchanging component including a fluid inlet header, a fluid outlet header, and at least one heat exchanging passageway defining a second tube-side fluid flow path in a second direction for an additional portion of the fluid, wherein the first direction is opposed to the second direction. The opposing first tube-side fluid flow path and the second tube-side fluid flow path equalizing the temperature distribution over the cross-section of a cross-flow fluid exiting the module.

A recuperator including neighbouring sheets between which flow passages for air are formed. The sheets are provided with a corrugated profile including peaks, troughs and straight flanks. The peaks and troughs of a sheet are situated at an equal distance from a central plane of the sheet. Neighbouring flanks are directly connected to each other via a peak or trough. Between neighbouring flanks, first and second passage duct parts are formed which are each delimited at one end by a peak or trough and which are open at the end situated opposite the peak. In a direction at right angles to the central plane, the peaks and troughs associated with neighbouring sheets are aligned with respect to each other in such a way that first passage duct parts of a sheet and second passage duct parts associated with a neighbouring sheet are in communication with each other via connecting passage parts which extend between the troughs associated with the one sheet and peaks associated with the other sheet. The first passage duct parts, the second passage duct parts and the connecting passage parts between two sheets together form a flow passage. The smallest distance between the respective peaks and troughs which define the connecting passage parts is greater than 40% of the distance between neighbouring flanks.

The present disclosure relates to a dishmachine that includes one or more features directed to water, energy or material savings. The disclosed dishmachines are still capable of meeting the soil demands of the articles to be cleaned.

Provided is a solvent separation method and a solvent separation apparatus that make it possible to efficiently retrieve the thermal energy possessed by an exhaust atmosphere released in a solvent-removal step to suppress reductions in a temperature of the exhaust atmosphere. In the solvent separation method and the solvent separation apparatus, a vaporized solvent is removed from a gas while heat exchange between the gas within a condensation part and the gas within a dust-collection part is conducted by using a heat exchange part that is placed between the condensation part that introduces the gas into a first direction and the dust-collection part that introduce the gas into a second direction opposite to the first direction the gas discharged from a downstream side of the condensation part.

A system includes a waste heat recovery heat exchanger configured to heat a heating fluid stream by exchange with a heat source in a crude oil associated gas processing plant; and an Organic Rankine cycle energy conversion system. The Organic Rankine cycle energy conversion system includes a heat exchanger configured to heat a first portion of a working fluid by exchange with the heated heating fluid stream; and a cooling subsystem including one or more cooling elements each configured to cool one or more of a process stream from the crude oil associated gas processing plant and a cooling water stream for ambient air cooling by exchange with a second portion of the working fluid. The Organic Rankine cycle energy conversion system includes an ejector configured to receive the second portion of the working fluid from the cooling subsystem and a third portion of the working fluid; a turbine and a generator configured to generate power by expansion of a fourth portion of the working fluid; and a cooling element configured to cool a stream of working fluid including an output stream of working fluid from the ejector and the expanded fourth portion of the working fluid from the turbine and generator.

A heat exchanger according to the present invention comprises a heat exchange portion in which heating water flow paths where heating water flows through a space between a plurality of plates, hot water flow paths through which hot water flows, and combustion gas flow paths are adjacently and alternatingly formed, wherein the heat exchange portion comprises: a heating sensible heat portion, which surrounds the outside of a combustion chamber and comprises an area on one side of the plates, for heating the heating water using the sensible heat of the combustion gas generated by combustion of the burner; a heating latent heat portion, which comprises a partial area on the other side of the plates, for heating the heating water using the latent heat of water vapors in the combustion gas which has completed heat exchanging in the heating sensible heat portion; and a hot water latent heat portion, which comprises the remaining area on the other side of the plates, for heating direct water using the latent heat of water vapors in the combustion gas which has passed through the heating latent heat portion.

A method of forming a membrane panel configured to be secured within an energy exchange assembly may include forming an outer frame defining a central opening, and integrating a membrane sheet with the outer frame. The membrane sheet spans across the central opening, and is configured to transfer one or both of sensible energy or latent energy therethrough. The integrating operation may include injection-molding the outer frame to edge portions of the membrane sheet. Alternatively, the integrating operation may include laser-bonding, ultrasonically bonding, heat-sealing, or the like, the membrane sheet to the outer frame.

A plate package for a heat exchanger device includes a plurality of heat exchanger plates with mating abutment portions forming a fluid distribution element in every second plate interspace thereby forming in the respective second plate interspaces two arc-shaped flow paths wherein a respective one of the two flow paths is divided into at least three flow path sectors arranged one after the other along a respective flow path. A plate and a heat exchanger are also disclosed.