A collector assembly includes a first collector and a pipe. The first collector includes an outlet pipe. A pipe chamber of the outlet pipe is in communication with an inner chamber of the first collector. The pipe includes an inlet end portion and an outlet end portion. The inlet end portion is located in the first collector. The outlet end portion is at least partially located in the outlet pipe. An inner chamber of the pipe is in communication with the pipe chamber of the outlet pipe and the inner chamber of the first collector. At least part of the outlet end portion is located in the pipe chamber of the outlet pipe. A heat exchanger having the collector assembly is also disclosed.

A heat exchanger includes heat exchanger cores connected to a distributor. The inside of the distributor is divided into refrigerant flow paths, allowing the refrigerant to flow from one of the refrigerant flow paths to another one of the refrigerant flow paths. The heat transfer tubes of one of the heat exchanger cores disposed on a windward side of a flow of the air fed to the heat exchanger are connected to at least one of the refrigerant flow paths disposed in the distributor on an upstream side of a flow of the refrigerant. The heat transfer tubes of one of the heat exchanger cores disposed on a leeward side of the flow of the air fed to the heat exchanger are connected to at least one of the refrigerant flow paths disposed in the distributor on a downstream side of the flow of the refrigerant.

Described are a high pressure carbamate condenser, urea plant, and urea production process. The high pressure carbamate condenser as described is of the shell-and-tube heat exchanger type with a tube bundle and has a redistribution chamber connected to tubes of the tube bundle and to a duct. The duct extends between the redistribution chamber and the shell.

In a method for producing a series of at least a first and a second plate-fin heat exchangers, several elongate fluid distribution tanks are installed on the matrix unit, each tank capping just some of the openings assigned to the first fluid and to the second fluid, each tank having its axis in the direction of stacking and each being connected to a pipe so that the number of openings assigned to the first fluid differs from the number of openings assigned to the first fluid, and for preference, the number of openings assigned to the second fluid differs from the number of openings assigned to the second fluid for the at least first and second exchangers of the series.

A heat exchanger in which a refrigerant and air flow exchange heat includes a first heat-exchanging unit. The first heat-exchanging unit includes: a first header including a first gas refrigerant inlet/outlet; a second header including a first liquid refrigerant inlet/outlet; a plurality of first flat tubes disposed side by side in a longitudinal direction of the first header and the second header; and a first communication path formation portion that is connected to the first header and the second header and that forms a first communication path.

A heat exchanger includes: a heat exchanging part that includes flat tubes aligned vertically when the heat exchanger is installed; a first flow divider that includes a first pipe through which a refrigerant enters or exits from the first flow divider, second pipes that provide refrigerant flow paths between the heat exchanging part and the first pipe, and a main body that internally has a first space; and second flow dividers that each internally include one of second spaces that provide refrigerant flow paths between the heat exchanging part and the first flow divider. The first space communicates with a first end of the first pipe and a first end of each of the second pipes and causes the refrigerant to flow from the first pipe into the second pipes or from the second pipes into the first pipe.

A heat exchanger includes: a header, having a first end and a second end which are opposite each other, and further having an inner cavity; a plurality of heat exchange tubes arranged in an axial direction of the header, with ends of the plurality of heat exchange tubes being connected to the header; and a connecting tube, the connecting tube having a connecting part and a supply part which is connected to the connecting part and also connected to the first end of the header, the supply part being configured such that a flow direction of a heat exchange medium supplied to a predetermined number of heat exchange tubes through the inner cavity of the header is not parallel to an axis of the header, the predetermined number of heat exchange tubes being a predetermined number of heat exchange tubes counted from the first end of the header. By using the heat exchanger according to the embodiments of the present disclosure, heat exchanger performance can be improved.

A heat exchanger includes plural heat transfer tubes disposed with a specified spacing from each other in the up and down direction, and a distributor configured to distribute refrigerant to the heat transfer tubes. The distributor includes a body part, and plural flow-splitting parts, the body part including a first passage in which refrigerant flows upward, the flow-splitting parts communicating with the first passage and with one of the heat transfer tubes. The flow-splitting parts include one or more first flow-splitting parts each communicating with a first heat transfer tube, which is a higher positioned heat transfer tube. The flow-splitting parts include one or more second heat transfer tubes each communicating with a second heat transfer tube positioned below the first heat transfer tube. The refrigerant inlet of the first flow-splitting part communicates with the first passage at a location below the refrigerant inlet of the second flow-splitting part.

This heat exchanger is equipped with: a first heat exchange unit having a first inlet/outlet unit which has one inlet/outlet port and through which a coolant flows, and also having a plurality of first heat transfer pipes, each of which has one end thereof connected to the first inlet/outlet unit; a header pipe which is connected to the other ends of the plurality of first heat transfer pipes; and a second heat exchange unit having a second inlet/outlet unit which has two or more inlet/outlet ports and through which a coolant flows, and also having a plurality of second heat transfer pipes, each of which has one end thereof connected to the header pipe and the other end thereof connected to the second inlet/outlet unit. The coolant flows from the first heat exchange unit side toward the second heat exchange unit side during heating and flows from the second heat exchange unit side toward the first heat exchange unit side during cooling. In addition, the second heat exchange unit has a larger heat exchange surface area, which is the surface area across which heat exchange between the coolant and air occurs, than does the first heat exchange unit.

A heat exchanger includes: a manifold having a manifold opening passing through a pipe wall of the manifold; a distribution pipe disposed in the manifold and having a distribution pipe opening passing through a pipe wall of the distribution pipe; and a connecting pipe assembly including a first connecting pipe The first connecting pipe is inserted in the manifold opening, has an end connected to the distribution pipe at the distribution pipe opening, and is in fluid communication with the distribution pipe. Thereby, the space occupied by the connecting pipe assembly in the manifold can be reduced.