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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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    • F24F3/00—Air-conditioning systems in which conditioned primary air is supplied from one or more central stations to distributing units in the rooms or spaces where it may receive secondary treatment; Apparatus specially designed for such systems
    • F24F3/12—Air-conditioning systems in which conditioned primary air is supplied from one or more central stations to distributing units in the rooms or spaces where it may receive secondary treatment; Apparatus specially designed for such systems characterised by the treatment of the air otherwise than by heating and cooling
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    • F24F3/1405—Air-conditioning systems in which conditioned primary air is supplied from one or more central stations to distributing units in the rooms or spaces where it may receive secondary treatment; Apparatus specially designed for such systems characterised by the treatment of the air otherwise than by heating and cooling by humidification; by dehumidification in which the humidity of the air is exclusively affected by contact with the evaporator of a closed-circuit cooling system or heat pump circuit
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
    • F24F—AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR CURRENTS FOR SCREENING
    • F24F3/00—Air-conditioning systems in which conditioned primary air is supplied from one or more central stations to distributing units in the rooms or spaces where it may receive secondary treatment; Apparatus specially designed for such systems
    • F24F3/12—Air-conditioning systems in which conditioned primary air is supplied from one or more central stations to distributing units in the rooms or spaces where it may receive secondary treatment; Apparatus specially designed for such systems characterised by the treatment of the air otherwise than by heating and cooling
    • F24F3/14—Air-conditioning systems in which conditioned primary air is supplied from one or more central stations to distributing units in the rooms or spaces where it may receive secondary treatment; Apparatus specially designed for such systems characterised by the treatment of the air otherwise than by heating and cooling by humidification; by dehumidification
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
    • F24F—AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR CURRENTS FOR SCREENING
    • F24F3/00—Air-conditioning systems in which conditioned primary air is supplied from one or more central stations to distributing units in the rooms or spaces where it may receive secondary treatment; Apparatus specially designed for such systems
    • F24F3/12—Air-conditioning systems in which conditioned primary air is supplied from one or more central stations to distributing units in the rooms or spaces where it may receive secondary treatment; Apparatus specially designed for such systems characterised by the treatment of the air otherwise than by heating and cooling
    • F24F3/14—Air-conditioning systems in which conditioned primary air is supplied from one or more central stations to distributing units in the rooms or spaces where it may receive secondary treatment; Apparatus specially designed for such systems characterised by the treatment of the air otherwise than by heating and cooling by humidification; by dehumidification
    • F24F2003/144—Air-conditioning systems in which conditioned primary air is supplied from one or more central stations to distributing units in the rooms or spaces where it may receive secondary treatment; Apparatus specially designed for such systems characterised by the treatment of the air otherwise than by heating and cooling by humidification; by dehumidification by dehumidification only

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  • This invention is concerned with drying a wet gas and adjusting the degree of residual wetness of the dried gas, by means of heat exchangers through which flows a fluid available in suflicient quantity at a temperature below that of the gas in question, notable examples of such a fluid being water or air.
  • the invention consists essentially in inserting, into the paths of the conduits conveying the wet gas to be dried, a plurality of heat exchangers acting as cold points, the water and other liquids of which said gas is to be rid condensing along the walls thereof.
  • a number of these heat exchangers have flowing through them a readily available fluid, such as Water or the surrounding air, and are arranged at a point along the gas path where the temperature of the gas exceeds that of said fluid to a suflicient extent.
  • a readily available fluid such as Water or the surrounding air
  • One such exchanger is of the adjustable flow type and serves to check the temperature of the gas on exit from the desiccation apparatus. 7
  • exchangers are traversed twice by the gas and are associated to a cooling system which cools the gas in between these two routings.
  • Such exchangers are preferably combined with an exchanger of the first type, which they flank.
  • the cooling system can operate both on the temperature and the local pressure of the gas to be dried.
  • the quantity of condensed liquid is adjusted by controlling the temperature of the gas at the coldest point along its path. This quantity therefore depends primarily on the temperature differential between said point and the ambient fluid utilized (air or water), although it also depends on the etiiciency of the heat exchangers used. 7
  • FIGURE 1 is a block diagram of a dessication apparatus according to'the invention, comprising a shaft which is driven by a motor and supports a blower and a turbine which serve as cooling means;
  • FIGURE 2- is an alternative block diagram, comprising the evaporator of a cooling plant.
  • FIGURE 3 is yet another alternative. block diagram, in which both the evaporator and the condenser of said cooling plant are utilized.
  • FIGURE 1 there is shown thereon 3,165,93 Patented Jan. 19, 1965 a desiccation plant according to the invention, shown in highly diagrammatic form.
  • the gas to be dried is first conveyed through a conduit 1 into a heat exchanger E which it traverses.
  • Said exchanger has flowing through it a fluid readily available in suflicient quantity (water or ambient air for in stance) and incorporates a valve 2 for adjusting the flow of said fluid.
  • the gas cooled in exchanger E then passes through a blower S which is driven by a motor M and by a turbine Tu located further downstream. On passing through blower S, said gas is compressed and heated.
  • an exchanger E through which circulates an ambient fluid and which is equipped with a valve 3 for adjusting the flow thereof, and preferably also (for considerations of thermal efficiency well known per se) two further exchangers E and E, which flank exchanger E and are traversed by the cooled gas expanded in turbine Tu.
  • a casing it encloses the heat exchangers and an inlet 11 is connected between the blower and the casing, and an outlet 12 is connected between the casing and the turbine Tu.
  • the gas issues from the device as at 4 and the direction which it follows through the various exchangers is preferably as indicated on the drawing. 7
  • the gas to be desiccated When the plant is in operation, the gas to be desiccated, the temperature of which is assumed to be higher than the ambient temperature, is heated polytropically as it passes through blower S, which increases the effectiveness of the exchanger E traversed by an ambient-temperature fluid. Condensation takes place over the cold Walls of the exchangers and is collected through moisture collectors such as C C C having valve or bleed means, such as V1, V V and possibly utilized. Beyond point A, the gas is definitively heated and it will be appreciated that its residual wetness as it emerges from the apparatus at 4 will in fact depend upon its temperature at A, which temperature-and hence also the residual wetness of the gas is rendered constant by thermostat means actuating valve. 3. Regulation of the final temperature acts upon the flow rate of the fluid passing through exchanger E which exchanger can possibly operate without condensation. Such an exchanger can be disposed with advantage upstream of the blower, the functional characteristics of which can be accordingly diminished.
  • An exchanger Ev through which circulates the fluid of a cooling plant (of which it constitutes the evaporator), brings the gas to its lowest temperature.
  • the flow of cooling fluid through said evaporator is adjusted by a valve operated by thermostat means sensitive to the gas temperature at A on exit from .Ev.
  • an exchanger E can be disposed at the exit end of the desiccation apparatus whereby to adjust the final temperature of the gas at B.
  • Exchanger B would be traversed by a conveniently available fluid and would incorporate a thermostat valve 6.
  • the residual wetness of the gas is adjusted by evaporator Ev on the basis of the temperature at the coldest point A, and also that the final temperature of the gas at B is adjusted by exchanger E which exchanger can be traversed by an ambient-temperature fluid provided that the scale of the temperatures allows of such a disposition.
  • said cooling plant is utilized not only for drawing ofi calories for condensation purposes (by means of its evaporator Ev, the output of which is adjustable in terms of the temperature at A) but also for returning calories to the dried gas at B (by means of its condenserC).
  • condenser C replaces the exchanger E of FIGURE 2, and the final temperature adjustment at B can be eifected in this case by incorporating the corresponding thermostat valve 7 on exchanger E which is traversed by a readily available fluid at preferably ambient temperature.
  • An apparatus for desiccating or dehumidfying a wet gas comprising 1 (a) a cooling device for cooling the gas;
  • feed means for feeding the gas under pressure to the cooling device;
  • exchanger means for placing the gas incoming to V the cooler device in heat exchange relation with the gas outgoing therefrom and including first and second exchanger devices arranged in series in the path of said incoming gas and in the path of said outgoing (a; a third exchanger devicefor placing the said incoming gas. in heat exchange relation with a cooling agent which is available in substantial quantity at a temperature below the-temperature of the wet gas, the third exchanger being arranged in series between the first and second exchangers in the path of. said incoming ga's,:and'
  • An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, comprising means for adjusting the temperature of the gas which is discharged from the apparatus.
  • cooling device consists of an expansion device for the gas.
  • An apparatus as claimed in claim 4 comprising means for controlling the flow rate of the cooling agent which is delivered to the third heat exchanger in response to the temperature of the gas leaving the expansion device so as to adjust the amount of condensed moisture.
  • feed means and expansion device comprise a blower device for compressing the gas and a turbine device for expanding the same, the turbine device cooperating with a motor to drive the blower device; a fourth exchanger device arranged in the path of the wet gas incoming to the blower device for placing said wet gas in heat exchange relation with a cooling agent which is available in substantial quantity, and'means for controlling the flow rate or" said cooling agent which is delivered to said fourth exchanger device, in response to the temperature of the gas leaving the apparatus, to adjust said temperature.
  • cooling device comprises an evaporator of a cooling plant, which is fed with cooling fluid, and means for placing said cooling fluid in heat exchange relation with the gas in the evaporator; comprising means for reheating the gas in the path thereof downstream of the said exchanger devices.
  • the reheating means comprises a fourth exchanger device for placing the gas in heat exchange relation with a reheating fluid which is available in substantial quantity at the ambient temperature; means for controlling the flow rate of the cooling fluid which is fed to the evaporator, in response to the temperature of the gas leaving said evaporator, to adjust the amount of condensed moisture, and means for controlling the flow rate of the reheat fiuid which is fed to the fourth exchanger, in response to the temperature of the gas leaving the apparatus to adjust said temperature of the gas.
  • the reheating means comprises the condenser of the cooling plant; means for controlling the flow rate of the cooling fluid which is fed to the evaporator, in response to the temperature of the gas leaving said evaporator, to adjust the amount of condensed moisture, and means for controlling the flow rate of the cooling agent which is delivered to the third heat exchanger, in response to the temperature of the gas leaving the apparatus, to adjust said temperature of the gas.

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Jan. 19, 1965 G. Roc ETAL GAS DESICCATION APPARATUS Filed Feb. 26, 1963 Fig.:3
[II I 5 5% m v T w 32% WREWQ 15 m Gciw United States Patent 3,165,963 GAS DESICATION APPARATUS Guy Roe, 'La Garenne-Colombes, and (Ilaude Andre, Paris, France, assigners to Societc Rateau et Iabinet Andre Faure, both of iaris, France, both companies of France Filed Feb. 26, 1963, Ser. No. 261,662 Qlaims priority, application France, Mar. 23, 1952, 8925349 9 Claims.- (Cl. 62-173) This invention is concerned with drying a wet gas and adjusting the degree of residual wetness of the dried gas, by means of heat exchangers through which flows a fluid available in suflicient quantity at a temperature below that of the gas in question, notable examples of such a fluid being water or air.
The invention consists essentially in inserting, into the paths of the conduits conveying the wet gas to be dried, a plurality of heat exchangers acting as cold points, the water and other liquids of which said gas is to be rid condensing along the walls thereof.
A number of these heat exchangers have flowing through them a readily available fluid, such as Water or the surrounding air, and are arranged at a point along the gas path where the temperature of the gas exceeds that of said fluid to a suflicient extent. One such exchanger is of the adjustable flow type and serves to check the temperature of the gas on exit from the desiccation apparatus. 7
Other exchangers are traversed twice by the gas and are associated to a cooling system which cools the gas in between these two routings. Such exchangers are preferably combined with an exchanger of the first type, which they flank. The cooling system can operate both on the temperature and the local pressure of the gas to be dried.
In all'cases, the quantity of condensed liquid is adjusted by controlling the temperature of the gas at the coldest point along its path. This quantity therefore depends primarily on the temperature differential between said point and the ambient fluid utilized (air or water), although it also depends on the etiiciency of the heat exchangers used. 7
Several alternative embodiments will be described hereinbelow by way of example but not of limitation, such embodiments diflering-essent-ially in the type of cooling system utilized. The latter could consist for instance of the combination of a blower driven by a motor and a gas turbine positioned further downstream; alternatively, it could consist of the evaporator and the condenser of a cooling plant of known design, or of its evaporator alone. In both these latter arrangements a fan is employed to circulate the gas.
The description which follows with reference to the accompanying drawings, which are filed by way of example and not of limitation, will give a clear understanding of the various features of the invention and of the art of carrying them into practice, all such disposition as emerge either from the description or the drawings naturally falling within the scope of this invention.
Referring to the drawing filed herewith:
FIGURE 1 isa block diagram of a dessication apparatus according to'the invention, comprising a shaft which is driven by a motor and supports a blower and a turbine which serve as cooling means;
FIGURE 2- is an alternative block diagram, comprising the evaporator of a cooling plant; and
FIGURE 3 is yet another alternative. block diagram, in which both the evaporator and the condenser of said cooling plant are utilized.
Referring first to FIGURE 1, there is shown thereon 3,165,93 Patented Jan. 19, 1965 a desiccation plant according to the invention, shown in highly diagrammatic form.
The gas to be dried is first conveyed through a conduit 1 into a heat exchanger E which it traverses. Said exchanger has flowing through it a fluid readily available in suflicient quantity (water or ambient air for in stance) and incorporates a valve 2 for adjusting the flow of said fluid.
The gas cooled in exchanger E then passes through a blower S which is driven by a motor M and by a turbine Tu located further downstream. On passing through blower S, said gas is compressed and heated.
Along its path between blower S and turbine Tu, the gas passes through the clusters of several heat exchangers: an exchanger E through which circulates an ambient fluid and which is equipped with a valve 3 for adjusting the flow thereof, and preferably also (for considerations of thermal efficiency well known per se) two further exchangers E and E, which flank exchanger E and are traversed by the cooled gas expanded in turbine Tu. .A casing it encloses the heat exchangers and an inlet 11 is connected between the blower and the casing, and an outlet 12 is connected between the casing and the turbine Tu.
A temperature detector disposed at the turbine exit end, namely at a point A which is the coldest along the gas path, is connected to the mechanism which operates the valve 3 equipping exchanger E while a second temperature detectordisposed at the exit end of the desiccation device, namely at a point B, is likewise connected to the valve 2 equipping exchanger E The gas issues from the device as at 4 and the direction which it follows through the various exchangers is preferably as indicated on the drawing. 7
When the plant is in operation, the gas to be desiccated, the temperature of which is assumed to be higher than the ambient temperature, is heated polytropically as it passes through blower S, which increases the effectiveness of the exchanger E traversed by an ambient-temperature fluid. Condensation takes place over the cold Walls of the exchangers and is collected through moisture collectors such as C C C having valve or bleed means, such as V1, V V and possibly utilized. Beyond point A, the gas is definitively heated and it will be appreciated that its residual wetness as it emerges from the apparatus at 4 will in fact depend upon its temperature at A, which temperature-and hence also the residual wetness of the gas is rendered constant by thermostat means actuating valve. 3. Regulation of the final temperature acts upon the flow rate of the fluid passing through exchanger E which exchanger can possibly operate without condensation. Such an exchanger can be disposed with advantage upstream of the blower, the functional characteristics of which can be accordingly diminished.
Such a plant is consequently noteworthy by the moderate' temperature gradients it implies, by the use of an ambient fluid to produce quasi-natural condensation by cold-wall physical effects and by the fact that it lends itself to continuous closed-circuit operation with any convenient gas.
The use of .an ambient fluid sets a condensation temperature level within the system and thus limits the amount of .wetness requiring to be condensed by a cooling system as such. I 4 .This invention would consequently seemtobe particularly well adapted to the drying of foods and natural products,'when it would be feasible to recover the conydensates (which are usually perfumed and subsequently matically in FIGURE 2. It comprises (in the direction of travel of the gas through the conduit 1-4 conveying it) a blower V driven by a motor M, and a plurality of heat exchangers.
An exchanger Ev, through which circulates the fluid of a cooling plant (of which it constitutes the evaporator), brings the gas to its lowest temperature. The flow of cooling fluid through said evaporator is adjusted by a valve operated by thermostat means sensitive to the gas temperature at A on exit from .Ev.
Upstream from said evaporator are disposed an exchanger E traversed by an ambient fluid and, preferably, two exchangers E and E flanking E and traversed by the gas cooled in evaporator Ev. Condensation takes place over the relatively cold walls of exchangers E through E and of evaporator Ev.
If desired, an exchanger E; can be disposed at the exit end of the desiccation apparatus whereby to adjust the final temperature of the gas at B. Exchanger B, would be traversed by a conveniently available fluid and would incorporate a thermostat valve 6.
It would be appreciated that in this case the residual wetness of the gas is adjusted by evaporator Ev on the basis of the temperature at the coldest point A, and also that the final temperature of the gas at B is adjusted by exchanger E which exchanger can be traversed by an ambient-temperature fluid provided that the scale of the temperatures allows of such a disposition.
When this is the case, it is possible to reduce the mechanical power required by the desiccation apparatus, as well as the number of moving parts used, but on the other hand it is necessary to employ a complete cooling plant.
'In the likewise schematically illustrated second embodiment of FIGURE 3, said cooling plant is utilized not only for drawing ofi calories for condensation purposes (by means of its evaporator Ev, the output of which is adjustable in terms of the temperature at A) but also for returning calories to the dried gas at B (by means of its condenserC). In point of fact, condenser C replaces the exchanger E of FIGURE 2, and the final temperature adjustment at B can be eifected in this case by incorporating the corresponding thermostat valve 7 on exchanger E which is traversed by a readily available fluid at preferably ambient temperature.
It is of course to be understood that this invention is by no means limited to the specific embodiments hereefore described, but that its scope also covers all such embodiments as can be devised by the application of equivalent technical means; in particular, it is applicable to the desiccation of a gas at any given temperature, insofar as a convenient fluid at lower temperatureis available in suflicient quantity; the invention is also applicable to the extraction of condensable products. What is claimed is:
1. An apparatus for desiccating or dehumidfying a wet gas, comprising 1 (a) a cooling device for cooling the gas;
(1)) feed means for feeding the gas under pressure to the cooling device; (0) means for discharging the gas outgoing from the cooling device;
(d) exchanger means for placing the gas incoming to V the cooler device in heat exchange relation with the gas outgoing therefrom and including first and second exchanger devices arranged in series in the path of said incoming gas and in the path of said outgoing (a; a third exchanger devicefor placing the said incoming gas. in heat exchange relation with a cooling agent which is available in substantial quantity at a temperature below the-temperature of the wet gas, the third exchanger being arranged in series between the first and second exchangers in the path of. said incoming ga's,:and'
(f) means for discharging condensed moisture from the exchanger devices.
2. .An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, comprising means for controlling the temperature of the gas leaving the cooiing device to adjust the amount of condensed moisture.
3. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, comprising means for adjusting the temperature of the gas which is discharged from the apparatus.
4. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the cooling device consists of an expansion device for the gas.
5. An apparatus as claimed in claim 4, comprising means for controlling the flow rate of the cooling agent which is delivered to the third heat exchanger in response to the temperature of the gas leaving the expansion device so as to adjust the amount of condensed moisture.
6. An apparatus as claimed in claim 4, wherein the feed means and expansion device comprise a blower device for compressing the gas and a turbine device for expanding the same, the turbine device cooperating with a motor to drive the blower device; a fourth exchanger device arranged in the path of the wet gas incoming to the blower device for placing said wet gas in heat exchange relation with a cooling agent which is available in substantial quantity, and'means for controlling the flow rate or" said cooling agent which is delivered to said fourth exchanger device, in response to the temperature of the gas leaving the apparatus, to adjust said temperature.
7. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the cooling device comprises an evaporator of a cooling plant, which is fed with cooling fluid, and means for placing said cooling fluid in heat exchange relation with the gas in the evaporator; comprising means for reheating the gas in the path thereof downstream of the said exchanger devices.
8. An apparatus as claimed in claim 7, wherein the reheating means comprises a fourth exchanger device for placing the gas in heat exchange relation with a reheating fluid which is available in substantial quantity at the ambient temperature; means for controlling the flow rate of the cooling fluid which is fed to the evaporator, in response to the temperature of the gas leaving said evaporator, to adjust the amount of condensed moisture, and means for controlling the flow rate of the reheat fiuid which is fed to the fourth exchanger, in response to the temperature of the gas leaving the apparatus to adjust said temperature of the gas.
9. An apparatus as claimed in claim 7, wherein the reheating means comprises the condenser of the cooling plant; means for controlling the flow rate of the cooling fluid which is fed to the evaporator, in response to the temperature of the gas leaving said evaporator, to adjust the amount of condensed moisture, and means for controlling the flow rate of the cooling agent which is delivered to the third heat exchanger, in response to the temperature of the gas leaving the apparatus, to adjust said temperature of the gas.
References titted in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,853,236 Shadle Apr. 12, 1932 1,879,685 Iaczko Sept. 27, 1932 2,126,266 Laird Aug. 9, 1938 2,150,224 Hull Mar. 14, 1939 2,477,772 Simpson Aug. 2, 1949 2,867,983 Brandt Jan. 13, 1959 2,875,589 Horn Mar. 3, 1959 2,903,861 Alcus Sept. 15, 1959 3,641,842 Heinecke July 3, 1962 3,091,097 Friant May 28, 1963 FOREIGN PATENTS 141,819 Switzerland Nov. 17, 1930

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1. AN APPARATUS FOR DESICCATING OR DEHUMIDFYING A WET GAS, COMPRISING (A) A COOLING DEVICE FOR COOLING THE GAS; (B) FEED MEANS FOR FEEDING THE GAS UNDER PRESSURE TO THE COOLING DEVICE; (C) MEANS FOR DISCHARGING THE GAS OUTGOING FROM THE COOLING DEVICE; (D) EXCHANGER MEANS FOR PLACING THE GAS INCOMING TO THE COOLER DEVICE IN HEAT EXCHANGER RELATION WITH THE GAS OUTGOING THEREFROM AND INCLUDING FIRST AND SECOND EXCHANGER DEVICES ARRANGED IN SERIES IN THE PATH OF SAID INCOMING GAS AND IN THE PATH OF SAID OUTGOING GAS;
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