Abstract:
A method including punching a first hole in a parent sheet metal, such that a substantially round section with a first diameter is removed from the hole, forming a second hole by inserting a mandrel into the first hole, causing a portion of the parent sheet metal to deform in a downward direction and increase the diameter of the first hole to a second diameter, the deformed portion of the parent sheet metal is substantially perpendicular to the parent sheet metal, forming a thread into an interior sidewall of the second hole, and forming the parent sheet metal into a water tight manifold.
Abstract:
A threaded bolt or plug includes a compressible gasket ring adhered to the underside of the bolt head or plug head. The underside of the bolt head includes at least two concentric grooves covered by the compressible gasket.
Abstract:
Provided is a method for preparing sulfuric acid by using hydrogen sulfide. The method comprises the following steps: (1) performing a reduction-oxidation reaction between an H2S feed gas and oxygen to prepare SO2; (2) cooling the product acquired in step (1) to a temperature between 390° C. and 430° C., then performing a catalyzed oxidation reaction with oxygen; and (3) cooling the product acquired in step (2), then further cooling to a temperature between 60° C. and 120° C., collecting H2SO4 product. Also provided is a heat exchanger, comprising a housing and several glass pipes arranged within the housing along the direction of a long axis of the housing, arching between two lateral walls thereof; the adjacent glass pipes are connected head-to-tail. The method provides great hydrogen sulfide removal efficiency, simple process flow, and allows for economic efficiency of apparatus and reasonable utilization of energy.
Abstract:
A monolithic refractory ceramic tube sheet for use in all-ceramic air-to-air indirect heat exchangers, the heat exchanger used in all temperature and all pressure applications. A method for forming the monolithic tube sheet includes casting a refractory ceramic in a mold, where portions of the mold comprise the housing of the heat exchanger. Precisely formed negatives are used to form through channels and vacancies within the tube sheet, which are precisely positioned within the mold allowing uniform and flush formation of openings which receive the ceramic tubes therein. The same mold is used to provide both tube sheets of a tube sheet pair allowing accurate alignment of tubes within the exchanger vessel resulting in ease of assembly and equal loading of tubes when in use.
Abstract:
A warm water heater consists of a plurality of horizontally arranged profile elements spaced one above the other and attached to a pair of vertical posts, whereby between each pair of profile elements a horizontal air inlet gap is formed at the rearward side of the heater and a horizontal air outlet gap at the front side of the heater. The inlet gap is disposed at a lower level than the outlet gap. Each profile element is provided with an integral water channel, the ends of which communicating with vertical water channels provided in the vertical posts respectively. Plugs are inserted in the water channels in a predetermined pattern so that warm water is positively passed through the heater along a serpentine way.
Abstract:
An impermeable non-rigid seal is made between the joints of silicon carbide heat exchanger tubes and their supporting silicon carbide tube sheets by first making suitable openings for the tubes through the tube sheet before it is fired. Concentric with the small tube opening is a somewhat larger countersunk second opening, the bottom of the countersink forming a shoulder for the retention of packing material. A third countersink is made, larger than the second, to form a recess in which a graphite plug may be bonded. The tube sheet is infiltrated with silicon in a high temperature furnace and the graphite plug drilled and threaded to engage corresponding threads on a cylindrical packing follower. A silicon carbide tube is inserted in the tube sheet and packing material placed around it. The packing is enclosed by sliding the packing follower over the end of the tube and engaging it with the threaded graphite plug. Rotating the follower then compresses the packing to make an impermeable nonrigid seal between the tube and tube sheet.