US Patent Issued to Lummus Novolen Technology on June 2 for "Heat exchanger with a vertical rod baffle structure and at least one notched longitudinal partition plate" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,650, issued on June 2, was assigned to Lummus Novolen Technology GmbH (Mannheim, Germany).

"Heat exchanger with a vertical rod baffle structure and at least one notched longitudinal partition plate" was invented by Oliver Marco Ruhl (Mannheim, Germany), Jochen Axel Schwab (Mannheim, Germany), Marco Brignone (Mannheim, Germany) and Frank Fiedler (Mannheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vertical rod baffle heat exchanger that includes a shell; a tube-sheet; a tube bundle having a plurality of heat exchange tubes extending in an axial direction; six or more longitudinal partition plates; and a plurality of rod baffle rings pro...