Claims
- 1. A heat exchanger of the type having a first confined path for conducting high pressure fluid from an inlet to a point wherein said high pressure fluid is expanded to a lower pressure and a second confined path for returning the expanded fluid from the point of expansion comprising in combination:
- at least one low pressure tube and at least one high pressure tube disposed alternately in a stacked or parallel bundle array, said array containing high and low tubes progressively flattened from said inlet to said point of expansion of said fluid.
- 2. A heat exchanger according to claim 1 wherein said array includes at least one high pressure tube and at least three low pressure tubes progressively flattened and stacked in a vertical or parallel bundle array.
- 3. A heat exchanger according to claim 1 wherein said array is held together by a conductive wire wrapped around said array.
- 4. A heat exchanger according to claim 1 wherein said array is flattened in a stepwise manner from said inlet to said point of expansion of said fluid.
- 5. A heat exchanger according to claim 1 wherein said high and low pressure tubes are fabricated from deoxidized high residual phosphorous.
- 6. A heat exchanger according to claim 1 wherein said high pressure tubes have an inside diameter of approximately 0.164 inches and said low pressure tubes have an inside diameter of approximately 0.164 inches, respectively before assembly and flattening.
- 7. A heat exchanger according to claim 1 wherein said flattening results in a vertical dimension of 0.2 inches at the point of expansion of said fluid.
Parent Case Info
This is a division of application Ser. No. 818,832, filed Jan. 14, 1986, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,697,635 which was a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 627,958 filed July 5, 1984 now U.S. Pat. No. 4,567,943.
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