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Abstract

The subject of the disclosure is a vertical shell and tube straight tube countercurrent condenser, wherein the condensing steam flows on the shell side of the condenser, and the cooling water on the tube side. The disclosure is characterized in that the countercurrent condenser is two pass on both the shell side and the tube side, whereby the heat surface of the first pass on the shell side is formed from heat surface tubes in the steam space of this pass attached at their upper end to an upper tube sheet and at their lower end to a lower tube sheet through which tubes cooling water of second pass on tube-side flows; and the heat surface of the second pass on the shell side is formed from heat surface tubes in steam space of this pass and attached at their upper end to the upper tube sheet and at their lower end to another lower tube sheet, through which tubes cooling water of first pass on tube-side flows, whereby said steam spaces are interconnected through an opening between the upper end of a separating wall, dividing the shell space, and an upper tube sheet; whereby the flow direction of the steam in the steam space of the shell side first pass is upwards; and in the other steam space downwards, and the flow direction of the cooling water in the heat surface tubes of both passes is countercurrent to the steam flow flowing outside said tubes.

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