ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,429, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
"Shell-side heat transfer enhancement" was invented by Abdullah Misfer Al-Otaibi (Khobar, Saudi Arabia), John O'Connell (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Papa Cisse (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mohammad Ahmad Elyyan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Mohammed Rashed Aldossary (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for distributing flow through a shell side of a shell-and-tube heat exchanger, the device comprising a shell-side flow distributor configured to direct flow through all zones of a tube-bundle positioned in the shell, the shell-side fl...