Annular flow diverter valve
The invention relates to valves useful both for flow divergence and flow convergence and more particularly to servocontrolled annular flow diverter valves which are also useful in the reverse direction for flow mixing. In more detail, the invention relates to a valve capable of splitting a single inflowing stream into two separate and distinct outflowing streams wherein one of the outflowing streams follows the original flow path and the other outflowing stream follows a flow path immediately surrounding the first flow path. The valve operating on fluid flow in the reverse direction can also act as a controllable device capable of mixing two fluids flowing from a concentric system into the inner tube. Specifically, the invention relates to a valve for diverting flow from the center of two concentric tubes to the annulus between the tubes and for controlling the volume ratio of the flows.
- Assignee:
- Dept. of Energy
- OSTI ID:
- 5707376
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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