|  | F |
SECTION F — MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING

LIGHTING; HEATING

|  | F28 |
HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL (heat-transfer, heat-exchange or heat-storage materials Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...C09K 5/00; arrangement or mounting of heat-exchangers in air-conditioning, air-humidification or ventilation Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F24F 13/30)

|  | F28 |
Note(s) In this class, the following expressions are used with the meanings indicated: "heat exchange" means the heating or cooling of a fluid or fluent solid by direct or indirect contact with a heated or cooled fluid or fluent solid; "heat transfer" means the heating or cooling of a fluid or fluent solid by direct contact with a heated or cooled surface or body. Apparatus using heat exchange or heat transfer (as defined in Note (1) above) for specific purposes is classified either in subclass Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F28B or in the appropriate subclasses of, for example, classes Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F22, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F24, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F25, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F26, or Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F27; if no such other subclass is appropriate, such apparatus is classified in subclass Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F28C or Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F28D.

|  | F28C |
HEAT-EXCHANGE APPARATUS, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN ANOTHER SUBCLASS, IN WHICH THE HEAT-EXCHANGE MEDIA COME INTO DIRECT CONTACT WITHOUT CHEMICAL INTERACTION (safety devices in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F16P; fluid heaters having heat generating means Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F24H; with an intermediate heat-transfer medium coming into direct contact with heat-exchange media Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F28D 15/00-F28D 19/00; details of heat-exchange apparatus of general application Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F28F)

|  | F28C 1/00 |
Direct-contact trickle coolers, e.g. cooling towers (building construction Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04H 5/12; enclosed spaces cooled by trickle Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F25; component parts of trickle coolers Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F28F 25/00)

|  | F28C 1/02 |
· | with counter-current only

|  | F28C 1/04 |
· | with cross-current only

|  | F28C 1/06 |
· | with both counter-current and cross-current

|  | F28C 1/08 |
· | Arrangements for recovering heat from exhaust steam

|  | F28C 1/10 |
· | Arrangements for suppressing noise [5]

|  | F28C 1/12 |
· | Arrangements for preventing clogging by frost [3]

|  | F28C 1/14 |
· | comprising also a non-direct contact heat exchange [3]

|  | F28C 1/16 |
· | Arrangements for preventing condensation, precipitation or mist formation, outside the cooler (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F28C 1/14 takes precedence) [3]

|  | F28C 3/00 |
Other direct-contact heat-exchange apparatus

|  | F28C 3/02 |
· | the heat-exchange media both being gases or vapours

|  | F28C 3/04 |
· | the heat-exchange media both being liquids

|  | F28C 3/06 |
· | the heat-exchange media being a liquid and a gas or vapour (temperators for cooling steam Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F22)

|  | F28C 3/08 |
· · | with change of state, e.g. absorption, evaporation, condensation (generating steam under pressure Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F22)

|  | F28C 3/10 |
· | one heat-exchange medium at least being a fluent solid, e.g. a particulate material

|  | F28C 3/12 |
· · | the heat-exchange medium being a particulate material and a gas, vapour, or liquid

|  | F28C 3/14 |
· · · | the particulate material moving by gravity, e.g. down a tube

|  | F28C 3/16 |
· · · | the particulate material forming a bed, e.g. fluidised, on vibratory sieves

|  | F28C 3/18 |
· · · | the particulate material being contained in rotating drums