Summary of the invention
The objective of the invention is provides improved heat exchanger, the method for culinary art medium heating in the catering facility that comprises this kind heat exchanger and this kind catering facility is provided for catering facility.
Another purpose be to the culinary art medium particularly temperature-sensitive culinary art medium (for example oil ﹠ fat) provide the heat exchanger that may use at present more can control the heat-transfer equipment of heating process effectively than the culinary art industry.
For realizing purpose of the present invention, the invention provides a kind of heat exchanger, be used for the heating cooking medium, it comprises with lower member: a shell; One is positioned at the culinary art dielectric chamber that passes through for the culinary art medium within the described shell of being made by the material that described culinary art medium is had inertia; A heat exchange elements, making coil and its outer surface uses culinary art medium inactive material is made, in order to limiting a spiral passage,, it is characterized in that described heat exchange elements makes the Double-spiral electric device for the culinary art medium culinary art dielectric chamber of in heat exchanging process, flowing through.
Double helical heat exchange elements or coil place in the culinary art dielectric chamber, make it with the inwall of described shell between a little gap is arranged and limit the culinary art medium pass cook dielectric chamber road for being spiral passage in general.The meaning of the fluid passage that term used herein " spirality channel " comprises is full of twists and turns, twine and so on can allow and mix to such an extent that well cook medium and closely contact with heat exchange elements.Like this, just can in little volume, obtain efficient hot transmission range, thereby under the situation that does not produce the main space restriction, realize the more effective control of heat exchanging process.
Heating element heater can be resistive type, and is still, important not as its shape for forcing the culinary art medium to pass the full of twists and turns spirality channel of meticulous qualification the character of heat exchange elements.Heating can be with combustion gas or deep fat.
Described heating element heater can be with the pulse current energy supply of the power level that requires, and its pulse width particularly under the situation of having used electric device, is regulated by the control device that monitors the heat exchange operation.Do like this and reduce the dangerous less of culinary art mass of medium.But this mode is higher to temperature-sensitive culinary art medium heating energy efficiency.
Pulse frequency can be selected easily, makes the thermal inertia paired pulses of heat exchange elements adjust.That is to say that the power density on the heat exchange surface of heat exchange elements on the certain power level can not fluctuate and can keep constant substantially.
According to a second aspect of the present invention, a kind of catering facility is provided, comprise a shell and a cooking area, described cooking area is for the culinary art medium is arranged, this culinary art medium is heated to the cooking temp of requirement by the heat-exchange device that comprises a heat exchanger at least, described heat exchanger is used for the heating cooking medium and comprises with lower member: a shell; One is positioned at the culinary art dielectric chamber that passes through for the culinary art medium within the described shell of being made by the material that described culinary art medium is had inertia; A heat exchange elements, making coil and its outer surface uses culinary art medium inactive material is made, in order to limiting a spiral passage,, it is characterized in that described heat exchange elements makes the Double-spiral electric device for the culinary art medium culinary art dielectric chamber of in heat exchanging process, flowing through.
This kind heat exchanger can be used for many injection catering facilities of the applicant's development.Particularly can be used for number of patent application is the injection fryer of WO 93/24040 or the device that is used to be more suitable for family expenses or retail food output arrangement.
This heat exchanger also can be used for the catering facility of other kind, for example vat pot and pressure cooker.Described pot can be the multi-region type.The culinary art medium can be used the heat-exchange device heating that is combined into by a plurality of above-mentioned the sort of heat exchangers easily.Each heat exchanger can use identical or different peak power outputs.Like this, for the culinary art medium temperature of a certain setting, the thermal output of each heat exchanger just can reduce, and this temperature helps the quality of culinary art medium is remained in acceptable level, especially when described culinary art medium be that temperature-sensitive is when oily or fatty.
In the 3rd preferred embodiment of the present invention, the method for the culinary art medium that a kind of heating cooking food uses is provided, comprise: the culinary art dielectric chamber of the culinary art medium being introduced a heat exchanger; Described culinary art medium is flowed being positioned at the spiral passage that formed by the heat exchange elements coil within the described culinary art dielectric chamber; Cook the cooking temp that medium is heated to requirement with heat exchange elements coil handle, wherein, described heat exchanger is used for the heating cooking medium and comprises with lower member: a shell; One is positioned at the culinary art dielectric chamber that passes through for the culinary art medium within the described shell of being made by the material that described culinary art medium is had inertia; A heat exchange elements, making coil and its outer surface uses culinary art medium inactive material is made, in order to limiting a spiral passage,, it is characterized in that described heat exchange elements makes the Double-spiral electric device for the culinary art medium culinary art dielectric chamber of in heat exchanging process, flowing through.
Convenient and advantageously heating element heater is with the pulse current energy supply, pulse width is controllably regulated.This kind pulse width modulation can make thermal media heat under the situation of the danger that does not reduce quality.
Although the heat exchanging process of imagination be a heating process often, allow the culinary art medium be heated to a certain cooking temp before being positioned at the indoor food of culinary art that spray complains and quarrel loudly being sprayed onto, but equally also can being used for convection cell, heat exchanger lowers the temperature.
Advantageously, under the situation to the culinary art medium heating of spraying fried equipment, heat exchanging process carries out under the conditions of air not having substantially, because not like this, may produce adverse effect to the food of culinary art medium and production.
The method of operating of heat exchanger, catering facility and heat exchanger more can be effectively to the heating of culinary art medium than the method for the prior art of explanation here, particularly cooks medium when being thermo-sensitive material, and is all the more so.
The specific embodiment
Referring now to Fig. 1 and Fig. 2,, shown a heat exchanger 10 among the figure, it comprises: one is basic is columnar shell 12; One is positioned at shell 12, is used for the culinary art dielectric chamber 14 that passes through at heat exchanging process culinary art medium; With one be used for limiting become basically spiral fluid course for the culinary art medium in heat exchanging process, pass fluid media (medium) chamber 14 heat exchange elements 16.Each parts all will be considered the utilization of heat exchanger, uses the material manufacturing of suitable function separately and environment.Therefore, the shell 12 of heat exchanger 10 can be with stainless steel or to the culinary art medium that carries out heat exchange to be certain material making of inertia.Heat exchange elements 16 can use the nickel alloy such as inconel to make.See also such as outstanding chemical engineers handbooks such as Perry for further specifying of this type of alloy.
In the illustrated embodiment, heat exchange elements 16 is made the helix tube 16a that spiral coil promptly has multiturn coil, place in the culinary art dielectric chamber 14, thereby the inlet 20 of culinary art medium by heat exchanger 10 bottoms enters culinary art medium upstream chamber 21, be that to be directed flowing through by the mouth that the gap between the coil 16b of adjacent fluid upstream chamber 21 forms be spiral fluid passage substantially just as shown, the volume that this passage has with culinary art dielectric chamber 14 can provide the benefit of bigger heat transfer surface area comparatively speaking, and can guarantee that fluid stirs and close evenly and homogeneous heating.
The heat exchange elements 16 that is shown in easily in Fig. 4 is made the bifilar helix cast, thereby can make electric connection at an end of heat exchanger 10.The selection of spacing 17 sizes of each circle 16a of coil is in order to obtain the desirable cross-sectional area of desirable heat transfer path length and culinary art media flow passage in heat exchanger 10.Preferably being chosen as of this spacing is not less than, preferably greater than the pipe diameter of heating element heater 16.Spacing can be positive also can be oblique, oblique can obtain bigger heat transfer area in the certain-length of culinary art dielectric chamber 14.
The culinary art medium passes the mouth that contiguous culinary art medium is exported the interval formation between the two circle coil 16c of chamber 70 at the end of heat transfer path, and the outlet 80 on the described output chamber 70 allows the culinary art medium enter the cooking area of the device, particularly catering facility of downstream process.Outlet 80 will place the extreme higher position of chamber 70 and heat exchanger 10 so that build-up of air not in it.Can consider to use vent valve, still, because the amount of dissolved air can change with temperature in the culinary art medium, it may be unacceptable using the way of vent valve, because the formation of air separation in heat exchanger and air pocket may make air pocket overheated.In order to obtain this flow channel, can be easily heat exchange elements 16 be wrapped in around the lining 40 of the shell 12 that is positioned at heat exchanger 10 this shell and lining 40 delimit chamber 14.Lining 40 and shell 12 form one together and are columnar structure substantially, between the inwall 12a of shell and heat exchange elements 16, there are enough gap heat supply exchange components to slip into desired location in the shell 12, and don't are enough to damage the desirable basic spiral flow channel that is.Lining 40 can be suitable material metal, pottery or other ability heat exchanger 10 high temperature that produces when turning round as heating element.
Lining 40 structurally is a metal cylinder rather than solid, because can provide because the too high thermal inertia that the metallic object heating causes for heat exchanger 10 like this.Lining 40 has a chamber 41a, thereby this chamber follows the exterior of heat exchanger 10 to allow the gas expansion be safe from danger by the air-breather of managing 41 forms.If lining 40 breaks, seepage, can observe or detect the seepage of culinary art medium.If use water as the culinary art medium, polluting may special hazard.
Heat exchange elements 16 is designed to easily and can takes out in the shell 12 of heat exchanger 10, so where necessary can wiping, change described element 16 and shell 12.Correspondingly can use screw 37, key or any similar device to connect for shell 12 is equipped with one with holes 32 flange 30 that can fix a plate or flange 34 with heat exchange elements 16.Though flange 34 these structures have simply, are easy to install, dismantle and carry out the advantage of wiping, replacing operation, but neither reach the only resource of this purpose.
In this respect, it also is desirable that heat exchange elements 16 is done following design, if make that heat exchanger 10 is an electric heating, an end of the input of electricity, the mounting flange that output 90 is positioned at heat exchange elements is 10 same end 10a of heat exchanger.Do like this and reduced the step that the operator need do, simplified assembling, the dismounting of heat exchanger.In this case, heat exchange elements 16 adopts the double-spiral structure advantageous particularly, although single-screw also can use.
At heat exchanger 10 is under the situation of electric heating, and heat exchange elements 16 has an electrical conductivity component 16a, and it usually is the resistance wire 16b that passes whole screw mechanism.Be surrounded by the insulating barrier 16c that the material that it is good that one deck is conducted heat by the electric insulation such as magnesia is made in resistance wire outside, in illustrated embodiment, also have the shell 16d that forms by inconel and so on nickel alloy.Its cross-sectional view is shown among Fig. 5.This material must be to the culinary art medium without any significant reaction.
Though heat exchange coil 16 can be electric heating, the combustion gas heating or other type, for example, coil can be with the different hot fluids that are loaded with of heat exchanger designs, preferably at this moment use resistor-type element 16, wherein make electric current be enough to provide required heat input for application by the heat of the resistance material generation of suitable length.
The thermal output of element 16 is subjected to the influence of many parameters, can not determine generally, and will consider above-mentioned factor in concrete culinary art utilization and select that these factors have the character of cooking equipment, the amount of culinary art medium, the temperature that the heating of culinary art medium will reach.Spray in the applicant's exploitation is fried in shallow oil in the class cookery, and this temperature of culinary art medium usually is from 180 to 210 degrees centigrade, although the amount of culinary art medium, according to the requirement of concrete culinary art utilization, between several liters of per second and per second tens even a few hectolitre.
The heat exchange elements heat supply is by micro-information processing controller 100 controls according to culinary art utilization programming.Controller 100 can comprise the illustrated figure user interface of PO 8943 " controller " of application on September 2nd, 1997, and the content combination of this document as a reference.Under the culinary art situation such as spray is fried in shallow oil, the thermal output of heat exchange elements 16 can be controlled according to the temperature that the culinary art medium leaves heat exchanger 10.This temperature is with suitable temperature sensor, the preferably temperature sensor measurement of negative tempperature coefficient thermistor type.The control of heat exchanger 16 also can be the thermal output that keeps specific in specific time span, is that specific food or all food keep specific thermal output, or is that parameter provides specific output temperature with time.Also can be with other control program.
The culinary art medium of heating or lowering the temperature enters the shell 12 of heat exchanger 10 by the inlet 20 that induction system and heat exchanger 10 are linked up of other shape of linear or design.It is desirable to adopt flexible or quick connector.Using under the situation of spraying decoction, usually the pipelines of following inlet 20 heat exchanger 10 and fuel reserve tank UNICOM to get up are linked together, and the culinary art medium is transported to heat exchanger under the effect of the pump of suitable power.Preferably use centrifugal pump.
Under the situation to the heating of culinary art medium, the culinary art medium preferably filtered before entering the culinary art dielectric chamber 14 of heat exchanger 10 in case the food particulate deposits on heat exchange elements 16 and burns.May also to do like this in other field that the fluid that will heat has solia particle to exist.Should prevent the deposition of this particulate.
As mentioned above, making the heat exchange elements 16 of electricity consumption is easily, therefore needs power supply.Power supply can be exchange or direct current, also will use rectifier if desired, heat exchange elements 16 and other electrically driven (operated) part in the device of use heat exchanger 10 are suitable for controllably being connected in power supply with the known method of electric industry circle by a solid-state relay.Power line should suitably insulate, to reduce the danger of electric aspect.
Heat exchanger 10 is preferably under the pulse current condition of choosing the control time wantonly and operates to avoid diminishing heating owing to the frequency of AC power.The applicant has been found that two second control time is suitable, and heat exchange elements is under the situation of connecting power supply as shown in Figure 6, and the power proportions of heat exchanger 10 is controlled according to the percentage in control time.Adopt this control time just can not be, and input power can be according to the root mean square calculation of electric current and voltage owing to power hunting produces harmful cooling effect.Correspondingly, can select except thermal output be four kinds of power output levels zero, although this level and number are unimportant, for example, full power 25%, full power 50%, 75% and full power of full power, be respectively 0.5,1.0,1.5 and 2.0 second at interval.The power output level can constantly change between 0 and 100%.Under an extreme case, the interval of 0-100%, corresponding with 8 bit digital forms, be divided into 256 equal spacings, so that adjust continuously.These durations can be determined according to the change of properties of culinary art medium.Cook medium in other words, heat itself when more responsive or since the character of the food (for example fish) of being cooked in the time of may reducing its quality, can use the less mode of its quality impairment is heated.
The purpose that pulse-width is regulated control is that the temperature of the heat exchange surface (being the outer surface of coil 16a) that contact power output with the culinary art medium remains on a certain temperature of heat under can the temperature of serious reduction fluid mass.Therefore, using pulse width modulation is very important for reduce heat as far as possible to the infringement of cooking mass of medium.
Therefore under the situation of using a plurality of fluid heaters, the ideal control form is to make by the essentially identical the sort of form of the power output of each heat exchange elements.Like this, because the thermal characteristics of each heat exchange elements is to select according to top principle, the power density on each heat exchange elements surface of each heat exchanger 10 just all equates.Thereby under the situation of 25% system power output, heat exchange elements 16 surface power densities are 25% of peak power only, scarcely can reach maximum in the process of cooking.Concerning oil culinary art medium, also to hang down.Therefore, the temperature that power density can remain on heat exchange surface is lower than the temperature that the quality of fluid is badly damaged, and the fluid heating relaxes and effectively on this power density level.In the process of cooking, except the heat time heating time before cooking, in fact power density may not reach 100%.
Heat exchanger 10 of the present invention need not independent use, and it can become, and the fluid that is used for particularly commercial use of particular procedure or industry use fried (frying in shallow oil) pot heats or the part of the assembly of a plurality of heat exchangers compositions of cooling.It is desirable to each assembly and can use three heat exchangers, each assembly all is connected in three-phase alternating-current supply by solid-state relay so that each phase load balance.It is more effective to use this kind assembly can make the control of diabatic process, and this assembly can also be sold as independent parts.For the bigger commerce of capacity with or industrial assembly can arrange in groups and control, but each set of pieces of switch is to imitate top illustrated proportion control.For example, when 25% input power, open the heating element heater of (for example) 1/4th; When 50% input power, open 1/2nd, or the like.Can be lower than energy supply on the level of peak power output through being everlasting to each heating element heater.
Correspondingly, when heat exchanger 10 became assembly a part of, outlet 80 was suitable for being connected in another heat exchanger with screw thread or other method.If requirement can be installed a pipe and simply the fluid that has heated be delivered to next heat exchanger the assembly from a heat exchanger of assembly.Yet,, might partially or even wholly be transported to another heat exchanger to the culinary art medium that has heated from a heat exchanger in the assembly if in an assembly plural heat exchanger is arranged.Each heat exchanger of forming assembly can serial or parallel connection.
The design of heat exchanger 10 can comprise safety device.Therefore, for example, the culinary art medium temperature of leaving heat exchanger 10 of having read is higher than the such parameter of certain value or firing rate or certain and has exceeded the limit that allows (this may express the fault such as heat exchanger 10 pumping fluids not), can close heat exchanger with the advantageous manner of the device security of the described heat exchanger 10 of a kind of use.
It is more even that heat exchanger 10 of the present invention can realize cooking the interior Temperature Distribution of medium in the above described manner, and by preventing that substantially hot-spot from preventing to descend in the quality that is adding oil under the hot work situation, fat or other temperature-sensitive culinary art medium.In this respect, special problem in the time of noting in groove or box heater or pot the culinary art medium being heated with said the sort of heating in No. 621821, the BP of for example Critall.
At heat exchanger 10 is under the situation of cooler, and heat exchange elements 16 is designed to allow cooling fluid flow through so that absorb the heat of the fluid of the fluid chamber 14 that flows through.Heat exchange elements 16 can be designed as has two kinds of abilities of heating and cooling.
Referring now to Fig. 3,, heat exchanger 10 can be as the heat exchanger 22 in the injection cooking equipment 100 of No. 93/24040, International Patent Application WO, and the content of this document is as reference paper of the present invention.Culinary art medium circulation such as oil is ejected on the food through the injector 60 that is positioned at culinary art 14 tops, chamber then through fluid heater 22 heating, and food is carried on conveyer 90.Injector can be positioned under the conveyer.Part 22 preferably comprises the heater assembly of several heat exchangers 10, and each heater all is a this heat exchanger 10 described herein.This heat exchanger can be called flow-heater.
Two such assemblies that 10 kw of power are all arranged that use each to form by 3 heat exchangers 10, one another sprayed end of for for the top spray, thereby temperature can independently adjust, and it is favourable doing like this.Under considerably less situation, special cooking process may need the assembly of different capacity.
Heat exchanger 10 also can be used for the catering facility of other kind, and for example: the cauldron injector of various food is sprayed and can be used to cook to cauldron injector, multi-region.These catering facilities can be used for fried low fat dough products, Australian temporary patent application PP0482 number " dough products cooking pot " described doughnut of application on November 21st, 1997 for example, and the content of this document is listed in as reference of the present invention.
The professional and technical personnel who reads this specification can make various remodeling or modification to heat exchanger of the present invention.This remodeling and modification all belong to scope of the present invention.