EP0228581B1 - Wärmetauscher - Google Patents

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EP0228581B1
EP0228581B1 EP86116618A EP86116618A EP0228581B1 EP 0228581 B1 EP0228581 B1 EP 0228581B1 EP 86116618 A EP86116618 A EP 86116618A EP 86116618 A EP86116618 A EP 86116618A EP 0228581 B1 EP0228581 B1 EP 0228581B1
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Klaus Hagemeister
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MTU Aero Engines AG
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    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28FDETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
    • F28F1/00Tubular elements; Assemblies of tubular elements
    • F28F1/02Tubular elements of cross-section which is non-circular
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28DHEAT-EXCHANGE APPARATUS, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN ANOTHER SUBCLASS, IN WHICH THE HEAT-EXCHANGE MEDIA DO NOT COME INTO DIRECT CONTACT
    • F28D7/00Heat-exchange apparatus having stationary tubular conduit assemblies for both heat-exchange media, the media being in contact with different sides of a conduit wall
    • F28D7/08Heat-exchange apparatus having stationary tubular conduit assemblies for both heat-exchange media, the media being in contact with different sides of a conduit wall the conduits being otherwise bent, e.g. in a serpentine or zig-zag
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28FDETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
    • F28F3/00Plate-like or laminated elements; Assemblies of plate-like or laminated elements
    • F28F3/02Elements or assemblies thereof with means for increasing heat-transfer area, e.g. with fins, with recesses, with corrugations
    • F28F3/04Elements or assemblies thereof with means for increasing heat-transfer area, e.g. with fins, with recesses, with corrugations the means being integral with the element
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28FDETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
    • F28F9/00Casings; Header boxes; Auxiliary supports for elements; Auxiliary members within casings
    • F28F9/26Arrangements for connecting different sections of heat-exchange elements, e.g. of radiators
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28FDETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
    • F28F2265/00Safety or protection arrangements; Arrangements for preventing malfunction
    • F28F2265/26Safety or protection arrangements; Arrangements for preventing malfunction for allowing differential expansion between elements
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10STECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S165/00Heat exchange
    • Y10S165/355Heat exchange having separate flow passage for two distinct fluids
    • Y10S165/40Shell enclosed conduit assembly
    • Y10S165/427Manifold for tube-side fluid, i.e. parallel
    • Y10S165/436Bent conduit assemblies

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  • a heat exchanger known from US-A-2,819,883 shows that it is known per se to want to design the overall matrix in the form of a semicircular tube which is embedded between two plates and ensures deflection of a fluid.
  • the priority is to create an operationally stable pressure welding connection along the outer plate edges.
  • the invention is based on the object of specifying a heat exchanger according to the preamble of patent claim 1, which has a comparatively high degree of heat exchange, in particular with regard to the normally critical arc or deflection area of the matrix, and at the same time, in particular with regard to expected vibration and shock loads, a reliable operation Bracket and support of the profile tube ends enables.
  • the outer deflection section of the matrix of the profile tube heat exchanger is formed from deflection chambers embedded between plates, in which the fluid (compressed air) emerging from the orthogonally outward profile tubes of a tube layer or row is collected and with the orthogonal mixing and heat exchange internally directed profile tube layer or row is supplied.
  • the spacers and / or other shaped bodies or shapes applied along the inner chamber wall can be designed as aerodynamic baffles to increase the degree of heat exchange.
  • the plates do not have to be smooth-walled, but can e.g. B. be wave-shaped or relief-like, so that they are able to respond to thermal deformations and distortions largely soft and stable.
  • these corrugations and relief structures can also be designed to improve the heat transfer and thus to increase the degree of heat exchange.
  • the contours of the plates can be correlated with one another while maintaining the chamber-side wall spacing as well as the mutual hot gas-side wall spacing.
  • Fig. 1 illustrates a cross-counterflow design tubular heat exchanger; this has two manifolds 1, 2 arranged parallel to one another.
  • a profile tube matrix projecting laterally on both sides from the collecting lines 1, 2 is designated by 3.
  • the outer deflection section 4 is designed as a plate heat exchanger which will be explained in more detail later.
  • the profile tube matrix 3 shown schematically in FIG. 1 protrudes transversely from the two manifolds 1, 2 against a main hot gas flow H.
  • compressed air D to be preheated flows into the manifold 1 on one side, is fed from there to the relevant rows of profile tubes 8 of the upper matrix block (D,), then deflected via the compressed air deflection chambers 5 contained in the outer deflection section 4 (D 2 ), so that it can now flow in the opposite flow direction into the lower matrix block containing the relevant profile tube rows 9 (D 3 ), from which it can then flow out into the lower manifold 2 in the heated state, in order to then finally a suitable consumer, e.g. B. the combustion chamber of a gas turbine engine to be supplied (D 4 ).
  • a suitable consumer e.g. B. the combustion chamber of a gas turbine engine to be supplied (D 4 ).
  • the outer deflection section 4 protrudes against a lateral housing wall 10 which supports the guiding of hot gas portions H 'in the latter (4).
  • the relevant plates 6, 7 are along their outer surfaces - see also z. B. Figs. 3 and 4 - flows around from the hot gas portions H '.
  • FIG. 1 there are only relatively large spacing gaps A for the hot gas flow H 'between the plates 6, 7, which are shown here relatively large.
  • the entire outer deflection section 4 of the matrix 3 can also be included in a targeted, homogeneous heat exchange process which provides the required heat exchange surfaces.
  • the contours K, K '(FIG. 1) characterize the U-shaped matrix arch end region made of individual profile tubes which is customary in the context of the prior art.
  • FIG. 1 it is assumed that the profile tube matrix sections shown broken off in FIG. 1, right, can of course be connected to the left according to a matrix deflection section according to the invention as a plate concept along with relevant housing sheathing according to FIG. 1.
  • the adjacent housing wall 10 ′ is curved.
  • brush seals 14, 15 are designed to compensate for movement and are arranged on the housing wall 10 '. The bristles of the brush seals 14, 15 always nestle tightly against the relevant end gaps (A) for the hot gas (FIG.
  • FIG. 4 explains in the way of the cut-open plate-chamber section the form-fitting and fluid-tight gripping possibility provided from the local plate bulges 21, 22 and - formation of the profile tube rows 8 and 9 of the matrix 3 that open locally into the relevant compressed-air deflection chamber 5.
  • FIG. 5 embodies a deflection chamber configuration in which spacers designed as deflection aids primarily define the chamber throughflow cross section at discrete locations between two adjacent plates 6, 7 (FIG. 1, 3 or 4), e.g. B. pin 23 or baffles 24 or straight guide elements 25 are provided.
  • FIG. 6 a flow deflection that is as homogeneous as possible, with the primary avoidance of a pronounced separation zone in the critical inner deflection area already mentioned in FIG. 5 - between the two rows of profile pipes 8, 9 in the compressed air deflection chamber - is sought; by means of appropriate plate contouring, e.g. B.
  • the compressed air deflection chamber - seen from left to right from the inlet to the outlet side - should be curved in such a curved manner that they are from a first substantially continuous inwardly curved chamber portion T, of, downstream of an inner Umlenkbogenendes U, expands greater on a side bulged chamber part T cross-section, the bulged chamber portion T of is then to the Druckbuchumlenkhunt spilling out on an inwardly retracted KammerteiiT a , whose cross-section on the outlet side is essentially identical to the cross-section on the inflow side of the profile row 8 in T.
  • the subject matter of the invention is not limited to designing all deflection aids or guide plates or aerodynamic baffles at the same time as spacers; it can therefore be provided only partially radially protruding into the compressed air deflection chamber, applied to one or both plates 6, 7 or sheet metal forms as aerodynamic baffles to increase the degree of heat exchange and as deflection aids.
  • the plates 6, 7 forming the deflection chambers 5 can be equipped on the hot gas and / or compressed air side by means of thermal deformations to compensate and / or to increase the degree of heat exchange by contouring.
  • the contours in question should be designed to be correlated with one another while maintaining the chamber-side wall spacing (e.g. chamber 5, FIG. 4) and the hot gas flow-through wall or plate spacing gap A (FIG. 1).
  • a further design of the heat exchanger includes the possibility of combining corrugated configurations according to FIG. 7 or 8 with the deflection chamber concept according to FIG. 5 or z.
  • 9 embodies a concept in which a plurality of channel-shaped deflection chambers which are fluidically separated from one another are arranged between two plates 6, 7 of the matrix deflection section 4; the number of channel-shaped deflection chambers is matched to the number of tubes of a matrix profile row 8 or 9 opening into it; 9, the channel-shaped deflection chambers are formed between mutual half-profile formations 28, 29 of the two adjacent plates 6, 7 in each case.
  • B. provide two fluidically separated channel-shaped deflection chambers and z. B. to open two tubes of a row of matrix tubes in each deflection chamber.
  • channel-shaped deflection chambers communicating with one another in a fluidic manner can also be provided.
  • FIG. 10 illustrates a profile which is advantageously usable in a further embodiment and has a lenticular or lancet-shaped hollow profile in cross section, that is to say an aerodynamically optimized profile which tapered in the direction of the hot gas flow H upstream and downstream on the flow side for the respective profile tube rows 8 and 9 of the matrix 3 (FIG . 1).
  • the lancet tube with its periodically changing curve shape is pushed far less from its position.
  • the leading and trailing edges also experience different thermal longitudinal expansions, following the law of the curve shape, they are homologous to one another in a distortion state that twists the lancet-shaped pipe cross sections. Only slight thermal stresses are built up, so that the profile tube remains essentially in the plane of its curve and hardly bends in the direction of the higher temperature.

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