EP1797386B1 - Echangeur de chaleur a plaques specifiques - Google Patents

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EP1797386B1
EP1797386B1 EP05800230A EP05800230A EP1797386B1 EP 1797386 B1 EP1797386 B1 EP 1797386B1 EP 05800230 A EP05800230 A EP 05800230A EP 05800230 A EP05800230 A EP 05800230A EP 1797386 B1 EP1797386 B1 EP 1797386B1
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Claude Roussel
Olivier Noel-Baron
Patrice Tochon
Jean-François FOURMIGUE
Leif Hallgren
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28F—DETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
    • F28F3/00—Plate-like or laminated elements; Assemblies of plate-like or laminated elements
    • F28F3/02—Elements or assemblies thereof with means for increasing heat-transfer area, e.g. with fins, with recesses, with corrugations
    • F28F3/04—Elements 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
    • F28F3/042—Elements 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 in the form of local deformations of the element
    • F28F3/046—Elements 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 in the form of local deformations of the element the deformations being linear, e.g. corrugations
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28F—DETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
    • F28F3/00—Plate-like or laminated elements; Assemblies of plate-like or laminated elements
    • F28F3/02—Elements or assemblies thereof with means for increasing heat-transfer area, e.g. with fins, with recesses, with corrugations
    • F28F3/04—Elements 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
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28F—DETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
    • F28F3/00—Plate-like or laminated elements; Assemblies of plate-like or laminated elements
    • F28F3/08—Elements constructed for building-up into stacks, e.g. capable of being taken apart for cleaning
    • F28F3/083—Elements constructed for building-up into stacks, e.g. capable of being taken apart for cleaning capable of being taken apart
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28F—DETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
    • F28F2215/00—Fins
    • F28F2215/10—Secondary fins, e.g. projections or recesses on main fins

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  • the invention relates to the field of heat exchangers, specifically plate heat exchangers.
  • Such exchangers are constituted by the stack of corrugated plates, and assembled to define between them fluid circulation channels, in two interleaved circuits.
  • the invention is more specifically an improvement concerning the positioning of reliefs formed on these plates.
  • the plate exchangers comprise corrugations, defining corrugations, so that the channel defined with the adjacent plate has a variable section.
  • these corrugations are inclined with respect to the fluid flow direction, and have the opposite inclination with respect to corrugations of the adjacent plate.
  • These corrugations are frequently, but not necessarily, in the form of chevrons.
  • the Claimants described in the document EP 0 737 296 an improvement to this type of exchanger, intended to improve on the one hand, the heat losses, and secondly, the risk of fouling of the exchanger in areas of lesser passage.
  • This improvement consists in carrying out on the corrugations deformations which further disturb the circulation of the fluid. These deformations are obtained during the manufacture of the plate which is generally made by stamping. These deformations may be recessed or hump with respect to the main corrugation, it being understood that the deformations forming a recess on one face of the plate constitute a bump deformation on the opposite face of the same plate.
  • the deformations in the bump are preferably localized near the contact points between plates, which correspond to the zones where the velocity of the fluid is the lowest. These areas are therefore dead or stagnant zones in which the deposits are likely to appear.
  • the positioning of the deformations in the bump near these contact points thus makes it possible to reduce the volume of these dead zones, and thus limit the risks of deposit formation, without, however, increasing too much the pressure drops.
  • the objective of the present invention is to optimize the performance of this type of exchanger on all the factors representative of the efficiency of the exchanger, that is to say the heat exchange coefficient, and that the pressure losses generated, and this being compatible with a rate of fouling as low as possible.
  • the invention therefore relates to a heat exchanger which comprises a plurality of corrugated plates assembled to define between them fluid circulation channels.
  • each plate comprises corrugations defined between corrugation vertex lines and corrugation background lines. All or some of these plates include, as in the document EP 0 737 296 deformations hollow and hump, located between the top and bottom lines of corrugation.
  • the invention lies in a more precise positioning of the various deformations hollow and hump with respect to the lines of contact points between the adjacent plates. This location is defined on the side of the "place" of a plate, that is to say the face coming in front of a channel considered, and inside an elementary cell defined between four points of consecutive contact with the adjacent plate delimiting the channel.
  • the invention lies in the location of the bump deformations at an intermediate level between the contact points, and not near the contact points, corresponding to a substantially zero criterion N, as taught by the patent. EP 0737296 .
  • the efficiency of a plate heat exchanger has been evaluated by combining the power transmitted with the measured pressure drops. Measurements made in comparison with corrugated plates without hollow deformation and hump show an improvement in the overall efficiency of the exchanger, within the range of criteria considered. This improvement even reaches about ten percent for the optimum of the criterion evaluated at around 0.55, in chevron configurations described earlier in the description of a particular embodiment.
  • the deformations can take various different forms, which depend on the stamping process, and the elongation that can be subjected to the material used. Whatever the form of these deformations, the measurements necessary for the evaluation of the characteristic criterion are made by defining the volume of these deformations with respect to the general form of the undulation. This general shape can in particular be evaluated in a zone free of deformation in hollow and hump. This volume is then projected on the main plane of the plate, and the center of gravity of this projection is then considered as the center of the deformation.
  • this arrangement corresponds to the formation of recessed areas near the corrugation bottom lines, with the same alternating distribution with respect to the opposite face of the plate.
  • the hollow deformations may advantageously be distributed symmetrically on either side of the corrugation bottom line.
  • the different deformations in bump and recess can be positioned at varying levels of the height of the corrugation, between the top line and the bottom line.
  • the characteristic criterion N can be substantially constant over most of the exchange surface of the plate, but it is also possible to form plates having different zones having distinct characteristic criteria.
  • the face of the plate may, in a first zone, have bump deformations which are alternately distributed and offset on either side of the corrugation top line, thus presenting a characteristic criterion in advantageous ranges.
  • the hump deformations are instead distributed symmetrically on either side of the corrugation vertex line.
  • the exchanger can be constituted by the association and the stack of identical plates, but also different plates depending on the desired exchange properties.
  • the identical plates can be arranged in different ways depending on the orientation of the faces of the plates having a characteristic criterion in an advantageous range.
  • the plates may be assembled to define channels of a first type, which may be described as "symmetrical", defined by facing surfaces having a substantially identical characteristic criterion.
  • liquid / liquid exchangers in which the channels of lower pressure drops receive the higher flow rate.
  • the plates may be assembled to delimit channels of a second type, which may be described as "asymmetrical", the arrangement being such that the faces of the plates having the same characteristic criteria N are all oriented in the same direction.
  • the channels then have substantially similar properties, since they are delimited on one side by the face of a characteristic plate, and on the other side by a front side a priori, less efficient.
  • the exchanger thus produced has two very similar performance circuits, and can therefore be adapted to any type of liquid / liquid exchanger.
  • the shape of the corrugations can be adapted according to the desired applications, and the invention is in no way limited to corrugations shaped chevrons as illustrated in the accompanying figures.
  • the exchanger (1) comprises different plates (2-5) assembled to define between them channels (6-8) of fluid circulation.
  • each plate (2-5) has four holes (10-13) for connection with the inlet and outlet pipes of two fluid circuits (20, 21; 22, 23).
  • a peripheral seal (14) makes it possible to seal the channel created, including in said channel only two of the bores.
  • the bores (10, 11; 12, 13) associated with the same channel are on the same large side of the plate (2), but the invention also covers variants in which the two bores associated with a channel lying on a diagonal of the plate.
  • each plate (2-5) has corrugations (25) in the form of simple chevrons.
  • the corrugations can also be in the form of multiple chevrons.
  • the plates are alternately rotated 180 ° about their center, so that the herringbone corrugations are in opposition on both sides of the facing plates, at the same channel, to increase the level of disturbances of the circulating fluid. in the channel.
  • the hump deformations corresponding to growths in relation to the viewed face of the plate, are represented by ovals.
  • the hollow deformations are represented by rectangles, and therefore correspond to deformations sinking inside the plate, viewed on the face considered.
  • the recessed deformations (30, 31) are arranged near a bottom line (32) of corrugations, while the hump deformations (33, 34) are located near a line (35) of the vertex corrugations.
  • the recessed deformations (30, 31) are located substantially opposite a corrugation bottom line (32).
  • the bump deformations (33, 34) are arranged offset from their corrugation top line (35).
  • FIG. figure 3 The reverse side (46) of the same plate is illustrated in FIG. figure 3 . It can be seen that the recessed deformations (30, 31) of the face face correspond to hump deformations (40, 41) on the reverse side, which are situated facing each other, on either side of the line of top (42) corrugations on the reverse side (46).
  • the bump deformations (33, 34) of the locating face (36) correspond to recessed deformations (43, 44) seen from the reverse side (46).
  • These recessed deformations (43, 44) are arranged offset and on either side of the corrugation bottom line (45), looking at the back face (46), the same corrugation bottom line (46). ) corresponding to a corrugation vertex line (35) on the location face (36).
  • the invention lies in a particular positioning of the recessed and hump zones with respect to the contact points between plates.
  • the plate (25) contacts the facing plate (48) to define the channel (26) at a plurality of contact points.
  • These contact points are located at the intersections of the corrugation vertex lines (35) of the plate (25) with the corrugation vertex lines (49) of the plate (48).
  • the different points of contact (51-54) define elementary cells which have a general parallelogram shape, and more particularly a diamond shape when the chevrons of the two plates facing each other are of the same inclination. These rhombs can even be square when the rafters are perpendicular from one plate to another.
  • the location of the hollow and bump patterns is after projection in a plane P parallel to the main plane of the plate, also parallel to the plane defined by the set of contact points.
  • Deformations in hollow and hump are measured in this plane by projecting their center of gravity in the plane P.
  • the boss (33) projects at the point (63) of the plane P, while the deformation in the hollow (30) is projected at the point (60) of the same plane.
  • the position of these hollows and bumps is determined according to the invention, with respect to a reference point (65). This reference point is located on the plate (25), midway between a vertex line (35) and corrugation troughs (32).
  • This reference point is deduced from the point of contact (52) as being aligned with the latter with respect to the direction F corresponding to the flow direction of the fluid.
  • the invention resides in a positioning of bumps and depressions with respect to this reference point.
  • This reference point is therefore located, from a point of the fluid flow, behind a contact zone between plates.
  • the distances of hump and hollow are measured by projection on the line of corrugations (35).
  • the distance D illustrated at figure 4 therefore corresponds to the difference, measured parallel to the corrugation vertex line, which separates the deformation into a hump (33) and the successive hollow deformations (30, 31).
  • the distance D 1 corresponds to the difference, always measured parallel to the line of corrugations, which separates the projection (63) from the hump deformation (33) of the projection (66) of the reference point (65).
  • the figure 6 illustrates the variation of a performance evaluation parameter of a heat exchanger.
  • the efficiency parameter ⁇ is evaluated by comparing the performance of a plate used in a heat exchanger according to the invention with respect to the performance of a plate having no deformation hollow and hump. More precisely, this parameter ⁇ is calculated by measuring the ratio of the exchange powers, divided by the ratio of the pressure losses measured with these two types of plates, the ratio of the pressure drops being high to a power of the order of 0.33 to 0.37 depending on the type of exchanger.
  • the criterion ⁇ shown in figure 6 shows very clearly a substantial gain of the order of 10% in the range of the criterion N considered, with an optimal when the criterion N is around 0.55.
  • the pressure losses measured with the plates used in a heat exchanger according to the invention surprisingly show a very clear improvement in the range of the characteristic criterion. These pressure drops are lower by about 30%. relative to the pressure losses measured in the situation corresponding to the teachings of the patent of the aforementioned prior art.
  • the characteristic plates may be arranged relative to each other in different configurations, depending on the faces they have facing each other.
  • the hump zones have been represented (by dots) around the corrugation vertex lines. So, in the configuration illustrated in the figure 8 , the different plates are arranged so that they have on their faces in the figure faces on which the bump deformations (70) are arranged symmetrically with respect to lines (71) corrugation top.
  • the visible faces of the plates of the figure 8 correspond to the visible side illustrated at figure 3 .
  • the set of plates (69) of the figure 8 have all their identical faces oriented in the same direction. These plates are stacked by making a plate to another pivoting around their central point.
  • each of the plates (69) corresponds to the configuration illustrated in FIG. figure 2 in which the hollow deformations are each arranged symmetrically with respect to the corrugation bottom lines.
  • the bump deformations on this hidden face are arranged alternately and offset from the lines top of corrugations, coming in front of the visible faces of the plates of the figure 8 .
  • the channels (73) thus defined thus have very substantially identical properties for the two fluid circuits.
  • the two end plates (80, 82) shown have a visible face which corresponds to the configuration illustrated in FIG. figure 2 wherein the hump deformations (83, 84) are alternately arranged and offset from the corrugation vertex lines (85).
  • the intermediate plate (81) has a visible face on the figure 9 which corresponds to the configuration of the figure 3 wherein the hump deformations (86, 87) are located symmetrically with respect to the corrugation vertex lines (88).
  • the channel (89) defined between the first (80) and the second (81) plates, has two substantially identical faces, corresponding to the visible face of the intermediate plate (81). At this channel (89), the bump deformations are therefore on each of the opposite faces arranged symmetrically with respect to the corrugation vertex lines.
  • the two facing faces have the same configuration corresponding to that of the figure 2 .
  • the hump deformations (84, 85) of the opposing faces are arranged alternately and offset from the corrugation vertex line. It is therefore conceivable that the overall thermal performances as well as the pressure losses of the two channels (89, 90) thus defined are different, and are more suitable for producing exchangers having a flow typology. different between the two circuits, such as for example evaporators or condensers.
  • the two configurations mentioned above can be combined within the same plate, as illustrated in FIG. figure 10 .
  • the same plate can present on the same face the two configurations.
  • the intermediate plate (94) has on one side hump deformations (95) arranged symmetrically with respect to the corrugation vertex lines (96).
  • the bump deformations (97, 98) are arranged in an offset and alternating manner. It follows that the pressure losses thus generated are different in the two longitudinal portions (99, 100) parallel to the channel (101). This arrangement is optimized to reduce the pressure losses corresponding to the fraction (100) of the channel located farthest from the points (103, 104) of entry and exit of the fluid, so as to homogenize as much as possible the flow on the width of the canal.
  • the different plates of the exchanger are stacked by providing them pivoting in the same plane around their central point.
  • the plate heat exchangers according to the invention have significantly better performance than the plate heat exchangers of the prior art, both with regard to the heat exchange coefficient and the level of pressure drop.
  • the exchangers can be constructed by arranging characteristic plates in different ways, adapted to the type of fluid and flow to go through the exchangers.

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