EP2684003B1 - Heat transfer pipe for heat exchanger - Google Patents

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EP2684003B1
EP2684003B1 EP11713248.0A EP11713248A EP2684003B1 EP 2684003 B1 EP2684003 B1 EP 2684003B1 EP 11713248 A EP11713248 A EP 11713248A EP 2684003 B1 EP2684003 B1 EP 2684003B1
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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
    • F28F1/00—Tubular elements; Assemblies of tubular elements
    • F28F1/10—Tubular elements and assemblies thereof with means for increasing heat-transfer area, e.g. with fins, with projections, with recesses
    • F28F1/40—Tubular elements and assemblies thereof with means for increasing heat-transfer area, e.g. with fins, with projections, with recesses the means being only inside the tubular element
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F15—FLUID-PRESSURE ACTUATORS; HYDRAULICS OR PNEUMATICS IN GENERAL
    • F15D—FLUID DYNAMICS, i.e. METHODS OR MEANS FOR INFLUENCING THE FLOW OF GASES OR LIQUIDS
    • F15D1/00—Influencing flow of fluids
    • F15D1/02—Influencing flow of fluids in pipes or conduits
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28F—DETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
    • F28F1/00—Tubular elements; Assemblies of tubular elements
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28F—DETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
    • F28F1/00—Tubular elements; Assemblies of tubular elements
    • F28F1/02—Tubular elements of cross-section which is non-circular
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28F—DETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
    • F28F13/00—Arrangements for modifying heat-transfer, e.g. increasing, decreasing
    • F28F13/18—Arrangements for modifying heat-transfer, e.g. increasing, decreasing by applying coatings, e.g. radiation-absorbing, radiation-reflecting; by surface treatment, e.g. polishing
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28F—DETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
    • F28F13/00—Arrangements for modifying heat-transfer, e.g. increasing, decreasing
    • F28F13/18—Arrangements for modifying heat-transfer, e.g. increasing, decreasing by applying coatings, e.g. radiation-absorbing, radiation-reflecting; by surface treatment, e.g. polishing
    • F28F13/185—Heat-exchange surfaces provided with microstructures or with porous coatings
    • F28F13/187—Heat-exchange surfaces provided with microstructures or with porous coatings especially adapted for evaporator surfaces or condenser surfaces, e.g. with nucleation sites

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  • JP-61 175 485 A discloses a heat pipe having the features in the preamble of claims 1 and 9. BACKGROUND
  • a heat exchanger is an apparatus that makes it possible to exchange energy between two or more fluids for the purpose of heating, cooling and etc.
  • fluids under heat exchange are separated from each other with a solid dividing wall or a third fluid.
  • the design of the heat transfer pipe for the heat transfer has great influence on the operating efficiency of the heat exchanger.
  • Fig. 1 shows a typical heat transfer apparatus 100, which comprises a plurality of fins 101 and a plurality of heat exchange pipes 102. Lines of holes are provided in the fins 101 , and the heat exchange pipes are inserted into these holes.
  • a first fluid enters into the heat transfer pipe system comprising the plurality of heat exchange pipes 102, as the arrow A1 indicates, then passes through the heat exchange pipes 102 while undergoing heat exchange and thereafter flows out in a direction as the arrow A2 indicates;
  • a second fluid enters into a space among the fins 101 as the arrow B1 indicates, then undergoes heat exchange with the first fluid in the heat exchange pipes 102 and thereafter flows out in a direction as the arrow B2 indicates.
  • the first fluid is usually a cold media
  • the second fluid is air.
  • the cold media undergoes phase change while flowing in the heat transfer pipes 102, the heat released or adsorbed thereof is transferred to the air via the heat transfer pipes 102 and the fins 101.
  • the configuration of the inner surface of a heat transfer pipe 102 requires special designing to enhance the phase change heat transfer, so as to effectively assist the energy exchange between the internal and external fluids.
  • a conventional heat transfer pipe usually uses a seamless copper pipe, whose inner surface is provided with helical teeth to increase the area of the inner surface, to keep the inner surface wet or covered with a thin liquid film, to enhance the liquid turbulence, to destruct the flowing boundary layer, and to provide the effect of heat exchange.
  • some heat transfer pipes are provided with, in addition to the primary teeth, intermittent secondary teeth with lower heights and disposed between the primary teeth, which results in further increasing the roughness within the heat transfer pipes. In this way, it is possible to provide more cores for condensing or vaporizing, to enhance the liquid turbulence, and thereby to further improve the effect of convection heat transfer.
  • the invention intending to solve the aforementioned problems, provides a heat transfer pipe for heat exchanger, which can improve the heat transfer efficiency while not significantly increasing the transfer resistance to a fluid, and has a simple structure as well as low manufacturing cost.
  • a heat transfer pipe for heat exchanger is provided, an inner surface of the heat transfer pipe being provided alternately with a plurality of helical primary teeth and a plurality of grooves, each groove being disposed between adjacent primary teeth, wherein a protrusion set is provided in at least one groove, the protrusion set comprises a plurality of protrusions sequentially and intermittently disposed in an extending direction of the primary teeth, and each protrusion has a radial height lower than the radial heights of the primary teeth, and wherein at least one groove having no protrusion set is provided between the adjacent ones of the grooves each having a protrusion set.
  • 4 or 5 grooves each having no protrusion set are disposed between adjacent ones of grooves each having a protrusion set.
  • a heat transfer pipe for heat exchanger is provided, an inner surface of the heat transfer pipe being provided alternately with a plurality of helical primary teeth and a plurality of grooves, each groove being disposed between adjacent primary teeth, wherein protrusion sets are provided in the grooves on both sides of at least one primary tooth in a circumferential direction of the heat transfer pipe, each protrusion set comprises a plurality of protrusions sequentially and intermittently disposed in an extending direction of the at least one primary tooth, and each protrusion has a radial height lower than that of the at least one primary tooth, and wherein at least one primary tooth with no protrusion set disposed on either side is disposed between adjacent ones of the primary teeth with protrusion sets disposed on both sides.
  • 4 or 5 primary teeth each having no protrusion set disposed on either side are disposed between adjacent ones of primary teeth each having protrusion sets on both sides.
  • the presence of the protrusions enhances the fluid (such as cooling agent or cold media) turbulence evoked by the bottoms of the primary teeth, and assists in forming more cores for bubbles during evaporation, and thus improves the efficiency of heat exchange; on the other hand, not all, but every few, grooves between the primary teeth are provided with protrusions, which suppresses significantly increasing flow resistance of a fluid, avoids too great a pressure decrease, and at the same time results in low manufacturing cost.
  • the fluid such as cooling agent or cold media
  • the width of each protrusion in the circumferential direction of the heat transfer pipe is smaller than the width of the groove where the each protrusion is located in the circumferential direction of the heat transfer pipe. This further reduces the resistance of protrusions to a fluid. Moreover, a protrusion is only provided on part of the wide of a groove in the circumferential direction, which further destructs the formation of the boundary layer of a fluid, enhances the turbulence, and thus improves the effect of heat exchange.
  • the side of each protrusion in the circumferential direction of the heat transfer pipe is formed on a side surface of one of the two primary teeth adjacent to the groove where the each protrusion is located.
  • the sides of protrusions of a same protrusion set can be formed on a side surface of a same primary tooth, and can also be formed on side surfaces of different primary teeth.
  • the protrusion according to the above embodiments can be molded with a continuous casting process.
  • section of each protrusion that is perpendicular to the circumferential direction of the heat transfer pipe is a trapezoidal.
  • the ratios of the radial height of each protrusion to the radial heights of the primary teeth can be between 0.05-0.5.
  • the protrusions configured according to such preferred embodiments are more advantageous for formation of cores for condensing or vaporization and enhances the turbulence.
  • the protrusions in a same protrusion set are disposed at equal intervals. Such an arrangement is more amiable for manufacturing.
  • the radial height of each protrusion is gradually decreased from the side of the protrusion that is formed on a side surface of a primary tooth and in the extending direction of the primary tooth.
  • the protrusion thus formed leads to less resistance to a fluid and avoidance of too great a pressure decrease, which improves the operating efficiency of the whole heat exchanger.
  • the protrusions can be formed into such shapes as sickles, crescents, horns, or the similar.
  • Fig. 2 shows a schematic perspective view of a part of a heat transfer pipe 1 according to the first embodiment of the invention.
  • the heat transfer pipe 1 is formed as a cylinder pipe, preferably of copper.
  • the heat transfer pipe 1 can be made of other alloy materials.
  • a plurality of helical primary teeth 2 are manufactured and formed in the inner surface of the heat transfer pipe 1 (particularly, shown as 21, ..., 26, and 27 in Fig. 3 ).
  • grooves 3 are formed between two adjacent primary teeth (particularly, shown as 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, and 36 in Fig. 3 ).
  • protrusions 41 disposed intermittently and having heights lower than primary teeth are formed in some of the grooves 3.
  • the protrusions further increase the roughness within the heat transfer pipe, provide more cores for condensing or vaporizing, build and maintain a thin liquid layer of the inner surface, increase the fluid turbulence in the proximate of the surface, and therefore increase the convection heat transfer coefficient.
  • Fig. 3 shows a sectional perspective view of a part of the aforementioned heat transfer pipe 1.
  • a protrusion set comprising a line of protrusions 41 is formed in the groove 31, and another protrusion set is formed in the groove 36.
  • grooves 32, 33, 34, and 35 are provided between the grooves 31 and 36.
  • the protrusions 41 distributed in this way, it is possible to provide more cores for condensing or vaporizing, to avoid too great a pressure decrease, and at the same time to reduce manufacturing cost.
  • the invention can have 2, 3, or more than 4 grooves having no protrusion set disposed between the grooves 31 and 36 each having a protrusion set.
  • a protrusion set comprises 2 or 3 protrusions 41
  • the number of the protrusions 41 in a protrusion set can be arbitrarily set in accordance with the length of the heat transfer pipe and the spacing between the protrusions 41.
  • the protrusions 41 in one protrusion set as shown in Fig. 3 are disposed at equal intervals (the interval in an axial direction between adjacent protrusions 41 is set to L)
  • the invention not limited to this, can have the protrusions 41 in one protrusion set disposed at varying intervals.
  • the widths of the protrusions 41 are smaller than the widths of the respective grooves.
  • the area a fluid passes through becomes larger, and the protrusions 41 impose a smaller resistance to the fluid.
  • such a configuration can further destruct the formation of the boundary layer of a fluid, enhance the turbulence, and thus improve the effect of heat exchange.
  • a side 411 (shown in Fig. 3A ) of the protrusion 41 in the circumferential direction is formed on one side surface of the adjacent primary tooth 21 (in Fig. 3 , the side surface on the right).
  • Such a configuration is amiable for manufacturing.
  • one side of each protrusion 41 in a same protrusion set is formed on a side surface of the same primary tooth.
  • one side of each protrusion 41 of the protrusion set in the groove 31 is formed on a side surface 211 of the primary tooth 21, while one side of each protrusion 41 of the protrusion set in the groove 36 is formed on a corresponding side surface of the primary tooth 26.
  • the invention can be provided in such a way where the adjacent protrusions 41 in a same protrusion set are formed on side surfaces of different primary teeth.
  • a first protrusion 41 can be formed on a side surface of the primary tooth 26, while a second protrusion 41 can formed on a side surface of the primary tooth 27, and so on in alternation.
  • the section of the protrusion 41 that is perpendicular to the circumferential direction is substantially a trapezoidal, whose side surfaces 411 is so formed as to be suitable for abutting the side surface of a primary tooth. If the radial height of the primary tooth is h, the size of the protrusion 41 can be set as follows:
  • h can be set in the range of 0.07 ⁇ 0.23mm, L in the range of 0.5 ⁇ 15mm.
  • the size as above is merely an example, it can adopt other suitable sizes according to practical application.
  • the heat transfer pipe 1' differs from the heat transfer pipe 1 according to the first embodiment mainly in the shaping and distribution of protrusions 41'.
  • protrusions 41' are formed on both sides of a primary tooth 21'. Between grooves 21' and 26' that have protrusions, there are disposed a plurality of primary teeth 22', 23', 24' and 25' (the number of interposed primary teeth can vary). With such a distribution, it is possible to obtain effect similar to that of the embodiment as shown in Fig. 3 . Similarly, the distribution of protrusions 41' can vary, as described above, on the basis of the embodiment shown in Fig. 4 .
  • the radial height of a protrusion 41' is gradually decreased from the side of a side surface 211' that is formed on the primary tooth 21' and in the extending direction of the primary tooth (i.e., the axial direction), which forms the shape of a sickle as shown in Fig. 4 .
  • the protrusion thus formed leads to less resistance to a fluid and avoidance of too great a pressure decrease, which improves the operating efficiency of the whole heat exchanger and makes it amiable for manufacturing.
  • the protrusions 41' can be formed into the shapes of crescents, horns, or the similar.
  • first embodiment and the second embodiment can be combined and varied in any suitable way.
  • first embodiment can be adapted for the protrusions 41' with the shapes shown in the second embodiment
  • second embodiment can be adapted for the protrusions 41 with the shapes shown in the first embodiment.
  • the protrusions 41' on the two sides of the same primary tooth 21' in the second embodiment can have different shapes or orientations.

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