EP2775248B1 - Befestigung einer Dichtung in einem Plattenwärmetauscher - Google Patents

Befestigung einer Dichtung in einem Plattenwärmetauscher Download PDF

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EP2775248B1
EP2775248B1 EP14153155.8A EP14153155A EP2775248B1 EP 2775248 B1 EP2775248 B1 EP 2775248B1 EP 14153155 A EP14153155 A EP 14153155A EP 2775248 B1 EP2775248 B1 EP 2775248B1
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Sasa Marusic
Qingyan Wang
Tine Ogorevc
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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
    • F28F3/08—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
    • F28D—HEAT-EXCHANGE APPARATUS, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN ANOTHER SUBCLASS, IN WHICH THE HEAT-EXCHANGE MEDIA DO NOT COME INTO DIRECT CONTACT
    • F28D9/00—Heat-exchange apparatus having stationary plate-like or laminated conduit assemblies for both heat-exchange media, the media being in contact with different sides of a conduit wall
    • F28D9/0031—Heat-exchange apparatus having stationary plate-like or laminated conduit assemblies for both heat-exchange media, the media being in contact with different sides of a conduit wall the conduits for one heat-exchange medium being formed by paired plates touching each other
    • F28D9/0043—Heat-exchange apparatus having stationary plate-like or laminated conduit assemblies for both heat-exchange media, the media being in contact with different sides of a conduit wall the conduits for one heat-exchange medium being formed by paired plates touching each other the plates having openings therein for circulation of at least one heat-exchange medium from one conduit to another
    • F28D9/005—Heat-exchange apparatus having stationary plate-like or laminated conduit assemblies for both heat-exchange media, the media being in contact with different sides of a conduit wall the conduits for one heat-exchange medium being formed by paired plates touching each other the plates having openings therein for circulation of at least one heat-exchange medium from one conduit to another the plates having openings therein for both heat-exchange media
    • 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
    • F28F3/10—Arrangements for sealing the margins

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  • the present invention relates to a a heat exchanger plate and a gasket as defined in the preamble of claim 1.
  • a heat exchanger plate and a gasket is known for example from WO 99/67589 .
  • the heat exchanger plate and the gasket are to be used in a heat exchanger comprising a stack of heat exchanger plates formed of sheet metal having a three-dimensional structured pattern, each heat exchanger plate having a gasket groove, a gasket being arranged in said gasket groove and resting against an adjacent heat exchanger plate, said groove having a bottom, said bottom having at least a protrusion directed to said adjacent heat exchanger plate.
  • Such heat exchangers are commonly known and may have a pattern, such as a so-called herringbone pattern, i.e. a pattern which has indentations consisting of straight ridges and valleys. The ridges and valleys change direction in the centre, producing the pattern that resembles a herringbone.
  • a heat exchanger pack alternate plates are turned so that the indentations cross one another. Heat exchangers can be sealed by rubber gaskets.
  • the present invention relates to gasket heat exchangers with any kind of pattern, where in a gasket heat exchanger the plates typically are kept under tension by external forces, for example by introducing bolds through bores of the plates. Consequently, in a gasket heat exchanger the heat exchanger plates are kept under a pre-tension.
  • the present invention relates to fixing the gaskets within the grooves.
  • Such fixing is known in the art, such as seen in US5988268 disclosing a plate with a heat transfer surface formed with a suitable uneven pattern.
  • the portion of the plate surrounding the heat transfer surface is formed with a gasket groove.
  • the fixing element comprises a pair of projections projecting from the core, and a connecting portion connecting said projections and extending parallel with the core, while the recess comprises recesses adapted to fit on the projections of the fixing element, and a hole adapted to fit on the connecting portion of the fixing element. Because of such three-dimensional fitting arrangement, the joining strength between the gasket and the plate is high.
  • the connecting portion of the fixing element is parallel with the core and hence with the gasket groove and is adapted to fit in the hole in the form of an elongated slit hole which is likewise parallel with the gasket groove; therefore, some versatility is given to the fixing element in the direction parallel with the gasket groove.
  • the plates in the pressing tool may during the formation of the patterns be misaligned with up to a millimetre or even more.
  • the one may risk that the gasket is well positioned along one edge of the exchanger but not along the opposing parallel edge, thus giving the risk of leakage.
  • the present idea is to introduce an extension of the gasket to be fixing into a recess as in US5988268 , but where these extensions helps to give a feeling that the gasket is positioned further where the positioning of the gasket is easier during assembly of the heat exchanger.
  • the present invention thus relates to a fixing of the gasket according to the claims.
  • Fig. 1 illustrates a simple heat exchanger plate (1) having a gasket (2) in the proximity of the edge encircling the heat exchanging area (3).
  • a first pair of port openings (4a, 4b) forms inlet and outlet respectively for a first fluid to flow through a first channel system formed between neighbouring plates by their patterns
  • a second pair of port openings (5a, 5b) forms inlet and outlet respectively for a second fluid to flow through a second channel system also formed between neighbouring plates by their patterns.
  • Every second such channels formed between two neighbouring plates forms part of the first channel system, and the others forms part of the second channel system, where preferably most of the heat exchanger plates then has a first kind channel system at one surface side and the second kind channel system at the opposing surface side of the plate.
  • the second pair of port openings (5a, 5b) will be sealed off (2a) from the heat exchanging area (3) as seen in Fig. 1 , and in the same manner for every second channel system the first pair of port openings (4a, 4b) will be sealed off, this is not illustrated.
  • the gasket (2) is positioned within a gasket groove (6) where a part in the vicinity of a port opening like (4a) is seen in Fig. 2 .
  • the gasket (2) comprises gasket extensions (7) for fixing it in the gasket groove (6), where these gasket extensions (7) essentially are H-shaped having two first parts (7a) reaching in a direction away from the gasket (2) and a second part (7b) connecting the two first parts (7a).
  • the gasket groove (6) forms groove extensions (8) also essentially H-shaped having two first groove sections (8a) extending in a direction away from the main gasket groove (6) of the heat exchanger and one section groove section (8b) extending in a direction to connect the two first groove sections (6).
  • the gasket extensions (7) and groove extensions (8) are formed such that a gasket extension (7) may be positioned within a groove extension (8).
  • At least one of the two first parts (7a) is substantially perpendicular to the gasket (2), at least seen where the gasket extension (7) is connected to the gasket (2)
  • the second part (7b) is substantially parallel to the gasket (2), at least seen where the gasket extension (7) is connected to the gasket (2)
  • the groove extensions (8) are such that a opening (9) is formed in the edge of the heat exchanger plate (1) and at least one of the two first parts (7a) has a length such that when positioned within a groove extension (8) it extends through the opening (9) into the externals.
  • the gasket may be contacted at these first parts (7a) reaching out of the heat exchanger and thus re-positioned at the one side or the other.
  • the groove extensions (8) are formed by having two projections (10a, 10b) seen relative to the bottom surface of the groove (6, 8)
  • the first projection (10a) being the one closest to the gasket groove (6) is formed such that is has the side (11a) facing the gasket groove (6) being closed and the side (11b) away from the gasket groove (6) being open.
  • the closed side (11a) is to prevent any damaging of the gasket due to potential burrs after cutting the heat plate material to form the first (10a) and second (10b) projections.
  • the second projection (10b) being farthest away from the gasket groove (6) has the side (12) facing the gasket groove (6) being open.
  • the first (10a) and second (10b) projections has surfaces at the same level as other patterns of the heat exchanger plates (1) such as those of the heat exchanging section (3) being herringbone shaped, dimple shaped etc. In this manner they in addition provide support to the neighbouring plate.
  • the slope of the non-closed sides of the projections (10a, 10b) preferably with a slope in the range of 40-50 degrees, more preferably in the vicinity of 45 degrees, for maximal elongation of the heat plate material ensuring stable production process.
  • Fig. 3 shows one embodiment of gasket extension (7) also showing wings (13) at the second part (7b) extending in opposing sides and formed such that they are adapted to fit into the openings of the open sides (11b) and (12) of the first (10a) and second (10b) projections respectively.
  • these wings (13) thus will fit into the open sides (11b) and (12) helping to kept the gasket (2) firmly in position, but they also has the effect that during assembly a feeling of the gasket 'clicking' into position may be observed when the wings (13) 'clicks' into the open sides (11b) and (12).
  • Fig. 3 further illustrates an embodiment where one of the two first parts (7a) is longer than the other and may be the only one reaching out of the opening (9). This may e.g. be due to a tightening bold reaching through the heat exchanger plates (1) at this position.
  • Fig. 4 illustrates another design of the gasket (2) where each gasket extension (7) is also accommodated by an 'inwards shaping' (14) of the gasket towards to heat exchanging section (2). Further illustrated is another feature embodiment of the first parts (7a) of the gasket extensions (7) reaching out of the heat exchanger, then sections (15) with information prints may be attached to one or more of the gasket extensions (7) such as wear a trademark, a serial number, product number etc.

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Claims (6)

  1. Wärmetauscherplatte (1) und Dichtung (2), die innerhalb einer Dichtungsnut (6) zu positionieren ist, die in der Wärmetauscherplatte (1) für einen Wärmetauscher ausgebildet ist,
    wobei die Dichtungsnut (6) Nutverlängerungen (8) im Wesentlichen H-förmig bildet, die zwei erste Nutverlängerungen (8a) aufweisen, die sich in einer Richtung weg von einer Hauptdichtungsnut (6) der Wärmetauscherplatte erstrecken, und einen zweiten Nutabschnitt (8b), der sich in eine Richtung erstreckt, um die zwei ersten Nutabschnitte (8a) zu verbinden, und
    wobei die Dichtung (2) Dichtungsverlängerungen (7) zum Fixieren der Dichtung (2) in der Dichtungsnut (6) umfasst, wobei die Dichtungsverlängerungen (7) im Wesentlichen H-förmig sind und zwei Teile (7a) aufweisen, die in eine Richtung weg von der Dichtung (2) reichen, um innerhalb der zwei ersten Nutverlängerungen (8a) der Wärmetauscherplatte positioniert zu werden, wobei ein zweites Teil (7b), das die zwei ersten Teile (7a) verbindet, innerhalb des zweiten Nutabschnitts (8b) der Wärmetauscherplatte zu positionieren ist, wobei die Nutverlängerungen (8) dergestalt sind, dass eine Öffnung (9) im Rand der Wärmetauscherplatte (1) ausgebildet wird, und
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass mindestens eines der zwei ersten Teile (7a) der Nutverlängerungen eine Länge aufweist, sodass sich diese, wenn sie innerhalb einer Nutverlängerung (8a) positioniert werden, durch die Öffnung (9) nach außen hin erstrecken, sodass die Dichtung an diesen ersten Teilen (7a) in Kontakt treten und neu positioniert werden kann.
  2. Wärmetauscherplatte (1) und Dichtung (2) nach Anspruch 1, wobei mindestens eines der zwei ersten Teile (7a) der Nutverlängerungen im Wesentlichen senkrecht zur Dichtung (2) verläuft.
  3. Wärmetauscherplatte (1) und Dichtung (2) nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, wobei das zweite Teil (7b) der Nutverlängerungen im Wesentlichen parallel zur Dichtung (2) verläuft.
  4. Wärmetauscherplatte (1) und Dichtung (2) nach Anspruch 1, wobei die Nutverlängerung (8) durch einen ersten Vorsprung (10a) gebildet wird, welcher der Dichtungsnut (6) am nächsten ist, und derart ausgebildet ist, dass er die Seite (11a), die zur Dichtungsnut (6) weist, die geschlossen ist, und die Seite (11b), die weg von der Dichtungsnut (6) weist, die offen ist, aufweist, und wobei ein zweiter Vorsprung (10b), der am weitesten von der Dichtungsnut (6) entfernt ist, die Seite (12) aufweist, die zur offenen Dichtungsnut (6) weist.
  5. Wärmetauscherplatte (1) und Dichtung (2) nach Anspruch 4, wobei der erste (10a) und der zweite (10b) Vorsprung Oberflächen auf der gleichen Ebene wie andere Muster der Wärmetauscherplatten aufweist.
  6. Wärmetauscherplatte (1) und Dichtung (2) nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, wobei die Dichtungsverlängerung (7) Flügel (13) am zweiten Teil (7b) aufweist, die sich in gegenüberliegende Seiten erstrecken und derart ausgebildet sind, dass sie angepasst sind, um in die Öffnungen der offenen Seiten (11b) und (12) des ersten (10a) beziehungsweise zweiten (10b) Vorsprungs zu passen.
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