US20030094272A1 - Heat-exchanger tube structured on both sides and a method for its manufacture - Google Patents

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US20030094272A1
US20030094272A1 US10/295,813 US29581302A US2003094272A1 US 20030094272 A1 US20030094272 A1 US 20030094272A1 US 29581302 A US29581302 A US 29581302A US 2003094272 A1 US2003094272 A1 US 2003094272A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21C—MANUFACTURE OF METAL SHEETS, WIRE, RODS, TUBES OR PROFILES, OTHERWISE THAN BY ROLLING; AUXILIARY OPERATIONS USED IN CONNECTION WITH METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL
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    • B21C37/20—Making helical or similar guides in or on tubes without removing material, e.g. by drawing same over mandrels, by pushing same through dies ; Making tubes with angled walls, ribbed tubes and tubes with decorated walls
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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  • the invention relates to metallic heat-exchanger tubes structured on both sides, in particular finned tubes.
  • Heat transfer occurs in many areas of the air conditioning and refrigeration engineering and in the process and energy engineering.
  • Shell and tube heat exchangers are often utilized in these areas for heat transfer.
  • a liquid flows hereby on the inside of the tube in many applications, which liquid is cooled off or heated depending on the direction of the heat flow. The heat is given to the medium on the outside of the tube or is removed from said medium.
  • Tubes which are structured on both sides, constituting the state of the art, are utilized in shell and tube heat exchangers instead of plain tubes. This intensifies the heat transfer on the inside of the tube and on the outside of the tube.
  • the heat-flux is increased, and the heat exchanger can be built more compactly.
  • Structured heat-exchanger tubes for shell and tube heat-exchangers have usually at least one structured area and plain ends and possibly plain center lands.
  • the plain ends and plain center lands define the structured areas.
  • the outer diameter of the structured areas may not be larger than the outer diameter of the plain ends and plain center lands.
  • Integrally rolled finned tubes are often being utilized as structured heat-exchanger tubes.
  • Integrally rolled finned tubes are finned tubes where the fins are formed out of the wall material of a plain tube.
  • Finned tubes have on their outside annularly or helically extending fins. They have in many cases on the inside of the tube a plurality of axially parallel or helically extending fins, which improve the heat-transfer coefficient on the inside of the tube.
  • These inner fins extend with a constant cross-section parallel to the axis of the tube or in the form of helixes at a specific angle to the axis of the tube. The higher the inside fins, the greater is the improvement of the heat-transfer coefficient.
  • the purpose of the invention is to provide a heat exchanger tube and a method of manufacture of heat-exchanger tubes having a performance-increasing inner structure, which heat exchanger tubes are structured on both sides, whereby the share of weight of the inner structure as part of the total weight of the tube may not be higher than in common, helical inner fins with a constant cross-section.
  • the dimensions of the inner and the outer structures of the finned tube must be able to be adjusted independently from one another.
  • the inner fins are intersected by secondary grooves extending at a helix angle ⁇ measured against the tube axis;
  • the secondary grooves extend at an angle of intersection ⁇ of at least 10° with respect to the inner fins, and that the depth T of the secondary grooves is at least 20% of the fin height H of the inner fins.
  • the inner fins now have no longer a constant cross-section.
  • the change in the cross-sectional form of the inner fins at the areas of the secondary grooves are created in the tube-side flowing medium in the area near the wall caused by the secondary grooves which increases the heat-transfer coefficient. It is understood that by adding secondary grooves the share of the weight of the inner structure as part of the total weight of the tube is not increased.
  • the depth of the secondary grooves is measured from the tip of the inner fin in radial direction.
  • the depth of the secondary grooves is at least 20% of the height of the inner fins.
  • the tool for forming the outer fins is built with at least two spaced-apart groups of rolling-disks.
  • the inner structure is formed by two differently profiled mandrels.
  • the first mandrel supports the tube in the first forming area under the first group of rolling-disks and forms first of all helically extending or axially parallel inner fins, whereby these inner fins have first of all a constant cross-section.
  • the second mandrel supports the tube in the second forming area under the second group of rolling-disks with a larger diameter, and forms the inventive secondary grooves into the earlier formed helically extending or axially parallel fins.
  • the depth of the secondary grooves is essentially determined by the selection of the diameters of the two mandrels.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates schematically the manufacture of an inventive heat-exchanger tube by means of two mandrels with varying orientation of the helix angles
  • FIG. 2 is a partial view of an inventive heat-exchanger tube in which the secondary grooves expand over the entire height of the inner fin so that frustum-like elements are produced as inner structure.
  • the view is partially a cross-sectional view;
  • FIG. 3 is a photo of an inner structure in which the secondary grooves extend only over a portion of the height of the inner fin;
  • FIG. 4 is a schematic cross-sectional view of the inner structure of FIG. 3 taken along the line X-X of FIG. 3;
  • FIG. 5 shows a diagram which documents the performance advantage of the secondary grooves of the inner structure.
  • the integrally finned tube 1 according to FIGS. 1 and 2 has fins 3 helically extending over the outside of the tube.
  • the inventive finned tube is manufactured by a finning process (compare U.S. Pat. Nos. 1,865,575 and 3,327,512; and DE 23 03 172) and by means of a device illustrated in FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 1 shows only one arbor for reasons of clarity.
  • the axis of the arbor 10 is at the same time the axis of the two associated rolling tools 11 and 12 , and it extends skewed with respect to the tube axis.
  • the arbors 10 are arranged each offset at 360°/n on the periphery of the finned tube.
  • the arbors 10 can be fed radially. They are in turn arranged in a stationary (not illustrated) milling head.
  • the milling head is fixed in the basic frame of the milling device.
  • the rolling tools 11 and 12 each consist of several side-by-side arranged rolling disks 13 or 14 , the diameter of which increases in the direction of the arrow A.
  • the rolling disks 14 of the second rolling tool 12 thus have a larger diameter than the rolling disks 13 of the first rolling tool 11 .
  • the device also includes two profiled mandrels 15 and 16 , with the help of which the inner structure of the tube is created.
  • the mandrels 15 and 16 are mounted on the free end of a rod 9 and are rotatably supported relative to one another.
  • the rod 9 is fastened at its other end to the basic frame of the milling device.
  • the mandrels 15 and 16 are to be positioned in the operating range of the rolling tools 11 and 12 .
  • the rod 9 must be at least as long as the finned tube 1 to be manufactured.
  • the plain tube 2 is prior to the machining task with the rolling tools 11 and 12 not being engaged, moved almost completely over the mandrels 15 and 16 onto the rod 9 . Only the part of the plain tube 2 which, when the finned tube 1 is finished, is the first plain end, is not moved over the mandrels 15 and 16 .
  • the rotatingly driven rolling tools 11 and 12 which are arranged on the periphery of the tube for the purpose of machining the tube, fed radially onto the plain tube 2 and engaged the plain tube 2 .
  • the plain tube 2 is rotated in this manner. Since the axis of the rolling tools 11 and 12 is skewed with respect to the tube axis, the rolling tools 11 and 12 form helically extending fins 3 out of the tube wall of the plain tube 2 , and at the same time advance the finned tube 1 , which is being created, corresponding with the pitch of the helically extending fins 3 in the direction of the arrow A.
  • the fins 3 extend preferably like a multiple thread.
  • the spacing between the centers of two adjacent fins which spacing is measured lengthwise with respect to the tube axis, is identified as fin pitch p.
  • the spacing between the two rolling tools 11 and 12 must be adapted so that the rolling disks 14 of the second rolling tool 12 engage the grooves 4 which exist between the fins 3 a formed by the first rolling tool 11 . Ideally, this spacing is an integral multiple of the fin pitch p.
  • the second rolling tool 12 then continues the further forming of the outer fins 3 .
  • the tube wall is supported in the forming zone of the first rolling tool 11 (hereinafter referred to as the first forming area) by a first profiled mandrel 15
  • the tube wall is supported in the forming zone of the second rolling tool 12 (hereinafter referred to as the second forming area) by a second profile mandrel 16
  • the axes of the two mandrels 15 and 16 are congruent with the axis of the tube.
  • the mandrels 15 and 16 are profiled differently and the outside diameter of the second mandrel 16 is at most as large as the outside diameter of the first mandrel 15 .
  • the outside diameter of the second mandrel 16 is typically up to 0.8 mm smaller than the outside diameter of the first mandrel 15 .
  • the profile of the mandrels consists usually of a plurality of grooves which are trapezoidal or almost trapezoidal in cross-section, and which are arranged parallel to one another on the outer surface of the mandrel.
  • the material of the mandrel between two adjacent grooves is identified as a web 19 .
  • the webs 19 have an essentially trapezoidal cross-section.
  • the grooves extend usually at a helix angle of 0° to 70° with respect to the axis of the mandrel.
  • the helix angle is in the case of the first mandrel 15 identified with ⁇ , in the case of the second mandrel 16 with ⁇ .
  • the helix angle of 0° corresponds with the case that the grooves extend parallel to the axis of the mandrel.
  • the grooves extend helically. Helically extending grooves can be oriented left-handed or right-handed.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 illustrate the case where the first mandrel 15 has right-handed grooves 17 and the second mandrel 16 has left-handed grooves 18 .
  • the helix angles ⁇ and ⁇ can in this case have the same amounts. (The same applies for the case where the first mandrel 15 has left-handed grooves 17 and the second mandrel 16 has right-handed grooves 18 .) However, it is also possible that both mandrels 15 and 16 have grooves 17 and 18 with an orientation in the same direction. In this case, however, the helix angles ⁇ and ⁇ must differ with respect to their amount. The two mandrels 15 and 16 must be rotatably supported with respect to one another.
  • the radial forces of the first rolling tool 11 press the material of the tube wall into the grooves 17 of the first mandrel 15 .
  • Primary grooves 21 extend between two adjacent inner fins 20 .
  • these inner fins 20 have an essentially trapezoidal cross-section, which remains constant first of all along the inner fin.
  • the inner fins 20 are inclined with respect to the tube axis at the same angle ⁇ (helix angle) as the grooves 17 with respect to the axis of the first mandrel 15 .
  • ⁇ helix angle
  • the height of the inner fins 20 is identified with the letter H and is usually in the range of 0.15-0.40 mm.
  • the inner fins 20 are pressed onto the second mandrel 16 by the radial forces of the second rolling tool 12 . Since the grooves 18 of the second mandrel 16 extend at a different angle with respect to the mandrel axis and thus at a different angle with respect to the tube axis than the grooves 17 of the first mandrel 15 , the inner fins 20 strike by sectors a groove 18 or a web 19 of the second mandrel 16 . In the sectors where an inner fin 20 strikes a groove 18 , the material of the inner fin 20 is pressed into the groove. In the sectors where an inner fin 20 strikes a web 19 , the fin material is deformed and secondary grooves 22 , which extend parallel to one another, are impressed.
  • the secondary grooves 22 Corresponding with the form of the webs 19 of the second mandrel 16 , the secondary grooves 22 have a trapezoidal cross-section. Secondary grooves 22 , which are impressed into varying inner fins 20 by the same web 19 , are arranged in alignment with one another. The helix angle, which the secondary grooves 22 form with the tube axis, equals the helix angle ⁇ , which the grooves 18 of the second mandrel 16 define with the axis of the second mandrel 16 .
  • the angle of intersection ⁇ , which the secondary grooves 22 define with the inner fins 20 results, in the case of mandrels 15 and 16 where the grooves 17 and 18 are oriented in the same direction, from the difference of the helix angles ⁇ and ⁇ , in the case of mandrels 15 and 16 where the grooves 17 and 18 are oriented in opposite directions, from the sum of the helix angles ⁇ and ⁇ .
  • the angle ⁇ is at least 10°, typically it lies in the range between 30° and 100°, preferably between 60° and 85°. Angles ⁇ less than 90° can be easier controlled with respect to manufacturing than angles ⁇ larger than 90° and cause usually a smaller pressure drop than angles ⁇ larger than 90°.
  • the depth T of the secondary grooves 22 is measured from the top of the inner fin 20 in radial direction.
  • the depth T of the secondary grooves 22 can be varied. The smaller the difference in the outside diameter between the first mandrel 15 and the second mandrel 16 , the larger is the depth T of the secondary grooves 22 .
  • a change of the outside diameter of one of the two mandrels 15 and 16 does not only result in a change of the depth T of the secondary grooves 22 , but causes usually also a change of the height of the outer fins 3 .
  • the largest rolling disks 13 of the first rolling tool 11 can for this purpose be used as the smallest rolling disks 14 of the second rolling tool 12 or the smallest rolling disks 14 of the second rolling tool 12 as the largest rolling disks 13 of the first rolling tool 11 .
  • the depth T of the secondary grooves 22 should amount to at least 20% of the height H of the inner fins 20 .
  • the dimension T amounts preferably to at least 40% of the height H of the inner fins 20 .
  • the finish-form of the finned tube 1 still shows the course of the inner fins 20 . This is illustrated in FIG. 3.
  • the height of the inner fins 20 is reduced at the areas of the secondary grooves 22 by their depth T.
  • the primary grooves 21 extend without interruption between the inner fins 20 . Aligned secondary grooves 22 are spaced apart by the primary grooves 21 .
  • FIG. 4 schematically illustrates a cross-section of the inner structure of FIG. 3 taken along the line X-X of FIG. 3.
  • the height relationships between inner fins 20 , primary grooves 21 and secondary grooves 22 can here be clearly recognized.
  • the depth T of the secondary grooves 22 equals the height H of the inner fins 20 , then the course of the inner fins 20 can no longer be recognized on the finish form of the finned tube 1 .
  • the inner fins 21 are in this case divided by secondary grooves 22 into individual, spaced-apart elements 23 . This is illustrated in FIG. 2. Due to the trapezoidal cross-section of the first of all formed inner fins 20 and the secondary grooves 22 , the spaced-apart elements 23 have the form of frustums.
  • the density of the intersecting points of inner fins 20 and secondary grooves 22 is determined by the profiling on the two mandrels 15 and 16 .
  • the density of the intersecting points lies preferably between 90 and 250 intersecting points per cm 2 .
  • the inner tube surface serves hereby as reference surface, which results when one would completely remove the inner structure from the tube.
  • the inner structure of the finned tube 1 is provided with additional edges by the secondary grooves 22 .
  • additional turbulences in the liquid are created at these edges, which turbulences improve the heat transfer to the tube wall.
  • the pressure drop of the liquid flowing in the tube usually increases to the same degree as the heat-transfer coefficient.
  • the description of the inventive manufacturing method shows that through a plurality of the tool parameters, which can be selected with this method, the dimensions of the outer and inner structure can be adjusted independently from one another in wide ranges. For instance, by dividing the rolling tool into two spaced-apart rolling tools 11 and 12 , it is possible to vary the depth T of the secondary grooves 22 without simultaneously changing the height of the outer fins 3 .
  • Finned tubes for air conditioning and refrigeration engineering which finned tubes are structured on both sides, are often manufactured out of copper or copper alloys. Since with these metals the pure material price carries a not insignificant portion of the entire costs of the finned tube, competition demands that at a specified tube diameter the weight of the tube is as low as possible.
  • the share of the weight of the inner structure as part of the entire weight is 10% to 20% for today's commercially available finned tubes depending on the height of the inner structure and thus depending on performance.
  • the performance of such tubes can be significantly increased with the inventive secondary grooves 22 in the inner fins 20 of finned tubes, which are structured on both sides, without that the share of the weight of the inner structure is increased.
  • the share of the weight of such an inner structure which share refers to the outer envelope surface of the finned tube, lies usually between 500 g/m 2 and 1000 g/m 2 , preferably between 600 g/m 2 and 900 g/m 2 .
  • the share of the weight of such an inner structure which share refers to the outer envelope surface, lies usually between 150 g/m 2 and 300 g/m 2 , preferably between 180 g/m 2 and 270 g/m 2 .
  • FIG. 5 shows a diagram which documents the performance advantage of the inventive inner structure. Illustrated is the overall heat-transfer coefficient versus the heat-flux during condensation of refrigerant R-134a on the outside of the tube and cooling-water flow on the inside of the tube. The condensation temperature is 36.7° C., the water velocity 2.4 m/s.
  • the two compared finned tubes have the same structure on their outside, however, they differ in the inner structure, as is identified in the diagram.
  • the state of the art is hereby represented by the tube which has a standard inner structure with a height of 0.35 mm.
  • the inventive finned tube with inner frustum-like structure similar to FIG.
  • the height of the frustums is approximately 0.30 mm
  • the density of the intersecting points of inner fins 20 and secondary grooves 22 is 143 per cm 2
  • the angle ⁇ is 96°.
  • the finned tube with inner frustum-like structure has an advantage in the overall heat-transfer coefficient of 13% to 22%. This advantage is caused solely by the inner structure since the shell side heat-transfer coefficient is the same in both tubes.
  • both the radial force for the simultaneous forming of the outer and inner structure and also the axial force for advancing the tube are solely created by the rolling tool which is constructed of relatively thin rolling disks.
  • the most efficient, commercially available finned tubes are manufactured with rolling disks, the thickness of which is between 0.40 mm and 0.65 mm.

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