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US20150075760A1
US20150075760A1 US14/394,060 US201314394060A US2015075760A1 US 20150075760 A1 US20150075760 A1 US 20150075760A1 US 201314394060 A US201314394060 A US 201314394060A US 2015075760 A1 US2015075760 A1 US 2015075760A1
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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
    • F28F1/12—Tubular elements and assemblies thereof with means for increasing heat-transfer area, e.g. with fins, with projections, with recesses the means being only outside the tubular element
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B32—LAYERED PRODUCTS
    • B32B—LAYERED PRODUCTS, i.e. PRODUCTS BUILT-UP OF STRATA OF FLAT OR NON-FLAT, e.g. CELLULAR OR HONEYCOMB, FORM
    • B32B15/00—Layered products comprising a layer of metal
    • B32B15/01—Layered products comprising a layer of metal all layers being exclusively metallic
    • B32B15/016—Layered products comprising a layer of metal all layers being exclusively metallic all layers being formed of aluminium or aluminium alloys
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C22—METALLURGY; FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS ALLOYS; TREATMENT OF ALLOYS OR NON-FERROUS METALS
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    • C22C1/00—Making non-ferrous alloys
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C22—METALLURGY; FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS ALLOYS; TREATMENT OF ALLOYS OR NON-FERROUS METALS
    • C22C—ALLOYS
    • C22C1/00—Making non-ferrous alloys
    • C22C1/06—Making non-ferrous alloys with the use of special agents for refining or deoxidising
    • 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
    • F28D1/00—Heat-exchange apparatus having stationary conduit assemblies for one heat-exchange medium only, the media being in contact with different sides of the conduit wall, in which the other heat-exchange medium is a large body of fluid, e.g. domestic or motor car radiators
    • F28D1/02—Heat-exchange apparatus having stationary conduit assemblies for one heat-exchange medium only, the media being in contact with different sides of the conduit wall, in which the other heat-exchange medium is a large body of fluid, e.g. domestic or motor car radiators with heat-exchange conduits immersed in the body of fluid
    • F28D1/04—Heat-exchange apparatus having stationary conduit assemblies for one heat-exchange medium only, the media being in contact with different sides of the conduit wall, in which the other heat-exchange medium is a large body of fluid, e.g. domestic or motor car radiators with heat-exchange conduits immersed in the body of fluid with tubular 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
    • F28F1/10—Tubular elements and assemblies thereof with means for increasing heat-transfer area, e.g. with fins, with projections, with recesses
    • F28F1/12—Tubular elements and assemblies thereof with means for increasing heat-transfer area, e.g. with fins, with projections, with recesses the means being only outside the tubular element
    • F28F1/24—Tubular elements and assemblies thereof with means for increasing heat-transfer area, e.g. with fins, with projections, with recesses the means being only outside the tubular element and extending transversely
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28F—DETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
    • F28F19/00—Preventing the formation of deposits or corrosion, e.g. by using filters or scrapers
    • F28F19/004—Preventing the formation of deposits or corrosion, e.g. by using filters or scrapers by using protective electric currents, voltages, cathodes, anodes, electric short-circuits
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28F—DETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
    • F28F21/00—Constructions of heat-exchange apparatus characterised by the selection of particular materials
    • F28F21/08—Constructions of heat-exchange apparatus characterised by the selection of particular materials of metal
    • F28F21/081—Heat exchange elements made from metals or metal alloys
    • F28F21/084—Heat exchange elements made from metals or metal alloys from aluminium or aluminium alloys

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  • the subject matter disclosed herein generally relates to heat exchangers and, more particularly, to heat exchangers having alloy tubes and aluminum collar-style fins tubes.
  • Heat exchangers are widely used in various applications, including but not limited to heating and cooling systems including hydronic fan coil units, heating and cooling in various industrial and chemical processes, heat recovery systems, and the like, to name but a few.
  • Many heat exchangers for transferring heat from one fluid to another fluid utilize one or more tubes through which one fluid flows while a second fluid flows around the tubes. Heat from one of the fluids is transferred to the other fluid by conduction through the tube wall.
  • Many configurations also utilize fins in thermally conductive contact with the outside of the tube(s) to provide increased surface area across which heat can be transferred between the fluids and/or to impact flow of the second fluid through the heat exchanger.
  • One such heat exchanger is known as a round tube plate fin (RTPF) heat exchanger.
  • RTPF round tube plate fin
  • Heat exchanger tubes may be made from a variety of materials, including metals such as aluminum or copper and alloys thereof.
  • Aluminum alloys are lightweight, have a high specific strength and high-heat conductivity. Due to these excellent mechanical properties, aluminum alloys are used as heat exchangers for heating or cooling systems in commercial, industrial, residential, transport, refrigeration, and marine applications.
  • aluminum alloy heat exchangers have a relatively high susceptibility to corrosion. Corrosion eventually leads to a loss of refrigerant from the tubes and failure of the heating or cooling system. Sudden tube failure results in a rapid loss of cooling and loss of functionality of the heating or cooling system. Accordingly, improvements in corrosion performance of aluminum alloy heat exchangers would be well received in the art.
  • a heat exchanger includes
  • FIG. 1 depicts a perspective view of a heat exchanger incorporating heat exchanger fins treated according to an embodiment of the invention
  • FIG. 2 depicts a sectional view of the tube and fins incorporating the treated heat exchanger fins according to an embodiment of the invention.
  • FIG. 3 is a plot of galvanic corrosion current density for exemplary tube and fin alloys according to an embodiment of the invention.
  • FIG. 1 depicts an exemplary RTPF heat exchanger 10 having heat exchanger fins 60 that are treated for galvanic corrosion protection according to an embodiment of the invention.
  • the heat exchanger 10 includes one or more flow circuits for carrying refrigerant through the heat exchanger 10 .
  • the heat exchanger 10 is shown with a single flow circuit refrigerant tube 20 consisting of an inlet line 30 and an outlet line 40 .
  • the inlet line 30 is connected to the outlet line 40 at one end of the heat exchanger 10 through a 90 degree tube bend 50 .
  • the refrigerant tube 20 is generally made of an aluminum alloy based core material.
  • the heat exchanger 10 further includes a series of fins 60 comprising radially disposed plate like elements spaced along the length of the flow circuit.
  • the fins 60 are provided between a pair of end plates 70 and 80 and are supported by the lines 30 , 40 in order to define a gas flow passage through which conditioned air passes over the refrigerant tube 20 and between the spaced fins 60 .
  • the fins 60 are generally made of an aluminum alloy substrate material such as, for example, materials selected from the 1000 series, 7000 series, or 8000 series aluminum alloys.
  • FIG. 2 depicts a sectional view of the heat exchanger 10 including the refrigerant tube 20 and fins 60 according to an embodiment of the invention.
  • an aluminum alloy refrigerant tube 20 with the circuit flow lines 30 , 40 are fabricated with the generally coplanar aluminum alloy plates for the heat exchanger fins 60 .
  • the attachment point of the fins 60 and lines 30 , 40 are brazed to form a permanent connection.
  • the first aluminum alloy as described herein is used to form tubes for the tube fin heat exchanger.
  • the first aluminum alloy can be selected from any of a number of known and commercially available aluminum alloys having an electrochemical solution potential of ⁇ 695 mV to ⁇ 770 mV as determined according to ASTM G69-97, more specifically ⁇ 710 mV to ⁇ 750 mV.
  • Representative alloys that can be used as the first aluminum alloy include, but are not limited to alloys of the 3000 series as well as other alloy series such as the 1000 series, 5000 series. Exemplary alloys include 3003 and 3102.
  • the second aluminum alloy described herein is used to prepare finstock for the fabrication of fins.
  • the second aluminum alloy comprises a base alloy selected from the group consisting of can be selected from AA1100, AA8006, and AA8011, and mixtures thereof
  • the compositions of these alloys and techniques for preparing them are well-known in the art. Exemplary embodiments of such compositions are described, for example, in Aluminum and Aluminum Alloys, ASM Specialty Handbook, J. R. Davis, ASM International, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
  • the fin alloy comprises zinc or magnesium in an amount sufficient to provide the second aluminum alloy with an electrochemical solution potential of at least 10 mV more negative than the electrochemical solution potential of the tube alloy, as determined according to ASTM G69.
  • zinc or magnesium is present in an amount sufficient to provide the second aluminum alloy with an electrochemical solution potential of at least 40 mV more negative than the electrochemical solution potential of the tube alloy.
  • zinc or magnesium can be included at a level of 0.1 to 10 wt. % zinc or magnesium, more specifically 0.25 to 8 wt. % zinc or magnesium, and even more specifically 0.7 to 8 wt. % zinc or magnesium.
  • the second aluminum alloy comprises 0.15 to 4 wt. % zinc, more specifically from 0.25 to 3 wt. % zinc, and even more specifically 0.7 to 1.5 wt. % zinc.
  • the second aluminum alloy that includes a Zn or magnesium can be formed by melting the base alloy in a crucible and adding Zn or Mg as compact pieces of high purity Zn or Mg when the melt temperature is high enough to melt and mix with the Zn or Mg (e.g., 1300 degrees Fahrenheit for Zn).
  • the melt is cured using rapid solidification and thin sheets of fins 60 are formed by rolling.
  • cured fins 60 comprise mostly aluminum and preferably, Zn material in an amount up to about 1 percent Zn by weight.
  • the Zn material has a coating thickness of about 1 micron to about 10 micron.
  • the embodiments described herein utilize an aluminum alloy for the fins of a tube fin heat exchanger having an aluminum alloy tube, i.e., a so-called “all aluminum” heat exchanger.
  • the alloy out of which the fins are made should be more anodic than the alloy out of which the tube(s) are made. This ensures that any galvanic corrosion will occur in the fin rather than in the tube, as tube corrosion can cause a potentially catastrophic failure involving loss of refrigerant.
  • Conventional anodic aluminum alloys such as alloy 7072 suffer from limitations on formability, which is particularly problematic for heat exchangers having low fpi (fins per inch) counts, with correspondingly high collar dimensions.
  • 7072 fins are subject to cracking and other defects at lower fpi counts due to 7072's limited formability.
  • 7072 is limited in the minimum fpi count that can be achieved.
  • Aluminum alloy for use as a fin material was prepared by modifying alloy 1100 with the addition of 1.0 wt. % zinc. The resulting alloy was evaluated for galvanic compatibility with tube alloy 3003 according to ASTM G71-81. The evaluation was performed in a galvanic corrosion test solution such as the solution described in G69-97 or other galvanic corrosion test solutions used to evaluate susceptibility to galvanic corrosion. For comparison purposes, comparison alloy 7072 was also evaluated for galvanic compatibility with tube alloy 3003. The results are shown in FIG.
  • Tube fin heat exchangers were prepared having various tube sizes and fpi/fin collar values using aluminum alloy tubes and collar-type fins prepared from zinc-modified AA1100 according to the invention.
  • the heat exchangers with 7072 exhibited significant splitting of the fins, particularly at lower fpi counts. Exemplary lowest achievable FPI counts at different fin thicknesses are shown in the Table below:
  • the heat exchangers of the invention with zinc-modified 1100 fin alloy exhibited no splitting and were capable of achieving lower minimum fpi counts than the comparison of fins made from the 7072 alloy.

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