US3367406A - Helical wound strip regenerator - Google Patents

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US3367406A
US3367406A US480695A US48069565A US3367406A US 3367406 A US3367406 A US 3367406A US 480695 A US480695 A US 480695A US 48069565 A US48069565 A US 48069565A US 3367406 A US3367406 A US 3367406A
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    • 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
    • F28D17/00—Regenerative heat-exchange apparatus in which a stationary intermediate heat-transfer medium or body is contacted successively by each heat-exchange medium, e.g. using granular particles
    • F28D17/02—Regenerative heat-exchange apparatus in which a stationary intermediate heat-transfer medium or body is contacted successively by each heat-exchange medium, e.g. using granular particles using rigid bodies, e.g. of porous material
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02G—HOT GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT ENGINE PLANTS; USE OF WASTE HEAT OF COMBUSTION ENGINES; NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F02G1/00—Hot gas positive-displacement engine plants
    • F02G1/04—Hot gas positive-displacement engine plants of closed-cycle type
    • F02G1/043—Hot gas positive-displacement engine plants of closed-cycle type the engine being operated by expansion and contraction of a mass of working gas which is heated and cooled in one of a plurality of constantly communicating expansible chambers, e.g. Stirling cycle type engines
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    • F02G1/057—Regenerators
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10T29/4935—Heat exchanger or boiler making
    • Y10T29/49357—Regenerator or recuperator making

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  • FIGA INVENTOR GERBEN VON K HERMEN ZWAGERMAN BY l F i; GENT Unite States Patent Oilice 3,357,4@6 Patented Feb. 6, 1968 3,367,406 HELICAL WUND STRIP REGENERATGR Gerben Vonk and Hermen Zwagerman, Emmasiugel,
  • the invention relates to a regenerator comp-rising la housing with one or more filling masses arranged therein under pretension which lling masses are formed by a wound strip of a perforated material.
  • regenerator has the advantage that between the various flow ducts in the regenerator, transverse exchange .of medium is possible.
  • a further advantage is that as a result of the perfor-ations the heat conductivity of the strip of material in the direction of llow of the regenerator is reduced.
  • Regenerators which have to operate in the very low temperature range must have a filling mass which is manufactured from a material which has a comparatively high specific heat at the said low temperatures.
  • the materials which are to be considered for the said purpose are all rather soft.
  • the said regenerators must have a very high space factor, it being required for the material to be distributed as evenly as possible to ensure a large heat transmitting surface.
  • the regenerator accord-ing to the invention meets all the said requirements and is characterized in that the material from which the strip is manufactured, has a high specific heat at very low temperatures, the strip being provided with ribs extending at right angles to the longitudinal direction of the strip.
  • the ribs ensure that also in 'the case of a 4taut winding, the successive turns do not engage one another. As a result of this a particularly evenly distributed filling mass is obtained.
  • the material of the strip is lead.
  • the strip h-as a thickness of approximately 100,11. (100 microns) and the ribs have a height of at most 50p., the perforations being ⁇ formed by slots which are arranged in rows extending in parallel with one another and in the longitudinal direction of the strip, the mu-tual distance between the rows being approximately 200;. and the width of the slots being in the order of magnitude of 50p..
  • the slots enable the medium, which in the regenerator according to the invention flows in narrow ducts between two turns and two ribs, to ovv from one duct into the other duct.
  • the present regenerator may be manufactured according to the invention by tirst rolling a strip of material 'by tmeans of a first shaped rolling device so that a number of recesses arranged in parallel rows is formed the bottom of which has a smaller thickness than the strip, the strip then being subjected to an etch-ing treatment by which a layer of material is removed of which the thickness at least corresponds to the thickness of the bottom of the recesses, the strip then being passed through a second 'shaped rolling dev-ice which provides the strip with ribs.
  • the strip of material before subjecting the strip of material to the etching treatment it may be provided on one side with a coating layer which is not attacked by the etching agent. This results in a .saving of material because in this case a layer of material is etched away only :on one side.
  • a device for performing the said method comprising la lirst shaped rolling device which is constructed from a number of plates o'f a harder material yand a number of plates of a harder material which are alternately arranged on a shaft, the radius of the softer plates being smaller than the radius of the harder plat-es by substantially the
  • the harder plates of the tirs-t shaped rolling device have a thickness in the order of magnitude of 50p, and the softer plates have a thickness of .approximately 200a, the plates, after having been arranged on the shaft, being turned-off and provided with axial notches, the assembly being the subjected to an etching treatment or an electro-lytic treatment so that the dif Schlieren'ce in diameter between the harder plates and the softer plates is substantially t-wice the thickness of the strip of material to be processed.
  • the material for the harder plates is steel land that for the softer plates is copper.
  • FIGURES la, lb and 1c diagrammatically show three yperpendicular cross-sectional views of Ia strip of material suitable to be rolled to a regenerator filling mass.
  • lFIGURES 2a and 2b diagrammatically show a plan view .and a cross-sectional view respectively of a regenerator lilling mass consist-ing of a coil strip of material as shown in FIGURE l.
  • FIGURE 3 diagramfmatically shows a shaped rolling device ⁇ for providing recesses in a strip of material.
  • FIGURE 4 diagrammatically shows a side elevation of a plate of the shaped rolling device shown in FIGURE 3.
  • reference numeral 1 denotes a strip of a material which at very low temperatures still has 4a comparatively high specitic heat, Ifor example, lead.
  • the strip 1 is provided with a number of slots 2, which are arranged in rows.
  • the strip further comprises a number of ribs 3.
  • the thickness is e while the ribs have a height of 40a.
  • the slots 2 have a width of 50a, while the distance between the rows of slots is ZOO/r After w-inding the strip on a core 4, a particularly even and nely distributed filling material with a very high space factor is obtained with these dimensions.
  • the coiled strip is diagramtmatically shown in FIGURE 2.
  • the provision of the slots is particularly diicult. This is done by rst passing the strip through a shaped rolling device which provides recesses in the strip. The bottoms of the recesses are then removed by etching.
  • the shaped rolling device for providing the recesses is fdiagrammatically shown in FIGURE 3.
  • This shaped rolling device comprises a shaft 6 on which a number of plates 7 and 8 are alternately arranged.
  • the plates 7 are manufactured from copper and have a thickness which corresponds to the distance between the rows of slots.
  • the pla-tes S are manufactured irom steel and have a thickness which corresponds :to the width of the slots.
  • the coiled strip is then dipped in an etching bath.
  • the etching agent will attack the plates 7 of copper more rapidly than the steel plates 8. After some time, the plates 7 have a diameter which is smaller than the diameter of the plate 8 by twice the thickness of the strip 1. In this comparatively simple manner a shaped rolling device is obtained with which recesses of the desired smlall dimensions can be provided in the strip.
  • T'he ribs 3 can be provided on the strip by means of a suitably shaped roll-ing device.
  • the invention provides a regenerator which operates yreadily in the low temperature range, as well as a method of and a device for manufacturing the said regenerator.
  • a regenerator having a medium tlow therethrough comprising a housing, a lling mass in said housing constituted lof a helically ywound strip having spaced slots therein, said Wound strip being of a material having a 'high specific heat at relatively low temperatures, said strip of material being provided with ribs extending at right angles to the longitudinal direction of said strip whereby narrow ducts are formed parallel to the longi- ⁇ tudinal axis of said wound strip, said slots and ducts being substantially perpendicular to each other, and the medium flow through said slots being perpendicular to the medium ow through said narrow ducts, said strip having a thickness of approximately 100g, the ribs having a height of at most 50M, said slots being arranged in substantially parallel rows and extending in the direction 'of the lonigtudinal axis of said strip, the distance between adjacent rows being about 200,11. and the width of each of said slots being about 50a.
  • regenerator as claimed in cla-im 1 wherein said Ihelically wound strip is lead.

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US3789494A (en) * 1972-04-24 1974-02-05 Aga Ab Method of spirally winding strip to produce pinned units
US4866943A (en) * 1988-10-17 1989-09-19 Cdc Partners Cyrogenic regenerator
EP0339298A1 (fr) * 1988-04-14 1989-11-02 Leybold Aktiengesellschaft Procédé de fabrication d'un régénérateur pour une machine cryogénique et régénérateur fabriqué selon ce procédé
US5012650A (en) * 1989-10-11 1991-05-07 Apd Cryogenics, Inc. Cryogen thermal storage matrix
EP0576202A1 (fr) * 1992-06-24 1993-12-29 Gec-Marconi Limited Refroidisseur
WO1995002161A2 (fr) * 1993-07-09 1995-01-19 Sierra Regenerators, Inc. Regenerateur a feuilles
US6347453B1 (en) * 1998-05-22 2002-02-19 Matthew P. Mitchell Assembly method for concentric foil regenerators
US20030010473A1 (en) * 2001-07-10 2003-01-16 Mitchell Matthew P. Foil structure for regenerators
WO2020191479A1 (fr) * 2019-03-28 2020-10-01 Etalim Inc. Appareil de régénération thermique
US11466938B2 (en) * 2017-10-13 2022-10-11 Flexit Sverige Ab Rotating heat exchanger with improved heat transfer efficiency

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FR1059161A (fr) * 1951-06-25 1954-03-23 Philips Nv Remplissage pour récupérateur de chaleur
FR1324372A (fr) * 1962-03-07 1963-04-19 Air Liquide élément de garnissage pour régénérateurs
US3200877A (en) * 1957-12-12 1965-08-17 Linde Eismasch Ag Packing units for heat exchangers operating at extremely low temperatures
US3216484A (en) * 1960-09-09 1965-11-09 Ibm Cryogenic regenerator

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FR1059161A (fr) * 1951-06-25 1954-03-23 Philips Nv Remplissage pour récupérateur de chaleur
US3200877A (en) * 1957-12-12 1965-08-17 Linde Eismasch Ag Packing units for heat exchangers operating at extremely low temperatures
US3216484A (en) * 1960-09-09 1965-11-09 Ibm Cryogenic regenerator
FR1324372A (fr) * 1962-03-07 1963-04-19 Air Liquide élément de garnissage pour régénérateurs

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3789494A (en) * 1972-04-24 1974-02-05 Aga Ab Method of spirally winding strip to produce pinned units
EP0339298A1 (fr) * 1988-04-14 1989-11-02 Leybold Aktiengesellschaft Procédé de fabrication d'un régénérateur pour une machine cryogénique et régénérateur fabriqué selon ce procédé
US4866943A (en) * 1988-10-17 1989-09-19 Cdc Partners Cyrogenic regenerator
US5012650A (en) * 1989-10-11 1991-05-07 Apd Cryogenics, Inc. Cryogen thermal storage matrix
EP0576202A1 (fr) * 1992-06-24 1993-12-29 Gec-Marconi Limited Refroidisseur
WO1995002161A3 (fr) * 1993-07-09 1995-03-09 Ry Ms 2 Joint Venture Regenerateur a feuilles
WO1995002161A2 (fr) * 1993-07-09 1995-01-19 Sierra Regenerators, Inc. Regenerateur a feuilles
US5429177A (en) * 1993-07-09 1995-07-04 Sierra Regenators, Inc. Foil regenerator
US6347453B1 (en) * 1998-05-22 2002-02-19 Matthew P. Mitchell Assembly method for concentric foil regenerators
US20030010473A1 (en) * 2001-07-10 2003-01-16 Mitchell Matthew P. Foil structure for regenerators
US6854509B2 (en) * 2001-07-10 2005-02-15 Matthew P. Mitchell Foil structures for regenerators
US11466938B2 (en) * 2017-10-13 2022-10-11 Flexit Sverige Ab Rotating heat exchanger with improved heat transfer efficiency
WO2020191479A1 (fr) * 2019-03-28 2020-10-01 Etalim Inc. Appareil de régénération thermique

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