US3881342A - Method of making integral finned tube for submerged boiling applications having special o.d. and/or i.d. enhancement - Google Patents
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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- 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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- ABSTRACT Method for making heat transfer tubing comprising forming generally circumferentially extending adjacent fin convolutions provided with recesses in the outer edges thereof, and bending each fin'convolution uniformly toward the adjacent convolution to partially enclose the spaces between adjacent convolutions so as to leave a continuous opening communicating with the interior of the spaces between the tip of each fin convolution and the side of the adjacent convolution, in which the openinghas a plurality of spaced enlargements provided by the recesses in the outer edges of the fins.
- the tubing is provided with internal ribbing in such a way as to automatically produce the recesses in the edges of the tin convolutions.
- the present invention concerns a method for making a special integrally finned tubing having a specific geometry whereby the rate of heat transfer is enhanced in certain submerged boiling applications.
- the tubing has a multiplicity of generally circumferentially extending fin convolutions bent over substantially uniformly so that the tips or outer edges of each convolution are brought into a predetermined closely spaced relationship to the side of the adjacent convolution and defines therewith elongated circumferentially extending substantially confined spaces having effectively continuous circumferentially extended elongated restricted openings communicating with said spaces, and characterized in that at circumferentially spaced zones of limited extent the bent over edge portion of the fin convolutions are recessed inwardly to define substantial enlargements in said openings.
- the plain tubing is provided with fins, preferably helical in configuration, by a fin rolling operation well known in the art.
- the fin convolutions as produced by this rolling operation are of uniform height and if bent over as suggested in Zatell US. Pat. No. 3,768,290 would produce an effectively uniform restricted opening leading into the partially confined space defined between adjacent fin convolutions.
- the height of the fins is reduced by notches provided in the outer edges thereof at circumferentially spaced points so that when the fins are bent over, the fin portions of reduced height define with the adjacent fin convolutions enlargements in the effectively continuous circumferentially extending openings into the confined spaces.
- the initially uniform height fins may have portions reduced in height by a knurling operation applied Iongitudinally of the finned tube. This knurling operation presses the metal of the tip or edge portions of the fins downwardly to produce circumferentially spaced fin portions of reduced height.
- the fin portions of reduced height may be produced by removing material at circumferentially spaced zones along the fins by metal removing operations such as cutting or grinding.
- the tubing of the present invention is completed by drawing the tubing provided with the modified fins through a properly sized die so as to deform or bend over the fin convolutions to provide the required restricted opening into the confined spaces defined between adjacent fin convolutions.
- the initial fin forming operation is carried out as suggested in Rieger US. Pat. No. 3,768,291, in which the plain tubing is supported on helically grooved mandrels as radially inwardly applied pressure is applied to roll up fins from the material of the tube. Where the fin rolling pressure is applied over a grooved portion of the mandrel, material of the plain tube is displaced into the mandrel and at this portion of the tubing the fin height is slightly reduced.
- This reduced fin height is of no particular significance in the tubing disclosed in the Rieger patent, but where this method is employed as the first step of producing specifically modified fins as disclosed herein, the slight reduction in fin height automatically provides circumferentially spaced enlargements in the effectively continuous circumferentially extending openings into the substantially confined spaces between adjacent fin convolutions, when the finned tubing is drawn through a die shaped to produce precisely the required deformation or bending over of the fin convolutions.
- the average width of the spacing between the fin crests or edges and the sides of adjacent fins depends upon a number of factors and in any particular appllication may best be determined by experiment. However, in general terms, it is believed that the average spacing, except for zones of enlargement, should be less than 0.007 inch, and normally will be between 0.001 and 0.005 inch. The width of the enlargements of the opening may also be dependent upon a number of factors, but in general it should not be less than 50 percent more than the average width of the opening intermediate the enlargements.
- a particular example of the foregoing is a continuous opening having an average width of 0.004 inch and enlargements having an average width of 0.006 inch.
- the total amount of the continuous opening occupied by the enlargements should be between 10 and 30 percent of the total opening.
- FIG. 1 is a fragmentary longitudinal section through a tube used in producing tubing embodying the present invention.
- FIG. 2 is a fragmentary enlargement of the portion of the tube contained in the circle in FIG. 1.
- FIG. 3 is a sectional view on the line 3-3, FIG. 2.
- FIG. 4 is a fragmentary elevational view of a portion of a tube completed from the condition illustrated in FIGS. l-3.
- FIG. 5 is a fragmentary section on the line 5-5, FIG. 4.
- FIG. 6 is a fragmentary section on the line 6-6, FIG. 4.
- FIG. 7 is a fragmentary enlarged sectional view of the tubing as shown in FIG. 5.
- FIG. 8 is a fragmentary sectional view through a tube used in producing tubing embodying a further embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 9 is a fragmentary enlarged section of a portion of the tube shown in FIG. 8.
- FIG. 10 is a view similar to FIG. 9, showing the condition of the tubing after it has been drawn through a die.
- FIG. 11 is a fragmentary elevational view of the completed tube as illustrated in FIG. 10.
- the heat exchange tubing illustrated herein represents a specific improvement over tubing as illustrated in Zatell U.S. Pat. No. 3,768,290, assigned to the assignee hereto.
- This tubing is produced by drawing integrally finned tubing through a circular die in such a way as to bend the fin convolutions transversely so as to bring the tip of each fin convolution into proximity to the side wall of the adjacent fin convolution. This produces a substantially confined elongated space which extends substantially around the outside of the tubing. If the fins are separate circular fins, each space comprises a single annular space.
- the fins are helical, then the confined spaces extend helically around the exterior of the tub- As disclosed in the Zatell patent, the crest or tip of each fin is spaced slightly from the side wall of the adjacent fin convolution so as to define an elongated circumferentially extending relatively narrow opening providing access to the interior of the substantially enclosed space for entry into the space of a liquid in which the tubing is submerged.
- the liquid which enters the substantially confined space is vaporized very efficiently and the resulting vapor is expelled from the space through the narrow opening into the body of the liquid in which the tubing is submerged.
- Tubing of the type disclosed in the foregoing may be most efficiently manufactured by rolling up integral fins from the material of a plain tube, after which the finned tube is drawn through a die having the opening in the die effective to bend over the fins to produce the substantially confined spaces and to produce continuous or substantially continuous elongated circumferentially extending openings communicating with the confined space.
- the average width of the space or gap between the crests of a fin convolution and the adjacent surface of the next convolution should be up to 0.007 inch, and the maximum improvement in boiling efficiency is noted where the gap does not exceed 0.005 inch.
- the average width of the gap may be substantially less than 0.005 inch, as for example as noted for specific tubing in the prior patent, wherein gap widths as low as 0.001 inch were tested.
- the present invention provides for continuous elongated circumferentially extending openings communicating with the interior of the confined spaces extending around the tube in which, except for the enlargements hereinafter described, will have an average effective width not exceeding 0.007 inch and preferably not exceeding 0.005 inch, and in many cases substantially less, as for example 0.001 inch.
- the most effective width for a particular liquid to be boiled may be determined by experimentation within the limits herein suggested.
- An average width for the continuous elongated access opening for most efficient operation for liquid provided within the enclosed space may be less than the width which will give the most efficient overall operation, because the narrowness of the opening or gap may be such as to restrict flow of liquid into the enclosed space for vaporization therein. Accordingly, the present invention teaches the provision of the elongated continuous opening into the confined space as having a width selected such as to produce a maximum heat transfer and consequent boiling enhancement, while at the same time provision is made in the form of circumferentially spaced enlargements for inflow of fluid from the body of liquid in which the tubing is submerged into the substantially confined circumferentially extending space.
- the width of the opening will be related to the average width of the opening as measured intermediate successive enlargements.
- the width of the enlargement should however be substantially greater than the width of the opening between enlargements and in practice, the width of the opening should be at least 50 percent greater than the width of the opening intermediate the enlargements.
- the width of the enlargement shuold of course be limited to a point where it does not provide substantially free flow of liqiud into and out of the confined spaces so as to detract from the performance thereof in enhancement of boiling.
- FIG. 1 a tube 10 having smooth interior surface 12 and provided on its exterior surface with fins indicated at 14.
- each of the fins 14 extends outwardly from the outer generally cylindrical surface 16 of the tube 10 to a height designated at h which is at least several times greater than the average thickness of a fin as designated at I.
- the spacing between adjacent fin convolutions substantially exceeds the average fin thickness t.
- the tubing may be of different sizes and materials, but a typical operation employs thin wall copped tube having an initial CD. of 0.5 1.0 inch.
- Finned tubing of the type illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 2 is effectively produced as is well known by rolling the material of the fins upwardly out of the material of the tubing so as to produce a unitary integral finned tube.
- the fins may be in the form of independent circular convolutions, or, as is usually the case, the fins may be produced to extend helically about the tube.
- the fins may comprise a single helical fin or two or more interleaved helical fins.
- the fin convolutions are of uniform height so that the occupy an imaginary cylindrical surface.
- the height of the fins is reduced at circumferentially spaced points as suggested in FIG. 3.
- the tube shows the fins 14 as having circumferentially spaced notches or recesses 18.
- these notches are generally of V-shaped configuration and have a depth reaching only to a small fraction of the total height h of the fin, as for example about lO2O percent thereof.
- These notches are spaced substantially apart so that the enlargement of the continuous opening into the interior of the confined space provided at the exterior of the tubing constitutes only a small fraction of the total length of the opening, as for example not to exceed l030 percent thereof.
- the notches or recesses 18 may be provided in the finned tube by rolling with a knurling tool in a direction longitudinally of the tube so as to displace the material from the crests of the fins and so provide the notches.
- the notches 18 may be produced by an operation in which the material at the crests of the fins is removed, as for example by a suitable cutting or grinding operation.
- the tubing of the present invention is produced by simply drawing the finned tube through a die having a circular opening dimensioned to produce the required bending over of the fins to the configuration illustrated in FIGS. 4-7.
- the bent over fins are designated 20, each provided with the notches or recesses 18.
- the crest 22 of each fin is bent over so as to be spaced very slightly from the side of the next adjacent fin convolution, thus providing the continuous opening designated 24 in FIG. 6 with the periodic enlargements designated 26 in FIG. 5 formed by the notches or recesses 18, communicating with the substantially enclosed space 27.
- FIGS. 8-11 there is illustrated another and preferred embodiment of the present invention.
- This embodiment of the invention is characterized by the production of externally finned internally ridged or ribbed tubing, as disclosed in the prior Rieger patent assigned to assignee herein.
- a plain tube is advanced over a mandrel having one or more helically extending grooves therein, the grooves extending at a substantial lead or helix angle to the axis of the mandrel.
- the rolling operation is carried out by a multiplic ity of sets of finning discs which are positioned with their axes crossed with respect to the mandrel and the tubing advancing thereover so as to press the tubing down firmly into engagement with the mandrel and actually to extrude material of the tubing into the groove or grooves provided in the mandrel as the tubing advances.
- the mandrel is mounted for rotation so that as the finned tubing advances over the mandrel one or more helical internal ridges or ribs is produced.
- the finning operation where carried out on a plain cylindrical mandrel, produces fin convolutions which are of substantially constant height.
- the mandrel is provided with the helical groove or grooves as disclosed in the Rieger patent
- the portion of the fin convolution overlying the ridge or rib provided at the interior of the tubing is of slightly less height.
- This variation in height as a structural feature of the tubing produced by the Rieger patent, is of no practical significance.
- this very slight reduction in height at circumferentially spaced points on the crests or tips of the fin convolutions provides for periodic enlargement of the continuous opening providing access into the interior of the confined space when these fins are bent over by a drawing operation as previously disclosed.
- FIG. 8 there is illustrated a portion of tubing 30 provided at its interior surface with helically extending ridge or rib convolutions 32, which as seen in the Figure have a radially inward projection somewhat less than the axial width thereof.
- Ribs 32 extend at a substantial helix angle with respect to the axis of the tube diameter 34, as for example, an angle of 30-45.
- the fins 36 usually extend substantially circumferentially with the result that each internal rib convolution is intersected by a large multiplicity of fin convolutions. Where each fin convolution at the exterior of the tube crosses a fin convolution at the interior of the tube, the height of the fin will be reduced by a few thousandths of an inch.
- the tube 30 is shown as provided with the internal rib convolutions 32 and with the external fins 36.
- Construction line 38 is drawn in this Figure through the crests of the fins 36a at points where these fins do not overlie the internal ribs 32. Where fins such as designated 36b overlie the internal ribs, it will be observed that these fins are of reduced height and are spaced inwardly from the construction line 38 by a dimension designated 40.
- the tube 30 is illustrated in the condition produced by drawing the finned tube illustrated in FIG. 9 through a circular die.
- the fins 36 are all displaced laterally to bring the crests thereof into position spaced slightly from the next adjacent fin convolution to define therewith the generally circumferentially extending confined space 42 and the elongated continuous circumferentially extending access opening 44 into the space.
- the fins are of reduced height as indicated at 36b, there is an enlargement in the continuous opening, this enlargement being designated in FIG. 10 at 46.
- the completed tube is illustrated in the fragmentary elevational view of FIG. 11 where the bent over fin convolutions designated generally at 36 show widely separated enlargements 46 which are arranged in a helical pattern as indicated by the construction line 48 to extend at the same helix as the internal ridges or ribs 32.
- the method of making heat transfer tubing modified for the enhancement of heat transfer from heating fluid flowing through the tubing to liquid in contact with the exterior surface thereof in submerged boiling applications, which comprises providing a multiplicity of axially spaced fin convolutions extending radially outwardly from and around the tubing so as to provide fin convolutions having inner base portions extending generally radially outwardly from said wall and having outer portions terminating in an outer edge, providing a plurality of circumferentially spaced recesses extending inwardly from the outer edges of said convolutions, thereafter bending the fin convolutions laterally uniformly to bring the outer edge of each fin convolution into proximity to the side of the adjacent convolution to form partially enclosed spaces between each pair of adjacent convolutions having continuous circumferentially extending elongated restricted openings communicating with the interior of said spaces, the recesses in the edges of said fin convolutions forming substantial enlargements in said openings, said openings having an average substantially uniform width intermediate said enlargements of not more than 0.007 inch.
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