WO1989000671A1 - A method of constructing a heat exchanger and a heat exchanger constructed by using that method - Google Patents

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WO1989000671A1
WO1989000671A1 PCT/FI1988/000111 FI8800111W WO8900671A1 WO 1989000671 A1 WO1989000671 A1 WO 1989000671A1 FI 8800111 W FI8800111 W FI 8800111W WO 8900671 A1 WO8900671 A1 WO 8900671A1
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Priority to AU20791/88A priority patent/AU613068B2/en
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Priority to SU4742820A priority patent/RU1823921C/en
Priority to NO900179A priority patent/NO170241C/en
Priority to DK010090A priority patent/DK167293B1/en

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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
    • F28F3/02—Elements or assemblies thereof with means for increasing heat-transfer area, e.g. with fins, with recesses, with corrugations
    • F28F3/04—Elements or assemblies thereof with means for increasing heat-transfer area, e.g. with fins, with recesses, with corrugations the means being integral with the element
    • F28F3/042—Elements or assemblies thereof with means for increasing heat-transfer area, e.g. with fins, with recesses, with corrugations the means being integral with the element in the form of local deformations of the element
    • F28F3/046—Elements or assemblies thereof with means for increasing heat-transfer area, e.g. with fins, with recesses, with corrugations the means being integral with the element in the form of local deformations of the element the deformations being linear, e.g. corrugations
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S165/00—Heat exchange
    • Y10S165/355—Heat exchange having separate flow passage for two distinct fluids
    • Y10S165/356—Plural plates forming a stack providing flow passages therein
    • Y10S165/393—Plural plates forming a stack providing flow passages therein including additional element between heat exchange plates
    • Y10S165/394—Corrugated heat exchange plate

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  • the object of the present invention is a method of construc ⁇ ting a heat exchanger, in which method essentially similar corrugated thermal transmission plates are piled to cover each other and the spaces between the plates are from their - edges connected with inlet and outlet conduits for the medi ⁇ ums participating in thermal transmission, so that through every second space between the plates is passed a flow of heat giving medium and through every second space between the plates is passed a flow of heat receiving medium.
  • the type of plate heat exchangers is known in which the plates lying on top of each other are square corrugated plates where the corrugations and the grooves between the corrugations have the direction of two opposite edges of the square. In this construction the plates are piled one over another so that the grooves in plates lying on top of each other are at an angle of 90° each other.
  • the purpose of the present invention is to solve the above problem in heat exchanger manufacture.
  • Characteristic for the me-thod of constructing a heat exchanger according to the invention is that the thermal transmission plates are piled one over another so that grooves in different plates will become into a selected angle with each another, said angle defining the pressure losses of the flowing mediums as well as the thermal transmission coefficient for which purpose the method uses essentially circular thermal transmission plates, or regular polygonal thermal transmission plates in which the direction " of the grooves is such that the grooves in plates piled on top of each other may cross selectively at least in two different angles with respect to each other.
  • the essential point in the present invention is that a sui ⁇ table design of the -thermal transmission plates enables piling of them on top of each other so that the grooves in different plates can become into two or more different angles to each other. This means that from identical plates made with one and the same tool different heat exchangers can be manufactured to which different angles between the grooves give different thermal transmission characteristics. The possibilities of variation in heat exchanger manufacture are thus very much improved without any notable increase in manufacturing costs.
  • the most suitable are circular thermal transmission plates, which make it possible to choose the angle between the grooves in different plates from a continuous range of 0 - 90°.
  • the basic idea of the invention also comes true when suitable regularly formed polygonal thermal transmission plates are used although in these cases the choice of different angles between the groo ⁇ ves is restricted.
  • the angle between the grooves in the heat transmis ⁇ sion plates which are piled on top of each other determines the thermal transfer characteristics of the heat exchanger.
  • the plates piled one over another can be welded or solded at their edges together with each other to form a stationary heat exchanger unit, the parameters of which cannot be chan ⁇ ged after this.
  • pairs of chambers which are open to every second space between the plates can be formed at the sides of the pile of plates in such way that the mediums participating in the thermal transmission may pass from the inlet conduits both through their respective chambers to the spaces between the plates and further through their respective chambers to the outlet conduits.
  • Over and under the pile of plates can be placed end plates, which are fastened to each other by means of drawing rods.
  • Possibilities to vary the heat exchanger can be further enhanced by changing the mutual positions of the above-men ⁇ tioned chambers.
  • the normal case can be considered a case in which the inlet and outlet chambers of the heat giving medium are placed diagonally opposite to each other and the inlet and outlet chambers of the heat receiving medium are as well diagonally on the opposite sides in 90° angle with the chambers of the heat giving medium.
  • a deviation from this can be made by choosing instead of the 90° angle some other arbitrary angle.
  • a crossflow heat exchange can be changed into the counterflow type so that utilization of the temperature difference bet ⁇ ween the heat giving and the heat receiving circuits is improved.
  • the present invention also concerns heat exchangers construc ⁇ ted in accordance with the method described in the above.
  • the heat exchanger in accordance with the present invention comprises as previously known elements essentially similar corrugated thermal transmission plates piled on top of each other and inlet and outlet conduits for the mediums partici ⁇ pating in thermal transmission, said conduits being connected with the sides of the pile of plates so that through every second space between the plates may be passed a flow of heat giving medium and through every second space between the plates may be passed a flow of heat receiving medium.
  • the thermal transmission plates are either essentially circular and piled in such a way that the grooves in plates lying on top of each other are crossing each other or in the form of a regular polygon and piled to form a pile with flat sides so that the grooves in plates lying on top of each other form an angle which is larger than 0° but smaller than 90°.
  • Fig. 1 shows a heat exchanger according to the present in ⁇ vention seen from the side and partly cut open
  • Fig. 2 shows a heat exchanger according to Fig. 1 cut in li ⁇ ne II - II in Fig. 1 (Fig. 2 has been turned horizon ⁇ tally 45°) ,
  • Fig. 3 and 4 show schematically two heat exchangers accor ⁇ ding to the present invention in which the grooves in the thermal transmission plates are in different ang ⁇ les with each other but which otherwise correspond to the heat exchangers shown in Fig. 1 and 2,
  • Fig. 5 and 6 show schematically two heat exchangers accor ⁇ ding to the present invention in which thermal trans ⁇ mission plates in the form of regular eight-angled polygons have their grooves in two different angles with each other.
  • Fig. 7 shows schematically a heat exchanger according to the present invention in which the inlet and outlet cham ⁇ bers of the heat giving and heat receiving mediums are placed at an angle of about 45° to each other but which otherwise correspond to the heat exchanger show in Fig. 1 and 2.
  • Fig. 1 and 2 a heat exchanger in which the most essential element are circular thermal transmission plates 1 piled on top of each other. Plates 1 have been cut from regularly corrugated plates and they all are identical. As shown in Fig. 2 the plates 1 have been piled one over another in such a way that the corrugations and the grooves between the corrugations in each plate are at an angle of 90° to the corrugations and the grooves in the adjacent plates on both sides of said plate.
  • the shell of the heat exchanger as shown is partly formed of curved cylindrical sheets 2, to which the thermal transmis ⁇ sion plates piled one over another are fastened from their edges f ex. by welding.
  • Another part of the shell is formed of protruding cylindrical sheets 3, which are lying between the first-mentioned cylindrical sheets 2 and which have a smaller radius, the sheets 3 defining on the sides 4 of the heat exchanger four essentially half-cylindrical chambers.
  • the inlet and outlet conduits 5, 6 for the heat giving thermal transmission medium and Inlet and outlet conduits 7 and 8 for the heat receiving medium are connected inside each chamber 4 every second space between the plates of one over another piled thermal transmission plates 1 is open so that the flow can pass from the chambers to these spaces or vice versa, and every second space between the plates is closed so that the medium flow is prevented from getting to these spaces.
  • Fig. 2 the directions of the grooves of the thermal trans ⁇ mission p ' lates 1 which are at an angle of 90° to each other are shown by using unbroken lines 11 and broken lines 12.
  • Fig. 3 and 4 there are shown two alternative types of heat exchangers, In which the grooves 11 and 12 of the thermal transmission plates 1 piled one over another are directed in a different way from what is shown in Fig. 2. Otherwise these heat exchangers are similar to the heat exchangers shown in Fig. 1 and 2 and they are construc ⁇ ted by using exactlythe same circular corrugated heat trans ⁇ mission plates.
  • Fig. 5 and 6 there are shown two heat exchangers hich are examples of plate heat exchangers according to the invention which are constructed by using regular polygonal thermal transmission plates, said two exchangers using thermal trans ⁇ mission plates in the form of regular eight-angled polygons.
  • the thermal transmission plates are in both cases similar and in the heat exchanger shown in Fig. 5 they are piled in such a way that the angle between the grooves 11 and 12 in plates piled on top of each other is 90° and in the heat exchanger in Fig. 6 in such a way that the angle between the grooves 11 and 12 in plates piled on top of each other is 45° .
  • thermo transmission plates 1 can have a shape other than circular or eight-angled poly ⁇ gonal, e.g.
  • thermal transmission plates in the shape of a regular five-angled polygon can be piled one over another so that the directions of the grooves in the plates become optionally into an angle of 36° or 72° to each other. Furt ⁇ hermore, the possibilities of variations can be increased by cutting polygonal thermal transmission plates from corrugated plates so that the direction of the grooves differs from the directions of the edges of the plates, which is followed by placing at the piling step every second plate in the pile turned upside down.

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Abstract

The invention concerns a method of constructing a heat exchanger as well as a heat exchanger constructed in accordance with said method. The method comprises piling of essentially similar corrugated thermal transmission plates (1) to cover each other and connecting the spaces between the plates from their edges to inlet and outlet conduits (5, 6, 7, 8) for the mediums participating in thermal transmission so that through every second space between the plates is passed a flow of heat giving medium and through every second space between the plates a flow of heat receiving medium. Essential to the present invention is that the pressure losses of flows and the thermal transmission coefficient of the exchanger are established by piling the thermal transmission plates (1) one over another so that the grooves (11, 12) in different plates are placed at a selected angle with each other. To make this possible the invention uses essentially circular thermal transmission plates (1) or regular polygonal thermal transmission plates in which the direction of the grooves is such that the grooves in plates piled on top of each other may cross selectively at least in two different angles with each other.

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A METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING A HEAT EXCHANGER AND A HEAT EXCHAN¬ GER CONSTRUCTED BY USING THAT METHOD
The object of the present invention is a method of construc¬ ting a heat exchanger, in which method essentially similar corrugated thermal transmission plates are piled to cover each other and the spaces between the plates are from their - edges connected with inlet and outlet conduits for the medi¬ ums participating in thermal transmission, so that through every second space between the plates is passed a flow of heat giving medium and through every second space between the plates is passed a flow of heat receiving medium.
When there is a need to exchange heat between two flowing mediums plate type heat exchangers with plates piled one over another have been shown to be extremely effective. This type of heat exchangers are for example used in district heating systems where the heat transporting medium is water. In these heat exchangers using water can with a moderate pressure loss be achieved a thermal transmission coefficient in the range of about 2500^3500 W/m K.
The type of plate heat exchangers is known in which the plates lying on top of each other are square corrugated plates where the corrugations and the grooves between the corrugations have the direction of two opposite edges of the square. In this construction the plates are piled one over another so that the grooves in plates lying on top of each other are at an angle of 90° each other.
When constructing heat exchangers it is essential to choose the pressure losses of flowing mediums and their thermal transmission coefficient in view of achieving the" wanted optimal thermal exchange. These parametres can be regulated by selection of the distance between individual thermal transmission plates, the surface area of the plates and corrugation of the plates . However, it happens in the known heat exchangers that as the dimensions of an individual plate have been resolved, at the same time the thermal transmission parameters at a selected level of the flow have been settled so that they cannot be changed any longer. In case there was a desire to change the thermal transmission characteristics of the heat exchanger it was necessary to select new dimen¬ sions for the plates according to the new demands. Thus for every different heat exchanger there was needed a specific deep drawing tool for the manufacture of the thermal trans¬ mission plates. As these tools are very expensive this thing has limited the possibilities of variations in heat exchanger manufacture .
The purpose of the present invention is to solve the above problem in heat exchanger manufacture. Characteristic for the me-thod of constructing a heat exchanger according to the invention is that the thermal transmission plates are piled one over another so that grooves in different plates will become into a selected angle with each another, said angle defining the pressure losses of the flowing mediums as well as the thermal transmission coefficient for which purpose the method uses essentially circular thermal transmission plates, or regular polygonal thermal transmission plates in which the direction " of the grooves is such that the grooves in plates piled on top of each other may cross selectively at least in two different angles with respect to each other.
The essential point in the present invention is that a sui¬ table design of the -thermal transmission plates enables piling of them on top of each other so that the grooves in different plates can become into two or more different angles to each other. This means that from identical plates made with one and the same tool different heat exchangers can be manufactured to which different angles between the grooves give different thermal transmission characteristics. The possibilities of variation in heat exchanger manufacture are thus very much improved without any notable increase in manufacturing costs.
In the present invention the most suitable are circular thermal transmission plates, which make it possible to choose the angle between the grooves in different plates from a continuous range of 0 - 90°. However the basic idea of the invention also comes true when suitable regularly formed polygonal thermal transmission plates are used although in these cases the choice of different angles between the groo¬ ves is restricted.
When a heat exchanger is constructed according to the present invention the angle between the grooves in the heat transmis¬ sion plates which are piled on top of each other determines the thermal transfer characteristics of the heat exchanger. The plates piled one over another can be welded or solded at their edges together with each other to form a stationary heat exchanger unit, the parameters of which cannot be chan¬ ged after this.
When the heat exchanger is assembled pairs of chambers which are open to every second space between the plates can be formed at the sides of the pile of plates in such way that the mediums participating in the thermal transmission may pass from the inlet conduits both through their respective chambers to the spaces between the plates and further through their respective chambers to the outlet conduits. Over and under the pile of plates can be placed end plates, which are fastened to each other by means of drawing rods.
Possibilities to vary the heat exchanger can be further enhanced by changing the mutual positions of the above-men¬ tioned chambers. As the normal case can be considered a case in which the inlet and outlet chambers of the heat giving medium are placed diagonally opposite to each other and the inlet and outlet chambers of the heat receiving medium are as well diagonally on the opposite sides in 90° angle with the chambers of the heat giving medium. In the first place a deviation from this can be made by choosing instead of the 90° angle some other arbitrary angle. In addition to this it is possible to deviate the chambers from their diagonal position, it is , to put the inlet and outlet chambers of the heat giving and receiving mediums into some arbitrary, from 180° deviating angle to each other. By way of such variation a crossflow heat exchange can be changed into the counterflow type so that utilization of the temperature difference bet¬ ween the heat giving and the heat receiving circuits is improved.
The present invention also concerns heat exchangers construc¬ ted in accordance with the method described in the above. The heat exchanger in accordance with the present invention comprises as previously known elements essentially similar corrugated thermal transmission plates piled on top of each other and inlet and outlet conduits for the mediums partici¬ pating in thermal transmission, said conduits being connected with the sides of the pile of plates so that through every second space between the plates may be passed a flow of heat giving medium and through every second space between the plates may be passed a flow of heat receiving medium. Essen¬ tial for the heat exchanger, is that the thermal transmission plates are either essentially circular and piled in such a way that the grooves in plates lying on top of each other are crossing each other or in the form of a regular polygon and piled to form a pile with flat sides so that the grooves in plates lying on top of each other form an angle which is larger than 0° but smaller than 90°.
The present invention is explained in more detail in the following with the aid of examples and by referring to dra¬ wings in which Fig. 1 shows a heat exchanger according to the present in¬ vention seen from the side and partly cut open,
Fig. 2 shows a heat exchanger according to Fig. 1 cut in li¬ ne II - II in Fig. 1 (Fig. 2 has been turned horizon¬ tally 45°) ,
Fig. 3 and 4, show schematically two heat exchangers accor¬ ding to the present invention in which the grooves in the thermal transmission plates are in different ang¬ les with each other but which otherwise correspond to the heat exchangers shown in Fig. 1 and 2,
Fig. 5 and 6, show schematically two heat exchangers accor¬ ding to the present invention in which thermal trans¬ mission plates in the form of regular eight-angled polygons have their grooves in two different angles with each other.
Fig. 7 shows schematically a heat exchanger according to the present invention in which the inlet and outlet cham¬ bers of the heat giving and heat receiving mediums are placed at an angle of about 45° to each other but which otherwise correspond to the heat exchanger show in Fig. 1 and 2.
In Fig. 1 and 2 is shown a heat exchanger in which the most essential element are circular thermal transmission plates 1 piled on top of each other. Plates 1 have been cut from regularly corrugated plates and they all are identical. As shown in Fig. 2 the plates 1 have been piled one over another in such a way that the corrugations and the grooves between the corrugations in each plate are at an angle of 90° to the corrugations and the grooves in the adjacent plates on both sides of said plate. The shell of the heat exchanger as shown is partly formed of curved cylindrical sheets 2, to which the thermal transmis¬ sion plates piled one over another are fastened from their edges f ex. by welding. Another part of the shell is formed of protruding cylindrical sheets 3, which are lying between the first-mentioned cylindrical sheets 2 and which have a smaller radius, the sheets 3 defining on the sides 4 of the heat exchanger four essentially half-cylindrical chambers. With these chambers 4 are connected the inlet and outlet conduits 5, 6 for the heat giving thermal transmission medium and Inlet and outlet conduits 7 and 8 for the heat receiving medium. Inside each chamber 4 every second space between the plates of one over another piled thermal transmission plates 1 is open so that the flow can pass from the chambers to these spaces or vice versa, and every second space between the plates is closed so that the medium flow is prevented from getting to these spaces. The spaces open to the heat giving medium have thus been closed from the flow of the heat receiving medium and in the same way the spaces which are open to the flow of the heat receiving medium have been closed from the flow of the heat giving medium. In this way it has been arranged that both the heat giving and the heat receiving medium flows are led via every second space between the plates through the heat exchanger in such a way that they do not mix with each other. Furthermore, the pile of plates Is from underside and overside surrounded by end plates 9, which have been fastened to each other by means of drawing rods 10, which are standing on the sides of the pile of plates .
In Fig. 2 the directions of the grooves of the thermal trans¬ mission p'lates 1 which are at an angle of 90° to each other are shown by using unbroken lines 11 and broken lines 12. When the heat exchanger is constructed the directions of these grooves and the angle between them can, however, be chosen freely and so in Fig. 3 and 4 there are shown two alternative types of heat exchangers, In which the grooves 11 and 12 of the thermal transmission plates 1 piled one over another are directed in a different way from what is shown in Fig. 2. Otherwise these heat exchangers are similar to the heat exchangers shown in Fig. 1 and 2 and they are construc¬ ted by using exactlythe same circular corrugated heat trans¬ mission plates.
In Fig. 5 and 6 there are shown two heat exchangers hich are examples of plate heat exchangers according to the invention which are constructed by using regular polygonal thermal transmission plates, said two exchangers using thermal trans¬ mission plates in the form of regular eight-angled polygons. The thermal transmission plates are in both cases similar and in the heat exchanger shown in Fig. 5 they are piled in such a way that the angle between the grooves 11 and 12 in plates piled on top of each other is 90° and in the heat exchanger in Fig. 6 in such a way that the angle between the grooves 11 and 12 in plates piled on top of each other is 45° .
In the heat exchanger shown in Fig. 2 the inlet and outlet conduits 5. , 6. of the heat giving medium and the chambers 4 connected with these conduits have been placed diagonally into the opposite sides, and in the same way the inlet and outlet conduits 7. , 8. of the heat receiving medium and the chambers 4 connected with these conduits have been placed diagonally into the opposite sides at an angle of 90° to the former. However, the positions of the conduits and the cham¬ bers can be varied, and so in Fig. 7 there is shown an embo¬ diment of the present invention, in which the diagonality of the inlet and outlet conduits of the both mediums has been maintained, but the conduits 7, 8 and the chambers 4 of the heat receiving medium have been turned into an angle of 45° with the conduits 5, 6 and the chambers 4 of the heat giving medium. With respect to the used circular heat transmission plates and their piling the heat exchanger in Fig-. 7 corres¬ ponds to the one shown in Figures 1 and 2. For a person skilled in the art it is clear that the diffe¬ rent embodiments of the invention are not limited to the examples described in the above but may vary within the scope of the following claims. Thus the thermal transmission plates 1 can have a shape other than circular or eight-angled poly¬ gonal, e.g. thermal transmission plates in the shape of a regular five-angled polygon can be piled one over another so that the directions of the grooves in the plates become optionally into an angle of 36° or 72° to each other. Furt¬ hermore, the possibilities of variations can be increased by cutting polygonal thermal transmission plates from corrugated plates so that the direction of the grooves differs from the directions of the edges of the plates, which is followed by placing at the piling step every second plate in the pile turned upside down.

Claims

1. A method of constructing a heat . exchanger, in which method essentially similar corrugated thermal transmission plates (1) are piled to cover each other and the spaces between the plates are from their edges connected with inlet and outlet conduits (5, 6, 7, 8) for the mediums participating in ther¬ mal transmission, so that through every second space between the plates is passed a flow of heat giving medium and through every second space between the plates is passed a flow of heat receiving medium, c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that the thermal transmission plates (1) are piled one over another so that the grooves (11, 12) in different plates will become into a selected angle with each another, said angle defini- ning the pressure ' losses of the flowing mediums as well as the thermal transmission coefficient, for which purpose the method uses essentially circular thermal transmission plates, or regular polygonal thermal transmission plates in which the direction of the grooves is such that the grooves in plates piled on top of each other may cross selectively at least in two different angles with respect to each other.
2. A method in accordance with claim 1, c h a r a c t e r i¬ z e d in that the heat exchanger is constructed of circular thermal transmission plates (1) so that the angle between the grooves (11, 12) in different plates may be selected from the continuous range of 0 - 90°.
3. A method in accordance with claim 1 or 2 , c h a r a c - t e r i z e d in that the thermal transmission plates (1) piled on top of each other -are welded or solded together from their edges to form a single stationary element.
4. A method in accordance with any one of the previou claims, c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that on the sides of th pile of plates there are formed pairs of chambers (4) whic are open to every second space between the plates so that th mediums participating in thermal transmission may pass fro the inlet conduits (5, 7) both through their respectiv chambers to the spaces between the plates and further throug their respective chambers to the outlet conduits (6, 8).
5. A method in accordance with any one of the previou claims, c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that there are en plates (9) placed under and over the pile of plates, said en plates being fastened to each other by means of drawing rod (10).
6. A heat exchanger constructed in accordance with any one o the previous claims, comprising essentially similar corruga ted thermal transmission plates (1) on top of each other an inlet and outlet conduits (5, 6, 7, 8) for the mediums parti cipating in thermal transmission, said conduits being connec ted with the edges of the pile of plates so that throug every second space between the plates may by passed a flo of heat giving medium and through every second space betwee the plates may be passed a flow of heat receiving medium c h a r a c t e r i z e d In that the thermal transmissio plates (1) are essentially circular and pil'ed in such a wa that the grooves (11, 12) in plates lying on top of eac other are crosswise with each other.
7. A heat exchanger constructed in accordance with any one o claims 1 - 5, comprising essentially similar corrugate thermal transmission plates (1) piled one over another t form a regular pile, and inlet and outlet conduits (5, 6, 7 8) for the mediums participating in thermal transmission said conduits being connected with the sides of the pile o plates so that through every second space between the plate may be passed a flow of heat giving medium and through ever second space between the plates may be passed a flow of hea receiving medium, c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that the thermal transmission plates (1) have the shape of a regular polygon and are piled in such a way that the grooves (11, 12) in plates lying on top of each other form an angle with each other which is larger than 0° but smaller than 90°.
8. A heat exchanger in accordance with claim 6 or 7, c h a- r a c t e r i z e d in that the thermal transmission plates (1) are bound with each other at their edges so that the heat exchanger forms a single stationary unit.
9. A heat exchanger in accordance with any one of claims 6 - 8, c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that on the sides of the pile of plates there are pairs of chambers (4) lying opposite to each other and provided both for the heat giving medium and the heat receiving medium, each chamber being open to every second space between the plates so that the respective medium flows from the inlets (5, 7) to the spaces between the plates and further to the outlets (6, 8) will pass through their respective chambers.
10. A heat exchanger in accordance with any one of claims 6 - 8, c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that there are end plates (9) placed under and over the pile of plates, said end plates being fastened to each other by means of drawing rods (10) standing on the sides of the said pile of plates.
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AT88905861T ATE82633T1 (en) 1987-07-13 1988-07-07 HEAT EXCHANGER.
BR888807611A BR8807611A (en) 1987-07-13 1988-07-07 PROCESS OF BUILDING A HEAT EXCHANGER AND A HEAT EXCHANGER CONSTRUCTED BY THE USE OF THAT PROCESS
DE8888905861T DE3876100T2 (en) 1987-07-13 1988-07-07 HEAT EXCHANGER.
AU20791/88A AU613068B2 (en) 1987-07-13 1988-07-07 Method of constructing heat exchanger
SU4742820A RU1823921C (en) 1987-07-13 1990-01-12 Method of manufacture of heat exchanger heat exchanger and its versions
NO900179A NO170241C (en) 1987-07-13 1990-01-12 HEAT EXCHANGES AND PROCEDURES FOR PREPARING THIS
DK010090A DK167293B1 (en) 1987-07-13 1990-01-12 Method of constructing a heat exchanger and heat exchanger constructed by implementing the method

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