EP0313038A1 - Méthode pour la fabrication d'une plaque tubulaire d'un échangeur de chaleur - Google Patents

Méthode pour la fabrication d'une plaque tubulaire d'un échangeur de chaleur Download PDF

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EP0313038A1
EP0313038A1 EP88117464A EP88117464A EP0313038A1 EP 0313038 A1 EP0313038 A1 EP 0313038A1 EP 88117464 A EP88117464 A EP 88117464A EP 88117464 A EP88117464 A EP 88117464A EP 0313038 A1 EP0313038 A1 EP 0313038A1
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    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28DHEAT-EXCHANGE APPARATUS, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN ANOTHER SUBCLASS, IN WHICH THE HEAT-EXCHANGE MEDIA DO NOT COME INTO DIRECT CONTACT
    • F28D7/00Heat-exchange apparatus having stationary tubular conduit assemblies for both heat-exchange media, the media being in contact with different sides of a conduit wall
    • F28D7/06Heat-exchange apparatus having stationary tubular conduit assemblies for both heat-exchange media, the media being in contact with different sides of a conduit wall the conduits having a single U-bend
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28FDETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
    • F28F21/00Constructions of heat-exchange apparatus characterised by the selection of particular materials
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28FDETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
    • F28F9/00Casings; Header boxes; Auxiliary supports for elements; Auxiliary members within casings
    • F28F9/02Header boxes; End plates
    • F28F9/0219Arrangements for sealing end plates into casing or header box; Header box sub-elements
    • F28F9/0221Header boxes or end plates formed by stacked elements
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28FDETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
    • F28F9/00Casings; Header boxes; Auxiliary supports for elements; Auxiliary members within casings
    • F28F9/02Header boxes; End plates
    • F28F9/0243Header boxes having a circular cross-section
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28FDETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
    • F28F2250/00Arrangements for modifying the flow of the heat exchange media, e.g. flow guiding means; Particular flow patterns
    • F28F2250/02Streamline-shaped elements
    • YGENERAL 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
    • Y10TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10STECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S165/00Heat exchange
    • Y10S165/454Heat exchange having side-by-side conduits structure or conduit section
    • Y10S165/471Plural parallel conduits joined by manifold
    • Y10S165/481Partitions in manifold define serial flow pattern for conduits/conduit groups
    • YGENERAL 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
    • Y10TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10TTECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T29/00Metal working
    • Y10T29/49Method of mechanical manufacture
    • Y10T29/4935Heat exchanger or boiler making
    • Y10T29/49366Sheet joined to sheet
    • Y10T29/49368Sheet joined to sheet with inserted tubes

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  • the invention relates to a method for producing a tube sheet structure of a heat exchanger according to the preamble of patent claim 1.
  • the tube sheet is to be composed of a large number of precisely pre-shaped or pre-profiled elements; According to the number and the desired spacing of the profile tubes of the matrix, the relevant layer-to-layer elements should be pre-deformed in such a way that they can enclose half of the arranged tube ends of the matrix in a form-fitting manner.
  • the invention is based on the object of specifying a method in which the tube ends of a profile tube matrix of a heat exchanger can be optimally integrally bonded into a floor or distributor tube structure which is to be created essentially free of predetermined solid component specifications.
  • the rings forming the central tube plate are not made from solid material - as already known - but from a fiber mesh.
  • the fiber mesh is, according to the invention, under the effect of axial joining forces compressed in such a way that it completely nestles around the enclosed heat exchanger tubes.
  • the compression of the fiber structure is locally the strongest where the surfaces of adjacent pipes are at the smallest distance from each other in the joining area of the heat exchanger pipe field.
  • Metallic material (metal matrix) is then infiltrated into this initially porous structure of the central tube sheet, which fills the cavities of the fiber structure and also creates a material connection to the surfaces of the enclosed tubes and the fibers of the wickerwork.
  • the formation of the fiber rings can be designed in detail as follows.
  • Orientation of a certain proportion of fibers in the circumferential direction is desirable in order to absorb the high circumferential forces during operation of the heat exchanger which result from the internal pressure load on the central tube with the relevant heat exchanger base.
  • Another part of the fiber structure should protrude like bristles from the side surfaces of said fiber ring. When they are joined together, these bristle structures of adjacent rings penetrate and, after the metallic matrix has infiltrated, transmit the forces in the longitudinal direction of the central tube; the bristle structures also ensure that the areas that are least compressed during assembly, in particular at the leading and trailing edges of the heat exchanger tubes, are filled correctly and with a sufficient volume of the fiber material.
  • the fiber material should preferably be heat-resistant in accordance with the temperature load on the component, but not un conditionally resistant to oxidation and corrosion. The latter is not the case if the fibers are completely enclosed by the system of the matrix, so that they are protected against the entry of aggressive media. So metallic, but also ceramic and carbon fibers come into question.
  • the fiber rings For assembling the heat exchanger, it can further be advantageous according to the invention to enclose the fiber rings with solid rings.
  • the width of these rings corresponds to the closest local distances of the heat exchanger tubes in the field, so that the rings can ensure the required distances when they are joined or pressed together. Since they have to follow the corrugated track of the tube field in the circumferential direction, it is necessary to make them correspondingly flexible or to impress the corrugated shape on the rings before joining.
  • Pipes of the matrix and fibers or fiber braiding can be subjected to a surface pretreatment in all cases in order to achieve improved wetting and integration into the matrix.
  • Fig. 1 illustrates a heat exchanger 1 for guiding gases of very different temperatures
  • the cross-countercurrent matrix 2 in the hot gas stream G consists of separate compressed air lines 3 (Fig. 2), which on the one hand to a first stationary pipe guide 4 for the supply of cold compressed air D in the matrix 2 (cold) and on the other hand connected to a second stationary pipe guide 5, from which the compressed air D (hot) heated via the matrix 2 can be fed to a consumer.
  • the two pipe guides 4, 5 are arranged separately from one another and integrated in a common header pipe 6.
  • Each profile tube 3 of the matrix 2 - starting from its tube-side connections to the first 4 and second tube guide 5 of the header tube 6 - should initially run parallel to a laterally extended header tube meridian plane before it turns into a common, U deflecting the compressed air D by 180 ° -shaped wiring harness merges.
  • the matrix 2 should also flow through the hot gas G transversely to the extended manifold meridian plane and while ensuring the permissible hot gas blockage between the adjacent profile tubes 3.
  • the profiled tubes 3 of the matrix lying on the upstream and downstream sides in the hot gas flow direction G with streamlined pointed ends have a lenticular cross section; the profile tubes 3, each running parallel to a common matrix transverse plane, engage with one another on the upstream and downstream sides of the profile tapering, utilizing the expansions which form as a result of these tapering; each profile tube 3 of the matrix 2 (FIG. 2) further contains two compressed air channels 8, 9 separated from one another by a profile web 7, which have triangular flow cross sections in the sense of the two tapered outer wall sections of the profile tubes 3 concerned.
  • two or more separate manifolds or manifolds for the compressed air supply into the matrix can also be used instead of the common manifold 6, essentially arranged one above the other or next to one another 2 or for the compressed air discharge (hot) from the matrix 2.
  • the invention therefore relates to the manufacture of the relevant floor structure 10, but in particular to the manufacture of the header pipe 6 together with the floor structure 10 or the manufacture of one or more header or distributor pipes in a heat exchanger of the cross-countercurrent construction discussed at the beginning.
  • a method for producing a tube sheet structure 10 or a header tube 6 of a heat exchanger using strip-shaped layers 11, 12 or 12, 13 (FIG. 5) is thus specified, between which tube ends of the profile tubes 3 of the matrix 2 are firmly integrated in a fluid-tight manner; the stripe-shaped layers 11, 12; 12, 13 are to be made from fibers which are initially bundled uniformly (fiber bundles 11 ′, 12 ′; 12 ′, 13 ′) between the tube ends of adjacent rows of profile tubes (tubes 3) and are thus deformed under pressure (arrow direction P, P ′) They should form an initially porous floor structure (Fig. 5) under half-sided pipe wrapping, into which a metallic material is then infiltrated, in which all fibers including the pipe ends are integrally bonded.
  • the fiber bundle, for example 12 ', of interwoven fiber layers with the main fibers 14 extending in the circumferential direction of the tube sheet structure and transverse to it ver running secondary fibers 15 are assembled so that the latter - after completion of the pressing and deformation phase (Fig. 5) - engage in a bristle-like manner substantially outside the pipe transfer areas.
  • the secondary fibers 15 of the adjacent fiber layers e.g. 12, 13, intertwine like bristles.
  • a complete interweaving of fibers should also be achieved in the respective profile end or tip areas.
  • Said contact planes 16 are aligned longitudinally symmetrically with respect to the profile longitudinal center planes E.
  • the fiber bundles e.g. 12 ', 13' (Fig. 3) formed layers, e.g. 12, 13 (FIG. 5) are covered entirely or partially by metallic ring elements 17, 18 (FIG. 7) or 18, 19 (FIG. 8) extending along the inside and / or outside of the floor structure.
  • the ring elements mentioned can e.g. be provided to stiffen the floor or pipe structure and to protect the fiber structures from local environmental influences, such as temperature influences.
  • the ring elements mentioned can also be aids in the infiltration process in that they are intended to prevent the infiltration agent from flowing off. If, for example, the infiltration process of a molten metallic material takes place from the outside of a tube sheet into the fiber material, the relevant ring elements, for example 19 (FIG. 8), can only be arranged on the inside of the tube sheet in order to prevent the metallic material from flowing off. After infiltration has been completed, the ring elements, for example 19 (FIG. 8), can then be removed again.
  • the metallic ring elements e.g. 18, 19 (FIG. 8) are produced from a solder material which ensures metallic infiltration.
  • the ring elements, e.g. 18,19 (Fig. 8) on the inside and outside of the porous tube sheet structure as corrugated elements in the sense of the profile tube course (Fig. 7) are placed on the fiber bundle 12 '(Fig. 8).
  • a metallic composite material (matrix) can be lance-like within a vacuum furnace via a porous floor structure (FIG. 5) that sweeps the undulated deformed structure cast dishes are molten injected along the inside and outside of the tube sheet.
  • the ends of the profile tubes 3 of the matrix which are open on the inside of the tube sheet can be closed before metallic infiltration is carried out from the inside of the base structure and can be opened again by mechanical processing after the infiltration has been completed.
  • the fibers of the fiber bundles 11 ', 12' and 12 ', 13' can be made of a metallic material or of wires, made of a ceramic material, e.g. be made of partially stabilized zirconium oxide or carbon.
  • the metallic material infiltrated after the pressing and deformation phase can be made from an aluminum alloy.
  • a circular cylindrical (FIG. 1, 6 or 8), square or rectangular header or distributor pipe of a cross-countercurrent heat exchanger can be used with the collector or distributor pipes, for example 6-Fig. 1, U-shaped cantilever profile tube matrix 2 are produced, the fiber bundles 11 ', 12' and 12 ', 13' (Fig. 3) to the desired header or manifold length dimension including the required mutual profile tube spacing of the matrix 2 are compressed and wherein the metallic infiltration can be carried out continuously over the entire circumference of the porous collecting or distribution pipe structure (FIG. 5), for example by means of the aforementioned crockery.
  • rings made of a suitable plastic e.g. can be provided from a fiber-reinforced plastic or from a suitable ceramic material.

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EP88117464A 1987-10-23 1988-10-20 Méthode pour la fabrication d'une plaque tubulaire d'un échangeur de chaleur Expired - Lifetime EP0313038B1 (fr)

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DE19873735846 DE3735846A1 (de) 1987-10-23 1987-10-23 Verfahren zur herstellung einer rohrbodenstruktur eines waermetauschers

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