WO2017056017A1 - Heat exchange device for energy recovery from combustion fumes - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a heat exchange device for energy recovery (heat) from combustion fumes and more generally from fluids in the gaseous state having an adequate temperature.
- the present invention relates to a heat exchange device for fumes coming from boilers, steam generators, industrial ovens (and, more generally, from processes in which an effluent in the gaseous state is available for heat exchange) and allows recovery of a part of the heat associated with said fumes which, passing through said device, transfer heat to a second fluid (heat transfer fluid or secondary fluid) which may be in the liquid state and/or two-phase state (liquid and vapor) .
- a second fluid heat transfer fluid or secondary fluid
- heat exchange devices of this type are installed between a boiler and the relative flue and, more generally, on a chimney, and they are able to intercept a part of the energy associated with the gaseous effluent, recover it and reuse it.
- Patent document WO2015004591 describes an apparatus of this type comprising a parallelepiped body having an inlet for the fumes on a face of the parallelepiped, which inside comprises a horizontal heat exchanger and a device for purification of the fumes connected in cascade with each other and an outlet connected to a flue, positioned on the opposite face of the parallelepiped.
- the heat exchanger comprises a plurality of plates, each with a surface with a substantially rectangular shape oriented in the same direction as the fumes.
- Each plate is obtained by two sheets joined together by welding and then subjected to bulging according to a known technique for obtaining channels designed for the passage of the heat transfer fluid; the plurality of plates, enclosed in the parallelepiped body, is lapped externally by the passage of the fumes, thereby creating the heat exchange between the two spaces.
- the heat exchanger of the above-mentioned patent document WO2015004591 has an inlet duct for the heat transfer fluid located on a surface of the parallelepiped and an outlet duct for the fluid located on the opposite surface of the parallelepiped.
- This apparatus is modular in the sense that several parallelepiped bodies may be placed alongside each other .
- the apparatus is constrained to a single positioning, wherein the inlet and outlet of the fumes are located on opposite faces of the same parallelepiped allowing an exclusively linear path for the fumes also due to the presence of the module for purification of the fumes located in cascade with the heat exchanger; the heat transfer fluid is introduced on one face and extracted from the opposite face of the parallelepiped.
- the aim of this invention is to overcome the above- mentioned limitations by proposing a heat exchanger device which is modular and versatile in its installation, in which the inlet and outlet of the fumes can be positioned in various ways.
- An aspect of the present invention concerns a heat exchange device for fumes (gaseous) having the characteristics of the accompanying claim 1.
- Figure 2 illustrates an exploded view of the device according to the present invention
- FIG. 3a illustrates a first embodiment of the device according to the present invention
- Figure 3b illustrates a second embodiment of the device according to the present invention
- Figure 4 illustrates a third embodiment of the device according to the present invention.
- Figure 5a illustrates a fourth embodiment of the device according to the present invention
- Figure 5b illustrates a fifth embodiment of the device according to the present invention
- Figure 6a illustrates a sixth embodiment of the device according to the present invention
- Figure 6b illustrates a seventh embodiment of the device according to the present invention
- Figure 7 illustrates a detail of the tubes for connection of the plates to the inlet (or outlet) duct for the heat transfer fluid according to the present invention
- Figure 8a illustrates a heat transfer plate according to the present invention
- Figures 8b and 8c illustrate the particular arrangement of adjacent plates (valid for all the plates) according to the present invention
- Figure 8d illustrates a heat transfer plate according to the present invention with a detail highlighted and enlarged
- Figure 9 illustrates an eighth embodiment of the device according to the present invention.
- Figure 10 illustrates a ninth embodiment of the device according to the present invention.
- Figures lla-c illustrate, respectively, a front, side and perspective view of a bracket for connecting the plates of the inlet and outlet ducts according to the present invention.
- the device according to the present invention comprises at least one heat exchange module 2 including a plurality of plates 3 each formed by two joined sheets, for example by welding and bulged in order to form inner channels 34 designed for the passage of the heat transfer fluid.
- This module 2 has at least one inlet duct 4 and one outlet duct 5 for the fluid, connected to the channels 34 of the plates through the tubes 35- 36.
- the plurality of plates, enclosed in the parallelepiped body, is lapped externally by the passage of the fumes, thereby creating the heat exchange between the two spaces.
- the device is formed by a box-shaped body, in which is inserted the module, having at least one inlet opening for the fumes 6, 6', 8', which can be operated selectively, located on one of the four faces perpendicular to the plane of parallelism of the plates and at least one outlet opening for the fumes which can also be operated selectively 7 or 7' positioned on any one of the remaining faces in such a way as to form predetermined paths for the fumes inside the module.
- the box-shaped body comprises openable partitions which facilitate the cleaning and inspection operations of the module comprising the plates.
- the inlet opening in some embodiments may be single.
- it can be double, positioned on opposite faces, between the four faces perpendicular to the plane of parallelism of the plates, whilst the single outlet 7 can be positioned on one of the two remaining faces in such a way as to form paths of the fumes which can be selected inside the module .
- Figures 3a to 6b, 9 and 10 illustrate nine embodiments of the invention.
- Figure 3a shows an L-shaped path in which the inlet opening 6' is on a vertical side of the box-shaped body and the outlet opening 7 of the fumes is positioned on the top of the box-shaped body.
- the path is an L-shaped path in which the inlet opening 6' is on a vertical side of the box-shaped body but the outlet opening 7 of the fumes is positioned on the bottom of the box-shaped body .
- a path which is visible in Figure 5a is a vertical rectilinear path, in which the inlet and outlet openings of the fumes are positioned on the lower and upper base of the box-shaped body.
- a further path which can be seen in Figures 6a and 6b is a Z-shaped path in which the inlet opening 6' is on a vertical side of the box-shaped body and the outlet opening 7' of the fumes is positioned on the opposite vertical side of the box-shaped body.
- the path of the fumes shown in Figures 9 and 10 is T- shaped with the two inlet openings on the opposite vertical sides 6' and 8' and the outlet opening 7 is positioned on the top ( Figure 9) or on the lower base of the box-shaped body ( Figure 10) .
- the device according to the present invention is modular in the sense that several devices can be positioned both in cascade and parallel to each other. Moreover, several embodiments can be combined together to allow systems to be constructed which can be positioned in spaces that are sometimes even restricted .
- Each plate 3 is made using a pair of sheets 31 and 32 joined together by junction points 33 and closure of the flaps along the edges of the sheets (for example by welding) , and subsequent mechanical, pneumatic or hydraulic deformation to distance the two sheets at the points not joined (welded) in order to form spaces/channels 34 inside the plate for the passage of the heat transfer fluid.
- Each plate also comprises at least one tube 35 for introduction of the fluid and at least one tube 36 for extraction of the fluid, preferably positioned close to opposite corners of the plate.
- the plates 33 are in construction terms all identical to each other and as such geometrically congruent, they are assembled in the plurality 3 parallel to each other but, at the same time, asymmetrically, so that each of them is rotated by 180° relative to the axis perpendicular to the plane of parallelism of the plates, with respect to the contiguous plate (s) .
- the purpose of this parallel- asymmetric configuration of the plates is to increase the turbulence of the gaseous fluid which passes through the device, with the convex parts of a plate being located in correspondence with concave parts of the contiguous plates ( Figure 8b e 8c) .
- the inlet 35 and outlet 36 tubes of the thermal vector are positioned at different distances (x and y) from the edges (of the plate) contiguous and parallel to the respective tubes 35 and 36, so that following the rotated positioning of two contiguous plates, the same connection tubes are staggered ( Figure 8d) on the duct allowing the plates to be positioned at a close distance: that is, only in this way can the spacing between two contiguous plates be less than the diameter of the tubes 35 and 36.
- the side by side arrangement of two adjacent plates is such as to make the "bulging" parts of the channels 34 of a plate correspond with the "recessed” parts of the adjacent plates at the junction points 33 ( Figure 8c) .
- the positioning of the tubes 35 or 36 for connection of the plates to the input 4 (or output 5) ducts of the heat exchanger is achieved by means of a bracket 9 which has the purpose of compensating for the various thermal expansions to which the plurality of plates 3 are subjected, which are colder because they are crossed by the heat transfer fluid, and the box-shaped body which is at a higher temperature because it is crossed by the hot fumes.
- the bracket is "omega" shaped with the two arms 91, 92 constrained to the box-shaped body, whilst the tubes 35 or 36 are inserted in openings 93 made in the central part of the bracket. The central portion of the omega is then connected with the hydraulic inlet 4 or outlet 5 duct.
- the bracket 9 therefore allows a minimum distance z to be maintained between the edges of the plurality of plates 3 and the box-shaped body, thereby giving a greater compactness and efficiency of the heat exchange, but simultaneously guaranteeing a greater length z' of the tubes 35 and 36 designed for the absorption of the various thermal expansions between the plates and the box-shaped body.
- the versatility and the modularity of the device according to the present invention allows a fuel saving of up to 15%, compared with the 3-5% of the most common applications. In fact, it transforms the traditional boilers, even the oldest ones, into condensing boilers, recovering also the latent heat of condensation as well as the sensible heat.
- the device according to the present invention neither slows down or obstructs in any way the normal transit of the fumes towards the flue thanks to the smooth geometry of the plates and the absence of roughness.
- this geometry determines a turbulence of the fumes such as to allow a high heat transfer. Thanks to the heat exchange efficiency, the device has smaller dimensions than known devices, which therefore allows the installation even in restricted spaces.
- the maintenance is simplified, fast and economic thanks to the partitions which can be easily removed which make the plates completely accessible. This cleaning is possible without having to dismantle the unit from the system or disassembling the plates.
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Abstract
Device for transferring heat from fluids in the gaseous state to fluids in the liquid and/or vapor state and comprising at least one heat- exchange module (2) including a plurality of superimposed plates (3), each formed by two sheets (31, 32) joined at points of junction (33) and deformed to obtain channels (34) adapted to accommodate a heat transfer fluid and paths for the passage of the fumes, externally to the plates, in thermal contact with each other, wherein the at least one heat-exchange module (2) has at least one inlet duct (4) and an outlet duct (5) for the heat transfer fluid, wherein the at least one module (2) is inserted in a box-shaped body having at least one inlet opening (6, 6', 8') located on one of the four faces perpendicular to the plane of parallelism of the plates and at least one outlet opening (7, 7') on at least one of the remaining faces wherein both the inlet opening and the outlet opening are selectively operable so as to form different predetermined paths of the fumes inside the module.
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DEVICE FOR ENERGY RECOVERY FROM
The present invention relates to a heat exchange device for energy recovery (heat) from combustion fumes and more generally from fluids in the gaseous state having an adequate temperature.
In particular, the present invention relates to a heat exchange device for fumes coming from boilers, steam generators, industrial ovens (and, more generally, from processes in which an effluent in the gaseous state is available for heat exchange) and allows recovery of a part of the heat associated with said fumes which, passing through said device, transfer heat to a second fluid (heat transfer fluid or secondary fluid) which may be in the liquid state and/or two-phase state (liquid and vapor) .
The transfer of heat from the fumes to the secondary fluid allows the temperature to be increased and, at the same time, the temperature of the fumes to be lowered before they are emitted into the atmosphere. It is known that heat exchange devices of this type are installed between a boiler and the relative flue and, more generally, on a chimney, and they are able to intercept a part of the energy associated with the gaseous effluent, recover it and reuse it.
It is known that condensing boilers recover a latent part of the heat contained in the water vapour present in the fumes expelled through the flue. In fact, this technology allows the fumes to be cooled until condensing (partially or totally) the water vapor contained therein and changing it to the liquid state, with an energy recovery (further the contribution with
respect to the sensible heat) which is used for pre¬ heating the water returning to the system.
Patent document WO2015004591 describes an apparatus of this type comprising a parallelepiped body having an inlet for the fumes on a face of the parallelepiped, which inside comprises a horizontal heat exchanger and a device for purification of the fumes connected in cascade with each other and an outlet connected to a flue, positioned on the opposite face of the parallelepiped.
The heat exchanger comprises a plurality of plates, each with a surface with a substantially rectangular shape oriented in the same direction as the fumes. Each plate is obtained by two sheets joined together by welding and then subjected to bulging according to a known technique for obtaining channels designed for the passage of the heat transfer fluid; the plurality of plates, enclosed in the parallelepiped body, is lapped externally by the passage of the fumes, thereby creating the heat exchange between the two spaces.
The heat exchanger of the above-mentioned patent document WO2015004591 has an inlet duct for the heat transfer fluid located on a surface of the parallelepiped and an outlet duct for the fluid located on the opposite surface of the parallelepiped.
This apparatus is modular in the sense that several parallelepiped bodies may be placed alongside each other .
The Applicant has noted that the apparatus is constrained to a single positioning, wherein the inlet and outlet of the fumes are located on opposite faces of the same parallelepiped allowing an exclusively linear path for the fumes also due to the presence of
the module for purification of the fumes located in cascade with the heat exchanger; the heat transfer fluid is introduced on one face and extracted from the opposite face of the parallelepiped.
The aim of this invention is to overcome the above- mentioned limitations by proposing a heat exchanger device which is modular and versatile in its installation, in which the inlet and outlet of the fumes can be positioned in various ways.
An aspect of the present invention concerns a heat exchange device for fumes (gaseous) having the characteristics of the accompanying claim 1.
The characteristics and the advantages of the device according to the present invention will become more clear from the following detailed descriptions of non- limiting example embodiments of it, with reference to the accompanying drawings, which schematically illustrate embodiments of the invention and ion particular :
· Figure la illustrates an operational/installation diagram of the device according to the present invention;
• Figure 2 illustrates an exploded view of the device according to the present invention;
· Figure 3a illustrates a first embodiment of the device according to the present invention;
• Figure 3b illustrates a second embodiment of the device according to the present invention;
• Figure 4 illustrates a third embodiment of the device according to the present invention;
• Figure 5a illustrates a fourth embodiment of the device according to the present invention;
• Figure 5b illustrates a fifth embodiment of the
device according to the present invention;
• Figure 6a illustrates a sixth embodiment of the device according to the present invention;
• Figure 6b illustrates a seventh embodiment of the device according to the present invention;
• Figure 7 illustrates a detail of the tubes for connection of the plates to the inlet (or outlet) duct for the heat transfer fluid according to the present invention;
• Figure 8a illustrates a heat transfer plate according to the present invention;
• Figures 8b and 8c illustrate the particular arrangement of adjacent plates (valid for all the plates) according to the present invention;
• Figure 8d illustrates a heat transfer plate according to the present invention with a detail highlighted and enlarged;
• Figure 9 illustrates an eighth embodiment of the device according to the present invention;
• Figure 10 illustrates a ninth embodiment of the device according to the present invention.
• Figures lla-c illustrate, respectively, a front, side and perspective view of a bracket for connecting the plates of the inlet and outlet ducts according to the present invention.
The device according to the present invention comprises at least one heat exchange module 2 including a plurality of plates 3 each formed by two joined sheets, for example by welding and bulged in order to form inner channels 34 designed for the passage of the heat transfer fluid. This module 2 has at least one inlet duct 4 and one outlet duct 5 for the fluid, connected
to the channels 34 of the plates through the tubes 35- 36. The plurality of plates, enclosed in the parallelepiped body, is lapped externally by the passage of the fumes, thereby creating the heat exchange between the two spaces.
The device is formed by a box-shaped body, in which is inserted the module, having at least one inlet opening for the fumes 6, 6', 8', which can be operated selectively, located on one of the four faces perpendicular to the plane of parallelism of the plates and at least one outlet opening for the fumes which can also be operated selectively 7 or 7' positioned on any one of the remaining faces in such a way as to form predetermined paths for the fumes inside the module. The box-shaped body comprises openable partitions which facilitate the cleaning and inspection operations of the module comprising the plates.
The arrangement and the selective operation of the above-mentioned inlet and outlet openings allows various paths of the fumes to be made and, therefore, as many embodiments of the invention.
For example, the inlet opening in some embodiments may be single. In other embodiments, it can be double, positioned on opposite faces, between the four faces perpendicular to the plane of parallelism of the plates, whilst the single outlet 7 can be positioned on one of the two remaining faces in such a way as to form paths of the fumes which can be selected inside the module .
In particular, Figures 3a to 6b, 9 and 10 illustrate nine embodiments of the invention.
In particular, Figure 3a shows an L-shaped path in which the inlet opening 6' is on a vertical side of the
box-shaped body and the outlet opening 7 of the fumes is positioned on the top of the box-shaped body.
Also in the case of Figure 3b, the path is an L-shaped path in which the inlet opening 6' is on a vertical side of the box-shaped body but the outlet opening 7 of the fumes is positioned on the bottom of the box-shaped body .
For example, a path which is visible in Figure 5a is a vertical rectilinear path, in which the inlet and outlet openings of the fumes are positioned on the lower and upper base of the box-shaped body.
The path in Figure 5b is also vertical rectilinear, but the inlet and outlet openings of the fumes made in the box-shaped body are inverted relative to the case of Figure 5a.
The positioning of the openings in Figure 4 is analogous to that of Figures 5a and 5b but the box- shaped body is orthogonally-oriented to that shown in Figures 5a e 5b and the path of the fumes is horizontal.
A further path which can be seen in Figures 6a and 6b is a Z-shaped path in which the inlet opening 6' is on a vertical side of the box-shaped body and the outlet opening 7' of the fumes is positioned on the opposite vertical side of the box-shaped body.
The path of the fumes shown in Figures 9 and 10 is T- shaped with the two inlet openings on the opposite vertical sides 6' and 8' and the outlet opening 7 is positioned on the top (Figure 9) or on the lower base of the box-shaped body (Figure 10) .
The device according to the present invention is modular in the sense that several devices can be positioned both in cascade and parallel to each other.
Moreover, several embodiments can be combined together to allow systems to be constructed which can be positioned in spaces that are sometimes even restricted .
Each plate 3 is made using a pair of sheets 31 and 32 joined together by junction points 33 and closure of the flaps along the edges of the sheets (for example by welding) , and subsequent mechanical, pneumatic or hydraulic deformation to distance the two sheets at the points not joined (welded) in order to form spaces/channels 34 inside the plate for the passage of the heat transfer fluid.
Each plate also comprises at least one tube 35 for introduction of the fluid and at least one tube 36 for extraction of the fluid, preferably positioned close to opposite corners of the plate.
Even though the plates 33 are in construction terms all identical to each other and as such geometrically congruent, they are assembled in the plurality 3 parallel to each other but, at the same time, asymmetrically, so that each of them is rotated by 180° relative to the axis perpendicular to the plane of parallelism of the plates, with respect to the contiguous plate (s) . The purpose of this parallel- asymmetric configuration of the plates is to increase the turbulence of the gaseous fluid which passes through the device, with the convex parts of a plate being located in correspondence with concave parts of the contiguous plates (Figure 8b e 8c) .
The inlet 35 and outlet 36 tubes of the thermal vector are positioned at different distances (x and y) from the edges (of the plate) contiguous and parallel to the respective tubes 35 and 36, so that following the
rotated positioning of two contiguous plates, the same connection tubes are staggered (Figure 8d) on the duct allowing the plates to be positioned at a close distance: that is, only in this way can the spacing between two contiguous plates be less than the diameter of the tubes 35 and 36.
In particular, the side by side arrangement of two adjacent plates is such as to make the "bulging" parts of the channels 34 of a plate correspond with the "recessed" parts of the adjacent plates at the junction points 33 (Figure 8c) .
In this way, the space between the two plates, which constitutes the path of the fumes, is an undulated path as can be seen in Figures 8b, 8c.
The positioning of the tubes 35 or 36 for connection of the plates to the input 4 (or output 5) ducts of the heat exchanger is achieved by means of a bracket 9 which has the purpose of compensating for the various thermal expansions to which the plurality of plates 3 are subjected, which are colder because they are crossed by the heat transfer fluid, and the box-shaped body which is at a higher temperature because it is crossed by the hot fumes. The bracket is "omega" shaped with the two arms 91, 92 constrained to the box-shaped body, whilst the tubes 35 or 36 are inserted in openings 93 made in the central part of the bracket. The central portion of the omega is then connected with the hydraulic inlet 4 or outlet 5 duct. The bracket 9 therefore allows a minimum distance z to be maintained between the edges of the plurality of plates 3 and the box-shaped body, thereby giving a greater compactness and efficiency of the heat exchange, but simultaneously guaranteeing a greater length z' of the tubes 35 and 36
designed for the absorption of the various thermal expansions between the plates and the box-shaped body. The versatility and the modularity of the device according to the present invention allows a fuel saving of up to 15%, compared with the 3-5% of the most common applications. In fact, it transforms the traditional boilers, even the oldest ones, into condensing boilers, recovering also the latent heat of condensation as well as the sensible heat. Moreover, the device according to the present invention neither slows down or obstructs in any way the normal transit of the fumes towards the flue thanks to the smooth geometry of the plates and the absence of roughness.
However, this geometry determines a turbulence of the fumes such as to allow a high heat transfer. Thanks to the heat exchange efficiency, the device has smaller dimensions than known devices, which therefore allows the installation even in restricted spaces.
The maintenance is simplified, fast and economic thanks to the partitions which can be easily removed which make the plates completely accessible. This cleaning is possible without having to dismantle the unit from the system or disassembling the plates.
Lastly, the gently undulating shape of the plates, without roughness, fins or anything else allows the device to remain clean of the scale carried by the fumes .
Claims
1. Device for transferring heat from fluids in the gaseous state to fluids in the liquid and/or vapor state and comprising at least one heat-exchange module (2) including a plurality of superimposed plates (3), each formed by two sheets (31,32) joined at points of junction (33) and deformed to obtain channels (34) adapted to accommodate a heat transfer fluid and paths for the passage of the fumes, externally to the plates, in thermal contact with each other, such module having at least one inlet duct (4) and an outlet duct (5) for the heat transfer fluid,
characterized in that it comprises a box-shaped body in which such module is inserted having at least one inlet opening (6, 6', 8') located on one of the four faces perpendicular to the plane of parallelism of the plates and at least one outlet opening (7,7') on at least one of the remaining faces, both the inlet opening and the outlet opening being selectively operable so as to form different predetermined paths of the fumes inside the module .
2. Heat exchange device according to claim 1, wherein the inlet opening is a double opening (6',8') placed on opposite faces of the four faces perpendicular to the plane of parallelism of the plates, while the outlet is a single opening (7) and can be positioned on one of the two remaining faces.
3. Heat exchange device according to claim 2, wherein the path of the fumes is shaped as a "T" with the two inlet openings on opposite vertical sides (6' and 8') and the outlet (7) positioned on the top of the box- shaped body.
4. Heat exchange device according to claim 2, wherein the path of the fumes is shaped as a "T" with the two inlet openings on opposite vertical sides (6' and 8') and the outlet (7) positioned on the lower base of the box-shaped body.
5. Heat exchange device according to claim 1, wherein a path of the fumes is vertical rectilinear, in which the inlet (6) and outlet (7) openings of the fumes are positioned on an upper and lower base of the box-shaped body.
6. Heat exchange device according to claim 1, wherein the path of the fumes is "L"-shaped, in which the inlet opening (6') is on a vertical side of the box-shaped body and the outlet opening (7) for the fumes is positioned on the top of the box-shaped body.
7. Heat exchange device according to claim 1, wherein the path of the fumes is "Z"-shaped, in which the inlet opening (6') is on a vertical side of the box-shaped body and the outlet opening (7') of the fumes is positioned on the opposite vertical side of the box- shaped body.
8. Heat exchange device according to claim 1, wherein the plates (3) are side by side according to a staggered design.
9. Heat exchange device according to claim 8, wherein the plates are assembled in the plurality parallel to each other but asymmetrically, so that each of them is rotated by 180° with respect to the axis perpendicular to the plane of parallelism between the plates themselves, with respect to the contiguous plate, the convex parts of a plate being at the concave parts of the contiguous plates.
10. Heat exchange device according to claim 9, wherein each plate comprises at least one inlet tube (35) for the fluid and at least one extraction tube (36) for the fluid itself positioned in proximity to opposite corners of the plate.
11. Heat exchange device according to claim 8, wherein the side by side arrangement of two adjacent plates is such to make the "bulging" parts of the channels (34) of a plate to mate with the "recessed" parts of the adjacent plates at the junction points (33), so that the space between two plates, which constitutes the fume path, is an undulated path.
12. Heat exchange device according to claim 10, wherein the inlet (35) and outlet (36) tubes of the thermal vector are positioned at different distances (x and y) from the edges of the plate so that following the rotated positioning of two contiguous plates, the same connection tubes are staggered on the collector.
13. Heat exchange device according to claim 12, wherein the spacing between two contiguous plates can be smaller than the diameter of the tubes (35 and 36) .
14. Heat exchange device according to claim 10, wherein the connection of the tubes (35,36) for connecting the plates to the inlet and outlet ducts (4,5) of the exchanger in its entirety is obtained by means of a substantially omega-shaped bracket (9), with the two arms (91,92) constrained to the box-shaped body, while the tubes (35 or 36) are inserted in openings (93) obtained in the central part of the bracket itself.
15. Heat exchange device according to claim 1, wherein such box-shaped body comprises openable partitions that facilitate the cleaning and inspection operations of
the module comprising the plates.
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