Heat exchanger system

• US 4,108,240 A
• Filed: 04/29/1976
• Issued: 08/22/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 05/07/1975
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: ABet Atomenergi
• Original Assignee: ABet Atomenergi
• Inventors: Margen, Peter Heinrich Erwin, Naslund, Rolf Paul
• Primary Examiner(s): Myhre, Charles J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Richter, Sheldon
• Application Number:
  US05/681,471
• Time in Patent Office: 845 Days
• Field of Search: 165/125, 165/162, 165/172, 165/178
• US Class Current: 165/125
• CPC Class Codes: B21D 53/027 by helically or spirally winding elongated elements
• CPC Class Codes: F28B 1/06 using air or other gas as the cooling medium
• CPC Class Codes: F28D 1/0472 the conduits being helically or spirally coiled
• CPC Class Codes: F28D 7/08 the conduits being otherwise bent, e.g. in a serpentine or zig-zag F28D7/10 takes precedenceF28D7/0016 and F28D7/0033 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F28F 9/0133 formed by concentric strips
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 165/306 Located at heat-exchange housing outlet
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 165/90 Cooling towers

Abstract

There is provided a heat-exchanger system for heat-exchange between a gas such as air and a liquid such as water, comprising at least one heat exchanger unit which unit comprises at least one tube which is wound to form a hollow coil and which is arranged to conduct said liquid, characterized thereby, that said coil is closed or covered at one end; in that the other end of said coil which is open, is placed against a base plate having an opening which is aligned with the coil opening and has a size and shape corresponding to those of the coil opening; and in that the turns of the coil are slightly separated in order to permit the gas to flow perpendicularly across the tube during the passage through the wall of the coil.

Claims

1. A heat-exchanger system for heat-exchange between a gas and a liquid comprising:

(a) a base plate;

(b) a plurality of plastic tube coil units tightly packed and mounted on said base plate, each of said coil units comprising a length of plastic tubing wound to form said coil, the windings of said coil units being slightly spaced, said coil units having open ends and a hollow interior and wound to present a frusto-conical profile, said frusto-conical coil unit having a larger base and a smaller base, said base plate having an opening therein aligned with and corresponding to the size and shape of the open end of said larger base of said coil unit adjacent thereto;

(c) closure means covering the open end of said smaller base of said coil unit opposite to that on the base plate;

(d) means in said closure means for causing gas to flow through the interior of said coil unit windings in a direction generally perpendicular to the conical surface of said coil unit; and

(e) separate delivery and return means connected to the ends of said tubes for delivering and withdrawing liquid, respectively, from said coils.

2. A system as claimed in claim 1, wherein each unit comprises a plurality of tubes and the tubes are wound in concentric and congruent spirals.

3. A system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the turns of coil are separated by spacers.

4. A system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the delivery means and return pipe means for the liquid medium which is to be passed through the tube is arranged centrally in the coil.

5. A system as claimed in claim 1, wherein each tube consists of a heat-resistant cross-linked polyethylene plastic.

6. A system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the base surface of each coil has a polygonal shape.

7. A system as claimed in claim 6, wherein the polygonal shape comprises an odd number of corners and the tube has a mirror-symmetrical direction of winding in relation to adjacent polygonal surfaces.

8. A system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the opening in the base plate is formed by removal of a corresponding section from the plate and the section is placed on the smaller base of the frusto-conical coil to seal the small base of the coil.

9. A system as claimed in claim 8, wherein the smaller base of the coil is equal in and size to the plate section.