HEAT EXCHANGER Russian patent published in 1994 - IPC

FIELD: thermal power engineering. SUBSTANCE: heat exchanger has shell 1 with heat-transfer agent feed and bleed branch pipes, bundle of tubes 2 mounted in tube plates. The tube plates are made from caps 3 fastened to one another and to the tubes by polymeric materials, the caps may be of a circular or, for example, a hexahedral cross section. The caps may be plugged on one or both ends, and in case of operation under medium high-pressure may be monolithic or filled with a filler. EFFECT: improved structure. 12 cl, 8 dwg