HEAT EXCHANGER Russian patent published in 2008 - IPC F28D7/08 

FIELD: power engineering.

SUBSTANCE: invention can be used in feed water heaters of thermal and nuclear power plants. Proposed heat exchanger consists of a shell inside which a central header and vertical tube platens connected with their ends to appropriate central header chambers are installed. At that each platen is made at least of one "П"-shaped section with transverse parts installed in the shell one above the other, and intermediate part wherein external tubes are installed longitudinally on the shell side, and internal tubes are located on the header side. Internal tubes of the intermediate section part are made with additional sections bent in the direction of central header and located between transverse parts of this section. In this case average tube length makes bigger in each platen, which leads to less number of tubes used in each platen, and therefore to velocity increase in tube and intertube spaces of platens and heat exchange intensification, which finally reduces heat exchanger specific amount of metal.

EFFECT: reducing thermal and hydraulic maldistributions in platens, which also improves platen heat exchange and reduces to a greater degree the heat exchanger specific amount of metal.

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