SELF-CLEANING SHELL-AND-TUBE HEAT EXCHANGER Russian patent published in 2017 - IPC F28D7/16 F28F9/24 F28F13/12 

FIELD: electricity-producing industry.

SUBSTANCE: turbulizing elements, that are designed as the lobes in the form of the propeller or of the wire spiraling, are fixedly attached to the metal rod or wire throughout the length at a distance from one another in the heat exchanger composed of the jacket, where the stack of the tubes that are linked to the tube sheets is located, and of the input and output nozzles of the tube medium Δ, of the turbulence promoters that are placed within every tube in axial alignment throughout the tube length and are representing the metal rod or wire. The ends of the rods or wires are attached to the tie bars that are tailed in among the shoulders that are rigidly attached to the tube sheets outer surface.

EFFECT: heat-transfer process augmentation and scale formation rate reduction.

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