Header for a heat exchanger and a heat exchanger
AssigneeAlfa Laval Corporate AB
InventorsFredrik Strömer, Kristian Walter
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Abstract
The disclosure relates to a header connected to or formed as a part of a heat exchanger. The heat exchanger has a heat exchanger body with a plurality of discrete channels for a first fluid and a plurality of discrete channels for a second fluid. The header has a first end having a round configuration and a second end being provided with a plurality of discrete channels. The header is provided with a plurality of dividers dividing one or more internal channels of the circular pipe into the plurality of discrete channels at the second end. At least some of the dividers extend from the second end to the first end and define a plurality of channel mouths at the first end. The disclosure also relates to a heat exchanger.
Claims17
A header adapted to be connected to and form part of or being integrally formed as a part of a heat exchanger, the heat exchanger having a heat exchanger body with a plurality of discrete channels for a first fluid and a plurality of discrete channels for a second fluid, the header having:
- a first end having a round configuration being adapted to be connected to a circular pipe and to form an inlet to, or an outlet from, the heat exchanger;
- and
- a second end being adapted to be connected to or be integrally formed with the heat exchanger body and being provided with a plurality of discrete channels, wherein each discrete channel at the second end of the header is adapted to be individually connected to or integrally formed with one discrete channel of the plurality of discrete channels for the first fluid in the heat exchanger body,
- wherein the header is provided with a plurality of dividers dividing one or more internal channels of the header into the plurality of discrete channels at the second end,
- wherein all of the plurality of dividers at the second end extend from the second end to the first end and define a plurality of channel mouths at the first end, the channel mouths together forming the round configuration of the first end, and
- wherein the plurality of channels at the second end of the header are configured in a line configuration in that, in a cross-section across the plurality of channels, the plurality of channels is sub-divided into a plurality of groups, each group including a plurality of channels arranged along a line extending along a first direction across the cross-section of the second end.
A header adapted to be connected to and form part of or being integrally formed as a part of a heat exchanger, the heat exchanger having a heat exchanger body with a plurality of discrete channels for a first fluid and a plurality of discrete channels for a second fluid, the header having:
- a first end having a round configuration being adapted to be connected to a circular pipe and to form an inlet to, or an outlet from, the heat exchanger;
- and
- a second end being adapted to be connected to or be integrally formed with the heat exchanger body and being provided with a plurality of discrete channels, wherein each discrete channel at the second end of the header is adapted to be individually connected to or integrally formed with one discrete channel of the plurality of discrete channels for the first fluid in the heat exchanger body,
- wherein the header is provided with a plurality of dividers dividing one or more internal channels of the circular pipe into the plurality of discrete channels at the second end,
- wherein all of the plurality of dividers extend from the second end to the first end and define a plurality of channel mouths at the first end, the channel mouths together forming the round configuration of the first end,
- wherein the plurality of channels at the second end of the header are configured in a line configuration in that, in a cross-section across the plurality of channels, the plurality of channels is sub-divided into a plurality of groups, each group including a plurality of channels arranged along a line extending along a first direction across the cross-section of the second end, and
- wherein at least a sub-set of the dividers extend, in a cross-section across the channel mouths, along curved lines across the round configuration of the first end.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.