Evaporator and rankine cycle system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10077684-B2
Application number	US-201615203603-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 6, 2016
Priority date	Aug 4, 2015
Publication date	Sep 18, 2018
Grant date	Sep 18, 2018

Abstract

An evaporator includes an introducing portion that introduces a heat source gas from a heat source gas pipe, a heat source gas passage through which the heat source gas introduced from the introducing portion flows, a heating portion that is disposed in the heat source gas passage and at which a working fluid is heated by the heat source gas, an increasing portion at which a cross-sectional area of the heat source gas passage gradually increases from an upstream side towards a downstream side in the heat source gas passage, and a flow regulating plate that is disposed on an upstream side from the heating portion in the heat source gas passage and that has a plurality of holes which allow the heat source gas to pass through the plurality of holes.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A Rankine cycle system comprising:
a working fluid passage that forms a loop through which a working fluid flows;
an expander disposed in the working fluid passage;
a condenser disposed in the working fluid passage;
a generator driven by the expander; and
an evaporator disposed in the working fluid passage, wherein
the evaporator includes:
an introducing portion that introduces a heat source gas from a heat source gas pipe;
a heat source gas passage through which the heat source gas introduced from the introducing portion flows;
a heating portion that is disposed in the heat source gas passage and at which the working fluid is heated by the heat source gas;
an increasing portion that is located between the introducing portion and the heating portion, that constitutes the heat source gas passage, and at which a cross-sectional area of the heat source gas passage gradually increases from an upstream side towards a downstream side in the heat source gas passage; and
a flow regulating plate that is disposed on any portion between an end of the increasing portion and an inlet of the heating portion, inclusive, in the heat source gas passage and that has a plurality of holes which allow the heat source gas to pass through the plurality of holes,

wherein the heating portion includes a heat transfer pipe constituting a part of the working fluid passage through which the working fluid flows.

2. The Rankine cycle system according to claim 1 ,
wherein an open area ratio of the flow regulating plate is greater than or equal to 15% and less than or equal to 35%.

3. The Rankine cycle system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the heating portion includes a heat transfer pipe constituting a working fluid passage, and
wherein a diameter of each of the plurality of holes is smaller than an outer diameter of the heat transfer pipe.

4. The Rankine cycle system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the heating portion includes a working fluid passage through which the working fluid flows,
wherein the working fluid passage includes a plurality of tiers including a first tier, a second tier, and a third tier that are arranged in the direction in which the heat source gas flows, the working fluid passage having a meandering shape at each of the plurality of tiers,
wherein the first tier is a tier located on a most upstream side in the direction in which the heat source gas flows,
wherein the second tier is a tier including a working fluid outlet through which the working fluid is discharged from the heating portion to an outside, and
wherein the third tier is a tier that is located on a most downstream side in the direction in which the heat source gas flows and that includes a working fluid inlet through which the working fluid is introduced from the outside into the heating portion.

5. The Rankine cycle system according to claim 4 ,
wherein the working fluid passage includes a superheat zone including the first tier and the second tier and an evaporation zone including the third tier,
wherein the second tier is disposed on a most downstream side in the superheat zone in the direction in which the heat source gas flows, and a plurality of tiers including the first tier and the second tier define the superheat zone such that heat is exchanged between the heat source gas and the working fluid in a parallel-flow manner,
wherein the third tier is disposed on a most downstream side in the evaporation zone in the direction in which the heat source gas flows, and a plurality of tiers including the third tier define the evaporation zone such that heat is exchanged between the heat source gas and the working fluid in a counter-flow manner, and
wherein the working fluid flowing through a tier on a most upstream side in the evaporation zone in the direction in which the heat source gas flows is supplied to the first tier.

6. The Rankine cycle system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the working fluid is an organic working fluid.

Assignees

• Panasonic Corp

Inventors

• Kosuda Osamu
• Hikichi Takumi
• Kido Osao

Classifications

• F22B37/40

  Arrangements of partition walls in flues of steam boilers, e.g. built-up from baffles · CPC title

• F25B41/00

  Fluid-circulation arrangements · CPC title

• F01K25/08 Primary

  using special vapours · CPC title

• F25B39/02 Primary

  Evaporators · CPC title

• F22G1/02

  with heat supply by hot flue gases from the furnace of the steam boiler · CPC title