Rotary heat exchanger

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12259191-B2
Application number	US-202117907635-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 5, 2021
Priority date	Mar 31, 2020
Publication date	Mar 25, 2025
Grant date	Mar 25, 2025

Abstract

A rotary heat exchanger includes: a tubular-shaped heat transfer tubular body ( 3 ) which is rotatable with a central axis (C) as a rotation center, which allows a first medium ( 11 ) to flow therein, and outside of which a second medium ( 12 ) having a temperature different from temperature of the first medium ( 11 ) flows; a central member ( 2 ) which is provided on an inner side of the heat transfer tubular body ( 3 ) in a radial direction and which is fixed coaxially with the heat transfer tubular body ( 3 ); and an outer sliding contact member ( 6 ) which is in sliding contact with an outer circumferential surface of the heat transfer tubular body ( 3 ), and the heat transfer tubular body ( 3 ) is rotatably supported with respect to the central member ( 2 ) via bearings ( 17, 18 ) disposed at two end portions of the central member ( 2 ) in an axial direction.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A rotary heat exchanger comprising:
a tubular-shaped heat transfer tubular body which is rotatable with a central axis as a rotation center, which allows a first medium to flow therein, and outside of which a second medium having a temperature different from a temperature of the first medium is disposed;
a central member which is provided on an inner side of the heat transfer tubular body in a radial direction, which is fixed coaxially with the heat transfer tubular body and through which the first medium circulates from one side to the other side in the axial direction;
a pair of bearings which is respectively located at the one side and the other side of an end of the central member in the axial direction; and
an outer sliding contact member which is in sliding contact with an outer circumferential surface of the heat transfer tubular body, wherein
the heat transfer tubular body is rotatably supported with respect to the central member via the bearings disposed at the one side and the other side of end portions of the central member in the axial direction,
the heat transfer tubular body has a relay member which is provided at the other side of the central member and supplies the first medium circulating inside the central member between the heat transfer tubular body and the central member, and
the relay member is formed so that the first medium circulates therein and rotates with a main body portion of the heat transfer tubular body, and supplies the first medium to the heat transfer tubular body from a position away from the central member in the axial direction than the other side of the central member.

2. The rotary heat exchanger according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an inner sliding contact member which is attached to the central member and which is in sliding contact with an inner circumferential surface of the heat transfer tubular body.

3. A rotary heat exchanger comprising:
a tubular-shaped heat transfer tubular body which is rotatable with a central axis as a rotation center, which allows a first medium to flow therein, and outside of which a second medium having a temperature different from a temperature of the first medium is disposed;
at least one of an outer sliding contact member which is in sliding contact with an outer circumferential surface of the heat transfer tubular body and an inner sliding contact member which is in sliding contact with an inner circumferential surface of the heat transfer tubular body;
a central member which is provided on an inner side of the heat transfer tubular body in a radial direction, which is fixed coaxially with the heat transfer tubular body and through which the first medium circulates from one side to the other side in the axial direction; and
a pair of bearings which is respectively located at the one side and the other side of an end of the central member in the axial direction; wherein
the heat transfer tubular body is rotatably supported with respect to the central member via the bearings disposed at the one side and the other side of end portions of the central member in the axial direction,
the heat transfer tubular body has a relay member which is provided at the other side of the central member and supplies the first medium circulating inside the central member between the heat transfer tubular body and the central member, and
the relay member is formed so that the first medium circulates therein and rotates with a main body portion of the heat transfer tubular body, and supplies the first medium to the other side of the central member in the axial direction than the other side of the central member.

4. The rotary heat exchanger according to claim 2 , wherein
in the inner sliding contact member, a tip end portion in sliding contact with the heat transfer tubular body has higher flexibility than a base end portion positioned on a central member side in the radial direction.

5. The rotary heat exchanger according to claim 1 , wherein
the central member includes:
an introduction pipe configured to introduce the first medium into the heat transfer tubular body from one end portion in the axial direction; and
a discharge pipe provided at the one end portion in the axial direction and configured to discharge the first medium subjected to heat exchange from an inside of the heat transfer tubular body.

6. The rotary heat exchanger according to claim 1 , wherein
the second medium is a latent heat storage material configured to store heat using latent heat during solid-liquid phase transformation.

7. The rotary heat exchanger according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an outer cylinder which is provided coaxially with the heat transfer tubular body and which is disposed on an outer side of the heat transfer tubular body in the radial direction at a predetermined interval, wherein
the outer sliding contact member is disposed between the heat transfer tubular body and the outer cylinder, and the second medium flows between the heat transfer tubular body and the outer cylinder.

8. The rotary heat exchanger according to claim 1 , wherein
when viewed in the axial direction, the outer sliding contact member is inclined so as to move away from the central axis from an upstream side to a downstream side in a rotation direction of the heat transfer tubular body.

9. The rotary heat exchanger according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a bottom plate which supports the outer sliding contact member, wherein
the heat transfer tubular body is rotatably supported by the bottom plate.

Assignees

• Univ Tohoku

Inventors

• Maruoka Nobuhiro
• Ono Toshimitsu
• Endo Satoshi
• Aizawa Tadanobu
• Konno Kaoru

Classifications

• Y02E60/14

  Thermal energy storage · CPC title

• F28D20/02

  using latent heat · CPC title

• F28D19/04 Primary

  using rigid bodies, e.g. mounted on a movable carrier · CPC title

• F28D11/04 Primary

  performed by a tube or a bundle of tubes · CPC title