Absorber with plate exchanger with porous distribution element

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9574803-B2
Application number	US-201314416024-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 11, 2013
Priority date	Jul 23, 2012
Publication date	Feb 21, 2017
Grant date	Feb 21, 2017

Abstract

The system comprises a plurality of first fluidic flow channels and a distribution device fed by a flow of a first fluid, notably a liquid, and injecting the flow of first fluid into the plurality of first channels at an output of the distribution device. The output of the distribution device consists of an distribution element for the first fluid, notably formed in a porous material, configured in such a way as to be passed through by the first fluid with a pressure drop such that the first fluid leaves from the distribution element with a uniform surface distribution at an output surface of the distribution element, in a way that ensures a uniform feed of first fluid for the first channels.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. System comprising:
a plurality of first fluidic flow channels,
a distribution device fed by a flow of a first fluid and injecting the flow of first fluid into the plurality of first channels at an output of the distribution device,
the output of the distribution device comprising a distribution element for the first fluid configured in such a way as to be passed through by the first fluid with a pressure drop such that the first fluid leaves from the distribution element with a uniform surface distribution at an output surface of the distribution element, in a way that ensures a uniform feed of first fluid for the first channels, the distribution element comprising passage orifices through the entire thickness of the distribution element and emerging on the output surface,
a feed device suitable for feeding said feed zones of the first channels with a flow of a second fluid (F 2 ), the first fluid being distributed at the output of the distribution device in such a way as to directly encounter, after its ejection, a flow formed by the second fluid previously leaving at the output of the feed device, and
an anti-coalescence device configured to oppose the effect of coalescence of the first fluid leaving at the output surface of the distribution element, the anti-coalescence device having support elements in contact with or in immediate proximity to said output surface.

2. System according to claim 1 , wherein the first fluid is a liquid of absorbent type and in that the second fluid is a gas, notably a refrigerant, suitable for being at least partially absorbed by the first fluid with a transfer of mass from the second fluid to the first fluid.

3. System according to claim 1 , wherein each first channel comprises a fluid feed zone, the feed zones associated with the plurality of first channels being staggered in a first direction and the distribution element for the first fluid is configured in such a way as to ensure a uniformity, at least per unit length, of the distribution of the first fluid in the first direction.

4. System according to claim 3 , wherein the distribution element for the first fluid is configured in such a way that its output surface is arranged facing feed zones of the first channels, in a second direction substantially at right angles to the first direction.

5. System according to claim 1 , wherein the distribution device comprises a tubular element open at one end to allow the tubular element to be fed by the flow of first fluid and closed at an opposite end in a manner that is tight to the flow of first fluid, and all or part of the walls of the tubular element consists of the distribution element for the first fluid, any remaining part of the walls of the tubular element being tight to the first fluid.

6. System according to claim 1 , wherein the distribution element comprises a self-supporting structure of sintered material formed by the agglomeration of balls.

7. System according to claim 1 , wherein the distribution element comprises a wound metallic screen cloth.

8. System according to claim 1 , wherein the distribution element comprises a stack of sheets provided with piercings and separated in pairs by spacing elements allowing a circulation of the first fluid between the sheets, the piercings of two adjacent sheets being offset in a direction at right angles to the piercing direction.

9. System according to claim 1 , comprising a plate exchanger comprising a plurality of plates delimiting between them, two by two, at least parallel first fluidic flow channels.

10. System according to claim 9 , wherein the plates have corrugations that are inclined relative to the vertical.

11. System according to claim 9 , wherein each support element is formed by an edge of a given plate of the plate exchanger, said plate edge and/or the distribution element being configured in such a way that a contact between the plate edge and the output surface of the distribution element is situated at a low point of the output surface in the second direction.

12. System according to claim 5 , comprising a plate exchanger comprising a plurality of plates delimiting between them, two by two, at least parallel first fluidic flow channels, wherein the tubular element is inserted into a series of perforations formed in plates of the plate exchanger in alignment with one another in the first direction in such a way that the distribution element is facing the first channels in the second direction.

13. System according to claim 1 , wherein each support element is formed by a fin added around the tubular element, at least at the level of the distribution element.

14. System according to claim 13 , wherein the fin has an outer form provided with a point directed at the low point of the fin in the second direction.

15. System according to claim 1 , wherein the distribution element is configured in such a way that the distribution of the first fluid is uniform within the flow of the second fluid.

16. System according to claim 1 , wherein the first channels are configured in such a way that, in each of them, the second fluid is at least partially absorbed by the first fluid with a transfer of mass from the second fluid to the first fluid.

17. System according to claim 1 , wherein the feed device for the second fluid comprises a pipe coupled to an input of the plate exchanger and inside which extends at least a part of a pipe of the distribution device for the flow of the first fluid.

18. System according to claim 1 , comprising (i) a plurality of second fluidic flow channels and (ii) a device for feeding the second channels with a third cooling fluid circulating in the plurality of second channels in such a way as to produce a heat exchange with the first fluid and/or the second fluid circulating in the first channels.

19. Thermodynamic machine comprising at least one system according to claim 1 .

20. Thermodynamic machine according to claim 19 , wherein the second fluid is at least partially absorbed by the first fluid at an absorber consisting of said system.

21. Thermodynamic machine according to claim 20 , comprising a thermal solar system taking solar energy as input and, at the output, transferring heat to the first and second fluids from the absorber.

22. Method of implementing an absorber for a solar absorption-based thermodynamic refrigeration machine, comprising:
providing a system according to claim 1 ,
taking solar energy as input by the system, and
transferring heat to the first and second fluids,
wherein the second fluid is at least partially absorbed by the first fluid during the flow in the first fluidic flow channels.

23. System according to claim 1 , wherein the passage orifices of the distribution element are twisted or with chicanes from the input surface to the output surface.

Assignees

• Commissariat Energie Atomique

Inventors

• Wyttenbach Joël
• Boudehenn François
• Demasles Hélène
• Papillon Philippe

Classifications

• Y02A30/27

  Relating to heating, ventilation or air conditioning [HVAC] technologies · CPC title

• F28F9/028

  by using inserts for modifying the pattern of flow inside the header box, e.g. by using flow restrictors or permeable bodies or blocks with channels · CPC title

• F25B27/007 Primary

  in sorption type systems · CPC title

• F25B15/12

  with resorber ({F25B15/004, F25B15/006, F25B15/008}, F25B15/14 take precedence) · CPC title

• Y02B30/62

  Absorption based systems · CPC title