Plate heat exchanger with a refrigerant distributor

US5806586A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Ernst Flitsch GmbH & Co. · DE

Inventors

• Josef Osthues · Mettmann, DE
• Manfred Petz · Karlsruhe, DE
• Bernd Zeitvogel · Rastatt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 29, 1995
• Grant date: Sep 15, 1998
• Expiry date: Dec 29, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S165/907
• WIPO field: Thermal processes and apparatus
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A device is disclosed for distributing a two-phase refrigerating medium mass flow in a plate evaporator (12). The evaporator has a distribution channel (14) at the inlet side which may receive a refrigerating medium mass flow coming from an expansion valve (10) and several mutually spaced exchanger channels (16) which branch off from the distribution channel (14) in a substantially perpendicular direction. In order to ensure a uniform distribution of the refrigerant medium mass flow (28') among the exchanger channels (16), a porous body (38) is arranged in the distribution channel (14) between the refrigerating medium inlet (26) and the branch-off points of the exchanger channels (16). The porous body (38) is advantageously arranged in an outer throttle insert (32) which extends over at least part of the length of the distribution channel and in whose wall are located additional throttle openings (34) that lead to the exchanger channels (16).