Heat exchanger system

US6719041B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Daimlerchrysler AG · US

Inventors

• Andreas Docter · Eßlingen, DE
• Norbert Wiesheu · Sehnde, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 18, 2002
• Grant date: Apr 13, 2004
• Expiry date: Oct 18, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02E60/50
• WIPO field: Thermal processes and apparatus
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A heat exchanger system for a device for autothermal reforming of a hydrocarbon having a reaction zone fed with at least two fluids which react with one another, the reaction zone being at a higher temperature level than an environment of the device and at least one of the fluids being heated by the reaction products effluent from the reaction zone. The heat exchanger system includes tubes for transporting the effluent reaction products, at least one section of the tubes being arranged essentially parallel to a center axis of the reaction zone and led through the flow path of the fluid to be heated. At least sections of the flow path are curved helically or spirally around the center axis so that the fluid to be heated impinges on and passes around the tubes containing the effluent reaction products essentially perpendicularly. The flow path of the fluid to be heated is laid out with respect to the center axis of the tube arrangement in such a manner that the fluid to be heated is conveyed from outside to inside and/or from inside to outside at least once.