WO2014207013A1 - Équipement à tubes et calandre doté d'une structure de cloison destinée à soutenir les tubes - Google Patents

Équipement à tubes et calandre doté d'une structure de cloison destinée à soutenir les tubes Download PDF

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WO2014207013A1
WO2014207013A1 PCT/EP2014/063336 EP2014063336W WO2014207013A1 WO 2014207013 A1 WO2014207013 A1 WO 2014207013A1 EP 2014063336 W EP2014063336 W EP 2014063336W WO 2014207013 A1 WO2014207013 A1 WO 2014207013A1
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Enrico Rizzi
Ermanno Filippi
Fabiano Montini
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28D—HEAT-EXCHANGE APPARATUS, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN ANOTHER SUBCLASS, IN WHICH THE HEAT-EXCHANGE MEDIA DO NOT COME INTO DIRECT CONTACT
    • F28D7/00—Heat-exchange apparatus having stationary tubular conduit assemblies for both heat-exchange media, the media being in contact with different sides of a conduit wall
    • F28D7/16—Heat-exchange apparatus having stationary tubular conduit assemblies for both heat-exchange media, the media being in contact with different sides of a conduit wall the conduits being arranged in parallel spaced relation
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28F—DETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
    • F28F9/00—Casings; Header boxes; Auxiliary supports for elements; Auxiliary members within casings
    • F28F9/007—Auxiliary supports for elements
    • F28F9/013—Auxiliary supports for elements for tubes or tube-assemblies
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28F—DETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
    • F28F2265/00—Safety or protection arrangements; Arrangements for preventing malfunction
    • F28F2265/30—Safety or protection arrangements; Arrangements for preventing malfunction for preventing vibrations

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  • the invention relates to the field of shell-and-tube equipment comprising a vessel and a tube bundle, for example shell-and-tube heat exchangers or shell- and-tube chemical reactors.
  • the invention relates in particular to a baffle structure to support the tubes within the bundle.
  • the rod baffle design provides a precise guidance and support of tubes.
  • a disadvantage is the need to weld a large number of rod elements and related support rings.
  • Another disadvantage is that the conventional rod-baffle design calls for tubes with a square pitch, being unsuitable for a triangular layout pattern of tubes.
  • Another drawback of this prior art concerns the pressure drop of the shell side. In most cases, the shell side of the equipment is traversed by a heat exchange medium, such as condensing steam or a gas. It has been observed that the support means of the rod baffles induce a disturbance to the flow of said medium, affecting the overall coefficient of heat exchange.
  • US 2008/0245515 discloses a shell-and-tube device comprising slotted baffles having elongated parallel slots formed therein.
  • the elongated slots are sized to receive a certain number of aligned tubes.
  • Said slotted baffles can be made in a relatively cheap way, by cutting a metal sheet for example.
  • this embodiment has a disadvantage in that the thin strips of metal formed between the slots are prone to vibration and instability, especially under the severe stress occurring during a transitory, for example during a startup when hot gases cause a relevant thermal stress.
  • the thickness of the baffle is generally smaller than the width of said strips, making them unstable under mechanical stress (especially a compression stress) and unable to provide a firm support to the tubes.
  • DE 10 201 1 107 122 discloses a grid baffle layout where each one of the tubes passes through a respective four-sided window. Accordingly, the bundle is supported and guided in an effective manner, however a very precise construction and alignment of the baffles is necessary since each single tube must meet a corresponding small window of the baffle.
  • assembly may result difficult or impossible due to tolerances of the tube bundle, especially when tubes have a considerable length, e.g. of some meters.
  • this design causes a relevant pressure drop of the shell side, since the design of the baffles leaves a small passage area for the medium flowing in the shell side.
  • the problem underlying the invention is to provide a supporting structure for a bundle of tubes which overcomes the above drawbacks of the prior art, and in particular: provides a secure support against vibrations of tubes; allows using also a triangular layout of tubes; avoids an expensive realization, reduces to a minimum the negative influence on a gaseous medium flowing in the shell side of the equipment.
  • a shell-and-tube equipment comprising:
  • said support baffles having spaced apart slots formed therein, said slots being sized to receive a plurality of tubes therethrough, characterized in that: said slots have the shape of polygons with a number N of sides, and said slots are arranges in such a way that each slot receives at least a number N of tubes, which are located at corner regions of the polygonal slot.
  • Said corner regions are to be intended as sharp corners or rounded (beveled) corner regions.
  • the slots have beveled corners to avoid their overlapping, for example with triangular slots.
  • slots designed to receive tubes with a triangular pitch have beveled corners, so that they actually have 6 sides, including three long sides and three short sides (chamfers) opposite to the long sides. Nevertheless, they are referred to as triangular slots, since they appear substantially as triangles.
  • the baffles are arranged according to a repetition of a pattern along a longitudinal direction of the bundle.
  • the slots of a generic baffle, according to said pattern are staggered relative to the slots of the adjoining baffles.
  • Said pattern hence comprises at least a first baffle and a second baffle, and the slots of the second baffle are staggered relative to the slots of the first baffle.
  • the baffles arranged according to said pattern provide a complementary support for each tube of the bundle. For example, a tube is prevented against a lateral displacement in a given direction X by the first baffle of the pattern, and is prevented against a displacement in another direction Y by the second or another baffle of the pattern. More generally, a displacement of a tube in a certain direction is always prevented by at least one, or more, of the baffles forming the pattern.
  • the slots of a baffle of the pattern are staggered relative to the slots of the previous or next baffle in the pattern by a distance which is equal to the pitch of the tubes in the tube bundle.
  • the slots of adjoining baffles may be staggered relative to each other in one direction or in two directions.
  • An embodiment of the invention provides that the tubes are arranged according to a square pitch, and said baffles have square slots or, more generally, four- sided slots.
  • Each slot receives four tubes located at the four corner regions of the slot, and said pattern of the baffles is formed by a first baffle and a second baffle, which means that first baffles and second baffles are alternated.
  • the slots of the second baffles are staggered relative to the slots of the first baffle, by a distance equal to the pitch of the tubes, according to a first direction and a second direction in a plane perpendicular to the tubes.
  • the tubes have a triangular pitch, and said baffles have triangular slots.
  • Each slot receives three tubes at the corner regions.
  • Preferably said slots are equilateral triangles.
  • the tubes have a triangular pitch
  • said baffles have hexagonal slots, each slot receiving six tubes at corner regions of the slot plus a seventh tube in the middle.
  • a pattern of only two different baffles, with suitably spaced slots, can support the tubes in all directions in a plane perpendicular to the tubes themselves.
  • said equipment is a gas- gas heat exchanger.
  • the exchanger may also contain a catalyst in the tubes or in the shell side, if required.
  • a more preferred application of the invention relates to a reactor for the synthesis of ammonia.
  • An aspect of the invention is also a structure for supporting a tube bundle of a shell-and-tube equipment, according to the attached claims.
  • the tubes are guided and supported against vibrations in a way similar to a rod-baffle cage, but avoiding the drawbacks of the conventional rod-baffle design, including the large number of welded joints.
  • the slotted baffles of the invention may be prepared from metal sheets and with a technique such as cutting, laser cutting, water cutting or equivalent, reducing the number of the welded junctions.
  • Another advantage of the invention is that a pattern of only two different baffles can support the tubes in all directions, thanks to the tubes being received at the corner regions of the slots.
  • the rod-baffle design on the contrary, needs the repetition of a pattern of four different baffles, in order to achieve the same effect, since each set of the conventional rods acts in one direction only.
  • a further and important advantage is that the invention allows using a triangular pitch, while the rod-baffle design requires a square pitch. Tubes in a triangular pitch are closer each other, thus providing a better use of the available volume compared to the square pitch layout. For example when tubes are filled with a catalyst the triangular pitch provides more room for said catalyst. Hence, the heat exchanger is more compact and less expensive for a given duty.
  • the baffle structure according to the invention leaves a large passage area in the shell side, reducing the pressure drop.
  • the staggered slots avoid the formation of preferred "lanes" for the gaseous medium traversing the shell side. For example a gaseous flow line, after a passage through a slot of a generic baffle, impinges on the surface of the next baffle and is divided into a plurality of flow lines, passing through the slots of said next baffle.
  • Another advantage of the invention is that the free space between the boundary of the bundle and the vessel is reduced to a minimum. This space does not contribute to the heat exchange; accordingly, the reduction of this free space means that the available internal volume of the equipment is best exploited.
  • each baffle provides a support for a tube according to two directions, leaving the tube free to flex to a certain extent in the other directions, to compensate for working tolerance.
  • the shell-and-tube equipment may comprise a central duct, e.g. to collect a medium flowing in the shell side, or for another purpose.
  • the tube bundle is arranged in the annular space between the central duct and the outer vessel, and the baffles are ring-shaped as a consequence.
  • a conventional rod-baffle design would need an inner ring as a support means for the rods.
  • the invention does not need this inner support ring, since the slotted baffle can be prepared, as above, by cutting a metal sheet of the desired shape, including a central aperture for the duct. Hence, the realization is simpler and less expensive.
  • Fig. 1 illustrates a shell-and-tube equipment according to an embodiment of the invention.
  • Fig. 2 is a scheme of tubes and baffles according to a square pitch.
  • Fig. 3 is a scheme of tubes and baffles according to a triangular pitch.
  • Fig. 4 is a cross section of an equipment according to an embodiment with a central duct.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates a shell-and-tube equipment 1 comprising a vessel 2, a bundle of tubes 3, a plurality of support baffles 4, 4a for supporting said tubes 3.
  • the tubes 3 are fixed to tubesheets 6.
  • the baffles are spaced each other by a suitable distance d.
  • the equipment 1 processes a first fluid flowing in the tubes 3 and a second fluid flowing in the shell side, which means around the tube bundle.
  • the first fluid (tube side) enters at 10 and leaves at 1 1
  • the second fluid (shell side) enters for example at 12 and leaves at 13.
  • said first fluid and second fluid are gaseous, i.e. the equipment 1 is a gas-gas heat exchanger.
  • the equipment 1 may carry out a chemical reaction and to this purpose, it may contain a suitable catalyst.
  • the equipment 1 is a reactor for the synthesis of ammonia, where synthesis of ammonia takes place in the tube side.
  • Said support baffles 4, 4a are made of a metal sheet of a suitable thickness.
  • a number of slots are formed in the baffles, which are sized to receive a plurality of tubes 3 therethrough.
  • Fig. 2 shows an embodiment where tubes 3 are arranged according to a square pitch p, said pitch being the distance between centers of adjacent tubes (see Fig. 2) and the slots 5 are four-sided, e.g. square. Four tubes 3 are received at corner regions of each slot 5.
  • Fig. 2 also shows the slots 5' of a second baffle 4', next to said baffle 4 (see Fig. 1 ). Said slots 5' of the second baffle 4' are depicted with dotted lines and Fig. 2 shows they are staggered relative to the slots 5 of the first baffle 4.
  • the baffles are staggered in both directions X and Y by a first distance s1 and a second distance s2.
  • Said directions X and Y are in a plane perpendicular to the tubes 3 and to the axis of the vessel 2.
  • baffles are arranged according to a pattern where first baffles 4 and second baffles 4' alternate, as shown in Fig. 1 . Hence, slots 5 and 5' of adjoining baffles are always staggered .
  • any generic tube such as tube 3 * of Fig. 2, is embraced by an upper corner of a slot 5 and a lower corner of an adjoining slot 5, and so on according to the pattern of alternate baffles 4, 4'.
  • a generic slot keep the tube from displacement in two directions, e.g. left and down, while the next slot keep the tube from displacement in the other two, e.g. right and up. Accordingly, the tube is secured against vibrations in all directions of plane X-Y.
  • a gaseous medium traversing the shell side of equipment 1 passes through the slots 5, 5' of the baffles, around the tubes 3, for example in the region 7 of Fig. 2. Due to the staggered arrangement of the slots, the flow passing through a baffle will impinge on the next baffle, providing a certain mixing of the flow and improvement of the heat exchange coefficient.
  • Said slots 5 or 5' can be obtained by cutting, laser cutting or another technique, starting from a metal sheet of a suitable thickness.
  • Fig. 3 relates to an embodiment where tubes are arranged according to a triangular pitch.
  • the baffles 4, 4' have substantially triangular slots 5, 5', each slot 5 or 5' receiving three tubes 3 at the corners.
  • the slots 5, 5' in this embodiment appear to have six sides, namely three long sides 8 and three short sides 9; said short sides 9 however are formed by the beveled corners.
  • Each long side 8 is opposite to a short side 9, so that the shape of the slot globally resembles to a triangle. Accordingly, the slot is considered three-sided.
  • a pattern of only two different baffles 4, 4' can effectively support the tubes 3 in all directions, thanks to the fact that the tubes are received at the corner regions of the slots 5, 5'.
  • the conventional rod- baffle design on the contrary, needs the repetition of a pattern of four different baffles, in order to achieve the same effect, since each set of the conventional rods acts in one direction only.
  • Fig. 4 relates to an embodiment where the shell-and-tube equipment comprises a central duct 10 coaxial to the shell 2.
  • the tubes 3 are arranged in the annular region between the duct 10 and the outer shell 2, and the baffles 4, 4' are ring- shaped as a consequence.
  • Fig. 4 shows tubes with a square pitch but the same embodiment with central duct 10 may use triangular pitch as in Fig. 3.
  • the invention is advantageous in that it does not need an inner ring for supporting the baffles. Provided that the baffles have a sufficient thickness, also an outer ring may not be necessary.

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La présente invention concerne un équipement à tubes et calandre (1) comprenant : un récipient (2), un faisceau de tubes (3) situé dans le récipient, une pluralité de cloisons de soutien (4, 4a) destinées à soutenir les tubes composant ledit faisceau, des encoches espacées (5, 5a) étant formées sur lesdites cloisons de soutien, lesdites encoches (5, 5a) étant dimensionnées de manière à être traversées par une pluralité de tubes et ayant une forme polygonale avec un nombre de côtés N, chaque encoche étant traversée par au moins N tubes et lesdits tubes étant situés dans les coins de l'encoche.
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