Balcke-durr Aktiengesellschaft

Balcke-durr Gmbh

Spx Cooling Technologies Gmbh

Miroslav Podhorsky

Wolfgang Holten

Herbert Krips

Michael Kaatz

Martin Kienböck

Harald Sassmann

Hans Ruscheweyh

Richard Leitz

Friedel Kordas

Burkhard Trage

Stefan Leser

Volker Halbe

Hans-Georg Schrey

Jorg Blum

Horst Hoffmann

Arnold Kalka

Heinz-Günter Raths

Paul Riley

Air filters comprising thin-walled textile filter bodies have to be cleaned periodically. According to a method known to this purpose, the filtered material is loosened using pressure pulses in a flushing air flow. According to the invention, for generating the pressure pulses a plurality of small, quick-acting valves are in each case briefly opened, the opening moments being adapted to one another in such a way that partial pulses released thereby arrive simultaneously at the inlet of a flushing line common thereto.

Method for the backflushing of filters

The present invention relates to an exhaust gas guide of a gas turbine, which is situated between the gas turbine and a downstream waste heat boiler or a downstream gas diverter and which comprises a flow channel which has a cross-section expanding in at least some areas in the main flow direction, having installed surfaces influencing the flow. In order to achieve a more compact implementation of the exhaust gas guide and simultaneously avoid or reduce pressure losses, the installed surfaces are implemented as a swirl device generating a leading edge swirl, which is situated in the diverging area of the flow channel and is implemented to distribute the exhaust gas flow uniformly over the flow cross-sectional area upon entry into the waste heat boiler or the gas diverter. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a method for mixing the exhaust gas of a gas turbine with hot exhaust gas streams generated in an auxiliary firing of at least one burner. This thorough mixing is achieved by generating at least one leading edge swirl system in the flow channel.

Exhaust gas guide of a gas turbine and method for mixing the exhaust gas of the gas turbine

The invention concerns inserts in the moist/wet region of cooling towers, which essentially consist of plastic. An additive that prevents or considerably reduces soiling through the formation and buildup on the inserts during subsequent use is added to the plastic.

Internal inserts in cooling towers

The invention concerns a heat exchanger for industrial installations, in particular for power plants, with at least one distributor for a fluid medium and at least one heat exchanger element attached to the distributor. The heat exchanger is composed of a sandwich-like configuration of distributors and heat exchanger elements consisting of metal sponges. The distributors are constructed as pipes or at least as semi-pipes connected with each other. Adjacent pipes or semi-pipes are connected with each other through the metal sponge. The sandwich profile of the invention may easily be manufactured in the required dimensions for industrial installations. Herein, particularly the low weight of such a heat exchanger module and the connection between shell and metal sponge, which may simply be made by means of soldering or welding, proves to be particularly advantageous. The metal foam may also be cast onto the shells. The metal sponge should preferably consist of open-pored metal foam and in particular aluminum foam.

Heat exchanger for industrial installations

The invention concerns a hydraulic expansion process for tubes. With this process it is possible to increase the number of hydraulic tube expansions that can be implemented using an expansion device. The hydraulic expansion process in accordance with the invention is highly optimized with regard to control times, pressures and flows. In this process, pressure is produced in the pressure medium with hydraulic oil via a medium separator and a pressure intensifier. In addition, the invention specifies a device for implementing the expansion process and a process for determining the maximum number of hydraulic tube expansions that can be performed with a probe. Finally, the maximum number of expansions is determined taking into account the deformations of the expanded tubes.

Device and procedure for hydraulic expansion

A mixer for mixing at least two flows of gas or other Newtonian liquids is provided herein. The mixer includes a main flow channel through which a first flow of gas passes, with an incorporated surface that is arranged therein and which affects the flow. This incorporated surface has leading edges that are orientated against the flow and about which the flow can move freely; the leading edges include a component that acts in the direction of the main flow of the gas flow as well as a component that acts transversely thereto. In order to ensure that an additional gas or liquid component is mixed in rapidly, provision is made such that the incorporated structure surface has a chamber into which a separate flow channel for a second gas flow leads and the chamber has outlet openings into the first gas flow on a rear side of the incorporated surface that faces away from the first gas flow.

Mixer for mixing at least two flows of gas or other newtonian liquids

The method for manufacturing heat exchanger elements includes the steps of forming an open tubular base body having a longitudinal extension having a width that is substantially greater than the height thereby defining narrow and wide sides of the tubular base body. In the longitudinal extension of the tubular base body a longitudinal opening with longitudinal edges remains. Two strips of sheet metal are removed from a supply roll and corrugated to form corrugated sheet metal strips. The open tubular base body and the corrugated sheet metal strips are advance continuously and parallel to one another in the direction of the longitudinal extension through a fastening device such that the wide sides face the corrugated sheet metal strips. The corrugated sheet metal strips are pressed onto the wide sides and then fastened to the wide sides at some locations of contact between the wide sides and the of corrugated sheet metal strips. Subsequently, the longitudinal edges of the opening are joined to close the opening and form a closed tubular structure. During fastening of the corrugated sheet metal strips onto the wide sides, the wide sides of the open tubular base body are supported from the interior by a support structure.

Method for manufacturing heat exchanger elements

A heat exchanger has a plurality of parallel heat exchanger tubes with two plane sides and two narrow sides. The heat exchanger tube has a contour with a width and a height in a direction of flow of a first heat-exchanging medium such that the width is much greater than the height. Ribs are connected to the plane sides of the heat exchanger tubes. The ribs are made of a rib band folded to a meander-shape with bent portions. Adjacent ones of the ribs form a flow cross-section for a second heat-exchanging medium. The ribs have a plurality of openings wherein the size of the opening is at least equal in size to the size of the flow cross-section between adjacent ribs.

Heat exchanger with a plurality of parallel heat exchanger tubes

A method for producing heat exchange elements having a tubular base body with ribs connected to the outer surface area for increasing the heat exchange surface area are especially suitable for base bodies having a cross-section with a width that is substantially greater than its height. According to the method, the ribs are produced by removing sheet metal strips from a roll and passing them through a corrugating device, positioning the corrugated sheet metal strips on lateral surfaces of the base body and welding the corrugated sheet metal strips to the base body. The application of the corrugated sheet metal strips, their positioning relative to the base body, and the transport of the base body in its longitudinal direction are effected by a special drive unit. For welding the sheet metal strips to the base body, laser heads are preferably used.

Method for producing heat exchange elements and heat exchange elements

An apparatus for the expansion of tube ends inside of a tube plate by means of a probe insertable in the respective tube ends, the probe forming an annular space with the tube member to be widened by means of two seals spaced from one another, a pump operatively feeding the annular space with a pressure medium for the expansion, and a pressure intensifier for bringing the pressure medium to a required pressure. A medium separator is connected via a back-pressure valve to a secondary-sided space of a primary-sided hydraulic oil driven pressure intensifier. A piston displaceably disposed in the medium separator is biased by a return spring in the medium separator, and the pump feeds the hydraulic oil displacing the piston against the restoring force of the return spring for the filling of the secondary space of the pressure intensifier with an operating medium. The operating medium flows from an operating medium-supply container and another back-pressure valve to the secondary side of the medium separator.

Apparatus for the expansion of tube ends inside of a tube plate

A method of hermetically swaging tubes into the bores of heavy heat exchanger tube plates, by first expansion-swaging the inserted tube end portion under a very high hydraulic pressure and by then roll-swaging a portion of the expansion-swaged length portion, in order to replace the expansion-related tensile stress in the tubes with a compressive prestress, and in order to eliminate annular crevices at the inner edges of the tube plate bores.

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Ratingen, Germany

Miroslav Podhorsky