Patent ID: 9400102
Filing Date: 2016-07-26
CPC Classification: F22B,F23M

Claim Text:
1. A heat exchanger including a flue gas duct, an expanded part of a duct, a heat-transfer tube bundle accommodating duct, and a plurality of heat-transfer tube bundles provided in the heat-transfer tube bundle accommodating duct in a flow direction of flue gas with a distance therebetween, the heat exchanger comprising: a bare-tube-part upstream-side regulating plate and a bare-tube-part downstream-side regulating plate respectively arranged on an upstream side and a downstream side of a bare tube part of each of the heat-transfer tube bundles; and a plurality of regulating plates in an introducing unit arranged either in the expanded part of a duct or in the heat-transfer tube bundle accommodating duct on an upstream side to the heat-transfer tube bundles, wherein the plurality of regulating plates includes a plurality of openings, and is constituted such that positions of the openings of the regulating plate on upstream side in vertical and horizontal directions, as seen from the flow direction, do not coincide with those of the regulating plate on downstream side in the vertical and horizontal directions, the regulating plates include horizontal flat plates and vertical flat plates, and are formed in parallel crosses to form the openings, a flat surface of the horizontal flat plates and the vertical flat plates overlap each other at the crossing such that a thickness of the horizontal flat plates protrude from the flat surface of the vertical flat plates in the direction of a flue duct opening and a thickness of the vertical flat plates protrude from the flat surface of the horizontal flat plates in the direction of the heat-transfer tube bundles or vice versa, the horizontal flat plates are arranged such that a width direction thereof corresponds to the vertical direction with respect to the flow direction, and the vertical flat plates are arranged such that a width direction thereof corresponds to the horizontal direction with respect to the flow direction of the expanded part, and such that flat surfaces of the horizontal flat plates are disposed on a vertical plane to the flow direction, the regulating plates are disposed such that a crossing section of the horizontal flat plate and the vertical flat plate of the regulating plate on the downstream side overlaps with the opening of the regulating plate on the upstream side in the flow directions, a total area of the plurality of openings formed on the regulating plate in the introducing unit on the downstream side is equal to or greater than a total area of the plurality of openings formed on the regulating plate in the introducing unit on the upstream side, the bare-tube-part upstream-side regulating plate being a perforated plate and the bare-tube-part downstream-side regulating plate being a solid plate.