HEAT-EXCHANGER CONFIGURATION

摘要

A heat exchanger including a first plate and a second plate spaced apart from the first plate that defines a first gap between inner surfaces of the first plate and the second plate in which a first fluid circulates, where a major portion of the first gap is free of obstructions, where a second fluid contacts an outer surface of the first or second plate for heat exchange with the first fluid, where a first peripheral wall on the periphery of the first gap has a curved profile inside the first gap, and at least one inlet is radially positioned with respect to the first gap and injects the first fluid in the gap, and least one outlet is centrally positioned in one of the first and the second plate to enable the first fluid to exit the first gap, where first fluid circulates in a swirling flow in the major portion of the first gap.