
14
*No number indicates that fl uid passes through
all four holes in the plate.
Flow Down
Plate
Flow Up
Plate
Figure 17
Element composition diagram.
PASS AND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
A side
B side
Pass Arrangement
Positions 1 and 4, as shown above in Figure 17, are upper
connections, right and left respectively, and positions 2 and 3 are
lower connections, right and left respectively. Each vertical line
in between the “S” and “E” members represents a heat transfer
plate while the arrows show the directions of fl ow in the channels
between two plates and in the port holes.
The position of a plate hole is indicated by the intersection
between a vertical line representing the plate and a horizontal
line indicating the fl ow direction and passage. Holes for passage
of fl uid fl owing on the surface of a “B” plate are always located
on the left side (Holes 3 and 4), and holes for passage of liquid
fl owing on the surface of an “A” plate are always found on the
right side (Holes 1 and 2).
In the element composition diagram (Figure 17), plate numbers
are shown in boxes as:
1 D1004 (“A” side)
1034 2 (“B” side”)
“D” in D1004 represents the plate adjacent to the “S” frame.
“D” also denotes that no fl uid runs on the heating surface.
A box with no port hole numbers, 11 , in Figure
17 means 11 1234 . This is done for simplicity as most plates
in a unit have four holes.
Flow Arrangement
Figure 18 shows the plate arrangement in which “B” side is
arranged in two parallel channels with three passes in series
and “A” side is arranged in three parallel channels with two
passes in series. In two parallel channels with three passes in
series, the fl uid fl ow Q
1
fl ows on the heating surfaces of two
plates separately (Q
1
/2) and gathers again in the port hole. This
operation is repeated three times. In the case of three parallel
channels, with two passes in series, fl ow Q
2
similarly fl ows on
the three heating surfaces separately (Q
2
/3), gathering once again
in the port hole.
The product of the number of channels in parallel, times the
number of passes in series, is always equal or different from each
other by one plate when comparing “A” side with “B” side. The
total number of plates can be obtained by adding the number of
“D” plates to the number gained by adding the products of “A”
side and “B” side. In Figure 18 (2 x 3) + (3 x 2) + 1 = 13.
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