A liquid panel assembly configured to be used with an energy exchanger may include a support frame having one or more fluid circuits and at least one membrane secured to the support frame. Each of the fluid circuits may include an inlet channel connected to an outlet channel through one or more flow passages. A liquid is configured to flow through the fluid circuits and contact interior surfaces of the membrane(s). The fluid circuits are configured to at least partially offset liquid hydrostatic pressure with friction loss of the liquid flowing within the fluid circuits to minimize, eliminate, or otherwise reduce pressure within the liquid panel assembly.

The present invention relates to a heat exchanger comprising: a burner for combusting a mixture of air and fuel; and a heat exchange unit in which heat is exchanged between combustion gas caused by the combustion of the burner and a heating medium, wherein the heat exchange unit includes a plurality of unit plates stacked on each other, and a sensible-heat exchange unit and a latent-heat exchange unit coaxially disposed around the burner are integrally formed with the unit plates.

A heat exchanger includes a duct, a stacked core, and a coupling plate. The duct includes a first plate that is disposed to face at least one of end faces of the stacked core in a core width direction, and a second plate that is disposed to face at least one of the end faces of the stacked core in a tube stacking direction. The second plate includes a second-plate end plate portion disposed to face the end face of the stacked core in the core width direction and brazed to a wall surface of the first plate, a second-plate center plate portion that is disposed to face the end face of the stacked core in the tube stacking direction, and a flange portion that extends in the tube stacking direction and is brazed to a bottom wall surface of a groove portion of the coupling plate.

A heat exchanger is provided, including a heat exchanger core. The heat exchanger core at least includes a first core part, a second core part and a third core part which are stacked. The first core part, the second core part and the third core part are formed by stacking plates. The third core part is located between the first core part and the second core part. The first core part is in the form of unilateral flow. The second core part is in the form of diagonal flow. The third core part can realize transformation of flow channel forms of the first core part and the second core part, and is stacked with the first core part and the second core part, and thus the heat exchange efficiency is good.

To mitigate thermal stress concentration in the vicinity of a flow-volume limiting portion in a stacked plate heat exchanger to thereby prevent fatigue breaking due to the same. The flow-volume limiting portion is also provided with opening portions that are similar to those in flow paths to reduce rigidity difference from flow path portions.

A heat exchanger includes a body that includes an at least two opposing surfaces and the at least two opposing surfaces are a trapezoidal. The body of the heat exchanger also includes, an area of cross sectional flow channels through the body. The area of cross-sectional flow channels in a direction perpendicular to the bases of the trapezoid increase or decrease between the two bases.

A stack type heat exchanger includes a plurality of first plates and a plurality of second plates. At least one of the respective first plates and the respective second plates has a protrusion protruding from a main body of the first plate or the second plate toward a first flow path, the protrusion being located at a peripheral portion of a tank space in the first flow path. The first plate and the second plate are joined to each other through the protrusion. The protrusion has a top portion and a side wall portion. A part of the side wall portion adjacent to the tank space has a thick structure portion, an entire thickness of the thick structure portion being thick in a direction perpendicular to the stacking direction.

The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a heat exchanger of the brazed plate and fin type, including: stacking, with spacing, a set of plates parallel to each other and in a longitudinal direction so as to define, between said plates, a plurality of passages adapted for the flow, in the longitudinal direction, of a first fluid to be brought into a heat exchange relationship with at least one second fluid, said plates being demarcated by a pair of longitudinal edges extending in the longitudinal direction and a pair of lateral edges extending in a lateral direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction.

The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a heat exchanger including stacking a set of plates parallel to one another and to a longitudinal direction so as to define a plurality of passages suitable for the flow in the longitudinal direction of a first fluid to be brought into a heat-exchange relationship with at least a second fluid, said plates being delimited by a pair of longitudinal edges extending in the longitudinal direction and a pair of lateral edges extending in a lateral direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, and forming at least one of the plates by superposing at least a first flat product and a second flat product on top of one another, having at least one groove that extends parallel to the plates and leads towards the outside of the stack through at least one opening in a lateral or longitudinal edge.

A plate package for a heat exchanger device includes a plurality of heat exchanger plates with mating abutment portions forming a fluid distribution element in every second plate interspace thereby forming in the respective second plate interspaces two arc-shaped flow paths wherein a respective one of the two flow paths is divided into at least three flow path sectors arranged one after the other along a respective flow path. A plate and a heat exchanger are also disclosed.