Specific embodiment
(first embodiment)
Now with reference to Fig. 1 and 2 first embodiment is described.In this embodiment, annular heat pipe typically is applied to exhaust heat recovery apparatus.
At first, the basic structure to described exhaust heat recovery apparatus is described.The burning that engine (internal combustion engine) 1 is provided for by fuel is that vehicle operating produces rotation output.Described engine 1 is provided with usually: coolant circuit, the heat that produces in its control engine 1; And blast pipe 2, it is expelled to waste gas in the atmosphere.
Described coolant circuit comprises radiator loop 3, heater loop 4 and waste heat recovering loop 5.In addition, catalyst 6 and the exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7 that is used for purifying described waste gas is set in the blast pipe 2.
Then, will the described coolant circuit that comprise radiator loop 3, heater loop 4 and waste heat recovering loop 5 be described.
Radiator 9 is provided for carrying out the heat exchange by between water pump (W/P) 8 coolant circulating and the extraneous air, thus the cooling cooling agent.Bypass channel 10 is set in the radiator loop 3, and wherein, described cooling agent flows by described bypass channel 10 when walking around radiator 9.Self-operated thermostatic controller (T/S) 11 is set in the radiator loop 3.
Self-operated thermostatic controller 11 is regulated by the amount of coolant of radiator 9 with by the ratio between the amount of coolant of radiator bypass channel 10, thereby the temperature of described cooling agent is controlled in the certain temperature range (as 80 ℃ to 100 ℃).For example, when the temperature of described cooling agent when engine heats is hanged down, be supplied to the amount of coolant of radiator bypass channel 10 to be increased, thereby when described engine heats, promote described engine heating operation.
Heater loop 4 is connected to engine 1, thereby described cooling agent is flowed out from engine 1 from the position that the engine that is different from radiator loop 3 exports, and is connected in the waste heat recovering loop 5 in exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7 downstreams.Heater core 12 is set in the heater loop 4 to be used to adding hot fluid from the heat of described cooling agent.For example, heater core 12 is set in the air duct of vehicle air conditioning, thereby makes in air duct flow air and described cooling agent carry out heat exchange.Therefore, the air that is blown into vehicle car is heated by heater core 12.
Waste heat recovering loop 5 is being come out from radiator loop 3 branches 9 the passage from engine 1 to radiator, and waste heat recovering loop 5 is connected to water pump 8.Therefore, described cooling agent is by the circulation in the waste heat recovering loop 5 that operates in of water pump 8.The water tank 13 (fluid tank) that is arranged in the exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7 is connected on the passage of waste heat recovering loop 5.
Then, will be described exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7.Exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7 is provided for by utilizing described annular heat pipe to reclaim heat and heating flowing coolant (second fluid that will heat) in waste heat recovering loop 5 that described waste gas (as the first fluid of thermal source) produces, and described annular heat pipe is because heat transmission (heat pump) is carried out in the condensation of the evaporation of cold-producing medium and cold-producing medium.In this embodiment, exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7 utilizes the heat by the waste gas after the catalyst 6 to heat described cold-producing medium.
In this embodiment, evaporimeter 14 and the condenser 15 that is contained in the case 13 (for example, cooling fluid tank) is integrally formed to constitute described annular heat pipe.In addition, as the switch valve of differential pressure control valve 16 and so on be provided for according to as described in the operation of annular heat pipe as described in the interior pressure-controlled of annular heat pipe.
For example, the evaporimeter 14 and the condenser 15 that are contained in the case 13 are made by anticorrosive (as stainless steel), and use the joining technique joint as soldering and so on to be one.Behind the joint, differential pressure control valve 16 be assembled into evaporimeter 14 and condenser 15 in the integrated member, thereby be formed for the annular heat pipe of exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7.
Exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7 has sealing (not drawing).Be evacuated in the inside of exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7 and after cold-producing medium (operating fluid) was filled in wherein, described sealing was sealed.
In this embodiment, water is used as an example of described cold-producing medium.The boiling point of water under 1 standard atmospheric pressure (atm) is 100 ℃.Because the inside of exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7 is depressurized and is evacuated to for example 0.01 standard atmospheric pressure, so the boiling point of the water in the exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7 is in 5 ℃-10 ℃ scope.As cold-producing medium, except water, may be utilized as operating fluid as alcohol, fluorocarbon, freon etc.
Evaporimeter 14 is heat exchangers, carries out heat exchange by the waste gas of blast pipe 2 and the water that flows therein in evaporimeter 14.The heat exchanger of any kind, for example laminated-type heat exchanger, straight pipe type heat exchanger (header type heat exchanger), draw a glass type heat exchanger all to can be used as evaporimeter 14 to be used.Evaporimeter 14 comprises heat exchange department 17, nowel 18 and top box 19.
For example, heat exchange department 17 is laminated-types, and conduit 17a and fin 17b replace the stratum pressure on laminating direction therein.Heat exchange department 17 is installed on the vehicle, thereby the portrait orientation that makes conduit 17a is on the above-below direction of vehicle.In heat exchange department 17, can omit fin 17b.In this case, although cold-producing medium evaporation capacity is reduced, exhaust efficiency in heat exchange department 17 (exhaust efficiency) and persistence can be enhanced.
When exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7 was installed on the vehicle, nowel 18 was set at the downside of heat exchange department 17.Differential pressure control valve 16 is set in the nowel 18, thereby the condensed water of coming from differential pressure control valve 16 supplies is assigned to the conduit 17 by nowel 18.When exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7 was installed on the vehicle, top box 19 was set at the upside of heat exchange department 17, thereby the vapor refrigerant that is evaporated that rises in conduit 17a is collected in top box 19.The vapor refrigerant that is evaporated that be collected in top box 19, described is introduced in condenser 15.
Condenser 15 is set in the case 13, and described cooling agent flows in case 13.Case 13 is containers, and is provided with like this, and described cooling agent is flowed between case 13 and evaporimeter 14.For example, case 13 is configured with: boxboard (tank plate), and described boxboard is connected to the side of evaporimeter 14; And case cup (tank cup), described case cup is connected to described boxboard to hold condenser 15.Cooling agent inlet tube 21 and coolant discharge pipe 22 are connected on the case 13, and wherein, cooling agent inlet tube 21 is used for described cooling agent leading-in box 13, and coolant discharge pipe 22 will have been passed through the cooling agent of case 13 and discharge.
Condenser 15 is heat exchangers, carries out heat exchange from evaporimeter 14 vapor supplied cold-producing mediums and flowing coolant case 13 therein.The heat exchanger of any kind, for example laminated-type heat exchanger, straight pipe type heat exchanger (header type heat exchanger), draw a glass type heat exchanger all to can be used as condenser 15 to use.As shown in Figure 1, in this embodiment, condenser 15 is set at the side of evaporimeter 14, and is adjacent with evaporimeter 14.
Condenser 15 comprises heat exchange department 23, cold-producing medium upstream case 24 and cold-producing medium downstream tank 25.Heat exchange department 23 comprises a plurality of conduit 23a, and described a plurality of conduit 23a are spaced apart the ground lamination.Described cooling agent is by the gap between the conduit 23a in the case 13, to carry out heat exchange with the cold-producing medium that flows in conduit 23a.Each conduit 23a is parallel to the conduit 17a of evaporimeter 14, extends between cold-producing medium upstream case 24 and cold-producing medium downstream tank 25.Exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7 is installed on the described vehicle, thereby makes vertical directed in orthogonal direction of the conduit 23a of heat exchange department 23.Fin can be set on the conduit 23a of heat exchange department 23, to improve heat exchanger effectiveness.
In this embodiment, when exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7 was installed on the vehicle, cold-producing medium upstream case 24 was set at the upside of heat exchange department 23, and cold-producing medium downstream tank 25 is set at the downside of heat exchange department 23.Therefore, the vapor refrigerant that is supplied to cold-producing medium upstream case 24 from the top box 19 of evaporimeter 14 is assigned to the conduit 23a with by cooling of flowing coolant in case 13 and condensation.Then, be collected in the cold-producing medium downstream tank 25 from the liquid refrigerant that is condensed of conduit 23a and be introduced into differential pressure control valve 16.
Then, will be described differential pressure control valve 16, differential pressure control valve 16 is used as the operation arresting stop, so that stop the evaporation of cold-producing medium in the evaporimeter 14.Differential pressure control valve 16 is examples that open and close valve-type, and is set in the communication passage, and the liquid refrigerant that is condensed in condenser 15 is introduced in the evaporimeter 14 by described circulation passage.
When the interior pressure of exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7 was added to greater than first value, differential pressure control valve 16 was closed with the connection between the cold-producing medium downstream tank 25 of nowel 18 that turn-offs evaporimeter 14 and condenser 15, thereby prevented that the excessive pressure in the exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7 from increasing.On the contrary, when the interior pressure of exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7 is reduced to less than second value, when wherein second value is less than first value, differential pressure control valve 16 is opened with the communication passage between the cold-producing medium downstream tank 25 of the nowel 18 of opening evaporimeter 14 and condenser 15, thereby restarts the Waste Heat Recovery operation of exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7.
In this embodiment, differential pressure control valve 16 is to open and close valves (switch valve), and it is based on the interior pressure of exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7 and the differential pressure between the atmospheric pressure, carries out connection or shutoff between the nowel 18 of the cold-producing medium downstream tank 25 of condenser 15 and evaporimeter 14.If atmospheric pressure is constant, when the interior pressure of exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7 was added to valve closing presure Pc, the connection between the nowel 18 of evaporimeter 14 and the cold-producing medium downstream tank 25 of condenser 15 was turned off.On the contrary, when the interior pressure of exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7 is reduced to valve when opening pressure P o, make by differential pressure control valve 16 between the cold-producing medium downstream tank 25 of the nowel 18 of evaporimeter 14 and condenser 15 being interconnected, wherein valve is opened pressure P o and is lower than valve closing presure Pc.
Fig. 1 shows the example structure of differential pressure control valve 16.As shown in Figure 1, differential pressure control valve 16 comprises cover body 26, valve body 27, barrier film (diaphragm) 28 and back-moving spring (not drawing).
Cover body 26 is arranged on member in the cold-producing medium downstream tank 25, near cylindrical, and valve body 27 is maintained in the cover body 26 moving vertically.Cover body 26 has inner space 26a, and inner space 26a and cold-producing medium downstream tank 25 be communicated with by side ports 26b, thereby makes liquid refrigerant in the cold-producing medium downstream tank 25 flow into the inner space 26a of the cover body 26 of differential pressure control valve 16.
The inner space 26a of cover body 26 and the nowel 18 of evaporimeter 14 are opened port 26c by valve and are communicated with, and described valve is opened port 26c and opened and closed by valve body 27.Therefore, when valve was opened port 26c and opened by valve body 27, the liquid refrigerant among the 26a of inner space was opened port 26c by valve and is flowed into nowel 18.
Valve body 27 is maintained in the cover body 26, and it is axially movable along it.Valve body 27 is provided with valve clock (valve bell) 27a, and described valve clock 27a opens port 26c according to valve body 27 displacement opening and closing valve vertically.Barrier film 28 is configured to come mobile valve 27 vertically based on the interior pressure of exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7 and the differential pressure between the atmospheric pressure, and prevents the pulsation (panting) of differential pressure control valve 16 by deflection (reflection) operation of barrier film 28.
Described back-moving spring (not drawing) is a spring member, and described spring member is opened the direction biasing to valve body 27 from atmospheric side to valve.By regulating the bias force of described back-moving spring, valve from direction moving regulator 28 to valve that open is opened pressure P o and can be conditioned to the valve closing presure Pc of valve closing direction moving regulator 28.
As an example, after and then finishing the engine heating, under the temperature (as 70 ℃) of cooling agent, when the service load of engine 1 was half-section current load (half throttle load), valve was opened the interior pressure that pressure P o is set at exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7.In addition, and then finish engine heating after, under the temperature (as 70 ℃) of cooling agent, during engine idling (zero load operation), valve is opened the interior pressure that pressure P o is set at exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7.
Then, will the operation of exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7 be described.When engine 1 start-up operation, water pump 8 operations make cooling agent circulate in radiator loop 3, heater loop 4 and waste heat recovering loop 5.Simultaneously, the waste gas that produces with the fuel combustion of engine 1 flows into blast pipe 2, catalyst 6 and the evaporimeter 14 of exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7, and then is discharged in the atmosphere.
In this example, water is used as the cold-producing medium that circulates in the annular heat pipe between evaporimeter 14 and condenser 15.Therefore, from engine 1 waste gas by blast pipe 2 water as cold-producing medium by heating fumigators 14 in the evaporimeter 14.Water in the evaporimeter 14 is boiled and is evaporated by absorbing from the heat of waste gas, and the water vapour that is evaporated in conduit 17a on flow to be collected in the top box 19.Then, described water vapour flows into the cold-producing medium upstream case 24 of condenser 15 from the top box 19 of evaporimeter 14.The water vapour (refrigerant vapour) that is introduced into condenser 15 is by cooling of flowing coolant in case 13 and condensation.
And then engine 1 starts after its operation, and the interior pressure of exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7 is not increased to valve closing presure Pc.In this case, differential pressure control valve 16 is opened, and therefore is cooled to pass through the nowel 18 of differential pressure control valve 16 Returning evaporimeters 14 with the condensed water of condensation in condenser 15.Like this, can in exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7, repeat the Waste Heat Recovery circulation.
Therefore, the heat of waste gas is delivered to the cold-producing medium (as water) in the evaporimeter 14.Therefore, described water is evaporated in evaporimeter 14 by absorbing from the heat of waste gas as cold-producing medium, and the heat that comprises in the water as cold-producing medium is depleted as condensation latent heat when being condensed, thus heating coolant circulating in waste heat recovering loop 5.Here, the part heat of waste gas is delivered to the member of forming evaporimeter 14 and condenser 15, and by those member heating flowing coolant in waste heat recovering loop 5.
As a result, when engine start, can promote the heating of engine 1, and promote fuel increase time (auto chock operational ratio (auto choke operation ratio)) of engine heating to be shortened, therefore improve fuel consumption efficiency.
After engine 1 operation start, when the temperature of waste gas increases according to the increase of engine load, be used in the heating fumigators 14 being increased as the waste-gas heat of the water of cold-producing medium, and the quantity of steam that produces in evaporimeter 14 is increased, and therefore increases the interior pressure of annular heat pipe in the exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7.When the interior pressure of annular heat pipe in the exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7 increased to valve closing presure Pc, differential pressure control valve 16 was closed, and the water that is condensed in condenser 15 can not be got back in the evaporimeter 14 like this.Therefore, water is not supplied to evaporimeter 14 from condenser 15, and the evaporation in the evaporimeter 14 is reduced, so the Waste Heat Recovery circulation is stopped.On the contrary, because the condensation of water vapour is performed in the condenser 15, the interior pressure of annular heat pipe is lowered in the exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7.
When the interior pressure of annular heat pipe in the exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7 was lowered to valve and opens pressure P o, differential pressure control valve 16 was opened, and the water that is condensed in condenser 15 is by the nowel 18 of differential pressure control valve 16 inflow evaporators 14.Therefore, in evaporimeter 14, be evaporated once more, and the Waste Heat Recovery circulation is started once more as the water of cold-producing medium.
According to the first embodiment of the present invention, exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7 is provided with movement restriction device (flowlimitation means), so that carry out cooling agent (just from the condensation of refrigerant side, cold-producing medium downstream tank 25 sides) flowing to the uncooled side of cold-producing medium (cold-producing medium upstream case 24 sides just).Here, described condensation of refrigerant side is that the liquid refrigerant that is condensed stops or a mobile side, and the uncooled side of described cold-producing medium is a side that stopped or flowed before vapor refrigerant is condensed.In other words, as movement restriction device, the cooling agent inlet tube 21 of cooling agent leading-in box 13 is set at the downstream (condensation of refrigerant side) of condenser 15 along the flow of refrigerant direction, will have passed through coolant discharge pipe 22 that the cooling agent of case 13 discharges is set at condenser 15 along the flow of refrigerant direction upstream side (the uncooled side of cold-producing medium).In the device of Fig. 1, cooling agent inlet tube 21 is set at the bottom of case 13, and coolant discharge pipe 22 is set at the top of case 13, thereby forms movement restriction device.
In first embodiment, because cooling agent inlet tube 21 is set at the bottom of case 13 and the top that coolant discharge pipe 22 is set at case 13, described cooling agent is along from the condensation of refrigerant side (just, cold-producing medium downstream tank 25 sides) direction towards the uncooled side of described cold-producing medium (cold-producing medium upstream case 24 sides just) flows.Therefore, the liquid refrigerant that in condenser 15, is condensed can by be heated or mild heat before cooling agent be cooled to low relatively temperature.Therefore, will be supplied to the liquid refrigerant of evaporimeter 14 can be cooled to low relatively temperature, thereby by cold excessively (super-cooled).
Therefore in this way, the temperature that turns back to the liquid refrigerant of evaporimeter 14 is lowered, and has increased the temperature difference between the vapor refrigerant of evaporation in the liquid refrigerant of Returning evaporimeter 14 and the evaporimeter 14.Like this, the heat that the waste gas of increase from evaporimeter 14 obtains is possible, has therefore improved the heat recovery efficiency (heat pump efficiency) in the exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7.
In addition, in first embodiment, described vapor refrigerant has high temperature after and then being introduced in condenser 15, and its temperature is lowered along with further carrying out of condensation.In other words, cold-producing medium has high temperature in the uncooled side of cold-producing medium (just, cold-producing medium upstream case 24 sides), and the temperature of cold-producing medium is along with cold-producing medium moves and is lowered to condensation of refrigerant side (cold-producing medium downstream tank 25 sides just).On the contrary, as mentioned above, cooling agent inlet tube 21 is set at the bottom of case 13, coolant discharge pipe 22 is set at the top of case 13, thereby make cooling agent along (just from the condensation of refrigerant side, cold-producing medium downstream tank 25 sides) direction towards the uncooled side of cold-producing medium (cold-producing medium upstream case 24 sides just) flows.Therefore, had the warmed-up cooling agent of condensed fluid cold-producing medium of lower temperature, can further be had the uncondensed vapor cold-producing medium heating of higher temperature.Therefore, be condensed in by case 13 temperature of cooling agent of device 15 heating can be improved effectively.
In addition, in the exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7 of described first embodiment, when the interior pressure of the annular heat pipe in the exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7 was increased, differential pressure control valve 16 was closed.Therefore, it can prevent exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7 by superheated in summer during the high engine load, thereby prevents that exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7 is damaged.In addition, being used for storing the cold-producing medium upstream side that the liquid refrigerant storage part 29 of the liquid refrigerant that is condensed opens port 26c at the valve of differential pressure control valve 16 is arranged in the condenser 15.Therefore, when differential pressure control valve 16 was closed, the liquid refrigerating dosage that is stored in the liquid refrigerant storage part 29 was increased.
On the other hand, when differential pressure control valve 16 was opened, the liquid refrigerant of condenser 15 was by the difference inflow evaporator 14 between the liquid height (the liquid surface position of cold-producing medium in the evaporimeter 14) that utilizes liquid height (the liquid surface position of cold-producing medium in the condenser 15) in the liquid refrigerant storage part 29 and evaporimeter 14.Therefore, even when differential pressure control valve 16 is opened, the liquid refrigerant storage part 29 of the liquid refrigerant that is condensed of storage can be formed on the cold-producing medium upstream side position that the valve of the position, cold-producing medium downstream of condenser 15 and differential pressure control valve 16 is opened port 26c.
The exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7 of this embodiment is provided with: liquid refrigerant storage part 29, and it is used for storing liquid refrigerant into bottom at condenser 15; And movement restriction device, its be used to make described cooling agent from liquid refrigerant storage part 29 effluents to the uncooled portion of the cold-producing medium of condenser 15.Therefore, the cooling agent of cooling agent that the liquid refrigerant that is condensed in condenser 15 can not heated or relative low temperature is cold excessively, thereby makes the liquid refrigerant of Returning evaporimeter 14 be cooled to low temperature exactly.
(second embodiment)
With reference to Fig. 3 second embodiment is described.In a second embodiment, indicate with identical Reference numeral with the member that above-mentioned those members of first embodiment have identical function.
In the exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7 of above-mentioned first embodiment, the conduit 23a of condenser 15 vertically extends, so when exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7 was installed on the vehicle, liquid refrigerant moved down under the effect of self gravitation.In other words, in above-mentioned first embodiment, when exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7 was installed on the vehicle, condenser 15 was set at the side of evaporimeter 14, thereby made the conduit 17a of evaporimeter 14 and the conduit 23a of condenser 15 be arranged in parallel to each other vertically extend.However, but in a second embodiment, condenser 15 is configured to like this, make condenser 15 conduit 23a vertically approximately perpendicular to the conduit 17a of evaporimeter 14 vertically.
As shown in Figure 3, in the exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7 of described second embodiment, when exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7 is installed on the vehicle, condenser 15 is set at the place, top of evaporimeter 14, the conduit 23a of condenser 15 extends along the vehicle horizontal direction like this, and the conduit 17a of evaporimeter 14 extends along the vehicle vertical direction.
The cold-producing medium upstream case 24 of condenser 15 is connected to the top box 19 of evaporimeter 14, directly is communicated with the top box 19 with evaporimeter 14.Differential pressure control valve 16 is set in the cold-producing medium downstream tank 25 of condenser 15, with regulate cold-producing medium from cold-producing medium downstream tank 25 to evaporimeter 14 flow, this is similar to above-mentioned first embodiment.
The outlet of opening of differential pressure control valve 16 is connected on the nowel 18 of evaporimeter 14 by liquid refrigerant passage 31.Liquid refrigerant passage 31 can make up in evaporimeter 14 outsides, or evaporimeter 14 inboard structures.When liquid refrigerant passage 31 is structured in evaporimeter 14 inboard by a part of using conduit 17a, heat insulator is used to the conduit 17a as liquid refrigerant passage 31, so liquid refrigerant can not be evaporated in by liquid refrigerant passage 31.
In the time of on being installed to vehicle, the conduit 23a of condenser 15 approximately horizontally extends.Even in this case, flow to cold-producing medium downstream tank 25 under the pressure effect of the vapor refrigerant that the cold-producing medium in the conduit 23a of condenser 15 is 24 that provide at cold-producing medium upstream case, be evaporated, so the liquid refrigerant that is condensed is collected in the cold-producing medium downstream tank 25.
Therefore, even be configured to along continuous straight runs when elongation as the conduit 23a of condenser 15, be supplied to the liquid refrigerant of evaporimeter 14 can be collected into a side of the cold-producing medium downstream tank 25 of condenser 15.In a second embodiment, exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7 is provided with movement restriction device, and cooling agent is along from condensation of refrigerant side (cold-producing medium downstream tank 25 sides just) towards the uncooled side of cold-producing medium (just like this, cold-producing medium upstream case 24 sides) direction flows, and this is similar to above-mentioned first embodiment.Particularly, cooling agent inlet tube 21 is connected on the case 13 in cold-producing medium downstream tank 25 sides, and coolant discharge pipe 22 is connected on the case 13 in cold-producing medium upstream case 24 sides, thereby forms described movement restriction device.
In a second embodiment, other parts can manufacture similar to those parts of above-mentioned first embodiment.
(the 3rd embodiment)
Now with reference to Fig. 4 the 3rd embodiment is described.In above-mentioned first and second embodiment, differential pressure control valve 16 is used as an example of the operation arresting stop of exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7, to open and close communication passage, wherein, the liquid refrigerant that is condensed in condenser 15 flows to evaporimeter 14 by described communication passage.But, in the exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7 of described the 3rd embodiment, as shown in Figure 4, differential pressure control valve 16 is not set.In the 3rd embodiment, made up the operation arresting stop that is used for stopping the cold-producing medium evaporation in the evaporimeter 14, and do not used differential pressure regulation device 16.For example, be provided with fluid control device and control waste gas (first fluid that the is used to heat) supply that is incorporated into evaporimeter 14 by blast pipe 2, so that stop the evaporation of cold-producing medium in the evaporimeter 14.
For example, described fluid control device is to be used for the switching device of switch exhaust passage, waste gas by described exhaust passage by evaporimeter 14.By using described fluid control device to control by exhausted air quantity evaporimeter 14, that carry out heat exchange with cold-producing medium, the evaporation capacity of cold-producing medium can be controlled in the evaporimeter 14.
In addition, even during the differential pressure regulation device of describing in first and second embodiment are not set 16, the liquid refrigerant that will get back to evaporimeter 14 also is collected into the cold-producing medium downstream portion of condenser 15.Therefore, in the 3rd embodiment, exhaust heat recovery apparatus 7 is provided with movement restriction device, cooling agent (second fluid that will heat) is along from the condensation of refrigerant side (just like this, cold-producing medium downstream tank 25 sides) (just towards the uncooled side of cold-producing medium, cold-producing medium upstream case 24 sides) direction flows, and this is similar to above-mentioned first embodiment.Particularly, cooling agent inlet tube 21 is connected on the case 13 in cold-producing medium downstream tank 25 sides, and coolant discharge pipe 22 is connected on the case 13 in cold-producing medium upstream case 24 sides, thereby forms described movement restriction device.
In the example of Fig. 4, evaporimeter 14 and condenser 15 form by drawing glass type heat exchanger to make up.But evaporimeter 14 and condenser 15 can be made up by the heat exchanger of other types, for example, and laminated-type heat exchanger and straight pipe type heat exchanger.
In the example of Fig. 4, the cold-producing medium upstream case of the top box 19 of evaporimeter 14 and condenser 15 24 is connected by vapor refrigerant passage 32, and the cold-producing medium downstream tank 25 of the nowel 18 of evaporimeter 14 and condenser 15 is connected by liquid refrigerant passage 31.However, but the cold-producing medium upstream case 24 of the top box 19 of evaporimeter 14 and condenser 15 can directly be connected, and the cold-producing medium downstream tank 25 of the nowel 18 of evaporimeter 14 and condenser 15 can directly be connected.In addition, choke valve (throttle) can be set in the passage between the cold-producing medium downstream tank 25 of the nowel 18 of evaporimeter 14 and condenser 15.
In the 3rd embodiment, other parts can be manufactured into similar to those parts of above-mentioned first embodiment.
(other embodiment)
Although fully described the present invention in conjunction with the preferred embodiments of the present invention and with reference to accompanying drawing, it is pointed out that different variations and revise will be apparent to those skilled in the art.
For example, in above-mentioned first and second embodiment, described differential pressure control valve 16 is used as the example of switch valve (opening and closing valve).However, still, according to coolant temperature open and close its valve thermal valve, also can be used as switch valve by control module (ECU) based on the electric valve (as magnetic valve) that mode of operation (as detected value, predetermined value) opens and closes.
In above-mentioned first and second embodiment, switch valve (as differential pressure control valve 16) is set at the inboard of the cold-producing medium downstream tank 25 of condenser 15, the outside of condenser 15.However, but described switch valve can be set at condenser 15 below.Even in this case, described switch valve is configured to constitute the part of liquid refrigerant storage part 29, and described movement restriction device is so constructed, and makes described cooling agent from an effluent of the described switch valve side to the cold-producing medium downstream tank 25 of condenser 15.
In the above-described embodiments, waste gas is used as the thermal source first fluid.But, can be used as the thermal source first fluid as other used heat of battery used heat, inverter used heat and intercooler used heat and so on and be used.
In the above-described embodiments, the annular heat pipe that is made of evaporimeter 14 and condenser 15 is normally used for the exhaust heat recovery apparatus of vehicle.But for example, annular heat pipe of the present invention can be used for other purposes of permanent plant.
In the above-described embodiments, the waste gas of engine is used as the example of heat source fluid (first fluid), and cooling agent is used as the example of the fluid (second fluid) that will heat.But, can not use waste gas and use any other heat source fluid, and any other fluid that is used for the heater heating agent can be used as the fluid that will heat.In addition, other operating fluids can be by compatibly as the cold-producing medium of circulation between evaporimeter 14 in annular heat pipe and the condenser 15.
Such variation and modification should be understood to be in protection scope of the present invention, and the protection domain of being invented is limited to the appended claims.