Abstract:
There is provided a heat exchange member which does not easily suffer from breakage due to thermal stress by relaxing the thermal stress. The heat exchange member is provided with a honeycomb structure (1) and a covering member. The outer peripheral wall (7) of the honeycomb structure (1) has at least one slit (15). The covering member covers the honeycomb structure (1) so that the heat exchange can be carried out between a first fluid and a second fluid. The heat exchange member (10) performs heat exchange by means of the outer peripheral wall (7) of the honeycomb structure (1) and the covering member in the state where the first fluid passing through the cells (3) and the second fluid passing through the outside of the covering member are not mixed with each other.
Abstract:
A heat exchanger element includes at least two honeycomb structures arranged serially and each including a cell structural portion having cells separated and formed by partition walls containing SiC and functioning as passages which extend from one end face to the other end face and which a first fluid passes through, and an outer peripheral wall disposed on the outer periphery of the cell structural portion. The first fluid passes through the cells of the honeycomb structures without leaking out of the cells or mixing. The cell structural portions of at least a pair of the honeycomb structures adjacent to each other among the honeycomb structures arranged serially are disposed with a gap, and the first fluid passing through the cells mixes together between end faces forming the gap.