Fillament to print a Heat exchanger?  

I am not familiar with 'Ofen' as a vehicle marque and quick searches direct me to German cookery so this is a generalised reply.

Direct diesel exhaust is going to be too hot for thermoplastic.  Wet exhausts, as used on marine diesels, are still too hot but the circulated water might be redirected through a heat exchanger, thermoplastic is unlikely to transfer heat quickly enough to be of much use here though.

Engine exhausts arrive in a series of high pressure pulses that will quickly disrupt anything brittle so most ceramics are unsuitable too.  They tend to be acidic which excludes several metals.

You need a material that has a high melting point, is resilient to vibration and repeated shocks and is resistant to the acidic combustion products, it must be able to transfer heat quickly and be resistant to the medium to which the heat is transferred, in this case I will assume water.

There is a reason most exhausts are made of steel ... but very few water heat exchangers are because it rusts.

Pretty much your only option is stainless steel but even then it will be important to incorporate a little air/oxygen to maintain the 'stainless' character or it too will corrode.

So:

You can prototype your part in printable thermoplastic but don't expect it to be practical.

Once you have the shape as you want you can send the print file to a metal printing service and so obtain your own design in a practical form.

It's not cheap but for prototypes and otherwise unobtainable parts it makes things possible which before would have been pipedreams.  I have done this with specialised engineering parts for boats which needed to adapt outdated, foreign, components to modern, obtainable, substitutes.

The short version of this answer is that, yes, you can create this part via a fdm printing procedure and yes, you can do the design iterations with your new Prusa but no, you will not be able to print it directly.

(There are some highly specialised filaments which can be reduced to metals in a furnace but these are not for beginners and I do not know of one that would be suitable.)

... and in general I would suggest you put this project aside for a few months while you get used to the medium with less challenging ones.

Welcome to the forums,

Cheerio,

RE: Fillament to print a Heat exchanger?

I am not familiar with 'Ofen'

Sry for choose an "f" instead of an "v"....-> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oven

Direct diesel exhaust

The would get vent truth a Metal Pipe.

is resilient to vibration

What I understand there arent any since its not an Engine. There is "just" a Chamber where the Diesel get burned like a Wood Oven but the just use Liquid Fuel.

Well another idea came right in mind how about the good old Copper pipes who run around the exhaust and the outer side of the Copper Pipe get held together by a 3D Printed clamp? So the 3D Printed Part never came in contact with the host exhaust pipe and the Copper Pipe get held firmly together. Sure I think about an Machined Part for the future who the exhaust Gas get pushed truth and just separate with a small wall a Liquid flow beside. That must be done by some 3rd Party Company if it is worth. Linus show us that various thinks could be Watercooled by low tech Design.

RE: Fillament to print a Heat exchanger?

There are two issues; thermoplastics deform when hot and they are poor transmitters of heat.

Even your clamp idea may be problematic.  It might be easier to print a mould from which to cast something more suitable.

Cheerio,

RE: Fillament to print a Heat exchanger?

Could you use a cooling method other than a heat exchanger to pre-cool the exhaust gases? Evaporative cooling comes to mind, and could bring the temp down to something suitable for a 3D printed heat exchanger.

RE: Fillament to print a Heat exchanger?

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RE: Fillament to print a Heat exchanger?

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