All-welded, Brazed and Semi-welded
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Manufacturers
SWEP (http://www.swep.net)
Tranter (http://www.tranter.com)
Description
An assembly of herringbone and/or washboard-pattern-embossed plates, every other plate is turned 180°, causing the ridges of adjacent plates to intersect one another forming a lattice of contact points. When these points are subsequently brazed together, the resulting unit is a compact, pressure-resistant heat exchanger. Almost all material is involved in the heat transfer process.
Application
- General purpose oil, water, and gas cooling.
- Cooling mechanical and electrical equipment.
- Used on compressors, hydraulic packages, lasers, and diesel engines.
- Ideal for refrigerant evaporators, condensers, chillers or air dryers.
- Some types can be used for corrosive chemicals, high pressure or extreme temperatures in chemical process industries and other industries with aggressive environments.
Typical applications include:
- Liquid to liquid cooling.
- Liquid to steam cooling.
- Liquid to refrigerant and other refrigerant applications (including ammonia).
- Gas-to-liquid.
- Gas-to-gas.
- High temperature thermal oil processing.
- Heaters of organic chemicals such as solvents.
- Vegetable oil processing.
- Desuperheaters in heat recovery.
- High temperature interchanger.
Features and Benefits
- Compact, offering considerable reduction in size and weight compare to traditional shell and tube exchangers.
- High efficiency in a smaller package encourages the design of more compact engineered systems.
- A choice of materials to suit applications. Plates are available in stainless steel, titanium or other alloys, shells in carbon steel, stainless steel, titanium and other alloys.
- many are available with a variety of options such as number of plates, passes and nozzle configurations.