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Optimize your heat exchanger
Challenges to overcome
On-site audits
On-site audits can provide several benefits, including:
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Performance evaluation - identify issues that may be impacting the overall performance of the equipment
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Process optimization - identify opportunities such as adjusting operating parameters or modifying heat exchanger design
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Energy efficiency - identify opportunities such as utilizing waste heat streams
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Equipment longevity - identify operational issues, corrosion, fouling or scaling problems
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Sustainability - reduced energy consumption results in a smaller carbon footprint
Challenges to overcome
for all PHE manufacturers
Alfa Laval innovations like CurveFlow™, OmegaPort™, and FlexFlow™, contribute to sustainability with reduced fouling and improved efficiency. They are invented to overcome the common challenges for all plate heat exchanger manufacturers.
1. How to distribute the flow
- to minimize fouling
- to utilize all the available heat transfer area
2. How to better manage pressure drop
3. How to manage asymmetrical flowrates
Optimize for energy saving
By optimizing the design of your heat exchanger, you can realize greater energy savings.
By expanding your plate heat exchange, e.g. to increase preheating of the media, you will reduce energy costs.
Optimize for changes in media
Keep your heat exchanger in peak operating condition by redesigning it whenever the physical properties of the media change.
By redesigning the plate heat exchanger, you will maintain or even reduce your operating costs.
Optimize for increased capacity
To maintain plate heat exchanger performance when increasing production capacity, you need to adapt the plate pack of your heat exchanger.
By redesigning the plate heat exchanger, you will maintain product quality and increase yield.
Optimize to reduce maintenance
When media fouling occurs, your plate heat exchangers may require more frequent cleaning to maintain performance.
By redesigning the plate heat exchanger, you will reduce cleaning costs and downtime.
Benefits offered by the new plate heat exchangers generation
Redesigned plate ports and corrugations improve flow distribution and turbulence, allowing to reduce the surface area by up to 20% compared with old designs.
Redesigned elements allow an easier / more effective service.
Please check the videos below for the full range of features:
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CurveFlow™ distribution area - improves media flow and minimizes risk of fouling.
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FlexFlow™ plate design - improves thermal efficiency and reduces pressure drop limitations.
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OmegaPort™ non-circular port holes - enhances media flow and thermal efficiency.
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Offset gasket groove - ensures plate utilization for maximum heat transfer efficiency.
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Five-point alignment - ensures reliable plate positioning and easy service of large units.
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SteerLock™ plate alignment - ensures reliable plate positioning and easy service.
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PowerArc™ plate pattern divider - improves plate rigidity for longer lifetime.
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ClipGrip™ gasket attachment - ensures perfect seal and trouble-free maintenance.
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Compact frame - facilitates maintenance and minimizes service area requirement.
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Bearing boxes - guarantees an easy-to-ope unit for smoother, more efficient maintenance..
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T-bar roller design - provides a lower unit that is easy to service.
