Heat
Transfer Plates
Each heat transfer plate is corrugated to various patterns
to increase its strength and heat transfer area. Furthermore,
the corrugation creates high turbulence and thereby
achieve high heat transfer coefficient. The plate is
provided with passage hole on each corner. Each plate
is tight-sealed with a gasket fitted in its peripheral
groove.
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Pass
Design
With single-pass design, all of the connections are
made on the fixed frame side only. This simplifies piping
work and increases layout flexibility. With a multi-pass
design, connections are located on both the S-frame
(fixed-frame) and E-frame (movable-frame) sides making
it necessary to remove frame (movable-frame) sides making
it necessary to remove and adjust the piping.
High
performance
The overall heat transfer co-efficient (U-value) ranges
from 4,000 to 9,000 W(m2กค°C) in water application,
since the plate corrugation provides high turbulent
flow. This is one of the reasons why plate heat exchanger
is so high heat transfer coefficient. In addition, this
turbulent flow also acts to prevent scales from the
plate surface.
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Easy
change of performance
According to change of the treating capacity, the heat
transfer surface area can be incremented/de-cremented
by unscrewing the plate clamping bolts and increasing
or reducing the number of plates.
Steam
available as heat source
The use of synthetic rubber gasket of special composition
permits to use steam as heat source, i.e operating temperature
range up to 180?C maximum.
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Less
installation space
The lightweight and compact construction reduces the
installation space and the weight to 1/4 and 1/3 of
shell & tube heat exchanger respectively. In addition,
lightweight and thin heating plate with less liquidhold
facilitates the installation work. The Plate Heat Exchanger
can be disassembled for cleaning without piping work,
while the shell & tube heat needs a additional space
for drawing out the tube bundle.
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Flow
Channel
The plates are divided into A-plate and B-plate, and a
passage is formed between these plates. The high temperature
fluid flows alternately and in the opposite direction
of the other fluid. Thus high heat transfer of the other
is achieved through these plates. A-plate when reversed
would become B-plate. As such only one type of plate can
be used as A-plate and B-plate for most models.
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Two
fluids temperature difference up to its extremely close...
The construction which permits heat exchanging in perfect
counter-current flow with very high heat transfer efficiency
makes it possible to utilize the temperature difference
between hot fluid and cold fluid up to 1°C and less.
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Prevention
of liquid inter-mixing
Special consideration is taken into the gasket so as to
protect it from direct attack by liquid. Furthermore,
the gasket is of double-seal type so as to permit liquid
draining outside the exchanger even in a case of liquid
leak caused by its deterioration.
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