Process Equipment Update
Efficiency focus on heat exchangers
With users from oil and gas companies to the food industry demanding greater efficiency from their heat exchangers, manufacturers are having to rise to the challenge. Sean Ottewell report.
Anwender, von Öl- und Gasunternehmen bis hin zur Lebensmittelindustrie, fordern mehr Effizienz bei ihren Wärmetauschern, die Hersteller müssen sich dieser Herausforderung stellen. Sean Ottewell berichtet.
Les utilisateurs, qu’il s’agisse du secteur pétrolier, gazier ou alimentaire, exigent toujours plus d’efficacité de la part de leurs échangeurs de chaleur. Les fabricants doivent se montrer à la hauteur. Selon Sean Ottewell.
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RS Heat Exchangers has supplied Barbery in Somerset, UK, with its MI series and industrial multi-tube K series heat exchangers to heat whey protein concentrate.
Whey proteins are used extensively in food
products because of their good functional and nutritional properties and their appeal to a whole range of consumers. Heat treatment is commonly used to improve the utilisation of valuable food components and to ensure safety assurance.
The MI series is used for preheating feed to
Barbery’s spray dryer, providing sensible heat more efficiently than in the drying process. HRS has also supplied an industrial multi-tube K series heat exchanger in order to produce hot water at 68°C, using steam as the service medium. The MI and K series are ideal heat exchangers
for whey heating as corrugated tubes are used to increase heat transfer rates - making them much more efficient than normal smooth tube heat exchangers.
Fig. 1. The European project focuses on special evaporation applications.
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