Operation & Maintenance of Power Plants
Compact alternative to heat exchangers
Niek Dommerholt reports on a new development in the cooling or heating of various liquids or gases.
W
hether to generate more profi t or to be more energy effi cient, increasingly customers are demanding that their existing plant, process and/or factory
become more effi cient. It is not only governments that are making ever
more stringent demands on industry, but consumers and individual employees are also demanding more awareness from companies. T ere is a very clear call for companies to make
their production processes more sustainable, more effi cient and more energy effi cient. Bronswerk is willing and able to respond to this
call. T erefore the company is investing time and money in the development of products and solutions to enable its customers to achieve their goals. Here, Bronswerk would like to showcase its
Flexplate heat exchanger, a sustainable and compact alternative to the conventional heat exchanger.
Similar to a plate heat exchanger, the Flexplate, consists of a series of stacked stainless steel plates welded together two by two along the outer edges, resulting in a kind of envelope. Advanced spot- welding processing of these two stacked plates makes it possible for the inside of these plates to be used for the liquid medium while the outside is used for the gas medium. Because these sets of stacked plates are very thin and close together, the heat transfer relative to the content is quite considerable, resulting in a compact installation.
A brand new development T e Flexplate is an entirely new development in the cooling or heating of various liquids or gases by means of air. Until this solution was created, liquid was often cooled by means of air using conventional heat exchanger tubes, consisting of the familiar fi nned tubes. Notwithstanding the advantages these fi nned pipes have (resistance to high pressure, for
Illustration of an application where the Flexplate was used within a cooling solution for a plastics production plant.
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