Many plate heat exchangers are made of corrugated plates on a frame. This creates high turbulence and high wall shear stress, resulting in a high heat transfer and a high fouling resistance.

TYPES OF HEAT EXCHANGERS
Types of Plate Heat Exchangers When considering a plate heat exchanger, there are four main types to consider:

Gasketed plate heat exchangers – These exchangers use high-quality gaskets and designs to seal plates together and protect against any leaks. You can remove plates easily for cleaning, expansion, or replacing purposes, which helps reduce maintenance costs.

Brazed plate heat exchangers – Used in many industrial and refrigeration applications, these exchangers can be very efficient and compact. This tends to make them a highly economic choice. If you’re using a stainless steel plate with copper brazing, this dynamic can be highly resistant to corrosion.

Welded plate heat exchangers – These are very similar to gasketed heat exchangers but the difference is the Welded plates can be attached together. They are very durable and are ideal when it comes to transferring fluids with high temperatures or corrosive materials. Since the plates can be welded together, cleaning the plates isn’t possible compared to cleaning plate heat exchangers.

Semi-Welded plate heat exchangers – Feature a mix of welded and gasket plates. The two plates are welded together and gasketed to other pairs within the heat exchanger. This results in an easy to service heat exchanger and you’re able to transfer more fluids throughout the system. Semi-Welded heat exchangers are great for transferring expensive materials due to their low risk of fluid loss.

Once you know what a plate heat exchanger is, it’s time to understand how it can benefit your boiler.

Provides high value for your overall heat transfer. A flat plate heat exchanger typically has a U value much higher than a shell and tube heat exchanger or a spiral heat exchanger.

It creates a compact design. Plate heat exchangers have the same thermal capacity as a shell and tube heat exchanger as much as five times its size. This is because of the combination of high-value heat transfer and the general compact configuration of the flat plates.

Easy maintenance and cleaning. The plate heat exchangers can be taken apart, which allows for easy cleaning and maintenance of the equipment. The exchanger allows the addition or removal of plates to reduce heat transfer capacity.

Control the temperature. Flat plate heat exchangers work well with small temperature differences among hot and cold fluids.

With all above information would help you to choose suitable and high-efficiency plate heat exchanger for your industrial application, meanwhile VHX has a excellent product system for you to choose, we have all models of plate heat exchanger supplying, all the best solution for your heat transfer application.