Product Applications    Heat exchanger overview    Compact design

Size matters

Being small gives our diffusion-bonded heat exchangers significant benefits over conventional heat exchangers across a range of industries. Particularly suitable when space is limited and weight is critical, Heatric exchangers are up to 85% smaller and lighter than the equivalent shell and tube exchanger. More than this, Heatric exchangers reduce costs and improves plant performance by:

 Reducing structural and support requirements

 Easier installation

 Easier transportation of factory-assembled equipment packages

 Sparing use of exotic materials

 Improving performance in limited space

 Small hold-up of process fluids and cleaning agents

 Giving greater responsiveness to control

The diffusion-bonded heat exchanger in the foreground undertakes the same thermal duty, at the same pressure drop, as the stack of three shell and tube exchangers behind. This exchanger is one of several supplied to a project on Pagerungan Island, Indonesia
	The use of diffusion-bonded heat exchangers on the British Gas Armada platform saved three metres on each of three decks, enabling a single lift installation.

Compactness

PCHEs are typically 4 to 6 times smaller than shell and tube exchangers of equivalent performance. This is as a result of their large heat exchange surface area per unit volume, high heat transfer coefficients and counterflow contact in a single core, when required.

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