Plate and Frame Heat Exchangers

Did you know that there is a major advantage to using a Plate and Frame Heat Exchanger versus a Conventional Heat Exchanger? A Plate and Frame Heat exchanger exposes fluids over a larger surface area, which facilitates the transfer of heat and greatly increases the speed that the temperature changes.

BEECO has over 40 years experience working with Plate and Frame Heat Exchangers and is here to discuss your process needs. Please feel free to contact our Heat Transfer Team today for a recommendation.

AC - Brazed plate heat exchanger

Category: Plate and Frame Heat Exchangers

Producer: Alfa Laval

Alfa Laval AC line of brazed plate heat exchangers provide efficient heat transfer with a small footprint. They are specifically developed to work in air conditioning, refrigeration, chillers and heat pump applications.

AlfaCond

Category: Plate and Frame Heat Exchangers

Producer: Alfa Laval

Alfa Laval AlfaCond condensers are specifically designed for condensing of vapour under vacuum. These plate surface condensers are ideal for use in applications such as vacuum condensers in evaporation systems, ethanol condensers in bioethanol plants, pan vapour condensers in sugar refineries, and as turbine condensers in small power plants. With its compact design, AlfaCond is easy to install where space is crucial.

AlfaNova

Category: Plate and Frame Heat Exchangers

Producer: Alfa Laval

Alfa Laval AlfaNova is the first plate heat exchanger in the world to be made completely of stainless steel – made possible by the unique active diffusion bonding technology patented by Alfa Laval.

AlfaVap

Category: Plate and Frame Heat Exchangers

Producer: Alfa Laval

Alfa Laval AlfaVap semi-welded heat exchangers are tailor-made, rising film plate evaporators and are suitable when concentration and viscosity of media are high. Typical applications for AlfaVap are sugar refinery evaporation systems, sweeteners evaporation systems, bioethanol and caustic evaporation. It is also suitable as a thermosiphon reboiler. Its compact design makes it ideal to install at elevated levels.

APV R5 Quad-Drive Series 2 Paraflow PHE

Category: Plate and Frame Heat Exchangers

Producer: APV an SPX Brand

SPX has the only patented PLC controlled, R5 Quad-Drive plate heat exchanger with four tie bars for precise closure. Taking up to 1,000 plates, the newest addition in a long line of PHE innovations from SPX makes it easier than ever to install, control and maintain your PHE for optimal process performance.

BaseLine

Category: Plate and Frame Heat Exchangers

Producer: Alfa Laval

Alfa Laval BaseLine is a competitive range of gasketed plate-and-frame heat exchangers for simpler dairy, food, beverage, pharma and other hygienic and utility applications. See Alfa Laval Frontline for more demanding hygienic applications.

CB - Brazed plate heat exchanger

Category: Plate and Frame Heat Exchangers

Producer: Alfa Laval

The Alfa Laval CB range of brazed plate heat exchangers feature efficient heat transfer with an extremely small footprint, making them ideal for demanding installations where space is at a premium. The CB range is used in HVAC heating/cooling, refrigeration, process heating/cooling, oil cooling, solar heating and many other applications.

ClipLine

Category: Plate and Frame Heat Exchangers

Producer: Alfa Laval

Alfa Laval ClipLine range is used in the same hygienic applications as the FontLine range, but ClipLine is used for smaller duties. ClipLine and FrontLine are premium ranges of heat exchangers used in dairy, food, beverage and other hygienic applications requiring gentle product treatment, long operating times or superior cleanability.

Compabloc

Category: Plate and Frame Heat Exchangers

Producer: Alfa Laval

With over 30,000 units handling tough duties worldwide, Compabloc is the market champion when it comes to heat transfer. Laser-welded construction offers superior reliability in duties with aggressive media and high pressures and temperatures. Compabloc also offers 3-5 times the thermal efficiency of traditional shell-and-tube solutions, with a more compact design that is much easier to install and service.

Double Wall Design (DuoSafety)

Category: Plate and Frame Heat Exchangers

Producer: APV an SPX Brand

DuoSafety plates are specially designed to protect product from medium as a consequence of through-plate leaks from cracks or corrosion. They have a pair of special non-welded plates back to back, with the leak path between them open to atmosphere. These paired plates then have product and service medium flow on either side.

FrontLine

Category: Plate and Frame Heat Exchangers

Producer: Alfa Laval

Alfa Laval FrontLine is our premium range of plate heat exchangers for applications with the strictest demands regarding hygienic control as well as gentle product treatment, long operating time and superior cleanability. Suitable for applications with specific hygienic needs such as beverages, dairy and food, FrontLine is the superior choice for heat sensitive media. The flexible design makes for easy rebuild.

Gasketed Plate Heat Exchangers - Sanitary

Category: Plate and Frame Heat Exchangers

Producer: Gerstenberg Schröder

Sanitary applications present a unique set of requirements to get the job done as well as live up to the strong demands for meticulous clean-up, easy accessibility and strong product integrity.

GL

Category: Plate and Frame Heat Exchangers

Producer: Alfa Laval

The Alfa Laval GL product line is an ultra-compact, high-efficiency solution engineered to meet the unique challenges of simultaneously working with gas and liquid media. A revolutionary new design handles very high temperatures with very low pressure drop. Manufactured with Alfa Laval’s proven copper-brazing technology, they also ensure the reliable performance you expect from the world leader in thermal transfer.

GLX

Category: Plate and Frame Heat Exchangers

Producer: Alfa Laval

Alfa Laval’s GLX range of brazed gas-to-liquid plate heat exchangers offers a more flexible way to meet the demands of applications with challenging operating conditions. The unique open inlet design of GLX heat exchangers maximizes media flow rates while ensuring the lowest possible pressure drop. Delivered as modules, they can be easily assembled into larger systems to help optimize performance efficiency.

Industrial Line

Category: Plate and Frame Heat Exchangers

Producer: Alfa Laval

Our wide range of industrial gasketed plate heat exchangers is suitable for all types of industry and multiple applications from heating, cooling and heat recovery to condensation and evaporation. We are constantly looking to extend and upgrade the range, adding new performance criteria and greater flexibility. What’s termed ‘next-generation’ today will soon be standard for the entire Alfa Laval Industrial line.

Industrial semi-welded line

Category: Plate and Frame Heat Exchangers

Producer: Alfa Laval

Semi-welded plate heat exchangers are suitable for refrigeration, chemical processes and various kinds of industrial utility duties. The unique Alfa Laval RefTight™ sealing system guarantees a long lifetime sealing between the welded channels because the laser weld is on the outside of the ring gasket groove. The smooth surface ensures a tight uniform seal over the entire gasket ring.

M Line

Category: Plate and Frame Heat Exchangers

Producer: Alfa Laval

Alfa Laval M line of gasketed plate-and-frame heat exchangers are used for high design pressure (>10 bar/145 psi), such as in carbonated beverages. The large range of plate and gasket types comply with Food Contact Materials (FCM) requirements for pasteurization and other heating and cooling duties in hygienic and utility applications in the dairy, food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries.

Printed circuit heat exchangers

Category: Plate and Frame Heat Exchangers

Producer: Alfa Laval

Alfa Laval printed circuit heat exchangers (PCHEs) combine superior robustness and integrity with an exceptionally high heat transfer rate, in a unit that’s up to 85 % smaller and lighter than comparable shell-and-tube exchangers. The unique design results in excellent performance, lower installation and operational costs, as well as improved safety. Each unit is also fully customizable according to your exact needs.

Semi-Welded (Paraweld) Plate Pair Plate Heat Exchangers

Category: Plate and Frame Heat Exchangers

Producer: APV an SPX Brand

APV ParaWeld is a range of laser-welded plate pairs for refrigerant and chemical processing and a logical alternative to shell and tube and all-welded plates. The pairs are particularly suitable for evaporation and condensing of refrigerants such as ammonia, as well as chemical and general process duties involving aggressive liquids that would attack conventional gaskets.

Single Wall Gasketed (Paraflow) Plate Heat Exchangers

Category: Plate and Frame Heat Exchangers

Producer: APV an SPX Brand

Advantages of Gasketed Plate vs. Tubular Heat Exchangers:

High Heat Transfer

Film coefficients three to five-times greater
Efficient operation with up to 98% heat recovery or regeneration
Low liquid hold-up enables faster reaction times to change in process
Fluids flow counter-current to each other between the parallel passages in each pass

WideGap

Category: Plate and Frame Heat Exchangers

Producer: Alfa Laval

Alfa Laval WideGap gasketed plate-and-frame heat exchangers are suitable for fibrous fluids and for fluids containing coarse particles. Typical applications for Alfa Laval WideGap heat exchangers are sugar, bioethanol and pulp and paper processes. Depending on the duty, WideGap heat exchangers can be configured either with wide-wide or wide-narrow channels. This makes the units suitable for heating, cooling and interchanging duties.