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Cost-effective cooling loops with TL10B |
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Thursday, 22 February 2007 |
The TL10B plate heat exchanger from Alfa Laval has been tailor-made for cooling applications. Size wise the new unit fits in between the existing M10 and M15 series heat exchangers, informs the company in a press release.
Generating cooling loops is a costly business. Therefore it is important that the artificially generated, or in some cases natural, cold circuit temperature level is preserved all the way through the cooling system. In order to do so heat exchangers in such systems need to be able to operate with small temperature differences.
 HVAC cooling applications operate with water or glycol solutions at low temperatures. In many cases the plate material is AISI 304 stainless steel, with NBRB gaskets. At more elevated temperatures or when certain water qualities and special fluids, AISI 316 and gaskets of NBRP and EPDMCT are to be used. For fluids containing higher concentrations of chlorides, such as seawater, titanium plates are suitable. Applications where TL10B is well-suited include comfort cooling and heating, in the semiconductor industry, marine & diesel, power, and oil & gas as well as process industries. Also, for example, applications where a large degree of heat recovery is required (close temperature approach). It can be used for design pressures up to 25 bar and is optimized for liquid-to-liquid duties.
The heat exchanger has been designed for liquid flow rates up to 180 m3/h. It is also applicable in processes where AISI 304/316 and titanium plate materials as well as gasket materials Nitrile or EPDM are acceptable. |
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