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TH552 · Plate Exchanger

Plate Heat Exchanger Module for TH550

Experiments
  • Energy balance on both streams - heat duty from mass flow rate and temperature rise, hot side against cold side
  • Co-current and counter-current operation, obtained by swapping the two cold-side couplings, and comparison of the resulting temperature profiles
  • Determination of the overall heat transfer coefficient from the measured duty, the logarithmic mean temperature difference and the known transfer area
  • Effect of the chevron pattern - the overall heat transfer coefficient reached at Reynolds numbers where a plain tube would still be laminar
  • Direct comparison against TH551 and TH553: transfer coefficient and transfer area per unit volume, measured on the same base unit under the same conditions
  • Effectiveness–NTU analysis and operation at very small temperature differences between the streams
TH552
Description
    A plate heat exchanger is a stack of thin metal plates pressed with a chevron pattern. Every second plate is rotated by 180°, so the chevrons of neighbouring plates cross and the stack forms two interleaved sets of narrow channels - hot medium in one set, cold medium in the other, with every plate a transfer surface wetted on both faces. The crossing chevrons do two things at once: they support the plates against pressure, and they trip the flow into turbulence at Reynolds numbers where a plain tube would still be laminar. Turbulence governs the film coefficient, so a plate pack reaches a far higher overall heat transfer coefficient than a tube of the same area, in a fraction of the volume. This module is a brazed pack - the plates are vacuum-brazed with copper rather than clamped between gaskets, which makes it compact and leak-free at the cost of not being openable for inspection.
Top view of the TH552 plate heat exchanger module
Brass port sockets
4 × G1/4 → G3/4
Base plate
355 × 255 mm
Brazed plate pack
191 × 73 × 70 mm
Clamping bars
2 bars, 4 × M8 studs

Top view of the TH552 plate heat exchanger module

Top view of the TH552 plate heat exchanger module

Top view of the TH552 plate heat exchanger module
Specifications
    Base unit Sangari TH550
    Plate pack brazed stainless steel / copper
    Number of plates (max.) 20, stainless steel
    Heat transfer area 0.32 m²
    Nominal duty 45 kW
    Pack size 191 × 73 × 70 mm
    Ports 4 × G1/4 via brass G1/4 → G3/4 sockets
    Clamping 2 bars, 4 × M8 studs
    Flow arrangement co-current or counter-current, by swapping the cold-side couplings
    Working temperature 0…100 °C
    Maximum flow rate 12 m³/h
    Maximum working pressure 10 bar
    Couplings 4 × DN 7.2 quick-release
    Base plate 355 × 255 × 4 mm
    Module envelope 350 × 255 × 126 mm
Water Supply
L 350 W 255 H 126 mm
21 kg

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