Applications and Characteristics

Applications

The main applications are:

• Air separation plants

• Petrochemical plants

• Gas treatment plants

• Natural gas liquefaction plants

• Helium liquefaction plants

Characteristics

Aluminium plate-fin heat exchangers are key components in many process plants. Especially the compactness of this exchanger type is one of the most favourable possibilities to save installation space and costs.

The characteristics of Linde PFHE are:

• Aluminium alloys provide best possible heat exchange between clean gases and liquids in the low temperature service

• Favourable for simultaneous heat exchange between several streams

• Treatment of many process streams in one unit only

• Suitable for single phase and for mixed phase fluids

• Arrangement of streams in counter-flow, cross-flow or combinations

• Large choice of fin types with different surface areas ensures optimised equipment design

• Proven vacuum brazing technology (no use of flux)