The Brazed Plate Heat Exchangers is designed to achieve the maximum transfer of heat between two media of different temperatures, without allowing the media to mix. The Brazed Plate Heat Exchanger is constructed of several layers of baffl ed stainless steel plates. The unique stamping pattern of the baffl ed plates maximizes the effectiveness of the heat transfer. The plates within a Brazed Plate Heat Exchanger are made of AISI 316L (1.4404) stainless steel, pressed and jointed to a plate pack and brazed with a 99.99% pure copper brazing agent using a vacuum oven process.

Applications:

• district heating
• heat pumps
• heating technology
• air conditioning
• refrigeration
• solar technology
• energy recovery
• domestic water heating

operating conditions:

• max. operating pressure: 435 psi (30 bar)
• max. operating temperature: 383°F (195°C)

Our brazed plate heat exchanger EXEL is tried-and-tested product for refrigeration in various systems, in particular as a refrigerant evaporator and condenser for heat pumps. EXEL ensures the following functions in the cooling circuit:

• evaporation (liquid cooling)
• liquefaction (water cooled)
• decompression (heat recovery)
• overheating / subcooling (economizer)
• oil cooling (water or refrigerant cooled)

plate material:1.4404

operating conditions:

• operating pressure: max. 42 bar, min. vacuum
• max. operating temperature: 225°C
• min. operating temperature: -40°C

Our fully welded HYBRID heat exchanger is a special plate heat exchanger to be installed in nearly all industrial applications. It is suitable for chemistry, petro chemistry, sugar-, food- and pharma industry and many more. This heat exchanger successfully combines the advantages of the conventional shell & tube heat exchanger with those of a plate heat exchanger. It can be adapted to almost all thermal conditions can also be used as an evaporator or condenser. Its compact design (250 m2 / m3) provides a low weight solution. The fully welded design does not have any gaskets at all. Any stressing will only result from the process conditions themselves.

Product range

• Evaporators
• Falling film evaporators
• Rising film evaporators
• Circulation evaporators
• Coolers and preheaters
• Condensers and gas coolers
• Waste gas heat exchangers
• Liquid/liquid heat exchangers
• Gas/liquid heat exchangers
• Gas/gas heat exchangers

Features

• high heat transfer coefficients at low temperature differences
• low weight
• compact design
• low pressure drop
• mechanical stability also at high pressure differences
• gas-tight separation of media flow
• easy to service and clean

ultra compact - fully welded - gasket-free

The VAU COMPEX – Your plate heat exchanger for almost every industrial application based on the sophisticated hybrid tubular plate heat exchanger.

Advantages of VAU COMPEX

• High heat transfer coefficients
• Small temperature differences possible
• Low device weight
• Compact apparatus dimensions

• Low pressure drop
• Mechanical strength
• Gas-tight separation of the flows
• Maintenance-free

Gasketed heat exchangers with embossed plates can be shipped in various sizes and embossments. Furthermore, racks, plates and gaskets are available in different materials in order to comply with the food-, chemical-, petrochemical- and processing-industry’s standards, depending on the fluids used and the operating conditions.

Applications:

• food industry
• chemical industry
• processing industry

Plate material:

• AISI 304 (1.4301)
• AISI 316L (1.4404)
• Titan
• Alloy 254 SMO (1.4547)

Gaskets:

• NBR
• EPDM
• FPM
• HNBR