Plate Type Heat Exchangers
Advantages:
- They are simple and compact in size
- Heat exchange effectiveness is more
- Can be effortlessly cleaned
- Dismantling takes no extra space
- By introducing plates in pairs, capacity can be expanded
- Leaking plates can be expelled in sets without substitution, when required
- Maintenance is straightforward
- Turbulent stream helps to bring down deposits which would otherwise meddle with heat transfer
- Initial cost is high since titanium plates are expensive
- Finding spillage is troublesome since weight test isn't easy
- Bonding material between plates limits working temperature of the cooler
- Pressure drop caused by plate cooler is higher than the tube cooler
- Dismantling and assembling is very time consuming
- Over fixing of the clipping jolts results in expanded weight drop over the cooler
- Joints may run down because of the working conditions
- Since titanium is a pure metal, different parts of the cooling system are exposed to erosion
Advantages:
- Less costly as compared to plate type coolers
- Can be utilized as a part of frameworks with higher working temperatures and weights
- Pressure drop over a tube cooler is less
- Tube leaks are effortlessly found and stopped since pressure test is simple
- Tubular coolers in refrigeration framework can go about as recipient also.
- Using sacrificial anodes secures the entire cooling framework against erosion
- Tube coolers might be favored for greasing up oil cooling as a result of the weight difference
- Heat exchange effectiveness is less as compared to plate type cooler
- Cleaning and maintenance is troublesome since a tube cooler requires enough leeway toward one side to expel the tube nest
- Capacity of tube cooler can't be expanded.
- Requires more space in contrast with plate coolers