Due to the smaller area required for plate heat exchanger in craft brewery, the design of total pressure drop of plate heat exchangers when doing wort cooling is usually much lower than that of tube heat exchanger of the same design.
Gasket spaces are formed between the plates in a plate heat exchanger, and these spaces alternate between two fluids—one hot and one cold. This design provides very high heat transfer efficiency because the plates create a much larger surface area than a shell and tube design that fits in the same space.
2.Heat Exchange Efficiency
Typically, plate heat exchangers are the right choice for brewery as it is the most efficient and cheapest option, and plate heat exchangers are five times more efficient than shell-and-tube designs.
A higher heat transfer coefficient can be obtained due to corrugated plate and higher speed.
Allows more heat transfer due to pure countercurrent flow and close temperature.
Higher energy recovery can be achieved due to these closer temperature methods.
3.Overall heat transfer coefficient
The heat transfer coefficient describes the heat energy transferred by both designs. Coefficients are multipliers in the heat transfer equation, so higher numbers mean more heat transfer. Plate heat exchangers achieve improved heat transfer coefficients while having a smaller footprint and lighter weight than shell-and-tube design heat exchangers.
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