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Pillow Plate: Why is it cheaper to produce than a Shell & Tube?

In previous articles about Pillow Plate exchangers, we’ve looked at the advantages of this innovative technology. In the end, however, a notable advantage of this technology is especially the economic one: because producing a pillow plate exchanger is really cheaper than a Shell&Tube. In fact, except in the case of small S&T heat exchangers, generally the cost of producing a Shell & Tube is significantly higher than the cost of starting a Pillow Plates business, and we see why in this article.

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Heat Recovery with Pillow Plates Heat Exchangers

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in pillow plate heat exchangers (PPHEs) because of their versatility to cover a large number of applications in most industries, as well as their high heat transfer efficiency.  In our last article of this series, we will present a comparison, on different aspects, between a PPHE and Shell and Tube, Gasketed Plate, and Spiral Heat Exchangers. We will also discuss in particular the use of PPHE applied to high-temperature flue gas energy recovery.

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Pillow Plate Falling Film Evaporators (PPFFE)

Here is our part of our series about Pillow Plates Heat exchangers. The current article will focus on examining the Pillow Plate Falling Film Evaporators (PPFFEs), their operating principle and applications. To keep the readers up to date, a brief review will be made regarding some essential concepts of the pillow plate heat exchangers.

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EuroShop: see you in 2023

The long-awaited trade fair EuroShop 2023 has recently been confirmed at last. The best-known retail fair in Europe, it attracted 94,339 visitors from around 142 different countries during its last edition, in 2020, a few months before the pandemic.

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Refrigeration as a measure to combat food waste

Internationally, food waste is an enormous problem. According to the Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, that phenomenon is responsible for 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions. If we think of this as a country, it would be in third place for its emissions, behind only the United States and China.

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Smart Manufacturing: the smart factory

Smart manufacturing is a form of smart production, supported by the principles and technologies which form the central features of industry 4.0. It is a new way of doing business, which moves away from the now obsolete product-centric model and embraces a new approach focused more closely on improving client satisfaction.

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A Brief Introduction to Pillow-Plate Heat Exchangers

Pillow-Plates Heat Exchangers (PPHE) are classified as innovative heat exchangers and are used today in a large range of applications such as ice machines, heat pumps, column reboilers, latent heat storage systems, waste heat recovery, jacketed tanks, etc.

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C&R Madrid: 16th to 19th November 2021!

For several years now, C&R has been considered the most important Spanish trade fair in the HVAC&R sector; it is one of the key events where companies can embrace exciting new business opportunities by building highly beneficial, long-standing partnerships.

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