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Mueller Heat Exchangers
Plate & Frame, Temp-Plate, Falling Film and Brazed Plate Heat Transfer
The Mueller heat transfer line is built around two ideas. Where a fluid can be pumped, a gasketed plate pack moves the heat in a fraction of the floor space a conventional unit of the same duty needs, opens for inspection, and can be re-sized later by adding plates. Where the fluid sits in a tank, a drum or a vessel and cannot be pumped through anything, Temp-Plate puts the heat transfer surface where the fluid already is. Everything below is one or the other.
- Plate & Frame: The Accu-Therm gasketed plate pack, in sanitary, semi-welded, free-flow and double-wall forms.
- Temp-Plate: Inflated pillow-plate surface that is welded, formed or clamped to the equipment it has to heat or cool - immersion, clamp-on and integral assemblies.
- Heat Recovery: Condenser recovery, waste heat, boiler blowdown and the Fre-Heater.
- Service & Parts: Regasketing, plate cleaning, replacement plates and gaskets.
Plate & frame
- Both fluids are pumped through the pack
- Approach within a couple of degrees
- Opens to inspect, clean or add plates
Temp-Plate panels
- Fluid stays in its tank or vessel
- Surface goes in, on or into equipment
- Welded panels with no gaskets
Choosing the
right unit:
Start with whether the fluid moves. If both streams can be pumped, a gasketed plate and frame unit is almost always the answer: true counterflow, approach temperatures of a couple of degrees, and a fifth to a half of the floor space conventional equipment of the same duty would take. If one side sits in a vessel, Temp-Plate puts the surface in the tank, on the tank, or welded into the part itself.
Then check what the fluid is. Product-contact duty points at sanitary plate construction; a refrigerant on one side points at semi-welded plate; fibers or particulate point at free-flow; and potable water heated by a non-potable medium points at double-wall.
Then size and duty. Small, fixed, high-pressure duty with no need to open the unit is brazed plate territory. Near-freezing process water in volume is a falling film chiller.
Call 1-805-484-2992 or email Sales@HeatX.com with the duty and we will size it with you.
Applications
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Service & Support
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We cover the Mueller heat transfer equipment. That means Accu-Therm gasketed plate and frame in its sanitary, semi-welded, free-flow and double-wall forms, Temp-Plate inflated surface, falling film chillers, brazed plate units and Fre-Heater heat recovery. Plates, gaskets and frames for units already in service are part of it too.
Everything we supply is new and built by Mueller to the duty it was rated for. That matters most on a plate exchanger, where the plate pattern, gasket compound and frame length are all chosen against your fluids. Units already in your plant can be refurbished with new plates and gaskets, which is often cheaper than replacing the frame.
Food, dairy and beverage plants are the largest group, followed by chemical and process plants, building HVAC systems and refrigeration contractors working with ammonia or glycol. The equipment overlaps across them. A brewery may run a sanitary plate unit on wort, a falling film chiller on brewing liquor and Temp-Plate on its tanks.
Most inquiries arrive without one, and that is fine. Describe the job: what is being heated or cooled, how much of it, from what temperature to what, and whether it moves through a pipe or sits in a vessel. That is enough to choose the family, and a rated selection follows from there.
Thin pressed plates put a great deal of surface into a short pack, and the corrugations stir the flow at low velocity so each square foot works harder. True counterflow adds to it by letting the two streams cross over in temperature. The result is a unit that can take a fifth to a half of the floor space of a tubular unit doing the same work.
