Mueller Heat Exchangers

Choosing Between the Mueller Technologies

Can the Fluid Be Pumped Through an Exchanger?

That single question routes most enquiries. If both fluids can be pumped, an Accu-Therm plate and frame exchanger is normally the most efficient answer available: corrugated plates create turbulence at low velocity, giving a very high heat transfer coefficient, a temperature approach of two to three degrees and a unit occupying a fraction of the floor space of the alternatives.

If the fluid cannot be pumped, or the thing needing heat is a tank rather than a stream, Temp-Plate is the answer. Inflated panels are formed to shape and hung inside a vessel, bolted to the outside of one, or welded into a component so heat transfer becomes part of the equipment itself.

The Rest of the Line Is Those Two Technologies Applied

A falling film chiller is a Temp-Plate evaporator with water running down its face, which is why it chills water directly with no secondary loop and no freeze-up. A brazed plate unit is a plate pack with the gaskets and frame removed and the whole thing brazed into a sealed block.

Understanding that makes the range far easier to navigate. Once you know whether your duty is a plate problem or a panel problem, the specific product usually chooses itself.

What Decides the Specification

Material follows the chemistry at the surface rather than the bulk stream. Gasket compound follows the temperature and the cleaning regime, and on many duties it is the binding constraint rather than the plate. Pressure drop decides plate pattern and frequently the whole selection, and it is the input most often left off an enquiry.

Send both fluids with flow rates, inlet and required outlet temperatures, pressures and the allowable pressure drop on each side, and the unit will be rated before it is priced.