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Food, Dairy & Beverage
The sanitary Accu-Therm plate heat exchanger is designed to meet or surpass the requirements for equipment handling product intended for human consumption. Type 316 stainless product contact surfaces, FDA compliant gasket compounds, clean-in-place capability and a frame that opens completely for inspection are what make a cleaning claim demonstrable rather than argued. Where the product carries pulp, fibre or particulates, the Free-Flow plate handles what a conventional pack will not.
- 316 product contact. Type 316 stainless plates on the product side, with unpainted 304 stainless frames and stainless compression bolts that will not crack or peel in washdown.
- Opens for inspection. Slide back the movable frame and every plate is in front of you. No welded or brazed exchanger can make that offer.
- No cross contamination. Each medium is individually gasketed with the interspace vented to atmosphere, so a gasket failure leaks outside rather than between streams.
- Handles particulates. The Free-Flow plate passes particles up to around 3/8 inch and fibrous material, which covers pulps, purees and mash.
- Regeneration in one frame. Regeneration, heating and cooling sections separated by connector grids, which is where the operating cost of a pasteurizer is decided.
- Chilling as well as heating. Falling film chillers make the near-freezing water that hydrocooling, bakery and beverage duty depend on.
Food, Dairy & Beverage
Cleaning Is the Design Constraint
Thermal duty on sanitary work is rarely the hard part. What is hard is designing equipment that reaches temperature, cleans reliably, drains completely and can be inspected on demand.
That is why a gasketed plate pack dominates this market. Every surface is reachable, the cleaning cycle can be verified visually, and gaskets are a known consumable rather than an unknown risk.
Fouling Is Burn-On
Protein denaturation at the heating surface is what shortens run length on dairy and protein duty, and it depends on surface temperature rather than bulk temperature.
The close approach of a plate pack is what lets you use a cooler medium and still hit the duty. Lowering medium temperature and adding plate area usually lengthens run time enough to pay for the extra surface inside a season.
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