Replacing Another Brand

Precise at the anchor bolts and nozzle centerlines, since those are what the new frame must land on. Measure the bolt pattern, nozzle positions from a common datum, nozzle heights above the pad, and flange size and rating. Photographs with a tape in view help us catch anything ambiguous, and we confirm the dimensions with you on a drawing before fabrication starts.

Not necessarily, and sometimes that is the point. A new plate selection rated against the current duty may run at a different velocity, and the pumps in the system have to deliver it. Send the pump curves or the measured pressure across the old unit, so the replacement is rated to what the system can actually push.

Moving them to the fixed end means the pipework no longer has to come apart every time the pack opens. That may need a short spool or a rerouted elbow, but the saving shows at every service afterward. Tell us which connections must stay exactly where they are and we will lay out the frame around them.

In most cases it should. Because the new frame is built to measured dimensions, the old unit only comes out once the replacement is on site and checked against the drawing. That limits the outage to removal, setting, connection and a pressure test, and it avoids running the process with no exchanger while parts are made.

Only after looking at how the old parts actually aged. Pitting, hard or swollen gaskets, and erosion at the inlet each tell you the original choice was marginal for the stream. Send photographs of a few used plates and a removed gasket with the measurements, since they are better evidence than the original data sheet.