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Plate Type Heat Exchangers

Plate type heat exchangers have several advantages: they are compact, have high heat exchange effectiveness, are easy to clean, and can expand capacity by adding more plates. However, they also have some disadvantages: the initial cost is high since titanium plates are expensive, leaks can be difficult to find, working temperature is limited by bonding material, and pressure drop and maintenance time are greater than shell and tube heat exchangers. Shell and tube heat exchangers have lower costs than plate type, can operate at higher temperatures and pressures, and leaks are easier to find and fix. However, they have lower heat exchange effectiveness and require more space.

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Plate Type Heat Exchangers

Plate type heat exchangers have several advantages: they are compact, have high heat exchange effectiveness, are easy to clean, and can expand capacity by adding more plates. However, they also have some disadvantages: the initial cost is high since titanium plates are expensive, leaks can be difficult to find, working temperature is limited by bonding material, and pressure drop and maintenance time are greater than shell and tube heat exchangers. Shell and tube heat exchangers have lower costs than plate type, can operate at higher temperatures and pressures, and leaks are easier to find and fix. However, they have lower heat exchange effectiveness and require more space.

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Plate Type Heat Exchangers

Advantages:

 They are simple and compact in size


 Heat exchange effectiveness is more
 Can be effortlessly cleaned
 Dismantling takes no extra space
 By introducing plates in pairs, capacity can be expanded
 Leaking plates can be expelled in sets without substitution, when required
 Maintenance is straightforward
 Turbulent stream helps to bring down deposits which would otherwise meddle with heat
transfer

Disadvantages

 Initial cost is high since titanium plates are expensive


 Finding spillage is troublesome since weight test isn't easy
 Bonding material between plates limits working temperature of the cooler
 Pressure drop caused by plate cooler is higher than the tube cooler
 Dismantling and assembling is very time consuming
 Over fixing of the clipping jolts results in expanded weight drop over the cooler
 Joints may run down because of  the working conditions
 Since titanium is a pure metal, different parts of the cooling system are exposed to
erosion

Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers

Advantages:

 Less costly as compared to plate type coolers


 Can be utilized as a part of frameworks with higher working temperatures and weights
 Pressure drop over a tube cooler is less
 Tube leaks are effortlessly found and stopped since pressure test is simple
 Tubular coolers in refrigeration framework can go about as recipient also.
 Using sacrificial anodes secures the entire cooling framework against erosion
 Tube coolers might be favored for greasing up oil cooling as a result of the weight
difference

Disadvantages:
 Heat exchange effectiveness is less as compared to plate type cooler
 Cleaning and maintenance is troublesome since a tube cooler requires enough leeway
toward one side to expel the tube nest
 Capacity of tube cooler can't be expanded.
 Requires more space in contrast with plate coolers

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