Serpentine Platecoil Heat Exchangers

PLATECOIL® with a Serpentine flow configuration provides outstanding performance with liquid heating or cooling media, because its configuration allows high internal flow velocities to be achieved. As a result, high heat transfer rates can be obtained. Serpentine PLATECOIL® is frequently specified for use with cold water, high temperature hot water, hot oil and refrigerants. When used with refrigerants, the Serpentine flow design offers the additional advantage of eliminating the possibility of “short-circuiting”.

Standard Styles, Sizes & Fabrications

Both Multi-Zone and Serpentine double-embossed PLATECOIL® are available in over 300 standard sizes. Several styles are also offered in a choice of either carbon steel or Type 316L stainless steel. Standard PLATECOIL® are available in over 300 sizes; widths range from 12” to 43”. Length dimensions range from 23” to 143”.

A variety of standard PLATECOIL® fabrications, such as drum warmers, vessels, suction heaters, and screw conveyor troughs are also available. These pre-engineered units are designed to satisfy a wide range of heating and cooling requirements in industrial process applications.

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Description

Whatever your heating or cooling needs, we can engineer and fabricate a PLATECOIL® heat exchanger to improve your process and efficiency.

Configurable as jacketed vessels, clamp-on panels, immersion heaters, banks-in-tanks, cryogenic shrouds, mixers
Single-embossed or double-embossed styles may be flat, formed or rolled
Wide range of pre-engineered and custom designs and sizes
Unique Multi-Zone and Serpentine configurations available
High heat transfer rates
Quality manufactured and thoroughly tested; ASME Code available
Fabricated in carbon steel, stainless steel and most corrosion resistant alloys

Manufacturing of PLATECOIL®

Sheet material is pressed to form “corrugations” called embossings.
Embossings are either seam welded to each other to form “double embossed” coils, or to a flat sheet to form “single embossed coils.
Fittings are attached to provide an inlet & outlet for fluid internal to the PLATECOIL®.
Carbon steel, 304 and 316 stainless steel are the standard materials of construction.

Other alloys that can be cold formed and welded are also used:

Monel
Inconel
Hastealloy
Alloy 20Cb-3
254-SMO
AL6XN
Titanium