Tantaline (Houston and Waltham, Mass; www.tantaline.com) announced a market-changing heat exchanger product. The product fills a critical need in the hot acid marketplace, giving engineers and manufacturers a higher performing, cost efficient option for highly corrosive applications.
Tantaline’s new heat exchanger product is said to be the industry’s first welded plate-and-frame heat exchanger, designed specifically for hot acids and corrosive chemicals. Previously, hot acids and corrosive applications had primarily used shell-and-tube designs, which have limitations with heat transfer efficiency. Today, Tantaline enters the market with a fully-welded tantalum surface alloyed plate and frame, gasket-less design, which provides efficiencies five to seven times higher than shell and tube heat exchangers. The result is the most corrosion resistant, efficient, and durable heat exchanger commercially available with the corrosion resistance of tantalum, the efficiency of a plate and frame, and the strength of a fully-welded steel design.
Tantaline’s heat exchanger offers a new cost efficient alternative to shell-and-tube designs, as welded plate and frame heat exchangers require a footprint is up to seven times smaller and use significantly less valuable materials. In addition, with unmatched heat transfer efficiency, Tantaline heat exchangers are a more cost-effective solution compared to shell-and-tube heat exchangers, says the company.
“Acids used in all kinds of industrial processes are most aggressive when they are heated. Heat exchangers, the main product used to heat these acids, have long been a sore point within the industry,” says Dean Gambale, president of Tantaline. “Now there is an innovative product that addresses this need and gives the end-user a perfect combination of valuable properties and innovative engineering. Manufacturers and engineers now have a new option for heat exchangers without the need to compromise cost or performance.”
Tantaline’s welded plate and frame heat exchangers are produced by heating and reacting pure tantalum metal to produce a gaseous atmosphere of tantalum. The tantalum vapor then creates an alloy bond into the heat exchanger surface. Following this process, Tantaline’s heat exchangers have the same chemical properties and corrosion resistance as pure tantalum heat exchangers, offering significantly higher corrosion performance compared to Hastelloy B, C, and D alloy grades, titanium, zirconium and solid tantalum heat exchangers.
Tantaline’s heat exchangers are ideally suited for specialty metal applications that required, nickel alloys, titanium, zirconium, or solid tantalum heat exchangers. For more informationgo to www.tantaline.com/Heat-Exchangers-509.aspx
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