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Compact Plate Heat Exchangers used for Refinery Heat Recovery:
The use of compact-plate heat exchangers (CPHEs) enables refiners to tackle the increasing emphasis on reducing energy consumption while maintaining a positive environmental profile, indicates a report by industrial process technologies supplier Alfa Laval.
CPHEs properties make them more efficient than, and provide a compact solution to, traditional
shell-and-tube (S and T) heat exchangers.
CPHEs, which are much smaller in size than traditional heat exchangers and can be fitted in the footprint of existing installations, can increase capacity and recover more heat by using fewer heat exchangers.
Savings in fuel consumption and reductions in emissions, owing to greater energy recovery, give attractive investment payback periods.
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