Plate heat exchanger
ISO 10628-2 (groups 3-5, heat exchangers, furnaces, cooling towers) / PIP PIC001 / TEMA
Drawn as
A rectangle (frame) with many thin vertical lines inside (the plates) and four connections, usually all on one end plate.
Meaning
Gasketed or welded plate exchanger: compact cooling-medium/seawater coolers, TEG coolers. Becomes plate-heat-exchanger.
Variants
- Some legends draw a rectangle with a diagonal zig-zag
- Printed-circuit (diffusion-bonded) exchangers are drawn as a solid block, which is a different component (printed-circuit-heat-exchanger)
Tags
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