AMETEK

For Chemical Processing Applications

AMETEK Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers with tubing made of corrosion-resistant fluoropolymer resins are ideal for heating, cooling and condensing chemically aggressive process streams. Typical applications include: sulphuric, hydrofluoric, nitric, hydrochloric. There are also other caustic acids and other alkalis; halogenated compounds; salt solutions, and organic compounds. Standards of the semiconductor and electronics industry for handling high purity chemicals and UPW are easily met. Units are single-pass designs incorporating flexible fluoropolymer tubing fused at both ends to form a honeycomb structure. Shellside baffles are designed to promote cross-flow for optimum thermal efficiency. All surfaces exposed to the process stream are made from fluoropolymer materials to resist fouling and prolong service life. AMETEK Shell and Tube heat exchangers can also be supplied with fluoropolymer-lined shells for high efficiency heat interchange between two corrosive process streams; an ideal way to recover waste heat and to reduce energy costs.

Specifications
Shell diameters for standard units range from 3'' to 14'' (76 to 356mm); shells are available in carbon steel, stainless steel, CPVC, fibreglass or other materials. Nominal tube length is from 2' to 24' (.60 to 7.3m). Tubing diameters range from 0.10'' to 0.375'' (2.54 to 9.5mm) in FEP, “Q” Series, or high purity resins.

Heat Transfer Area
5.1 to 1104ft² (0.5 to 103m²) in standard units