Forums  Hop To Forum Categories  Public Forums (Guests Welcome!)  Hop To Forums  General Bulletin Board    brazed plate heat exchanger sizing

Moderators: NRT.Rob
Go
New
Find
Notify
Tools
Reply
  
-star Rating Rate It!  Login/Join 
Posted
Does anyone know of a program for sizing brazed plate heat exchangers, for use in radiant heat and snow melt systems? Actually... any info, program or not, would be helpful.
 
Posts: 1 | Location: Eastern WA | Registered: 17 September 2009Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
Posted Hide Post
Flat Plate publishes a chart, and so does Bell & Gossett. The software is usually reserved for the Mfg's Rep. You don't really need it anyway, as the charts are usually adequate.
 
Posts: 900 | Registered: 22 June 2005Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
sbe
Posted Hide Post
First off a question. Why use a flat plate exchanger? The spiral ones are quite inexpensive now and have less issues with clogging.

I bought mine out of a place in Canada and one of the nice things is they helped size it for me. Not a complicated task but since I'm running low inlet temperatures due to the heat pump as a source I wanted to make sure I didn't mess up. They guy whipped out the numbers while I was on the phone.

I guess if you do it every day it becomes second nature.
 
Posts: 69 | Registered: 22 August 2008Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
  Powered by Eve Community  
 

    Forums  Hop To Forum Categories  Public Forums (Guests Welcome!)  Hop To Forums  General Bulletin Board    brazed plate heat exchanger sizing