Cutting work for plate heat exchangers

March 2011 – Plate heat exchangers are used to heat up cold liquids and to cool off warm liquids without the two liquids coming into contact. Plate heat exchangers are used to cool buildings or diesel engines on large seagoing vessels, but also to heat up the pitches at football clubs like AZ Alkmaar, Real Madrid and Manchester United. The steel start and end plates in these heat exchangers are cut to size by De Boer Snijbedrijf.

Sondex from De Rijp specialises in the development, production and global marketing of plate heat exchangers and freshwater generators. Plate heat exchangers are used, for example, to store heat and cold using groundwater, with cold being stored in the winter and used for cooling purposes in the summer. During the summer months, the heat of the water is stored for use in the winter. Eighty per cent of the underground, hotels and other buildings in Dubai rely on Sondex heat exchangers. The server of the best-known Internet search engine for Western Europe, which is located in Delfzijl, is cooled using two Sondex plate heat exchangers 4.5 metres high, 6 metres long and with a total cooling capacity of 32,000 kW.

Professionalism and service

The steel start and end plates in the different Sondex plate heat exchangers are cut to size by De Boer Snijbedrijf. The tolerance for the cut holes is 0.5 mm, and so the cutting process has to be extremely precise. De Boer Snijbedrijf also blasts the cut parts and applies red lead to them. In this way, De Boer Snijbedrijf delivers professionalism and service.