Within a project for the enhancement of a microprocessors production plant, a key component in very high demand recently due to the global components shortage in industry, we have provided a plate heat exchanger aimed for compressed air cooling of a production process compressor.

We have often talked about cooling of compressors in industrial environments in the past, and specifically about heat recovery from lubricating oil in compressors, that can achieve high and interesting temperatures for energy recovery applications.

In this case, this plate heat exchanger is employed for compressed air cooling, and Tempco has already a series of references of this kind of application. In compressed air cooling, heat exchangers offer indeed an excellent thermal efficiency of plates, allowing to achieve the perfect efficiency for pushed cooling applications involved in this field.
In this kind of application is very important to rely on a proper rate of pressure drop, otherwise the sizing will be affected by the limits of hydraulic passages between plates. But performances are very remarkable in terms of thermal transfer.

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