Green Energy
Platecoils® make excellent green energy heat exchangers — your practical choice for renewable energy service. With temperature approaches in the 1–2°F range, plate HEs take better advantage of lower-grade waste heat than S&Ts. And, they are easier to clean, take up less space and require lighter support structures. Multiple designs offer the versatility to answer your application needs.
PHE Applications
- Biomass dryer heating banks
- Batch hydrolysis vessel heating surfaces
- Evaporator heating banks
- Evaporator economizers
- Economizing and heat recovery
- Blow heat recovery
- Yeast coolers
- Beer/mash interchangers
- Thermal control of fermentation
- Vent condensers
- Distillation column heating surfaces
- Syrup condensers
- Ethanol preheaters
- Molecular sieve regeneration condensers
- Anhydrous condensers and coolers
PLATECOIL® Prime Surface PHE Standard Range General Specifications

a Ratings offered as a general guide only. Certain combinations of physical and fluid properties may affect individual product specifications. Contact the factory with your specific application data.
b Higher performance materials are available.
PLATECOIL® Prime Surface
- Panels can be formed into vessel shells or jackets
- Pre-engineered bank modules include piping, supporting structure and manifolds
- Configurations for steam applications offer high flow rates and low pressure drop
- Liquid types accommodate maximum velocities and high heat transfer capabilities at low-to-moderate flow rates
PLATECOIL® Prime Surface HE banks
- Highly efficient in tank heating/cooling and flue gas cooling/heat recovery.
- Proven in pond geothermal heating/cooling service.
- Formable into banks, vessel shells or jackets.
Acid Hydrolysis Cellulosic Cooking
Heated vessels in this continuous process can be fabricated using PLATECOIL® heating banks as immersion heaters. These include both first- and second-stage hydrolysis vessels and the acid reconcentrator tower. PLATECOIL® banks can also be configured as air heaters in systems such as the biomass dryer.
PLATECOIL® banks find widespread use in tank heating, flue gas cooling and heat recovery.

