Several combinations of materials and technical solutions can be used when designing a heat exchanger in response to a specific customer application. Good performance and long life are strictly related to design choices.
These tubes are obtained from bare tubes by means of a tube-drawing plastic deformation. As a result, the surface of a Iow-finned heat exchanger is about four times the surface of a bare tubes heat exchanger of similar size. Therefore, a needed performance can be achieved with a smaller size and a lower water consumption. The usage of INTEGRALLY FINNED TUBES (with outside diameter of 16 mm and over) has often proven to be a winning choice against exchangers built with small bare tubes, or plate exchangers, in terms of both price and size. Moreover they show a better resistance to fouling (the average time between cleaning can be up to three times longer!).
For industrial applications, where high performance and rugged Ionglasting construction are required, Flovex has chosen to use, for all standard heat exchangers, INTEGRALLY FINNED TUBES.
Low-finned tubes for heat exchangers
Low-finned tubes give about four time the surface of a bare tubes heat exchanger of similar size.
In addition to many years of experience in the use of integrally finned tubes, in copper and copper alloys, Flovex has used, in response to specific customer applications, a wide range of other materials, both with finned and with bare tubes.
