Alfa Laval
MA30 Gasketed Plate Heat Exchanger
The Alfa Laval MA30 is a gasketed plate heat exchanger from the Industrial line, designed for high throughput and excellent thermal performance. With a large selection of plate and gasket types, and a heat transfer area that grows by simply adding plates, it adapts to a very wide range of heating and cooling duties.
Product Benefits
- Built for big flows: When flows are large, the generous connections and free channel handle high throughput with ease.
- Excellent thermal efficiency: The corrugated plate pack keeps heat transfer efficiency high even at those flow rates.
- Frame variants and certification: Several frame variants offer different pressure and temperature capabilities, certified to both ASME and PED, so one model family covers duties from moderate to demanding.
- Opens for cleaning: The gasketed construction means the unit can be opened for inspection and cleaning.
- Capacity you can revise: Capacity can be changed later by adding or removing plates, and that flexibility protects your investment as process requirements evolve.
Where It's Used
- Process and consumer industries: Alfa Laval positions the MA30 in biotech and pharmaceuticals, chemicals, food and beverages, and home and personal care.
- Energy, HVAC and water: It also covers energy and utilities, HVAC and refrigeration, and water and waste treatment.
- Heavy industry: Mining and minerals, pulp and paper, steel, and machinery and manufacturing all fall within its remit.
- Marine and semiconductors: Marine and transportation plus semiconductor production round out the list.
- Large liquid-to-liquid duties: In practice it handles the big liquid-to-liquid heating and cooling loads these plants share.
Good to Know
- Plate materials: Plates are available in standard and high-alloy stainless steels as well as titanium.
- Gasket options: Gasket choices include NBR, EPDM and FKM elastomers depending on position and service.
- Frame and connections: The frame and pressure plate are epoxy-painted carbon steel, with metal-lined connection options in stainless steel or titanium.
- Start from design conditions: Frame variant, plate material and gasket type together determine the allowable pressure and temperature, so selection should begin with your design conditions and the fluids involved.
- Keep spare gaskets: Gasket replacement is the main recurring maintenance task, so hold a spare set if uptime is critical.
