Alfa Laval
T2B Gasketed Plate Heat Exchanger
The Alfa Laval T2 is the smallest gasketed plate-and-frame heat exchanger in the Industrial line, built from corrugated metal plates sealed by clip-on gaskets. It packs efficient heat transfer into a very compact unit for general heating and cooling duties across virtually all industries.
Product Benefits
- Plate efficiency, small scale: For modest flows, the T2 offers the same principle that makes larger plate exchangers attractive: high thermal efficiency in a small footprint.
- Area set by plate count: Heat-transfer area is adjusted simply by adding or removing plates.
- Quick gasket renewal: Clip-on gaskets make gasket renewal quick, and the unit opens easily for inspection and supports CIP (cleaning-in-place).
- Fits tight spaces: Its compact frame and threaded connections make it easy to fit into tight utility corners, packaged skids and OEM machinery where a shell-and-tube unit would be oversized.
Where It's Used
- General heating and cooling: The T2 suits a wide range of general heating and cooling applications.
- Small utility duties: Typical examples are small utility services, sample coolers and point-of-use heating or cooling within larger plants.
- Industries served: Users span biotech and pharmaceutical, chemicals, energy and utilities, food, dairy and beverages, home and personal care, HVAC and refrigeration, machinery and manufacturing, marine and transportation, mining, minerals and pigments, pulp and paper, semiconductor and electronics, steel, and water and waste treatment.
Good to Know
- Materials as supplied: Plates are supplied in a widely used molybdenum-alloyed stainless steel grade, with gaskets in nitrile or EPDM, and connections available in stainless steel or titanium.
- Frame and design range: The frame is epoxy-painted carbon steel, and the design covers vacuum conditions as well as sub-zero and high-temperature duties.
- Simple threaded hook-up: Connections are of the external threaded type, which keeps installation simple in small-bore piping.
- Easy step up in size: Because it is the entry point of the Industrial range, moving up in capacity later is a matter of stepping to a larger frame in the same family.
