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Technical Papers

To support our heat exchangers and other process equipment, we will be adding technical papers on various topics and other areas of interest to our customers. These papers will be categorized by subject and by date.

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Choosing the Right Gaskets
The operational cycle and hence the availability of a plate heat exchanger is highly dependent on the gaskets. This makes the choice of gaskets decisive. This article will tell you more about materials, lifetime and applications . . . read more.

Compact Condensing
Condensation is one of the most important heat transfer operations performed in the the hydrocarbon process industry (HPI) . . . read more.

Compabloc Exchangers in Tamoil's Refinery
Four Compabloc exchangers have been successfully operating since 1997 in Tamoil’s refinery at Collombey in Switzerland. The most important criteria for the selection were reliability, compactness, and its availability in titanium at an economic cost . . . read more.

Compabloc Reboiler Refinery
The Rhodia petrochemical company operates 110 factories worldwide. When the company needed a new reboiler for its petrochemical plant at Paulínia, Brazil, Rhodia turned to Alfa Laval for a solution . . . read more.

Condensers Compabloc Case Story Chemical
A major European chemical company increased production reliability by replacing shell-and-tube (S&T) condensers with Alfa Laval Compabloc condensers . . . read more.

Saving space at the Syzran oil refinery
Alfa Laval Compabloc condensers and reboilers take up very little space, so they were a natural contender when a new stripper tower was required for the gas sweetening process at the Syzran oil refinery . . . read more.

Taking Care of Gaskets
If I were a plate heat exchanger I’d be looking forward to a few days at Alfa Laval’s reconditioning and re-gasketting center in the United Kingdom. It would be the human equivalent to going to a health spa - If you want to read this article please send us an email and we will send it to you. Email

Compabloc - The World's Most Compact Reboiler
When the petrochemical company Rhodia needed a new reboiler for its petrochemical plant at Paulínia, Brazil, they installed a Compabloc thermosiphon reboiler at the base of a stripping tower that separates alcohol from water. Deciding on the extremely compact Compabloc solution instead of installing a traditional shell-and-tube reboiler enabled Rhodia to save both money and space. - If you want to read this article please send us an email and we will send it to you. Email

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