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Overmoulding aids heat-exchange reliability

A Chemical Process Solutions product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Mar 16, 2006

Calorplast's thermoplastic heat exchangers are manufactured using a novel overmoulding technique.

Calorplast's thermoplastic heat exchangers are manufactured using a novel overmoulding technique.

Typical processes used to mould the tubes into the plates are very unlikely to produce consistent quality joints.

Calorplast uses a process that achieves 100% sealing of the tubes to the plate, using melting under precisely controlled reproducible conditions.

Overmoulding is an injection moulding process where the tubes are inserted into a preheated mould, and then the melted polymer is injected over the melted tube ends, to form either a stable collector or a connector element.

With this method the raw material will melt completely under high temperature and pressure, joining together with the melt of the other material.

The solidified material has a completely homogeneous structure.

The Calorplast range includes immersion, shell and tube, tube-plate, flexible and gas-water heat exchangers in PVDF, PP, PE, and PFA (Teflon), available in the UK from Chemical Process Solutions.

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