High Efficiency Heat Exchange
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High temperature heat exchangers are critical components in many types of applications. To provide a product suitable for use in severe operating environments, FlexEnergy Inc has developed a new evolutionary heat exchanger design that employs a highly-effective counter-flow plate-fin heat exchange matrix in a construction that avoids damaging thermal stresses.
The unique design of the heat exchanger core provides exceptionally long life even under the harshest thermal transients, overcoming the fatigue problems of conventional designs. This high durability, combined with a low parts count, results in a very attractive life-cycle cost. A competitive first cost of the heat exchanger is realized from the use of conventional alloys and state of the art manufacturing.
FlexEnergy Inc can apply its breakthrough heat exchanger technology to other types of high temperature processes. In addition, our innovative and well-developed manufacturing capabilities can be applied to cost-effectively produce other components subject to similar high temperature design regimes and requirements.
Seeking significant improvements in recuperator durability in a compact and economical design, FlexEnergy Inc has developed a new recuperator technology. This evolutionary heat exchanger design employs a highly effective counter-flow plate-fin heat exchange matrix in a construction that avoids damaging thermal stresses.
The FlexEnergy Inc Recuperator is designed with folded fins for a high heat exchange area and volume. This highly-effective surface has the added benefit of being more compact than conventional technologies. Key to the technology is a unit-cell construction applied to a brazed plate-fin heat exchanger design. By allowing cells to mechanically slip and deflect in response to the thermal gradients experienced by a heat exchanger, the thermal fatigue seen in more typical monolithic designs is effectively eliminated.
