Plastic profiles for efficient heat recovery
Solutions for industrial heat recovery
Most industrial production processes require heat for sterilizing, cooking, drying, or melting of intermediates and products. Accordingly, process heating represents more than one third of the total energy consumed by the US manufacturing sector.
Heat is mostly obtained from combustion of fossil fuels, biomass or production by-products. As for any combustion process, full heat recovery from exhaust gases is crucial for energy efficiency yet highly challenging due to the corrosiveness of condensing flue gas. (Co-)combustion of fluorine by-products, for instance, leads to the formation of hydroflouric acid, which attacks virtally all materials including glass.
Technoform's polymer based heat transfer solutions offer a reliable and cost efficient way of tapping into this unused source of energy. Their exceptional heat conductivity and corrosion resistance enable compact heat recovery systems that work in virtually all gas compositions.
Reference case: Plastic replaces corrosion-resistant metal
We helped W. L. Gore & Associates to replace all their corrosion-resistant metal with engineered plastic in the framing system of the GORE mercury filter. This example illustrates the performance of plastic, showing that it could also be used in numerous other applications and industries.
Materials for the heat recovery industry
Corrosion and acid-resistant. See the materials with excellent thermal conductivity credentials that make our solutions for the heat recovery industry possible.
