Neutralisation

Heating oil for caustic refining, and the hot water wash that follows soapstock separation.

Recommended type

Standard Gasketed Plate Heat Exchanger

A clean single-phase duty on paper, but soap traces carried past the separator are what foul the plate pack. Gasket compound is selected against the caustic and the free fatty acid, not against the temperature alone.

Gasketed units on their frames, built and waiting for despatch. The painted carbon-steel frame is what a gasketed plate heat exchanger normally looks like; the plate pack between the tie bars is stainless, and it is the pack, not the frame, that touches the process.

Plates & Gaskets Gasketed PHE: enquire