Free Flow plate heat exchangers

Free Flow plate heat exchangers

Our SONDEX® Free Flow plate heat exchangers are excellent choices for applications that use media with particle-rich contents, fouling tendency, or high viscosity. We customize each Free Flow heat exchanger to suit your application and media type. The contact-free plate channels ensure an unimpeded flow and long intervals between cleaning.

We set the new standard for improved performance and reliability when your media require gentle treatment and are unsuitable for regular heat exchangers due to viscosity, fouling tendency, or particle contents.

Features and benefits

Applications

  • Dairy/food/beverage industry
    – e.g. food production, like juice and alcohol processing
  • Sugar industry
    – e.g. sugar production, such as concentration of sugar content in sugarcane juice
  • Biogas industry
  • Wastewater industry
  • Pulp and paper industry
  • Mining industry

Technical specifications

  • Connections from DN25 to DN500 (1” to 20”)
  • Frames designed according to FEA and PED 2014/68/EU (EN13445) and ASME sec VIII, Div. 1 construction standards
  • Plate materials: AISI 304/316, titanium, SMO, Hastelloy*
  • Gasket materials: EPDM-HT, NBR-HT, Viton*
  • Plate heights up to 3.5 m (11.5 ft)
  • Flow rates up to 1,600 m3/h (7,045 gpm)
  • Plate gap from 5 to 12 mm (0.2” to 0.5”)
  • Working pressure up to 10 bar (145 psi)
  • Working temperatures from -20 °C to 180 °C (-4 °F to 356 °F)

Chintamani Unde

Service Head

As a Senior Manager for Service & Repair at Softcon Systems Pvt. Ltd., Chintamani Unde contributes knowledge and a commitment to providing outstanding service solutions.

Chintamani is essential to boosting customer happiness and upholding the organization's high standards of quality because of its emphasis on streamlining repair procedures and guaranteeing operational excellence.

Vinayak Hegde

Director Sales

Vinayak Hegde is a seasoned professional with 26 years of experience in creating strategic roadmaps, accelerating corporate growth, and producing significant outcomes. He has effectively led high-achieving teams, handled a variety of activities, and overseen yearly revenues of INR 60 crores. Vinayak has been instrumental in helping Siemens and GE double their revenue in record time by using creative tactics to break into cutthroat sectors.

He is an expert in IIoT, linked enterprise solutions, and product management, and he was awarded the Best Project Award at IIM Bengaluru. He also provides automation knowledge and thought leadership. Vinayak's dedication to quality keeps propelling revolutionary achievement in a variety of sectors.

Chandrakant Kulkarni

Managing Director

The founder and managing director of Softcon Systems Pvt. Ltd., Chandrakant Kulkarni, has more than 20 years of experience in industrial automation. He has been the driving force behind Softcon's success from its creation in 2003 by providing complete Power Management and Process Automation solutions that encompass design, engineering, manufacture, testing, installation, and repair.

Leading consumers from a variety of industries trust Softcon because of Chandrakant's dedication to assembling a talented workforce and guaranteeing outstanding outcomes. He developed his skills as an Automation Executive at Thermax Limited before to Softcon, which served as the basis for his goal of offering top-notch, client-focused automation solutions.