Plate heat exchanger

[RF Lighting]

I'm after a plate heat exchanger to supply a single radiator about 1000mm x 600mm

Preferably an insulated one suited to take 15mm pipes in and out. Can someone point me in the right direction please?

 

[Dan Robinson]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Stainless...lation-/261972005010?var=&hash=item3cfebf9092

 

[RF Lighting]

Perfect thanks Dan!

 

[Dan Robinson]

No worries.

 

[Agile]

One wonders exactly why you are planning to use a plate HE to transfer heat to this radiator.

To make it work it will need a pump to circulate the secondary water, a filling loop and an expansion vessel.

Normally also a time clock and a room stat and possibly a relay to call for heat from the boiler.

With all that equipment, there must be a very compelling reason for using the plate!

Tony

 

[PullerGas]

Antares do good value SS plate heat exchanges, but you need to know the parameters of the Primary & Secondary mediums.

 

[RF Lighting]

One wonders exactly why you are planning to use a plate HE to transfer heat to this radiator.

To make it work it will need a pump to circulate the secondary water, a filling loop and an expansion vessel.

Normally also a time clock and a room stat and possibly a relay to call for heat from the boiler.

With all that equipment, there must be a very compelling reason for using the plate!

Tony

The plate is to supply an office in a detached garage. I want to make the garage a sealed pressurised system dosed up with antifreeze inhibitor as some of the pipework runs through an unheated part of the building.

I previously had this connected directly to the open vented house heating system. One of the pipes froze and burst in the depths of winter and a pretty devastating flood ensued.

I've now piped up the garage onto its own zone valve direct off the boiler to supply the plate. If the worst happens again and a pipe bursts the water which escapes will be minimal.

I realise I'll need a circulator, filling point, expansion vessel and T&P valve plus the associated wiring just to supply this one rad, but I think it'll be a much better setup once it's all installed.

 

[Agile]

It seems a lot of trouble to go to when the whole system could have been dosed with antifreeze but at least you can now have independent control of the heating there.

Tony

 

[St0rmer66]

Or just lag the pipes! A frost thermostat and pipe-stat to turn it off again would be still be far cheaper given that it's already on it's own zone too!