Preventing product contamination with double tube plate heat exchangers

Ensuring product safety is the number one priority for any producer of pharmaceutical products, and a key aspect of this is avoiding contamination during production. Design and construction plays a key role in achieving this, and the heat exchangers used for processes such as pasteurisation and sterilisation are no exception.

There are three main elements to preventing contamination occurring in tubular heat exchangers: production quality, system design, and system maintenance. The quality of materials (such as the use of stainless steel), and the quality of construction (precise welding and joints) are both important.