Semi-welded Plate Heat Exchangers

Series FPG

With partnership
into the future
FUNKE is a leader in the development and production of quality heat exchangers with a heat transfer area of
up to 2 400 m. The range of products comprises shell-and-tube heat exchangers, bolted and brazed plate heat
exchangers as well as oil / air cooling units and electrical oil pre-heaters. Thus, as one of the few producers
worldwide, FUNKE offers solutions with optimum thermodynamic designs for different industries and virtually all
applications.
FUNKE focuses on customer orientation, highest quality standards, exibility and advisory skills important
benefits a company of just the right size is able to offer.

Semi-welded plate heat exchangers

refrigeration engineering without any risk
Gasketed plate heat exchangers reach their limits when it
comes to critical media as e.g. refrigerants for which the
use of gaskets is not advisable. For these demanding applications FUNKE provides the semi-welded heat exchangers
of the FPG-series. These are used as evaporators, condensers or oil coolers in refrigerating, industry-, and process cooling as well as for special chemical applications.

Design and function

The Plates of the FPG-Heat Exchangers base on the proven technology of the FUNKE FP-series. A cassette is made

of two corrugated heat exchanger plates which are assembled in a 180 angle to each other. Back to back these are
laser welded alongside the sealing groove provided for
the gasket. The aggressive medium or the refrigerant runs
through the inlet aperture in this now created sealed ow
channel between the plates. In the entry zone, the grooves
of the plates have a special pattern so that the medium can
freely run into the cassette.
On the outside, each cassette is fitted with a gasket. When
the critical medium passes from one cassette to the other,
only two of the four ring gaskets at the apertures get in
contact with the medium. These two ring gaskets are made
of a special high resistant material. To ensure awless
sealing these gaskets in special design are twice as high
as conventional gaskets. Furthermore, in the entry zone of
the medium the profile of the gaskets are tapered on sealing ring and bridging piece.

The ow gap of the less critical medium between the single

cassettes is sealed with application-specific gaskets of
proven quality. The gaskets are glueless mounted with the
absolutely reliable T-Clip-System.

In the entry zone of each medium double welding seams of

the cassettes and double gaskets between the cassettes
guarantee for leakage free operation without any danger of
mixing of the media.

Advantages

specially formed inlet channel

Very exible system. The Adaption of the heat exchanger

to new operating conditions is feasible any time by exchanging or adding components.
Facile cleaning of gasketed exchanging surface.
Low soiling tendency.
Fast and ecomomic mounting.
High heat transfer coefficient.
Extreme corrosion resistance.
Uncomplicated changing of gaskets (combined gasket
frame).

welded seam

inlet channel for media

Material
As standard, FUNKE heat transfer plates are produced in
1.4404 / AISI 316L. Alternatively titanium is available. The
thickness of the material is 0.6 mm (other materials on
request).

Combined gaskets:
Gaskets made of two different materials,
i.e. the ring gaskets are made of another
material than the main gasket frame
(e.g. chloropene for the ring and NBR
for the frame)

Applications
HVAC
Refrigeration Engineering

For the ring gaskets at the change-over area of the critical

medium (as e.g. ammoniac or similar) chloropene gaskets
are used. For the ow gap of the uncritical media NBR or
EPDM-gaskets are used.

Chemical Industry
Sugar
Food
Marine
Power
Paper

Technical data:
max. allowable pressure: 30 bar
max. allowable temperature: 180C
min. allowable temperature: -35 C
Dimensions
Surface
area / Plate
m

mm

mm

mm

mm

mm

mm

FPG 16

0,16

933

310

694

126

128

250-1000

DN 50 / 2

30

FPG 31

0,30

1332

480

894

225

204

500-3000

DN 100

200

FPG 62

0,60

1835

620

1306

290

225

500-4000

DN 150

450

FPG 70

0,70

1740

760

1130

395

285

500-4000

DN 200

560

Plate type

L2

Connections

Max.
heat exchanger
surface area m

FPG semi-welded plates

Specialists Guaranteed Quality

Quality means safety. Each unit built by FUNKE is

design and pressure tested. Additional approvals are also
available in accordance with quality authorities such as:
American Bureau of Shipping (ABS)
Bureau Veritas (BV)
Det Norske Veritas (DNV)
Germanischer Lloyd (GL)
Lloyds Register of Shipping (LRS)
Schweizerischer Verein fr technische
Inspektionen (SVTI)
Technischer berwachungsverein (TV)

Subject to technical modifications FPG-0910 E

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as well as customers test and inspection regulations.

Funke Wrmeaustauscher Apparatebau GmbH

Zur Dessel 1
31028 Gronau / Leine Germany
T +49 (0) 51 82 / 582-0
F +49 (0) 51 82 / 582-48
info@funke.de
www.funke.de

FUNKE has been certified according to DIN EN ISO

9001:2008 and is an approved manufacturer according to:
EU Pressure Equipment Directive
97 / 23 / EC (PED), Module H / H1
HP0 in connection with DIN EN 729-2
ASME U-Stamp
GOST R (incl. RTN & hygiene certificate)
China Certificate