Are you interested in the market’s most reliable, maintenance friendly and cost-efficient seawater cooling system for your vessel? Meet the Pleat.
Introduced in 2011, the patented Pleat is still the favoured seawater cooler for hundreds of shipowners worldwide. As the Pleat cooler comes in a variety of sizes, it offers effective solutions for central cooling, auxiliary, and various combinations of engine cooling, and is applicable for both maritime and industrial use.
The patented Pleat is a module-based titanium cooler for seawater to freshwater, with design pressure 6 bars.
The Pleat cooler is a flexible setup and comes in a variety of sizes for spare efficiency and scaling capacity. For example, it is easily scalable by adding or removing elements. Hydroniq Coolers has also made it possible to combine one seawater system with multiple freshwater systems into one unit.
Why the Pleat?
But why the Pleat cooler, you may ask? Let us help you answer that question:
• Long service intervals: the modern design of the Pleat ensures a reliable product which significantly reduces the need to maintain the system.
• Safe and easy dismantling and assembly: maintenance of the Pleat involves dismantling, high-pressure cleaning, and assembly of a few robust elements that are easy to get watertight again. To see how easy the Pleat units are assembled and dismantled, check out this film.
• Quick maintenance and cleaning: Compared to a traditional heat exchanger, one Pleat cooling element is equal to approximately 15 plates. Whereas cleaning a traditional plate heat exchanger can take a significant amount of time to complete, cleaning of the Pleat can easily be done buy one person within one hour.
• Low spare parts consumption: as the service intervals are far and few between, and it is so easy and quick to maintain the Pleat, spare parts requirements are a fraction of what you need for plate heat exchangers.
• Quickest return on investment: The combination of all of the above allows shipowners and operators to save time and money, providing you with the market’s quickest return on investment when you include all costs, including product cost, installation, maintenance and spare parts.
Configure your own cooler
To help ship designers, shipyards and shipowners to identify the optimal seawater cooling system configuration for their specific vessel, Hydroniq Coolers has introduced an online calculator for the Pleat seawater cooler.
It is an easily accessible online tool that enables users to quickly identify the potential cooling system for their specific vessel requirements. It helps to find alternative solutions for the required cooling demand, and by further working with the Hydroniq team, we will find the optimal solution with the lowest possible capex and opex.
By simply inputting basic parameters such as required effect (kW) and flow (m3/h) as well as expected temperature of inbound and outbound water, the online configurator will automatically calculate the various cooling systems options that fits your requirements. The search results include technical data such as number of cooling elements, weight and required space on board. It also allows you to download a GA (general arrangement) drawing of each recommended solution.
The online cooling system configurator also has an advanced search function that allows you to enter specific values on both the freshwater and seawater and side, including glycol, fouling and salinity percentages, plus max pressure drop values.
For more information about the Pleat, please contact Jan Inge, Magnar, Nils Andre or Lars Elling in our sales team.
About Hydroniq Coolers
Hydroniq Coolers’ Pleat cooler is manufactured and assembled at the company’s headquarter outside Aalesund, Norway.
The company is a supplier of cooling solutions and heat exchangers to the shipbuilding market and selected land-based applications. Its main products are Hydroniq Rack and Hydroniq Pleat which both offer highly competitive operational and maintenance friendly solutions for seawater cooling. The name “Hydroniq” refers to regulation of temperature through utilisation of liquids.
