Recuperative Plate Heat Exchangers

REKULUVO / REKUGAVO Counterflow plate type technology

GEA Ecoflex counterflow plate-type heat exchangers provide optimum heat recovery efficiency in the most compact space.

Often used as combustion air preheaters in ammonia and methanol plants or in fired heaters, they are also suitable in environmental technology as flue gas reheaters in DeNox or catalytic combustion units.

Counterflow systems for highest efficiency.

Operating mode
Recuperative plate heat exchangers, based on modular heat recovery, have been in use in industrial plants since 1989. In each module the media flows through the plates in counterflow with absolutely leak-free separation. Counterflow heat exchangers are the most efficient exchangers available.

REKULUVO recuperative air preheaters

The REKULUVO is used for combustion air preheating in power stations or in chemical and petrochemical plants, e.g. primary reformers or fired heaters.

REKUGAVO recuperative flue gas reheaters

The REKUGAVO is used for flue gas reheating in DeNox units, typically in waste-to-energy plants or catalytic combustion units.

Technical Parameters for REKULUVO / REKUGAVO

Medium

Gaseous media such as air or flue gas, with maximum humidity of 100% and maximum dust load of up to approx. 100 g/m3.

Load Volume flow Temperature Pressure Efficiency

Pollutants such as sulphur, chlorides, fluorides. Min. 5,000 Nm3/h, up to approx. 2,000,000 Nm3/h Up to approx. 550 C Up to approx. 400 mbar pressure difference Up to 97%

Excellent heat recovery.

Air Flue Gas

Design
Both REKULUVO and REKUGAVO can be designed with one or two stages. The inlet and outlet hoods arranged above and below the REKULUVO supply, combine and discharge the individual volume flows from the rows connected in parallel. While the plates remain vertical for better cleaning behaviour, the hoods can be adapted to suit any duct routing.

Advantages
The counterflow design provides excellent heat recovery rates in a surprisingly space saving design. The completely welded design provides technically leak-free media separation. No pollutants are transferred and the volume flow does not increase. Good accessibility to heating surfaces, easy maintenance and repair thanks to the simple modular design. Better waste heat recovery means no fan-related bottlenecks in existing plants, especially in steam reformers, resulting in higher productivity.

Flue Gas

Air

Cleaning system
With media involving high dust loads, the REKULUVO or REKUGAVO is equipped with high-performance sootblowers on the flue gas inlet side.

Retractable rake-type sootblowers clean the entire plate.

Assembly of plate packs in the casing in the workshop.

Retractable rake-type sootblower in a lignite-fired power plant.

Combustion air preheater for the chemical industry

The REKULUVO is used as a combustion air preheater in the chemical and petrochemical industries. Its unequalled high efficiency combined with its compact design boosts plant productivity.

Combustion air preheating with REKULUVO

REKULUVO for steam reformers

The REKULUVO can be used for air preheating in the primary reformer of steam reformers of ammonia and methanol plants. It is a key unit for the capacity of the entire plant. The REKULUVO is chosen when increased capacity is required.

REKULUVO in a large methanol plant.

Primary Reformer

Waste Heat Recovery Duct 450 C 140 C

Flue Gas

Stack

380 C REKULUVO

30 C

25 C Air

Air preheater for power stations

Thanks to its compact design, the REKULUVO can replace existing rotary air preheaters in power stations, making a decisive contribution in increasing boiler efficiency due to its leak-free operation.

Successful retrofit in a lignite-fired power station (220 MW)

Flue gas heating with REKUGAVO

DeNOx & waste incineration plants

The REKUGAVO is often first choice for reheating flue gas between desulphurisation and SCR-DeNOx, and its high thermal recovery rate allows a very small temperature approach and, consequently, large energy saving.

This REKUGAVO , one of the worlds largest plate heat exchangers with integrated catalyst, operates in the low-dust DeNOx system of a 300 MWel coal-fired power station (heat exchange surface: 240,000 m2, total weight: approx. 4,000 t).

The SCR-DeNOx system catalyst can be easily combined with the REKUGAVO resulting in a compact DeNOx unit.

Catalytic combustion
The REKUGAVO is increasingly being used in catalytic combustion plants, combining low consumption of energy from external sources with high efficiency levels.

320 C Ammonia / water injection Catalyzer Natural gas burner 295 C 320 C

Hot stage Carbon Steel

129 C

158 C

Steam

Cold stage Hastelloy

65 C

80 C

109 C

Steam coil for preheating

Catalytic combustion unit in a PA plant with integrated catalyst.

GEA Ecoflex GmbH For more than 75 years, GEA Ecoflex has been developing customeroriented and cost-optimised plate heat exchanger solutions for the following industries:

HVAC general industry refrigeration sugar chemical textile

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pulp / paper food pharmaceutical marine power

China
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The specifications contained in this brochure unit are intended only to serve as a non-binding guide to our products and services and are not subject to guarantee. Binding specifications, especially pertaining to performance data and suitability for specific operating purposes, are dependent on individual circumstances at the operation location and can, therefore, only be made in terms of precise requests.