Heating and cooling, including both ambient and process heating and cooling, are crucial to almost every industry. Together, they account for a significant proportion of global energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Fortunately, the transition to more sustainable solutions has begun and the industrial heating and cooling landscape is changing rapidly.
Brazed plate heat exchangers from SWEP are the ideal solution for demanding industrial process and production applications. Robust and compact, they offer long-term reliability with minimal maintenance. Their flexible design and our ability to customize both the plate and brazing materials bring unbeatable performance and lifetime cost compared with other technologies.
Heat pumps are three‐to‐five times more energy efficient than natural gas boilers. Rather than producing heat, they extract and upgrade ambient energy at lower temperature from sources such as outdoor or indoor air, soil, or surface or groundwater.
Industrial chillers are designed to cool equipment, materials, chemicals and perishable products directly, helping to maintain safe, efficient manufacturing processes and environments.
Maintaining precise temperature control is crucial to electronics and semiconductor manufacturing.
Rather than producing heat, heat pumps extract and upgrade ambient energy, including from outdoor or indoor air, soil, or surface or groundwater. Industrial processes that require temperatures under 120 °C can be fully electrified using current heat pump technology and can be made carbon-neutral depending on the source of electricity.
So far, the food, beverage, and tobacco industries account for the greatest uptake of heat pumps, with more industries expected to join the trend as the price of natural gas continues to rise. In the near future, the industry will have commercially available technology that can manage up to 150°C. SWEP will be there – with innovative solutions and new technologies that make the most of every system.
— Barry Commoner