Advantages
- Very compact design
- High heat transfer coefficients (2 – 4 times shell & tube designs)
- Expandable by adding plates
- Ease of maintenance
- Plates manufactured in many alloys
- All connections are at one end of the exchanger
- Good temperature approaches
- Fluid residence time is very short
- No dead spots
- Leakage (if it should occur) is generally to the outside – not between the fluids
- Low fouling due to high turbulence