What is the Vahterus PSHE 7?
PSHE 7 is one plate size within Vahterus's custom-built fully welded Plate & Shell Heat Exchanger family. The company publishes 8–550 m² of heat-transfer area, DN150 plate-side nozzles, and DN25–500 shell-side nozzles; the welded circular plate pack sits inside a pressure shell with no external plate gaskets. Those dimensions do not establish thermal duty, approach temperature, pressure loss, or suitability for data-center water. Procurement should provide both fluid compositions and design cases, temperatures, flow, allowable pressure drop, fouling, pressure and temperature limits, materials, nozzle loads, cleanability, isolation and bypass, leak and cross-contamination detection, certification, inspection access, and replacement strategy. Because each unit is custom made, “PSHE 7” identifies the plate size rather than a complete repeatable bill of materials. The buyer should require the final plate count, shell geometry, construction materials, weld and pressure-vessel records, dry and operating weights, support reactions, and certified thermal calculation. Qualification should explain how each circuit is vented, drained, flushed, sampled, and chemically or mechanically cleaned, and whether the proposed execution can be opened. It should also define clean and fouled guarantees, internal-leak detection, allowable transients, thermal expansion, spare or bypass capacity, and the procedure and lead time for repair or replacement.