Sustainable industrial chemical solutions
The chemical industry is a significant energy consumer, with plants facing rising costs and CO2 emissions. At Alfa Laval, we deliver energy-efficient solutions to help chemical plants reduce operating expenses and achieve sustainability goals. By optimizing energy usage, your plant can increase profitability while minimizing environmental impact—driving success in a competitive market.
Discover the benefits of partnering with Alfa Laval
Alfa Laval has decades of experience working with chemical plants to optimize the efficiency of their processes. We offer a broad portfolio of high-performance compact heat exchangers that make it possible to recover more waste heat, and thereby reduce fuel needs and your carbon footprint, while simultaneously boosting production capacity and minimizing material consumption.
With more efficient thermal solutions, you can even save money using lower-grade steam or generate additional income by selling off surplus electricity and heat to neighboring plants.
Chemical producers demand continuous processes and sustainable performance. With a long record of experience partnering with chemical plants around the world, Alfa Laval has the know-how to support the challenging process demands on which your business relies. Count on us for highly efficient and sustainable industrial chemical solutions that do the toughest jobs with consistency, quality and reliability.
Our chemical experts can partner with you from start to finish. We closely work with you to design the most efficient and profitable system for your processes. And thanks to our comprehensive service network, we have service engineers – and genuine Alfa Laval spare parts – on hand around the clock, anywhere in the world.
Top applications
Petrochemicals
Alfa Laval offers a comprehensive suite of solutions tailored to the unique needs of the petrochemical industry. Our compact and specialized heat exchangers enhance energy recovery, ultimately boosting profitability while minimizing costs, floor space and emissions. By partnering with clients from design to implementation, Alfa Laval ensures consistent, high-quality performance, providing the latest technology to optimize processes and reduce resource consumption effectively.
Inorganic chemicals
Alfa Laval’s tailored solutions for heat transfer, separation, condensation and evaporation are meticulously designed to optimize the production of essential inorganic chemicals. By enhancing productivity and efficiency while simultaneously curbing costs, energy usage and environmental impact, Alfa Laval empowers inorganic chemicals manufacturers to maintain a competitive edge and meet stringent regulatory requirements.
Fertilizers
By leveraging Alfa Laval's expertise and chemical process equipment, fertilizer producers can streamline operations, mitigate issues related to fouling and corrosion and harness waste heat for sustainable reuse within plant processes. Our compact heat exchangers not only significantly reduce capital expenditures but also yield substantial energy savings through innovative counter-current flow design, enabling precise temperature differentials. Alfa Laval’s solutions can help you enhance operational efficiency and soil yields, all while reducing your environmental impact.
Bio-based chemicals
In the bio-based chemicals industry, Alfa Laval is a trusted partner in enabling sustainable practices and maximizing resource efficiency. Utilizing biomass from various sources, bio-based chemicals offer a compelling alternative to traditional non-renewable resources. Alfa Laval's comprehensive range of efficient separation and heat transfer solutions addresses critical processes in bio-based production, empowering bio-based chemical manufacturers to enhance yield, product quality and sustainability across their operations.
Key products
Compabloc welded plate-and-block heat exchangers
Alfa Laval Compabloc is the champion of heat exchange: A proven solution for challenging chemical applications. With a counter-current flow that enables crossing temperatures in a single unit, it can offer optimal efficiency for demanding petrochemical duties. The close temperature approach also means cold stream can be heated just a few degrees cooler than incoming hot stream, maximizing heat recovery.
Welded spiral heat exchangers
Alfa Laval spiral heat exchangers are designed to handle the toughest heat transfer challenges. Whether it’s frequent fouling from dirty media, or limitations from pressure drop and floor space, they are the ultimate problem solver for liquid-to-liquid and two-phase duties. With a proven reputation for almost never fouling up, their robust, efficient and compact designs are ideal for challenging chemical production processes.
Gasketed plate-and-frame heat exchangers
Our wide range of industrial gasketed plate heat exchangers is suitable for a huge scope of inorganic chemical and petrochemical applications from heating, cooling and heat recovery to condensation and evaporation. We continuously update the industrial line to better meet the demands of customer processes. Today’s models set all new standards of efficiency, reliability and serviceability.
Customer cases
Reducing energy consumption at specialty chemicals plant
Balaji Amines, is the largest producer of methyl amines in India. With a decades-long partnership, they have 86 Alfa Laval heat exchangers installed, and the improved energy efficiency from their first eight Alfa Laval Compablocs has resulted in savings of around USD 700,000 per year.
Indirect heating and cooling in the chemical industry
With Alfa Laval T series plate heat exchangers in their reactors, Deccan Fine Chemicals could use less fresh water and glycol in their large-scale expansion. A solution that optimized the temperature of all their batch processes without costly shutdowns or maintenance from fouling.
Cutting emissions and boosting capacity
When Dow Wolff Cellulosics encountered an urgent issue with a worn-out shell-and-tube reboiler, they turned to Alfa Laval. We showed them the energy efficient potential of replacing two older units with more efficient plate technologies. The result was an annual energy saving of 22,400 GJ with a 1250-tonne reduction in CO2.
Using process energy the smart way at a paraxylene plant
A paraxylene plant in Asia is constantly looking for new ways to improve their energy efficiency. With Alfa Laval’s help, their engineers increased heat recovery by more than 23 MW after trading older air-cooled condensers for more efficient and compact plate heat exchangers.