Pillow Plate Heat Exchangers Built to Never Clog
Fully welded, gasket-free plates for oily, sticky or abrasive fluids, clamp-on, immersed, or custom to your tank. Free design check, no obligation.
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One Product, Seven Solutions
A pillow plate is never just a product. It is engineered and calculated for your application. Single plates or full banks, across food & drink, pharmaceutical, chemical, metallurgical, energy and process industries. If the configuration you need doesn't exist in the catalogue yet, our engineers design it with you.
Clamp-On Tank Jackets
Bolt straight onto an existing tank wall, no welding, no disassembly, no downtime. Heat or cool through the wall with zero product contact.
Immersion Plates
Drop straight into tanks, vats or open water. Convective motion improves heat transfer even in stagnant liquid, with no moving parts.
Heat Recovery Units
Capture residual heat from oily, dusty or corrosive exhaust gases that would clog a standard tube bundle. Removable cartridge design for maintenance without downtime.
Bulk Solid Heat Exchange
Warm or cool sands, seeds, fertiliser, sugar or pellets as they fall through the plates under gravity alone. No dust extraction system required.
Falling Film Chillers & Ice Banks
Instant ice-water cooling near 0°C, or build ice banks overnight to shift cooling load off peak energy tariffs.
Vacuum Systems
Evaporate and concentrate heat sensitive products at low temperature and pressure (food concentrates, wastewater, pharmaceutical drying) without the fouling that clogs conventional vacuum coils.
Tanks, Conveyors & Ducts
The plate becomes the process surface itself: baths, hoppers, tunnels and conveyor beds with a hygienic, polished stainless face.
Why Engineers Specify Turnbull & Scott
Every pillow plate we specify is calculated for your fluid, pressure and geometry, from 304 stainless through to titanium, duplex and nickel alloys, rated to 100+ bar. If the configuration doesn't exist in the catalogue yet, our engineers design it with you.
Common Questions From Engineers Considering Pillow Plate
Will a pillow plate actually fit my existing tank or process?
Every pillow plate is engineered and calculated for the specific application: single plates, banked arrays, clamp-on jackets or immersion configurations, in materials from 304 stainless to titanium. If the exact configuration you need isn't in the catalogue, our engineers design it with you as part of the free design check.
We've had exchangers foul, clog or leak before. How is this different?
Pillow plates are CNC laser-welded with no gaskets, seals or joints to fail, rated to 100+ bar. The flat, smooth surface resists the fouling that clogs finned tube and gasketed plate exchangers in oily, sticky, dusty or abrasive service, and it steam-cleans or pressure-washes without dismantling.
What actually happens when I enquire? Will I get a sales call?
You'll get a free design check from a UK engineer, not a call centre script. We look at your fluid, pressure, temperature and geometry and give you a straight answer on fit, with no obligation to proceed.
Custom equipment sounds expensive. What will it cost?
Every application is different, so pricing is quoted after the free design check, not before, with no published catalogue price to hide behind or inflate.
Enquire → free design check → straight answer on fit and budget. No obligation at any stage.
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- ✓ Seven solution families: clamp-on, immersion, heat recovery, bulk solid, vacuum, falling film, and custom process surfaces
- ✓ CNC laser-welded, gasket-free, no fouling, no leaks, rated to 100+ bar
- ✓ Engineered to your fluid, pressure and geometry, not off-the-shelf
- ✓ 90 years of UK engineering, trusted by 500+ specifiers and contractors
- ✓ Free design check, no obligation
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