Scraped surface heat exchangers
The Contherm® scraped-surface heat exchanger allows for rapid cooling and gentle heating of highly viscous fluids. The heat exchanger contains motorized surface-scraping blades that prevent fouling and protect delicate food and personal care products.
When to select a scraped surface heat exchanger?
- When the duty is cooling a viscous fluid after pasteurization for packaging.
- When the duty requires the crystallization of fluids at the surface of the heat exchanger..
- When the product viscosity or particulates would cause excessive fouling and maintenance costs.
- When gentle and precise heating is desired to preserve key texture, flavour or nutritive components in a food product.
Contherm® scraped surface heat exchangers are used for cooling viscous, heat sensitive, crystallizing or sticky food products. The heat exchangers are also used for heating fluids with sensitive particulate matter in manufacturing pharmaceuticals and personal care products.
Alfa Laval’s Contherm range is the market’s most complete scraped-surface portfolio. Alfa Laval’s rotating scraping technology continuously removes fouling material during processing. Gentle handling preserves the quality of shear-sensitive products while simultaneously providing high efficiency with a larger flow area and reduced pressure drop.
Related products
Canada's Food Heating Experts
In Central Canada
Vikram Nagpal Regional Sales Manager 
+1 888 253 2226, Ext. 338
Email Vikram
In Quebec:
Pierre Gosselin, Directeur des ventes techniques
+1 450 466 1120
Écrire à Pierre
In Western Canada
Derek Gluschenko Regional Sales Manager 
+1 604 734 2225
Email Derek
Discover more with the complete Contherm® scraped surface heat exchanger range
Contherm® heat exchangers have long been an established solution for viscous, sticky, crystallizing and particulate products. And now with the market’s most complete scraped-surface portfolio, there is truly a Contherm® for every possible need.
Alfa Laval is the only supplier that can offer both single and double-wall scraped-surface heat transfer solutions, as well as models specially designed to handle extreme product pressures. We also work closely with every customer to fully understand process needs and challenges, and can offer unique testing to make sure the suggested solution is right. That’s how we ensure Contherm® scraped surface heat exchangers are always fully tailored to fit the intended application.
What is a surface scraped heat exchanger?
How is a surface scraped heat exchanger different from other static heat exchangers and how does it work? Learn more in this video.
Why choose Contherm®?
With 50 years of application experience, Alfa Laval is now the only supplier which offers the full range of surface scraped heat exchangers. Discover the advantages of working with Alfa Laval Contherm® in your production line.
Single wall or double wall scraped surface heat exchanger: Which Contherm should I choose?
Depending on your application needs, you may require a single wall or double wall solution, or a combination of different Contherm products. Here are the questions to ask, to help you make the right choice.
Even more with Contherm® Max double wall heat exchanger
Discover how you can increase your capacity with the new Contherm® Max and why this double-wall solution makes our family of products truly unique.
Proven to give you more
Cedar's Mediterranean Foods is a leading manufacturer of hummus, with products in stores across the United States. Thanks to Contherm®, they can ensure a quality, all-natural product capable of surviving a long shelf-life without preservatives.
More possibilities in more applications
The Contherm® range of scraped surface heat exchangers can provide high efficiency and capacity in duties with challenging process requirements that can result in loss of quality or fouling in traditional heat exchangers. This includes applications involving viscous, crystallizing, sticky or heat-sensitive products, as well as those with particulate matter.
As a result, Contherm® heat exchangers can offer endless opportunities for continuous and semi-continuous processing of products across many industries.
Personal care
Consumers have exacting demands when it comes to their choice of health and beauty products. Contherm® heat exchanger units can help your business reliably deliver quality in products such as:
- Body lotions
- Shampoos and conditioners
- Make-up products like mascara
- Toothpaste
Food
Contherm scraped-surface heat exchangers offer benefits in food applications where preserving valuable colour, flavour and nutritive components is essential. Example duties include:
- Soups
- Sauces
- Dressings
- Fruit and vegetable purees
- Jellies
- Yogurt fruit
- Hummus
- Cream cheese
- Spreads
- Confectionary
- Protein