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Overview: Lytron is a prominent manufacturer of heat exchangers, serving industries such as military, aerospace, medical, and telecommunications. They offer both custom and standard solutions, ensuring high performance and reliability.
Custom Heat Exchangers: Lytron designs custom heat exchangers for high-performance applications, including plate-fin, flat-tube, and tube-fin types. They provide advanced thermal analysis and in-house testing, with manufacturing processes like vacuum brazing and heat treating to ensure quality and reduce lead times.
Heat Exchanger Technologies: Lytron offers plate-fin, tube-fin, and flat tube heat exchangers, customizable in size, configuration, and materials. Performance is measured using the Q/ITD metric for comparison across technologies.
Vacuum-Brazed Heat Exchangers: These aluminum exchangers offer superior heat transfer and reliability, with complete metallurgical bonding for rugged, leak-free products.
Plate-Fin Heat Exchangers: Designed for aerospace and military applications, these exchangers provide excellent thermal transfer with minimal size and weight, customizable with manifold ducting and coatings.
Flat Tube Heat Exchangers: Used in oil coolers and condensers, these exchangers allow customization in tube dimensions and can be painted or anodized for protection.
Tube-Fin Heat Exchangers: Customizable in tube configuration and frame, suitable for applications with stringent shock and vibration requirements.
Value-Added Assemblies: Lytron integrates heat exchangers with components like fans and sensors, reducing supplier numbers and costs, and speeding up time to market.
Copper and Stainless Steel Heat Exchangers: Copper exchangers offer high performance with various coolants, while stainless steel models are designed for deionized water and corrosive fluids, ensuring durability and reliability.
Specifications: The ES Series oil coolers offer high performance with poor heat transfer fluids, using aluminum flat tube technology for efficiency. They are lightweight and vacuum-brazed for cleanliness and reliability.
Customization Options: Oil coolers and liquid-to-liquid exchangers can be customized in size and configuration, with options for copper or nickel brazing for different fluid compatibilities.
Performance and Reliability: The ES Series features low pressure drop designs for cost-effective pumps, while liquid-to-liquid exchangers are compact and efficient, using a herringbone pattern for heat transfer.
Operating Conditions: Copper-brazed units handle up to 383°F and 450 psig, while nickel-brazed units operate up to 662°F and 232 psig.
Graphs and Drawings: Performance graphs and dimensional drawings are available online, providing insights into performance metrics and dimensions.
Specifications and Selection Process:
  • Core numbers and fitting options are available for various models, with materials like AISI 316L stainless steel and copper or nickel brazing.
  • Selection involves determining thermal performance, selecting the appropriate series, calculating ITD, and using performance graphs to choose a model.
  • Cooling air applications require calculating ITD and selecting models based on performance graphs.
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Contents: Custom heat exchangers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Copper heat exchangers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 6000 Series and OEM Coils Stainless steel heat exchangers . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Aspen® and 4000 Series Aluminum oil coolers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 ES Series Liquid-to-liquid heat exchangers . . . . . . . . . . 50 Drawings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Performance graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Selecting a heat exchanger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 With more than five decades of experience in heat exchanger design and manufacture, Lytron’s expertise is second-to-none. Our heat exchangers are used in many industries including military and aerospace, medical and industrial lasers, medical imaging, analytical instrumentation, power electronics, semiconductor equipment, machine tools, and telecommunications. Any of our heat exchanger technologies can be customized to your exact requirements. We also supply heat exchanger subassemblies, adding fittings, hoses, fans, sensors, and other instrumentation to your specification. And our 15 standard product lines ensure that when you need an off-the-shelf part we are likely to have something that meets your requirements.

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Custom Heat Exchangers Custom Heat Exchangers for High Performance Applications Lytron supplies custom heat exchangers for applications that require high performance and reliability. We design and build lightweight plate-fin, flat-tube, and tube-fin heat exchangers for the aerospace, military, medical, laser, traction, and power generation markets as well as others. Lytron’s engineering team provides expert design, analysis, and verification for custom solutions. Our engineers perform advanced thermal analysis using cutting-edge, proprietary simulation software based on more than 50 years of...

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Heat Exchangers Custom Heat Exchanger Technologies Performance Comparison Chart Plate-Fin Oil Coolers Tube-Fin Performance (Q/ITD) This chart compares the performance of different heat exchanger technologies, including plate-fin heat exchangers, flat tube oil coolers, and tube-fin heat exchangers. Performance is shown as Q/ITD, the heat load divided by the difference in incoming temperature of the liquid and air. Units are not shown so that heat exchanger technologies can be compared regardless of size. Please visit www.Lytron.com to see additional custom heat exchangers. Water Flow Custom Heat...

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Custom Heat Exchangers Vacuum-Brazed Heat Exchangers Lytron’s aluminum heat exchangers offer superior heat transfer. They are vacuumbrazed in an environmentally controlled room for maximum cleanliness, quality, and reliability. With our numerically controlled vacuum brazing process and robust fixture designs, we can ensure complete metallurgical bonding between the fins and the separator plates or flat tubes. This guarantees ruggedness and leak-free operation. Lytron operates several vacuum brazing ovens, including one that can braze parts up to 10 feet (3.05 m) long and 3 feet 2 inches (0.97...

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Heat Exchangers Custom Flat Tube Heat Exchangers Lytron’s vacuum-brazed, extruded flat tube technology is used in oil coolers, condensers, and more. Flat tube technology allows for many customization possibilities. Four different flat tube widths are available, and the length and the number of tubes can be varied. The flat tube can also be bent into a 1/4˝ (6.35 mm) inside radius without buckling, so heat exchangers can be manufactured in a curved shape if needed. Custom fittings and manifolds can be added, and flat tube heat exchangers can be painted or anodized for extra protection. Hydraulic...

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Custom Heat Exchangers Value-Added Assemblies Custom Heat Exchangers Lytron also designs and manufactures custom heat exchanger assemblies, providing Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) with an innovative design that meets system interface challenges. Heat exchanger assemblies include plate-fin heat exchangers, flat tube heat exchangers, evaporators, condensers, oil coolers, or tube-fin heat exchangers, as well as any number of other components that make integration of your heat exchanger faster and easier. The simplest heat exchanger assemblies are heat exchangers with fans, while the most...

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Copper Heat Exchangers 6000 & OEM Coils Copper tubes are compatible with water, EGW, and other common cooling fluids Supplied with built-in, fan-ready mounting hardware 0.028” (0.7 mm) wall tubing ensures fluid circuit durability Fluxless, silver-brazed joints provide leak-free operation and high reliability • Engineered for performance: The OEM Coils and 6000 Series are both engineered for performance. The seamless copper tubes are expanded into the fin with an extruded full collar that ensures excellent metal-to-metal contact to optimize thermal performance. However, with the 6000 Series, the...

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Aspen® & 4000 Series Stainless Steel Heat Exchangers Welded, argon-purged joints maximize internal cleanliness Available with straight, beaded, or 37° AN flare fittings. Aspen 316L stainless steel tubing compatible with deionized water and corrosive fluids 4000 Series Standard Heat Exchangers The Aspen and 4000 Series tube-fin heat exchangers are ideal for applications where deionized water or corrosive fluids are used and a high performing heat exchanger is required. When a slightly lower performance/size ratio is acceptable, the Aspen offers better value - 80% of the performance of the 4000...

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Aluminum Heat Exchangers: Oil Coolers ES Series Fluxless, vacuum-brazed core for strength and reliability Low pressure drop due to unique flat tube and header designs Welded headers, pressure tested to 150 psi (10.3 bars) Extended surface flat tube design provides 2.5 times better performance than competitive units Available with or without a fan plate GRAPHS Finish options: aluminum or black paint ES Series oil coolers are engineered for high performance with poor heat transfer fluids such as oils and EGW. They provide up to 2.5 times greater thermal performance per unit volume than competitive...

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