Applications of Heat Exchanger

Heat exchanger are found in most chemical, electrical or mechanical systems. They serve as the system's means of gaining or rejecting heat. Some of the more common applications are found in heating, electronic equipment, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, radiators on internal combustion engines, boiler, condenser, and as pre heaters or coolers in fluid systems. The associated web pages will review some specific heat exchanger applications. The intent is to provide several specific examples of how each heat exchanger functions in a system, not to cover every possible application

Food & Beverage Dairy - Milk pasteurization, milk reception, cultured milk treatment, UHT, cream pasteurization, ice-cream mix treatment, cheese milk heat treatment.
Brewing - Wort boiling, wort cooling, beer colling, beer pasteurization.
Soft Drink - Pasteurization of syrup and final product, water heating and sugar dissolving of final product.
Fruit Processing - Pasteurization of juices, nectar, and concentrates, cooling of final product.


Chemical Petroleum
Refinery - Brine cooling, crude oil/water interchanger, treated crude oil / untreated crude oil interchanger.
MTBE - Product heating, cooling & interchanging, jacket water cooling, condensing.
Alkylotion - Cooling, hearing of corrosive fluids, Isobutene condenser and reactor interchanger.
Oil & Gas - Sea water coolers, crude oil heat treatment.
Dehydration/Desolving - Crude oil interchanger, water/crude oil interchanger, water interchanger, crude oil cooling.
Desulphurization - Lean/rich fluid interchanger & cooling, acid gas condensor.

Hydrocarbon Processing
Methanol - Prehearing, water cooling, liquid product cooling.
Propylene Oxide - Sodium hydroxide cooling, reaction mixture cooling, heat recovery from reactor bottom liquid.
Ethylene Glycol - Product cooling, reactor feed heater and interchanger.
Ethylene Oxide - Lean/rich cycle water interchanger, lean cycle water cooler.
Ethylene-Propylene - water cooling & heating, propylene condensers, propylene cooling, naphtha preheating.
Formaldehyde - Methanol preheating, formalin cooling, water cooling.

Polymer
Acrylic Fibers - Heating & cooling of solvents, reactor cooling.
Nylon - Water cooling & heating, nylon salt cooling, condensers and interchangers.
Polyester - Glycol cooling, solvent heating.
Polyethylene - Pelleter water & cooling water systems.
Polyol - Water heating & cooling, reactor feed heating & cooling, polyol product cooling, polyol mix heating.
Polypropylene - Circulating, pellet, refrigerated and feed matercooling, condensers and interchangers.
Polyurethane - Heating & cooling of polyol and isocyanate.
PVC - Reactor jacket water cooling.
Viscose - Heating & Cooling of NaOH, viscose and different acides, heating of spin bath solution.

Pharmaceutical - Product heating & cooling, cooling water systems, hot water systems, condensers & interchangers.

Industrial

Mining - Plating heaters & coolers, analyzing heaters & coolers, strike solution cooling, quench oil coolers, sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, hydrogen peroxide, titanium dioxide, chloride alkaline, soda ash, steel.
Automotive
Pickling - Sulfuric and hydrochloric acid heating and cooling.
Rinsing - Heating rinsing water.
Phosphatizing - Phosphoric acid solution heating.
Passivating - Heat and maintain passicating bath temperature. Precutting Cooling of electrolytic bath solution (5-15% pain and water).
Priming & Painting - Heat and maintain paint temperature.
Pulp and Paper - Blowdown liquor coolers, caustic soda coolers, black liquor heating, boiler blowdown heat recovery.
Textile Applications - Heat recovery, caustic solution heating & cooling washers.
Vegetable Oil - Product heating, product cooling, product economizing, cooling water systems, hot water systems, waste water treatment.
Sugar - Water, juice, syrup and molasses heating. Juice demineraliztion and evoporation.

Power Power - Auxiliary cooling circuit isolation, co-generation applications, geothermal applications, lubrication oil cooling, diesel engine cooling, heat recovery.

HVAC - Cooling tower isolation, free cooling, heat pump systems, sea water isolation, thermal storagesystems, pressure Interceptor

Marine - Seawater isolation exchanger, central cooling, jacket fresh water cooling, lube oil cooling, camshaft lube, oil cooling.