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Optimising Heat Exchanger Design to Reduce Size, Cost and Energy Consumption for Plant Expansion and New Projects

Peter Ellerby1, Martin Gough1, and Peter Droegemueller2. (1) Cal Gavin Limited, Minerva Mill Innovation Centre, Station Road, Alcester, United Kingdom, (2) R & D, Cal Gavin Limited, Minerva Mill Innovation Centre, Station Road, Alcester, United Kingdom

Revamping and debottlenecking plants is often a source of challenges as the initial design of large scale key equipment will not allow for significant over capacity. For example for a reactor feed/ effluent process an increase in throughput would typically require replacement of either the large ‘Texas Tower' feed / effluent exchanger or the preheat furnace- both would incur significant capital and civil engineering costs; the latter would increase plant energy consumption. Alternatively application of hiTRAN tubeside enhancement to the feed/ effluent exchanger will allow the increased performance to be met without any other changes or costs. Pertinent use of enhancement technology can derive similar benefits in a range of applications, demonstrated through use of case studies. Also the successful use of hiTRAN in a key two phase application has significant implication for its specification in other new and existing two phase services.