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Our Featured Story archive is a collection of unique articles specially chosen by the Editor. In addition to industry updates, market news and topical issues of the day the Feature Story provides an interesting mix of company profiles, in-depth technical articles, and reports from major end users. The section also features projects in a variety of industries ranging from oil & gas, chemical and petrochemical to the power generation and food and beverage industries.

Want to stay up to date with your industry? These are the stories you need to read!

Featured Story – The multisectoral skills of a heat transfer engineer

HandyTube Corporation, a Steel Partners Company, is a premium manufacturer of seamless stainless steel and nickel alloy coil and straight length tubing. Browse our Featured Story.

Featured Story – A failure report from the pulp and paper industry

A pulp and paper plant was facing a major problem when their digester preheaters started leaking, resulting in production loss. The shell-andtube heat exchangers were exposed to steam on the shell side and white liquor on the tube side. The tubes were made of Type 316L stainless steel. The preheaters had replaced the original ones which had performed satisfactorily for ten years. The new ones started leaking within seven months of operation. A detailed failure analysis was hence desirable.

Featured Story – Thermal processing of egg products

Corrugated heat exchangers in the food industry can help with processed egg pasteurisation. UK-based company HRS Heat Exchangers offers a solution to the issues presented by other heat exchanger designs used in the pasteurisation process with their new corrugated tube technology.

Featured Story – Isotherm Inc. – Innovating through enhanced heat transfer solutions

Isotherm, Inc. is a custom manufacturer specializing in the design and fabrication of heat exchangers, pressure vessels, and packaged systems for various industries such as industrial refrigeration, marine refrigeration, chemical & petrochemical, oil & gas, process and renewable energy. Heat Exchanger Worldhad the opportunity to speak with Adnan Ayub, President at Isotherm Inc. to discuss the company’s wide range of enhanced heat transfer technologies & innovative solutions.

Featured Story – Solutions to corrosive enviroments: casted bronze aluminium alloys

Corrosion causes problems in many different industrial applications. It can be due to different causes including chemical reactions, stress, and fatigue. Selecting the appropriate alloy for a given application is therefore an important step.

Featured Story – Natural refrigerants and heat exchanger applications

As the demand for green energy increases so does the need for natural refrigerants and heat exchangers to accommodate their operation. This article discusses examples of real applications for Pillow Plates and natural refrigerants. Using Pillow Plate heat exchangers with natural refrigerants for large-scale heating and cooling cuts down on the use of CFCs (Chlorofluorocarbons) and reduces environmental impact.

Featured Story – Bowman intercoolers save the day and thousands of dollars!

Two Cummins 4BTA Marine Diesel Engines were given a new lease of life and over US $8,000 saved by replacing the OE intercoolers with Bowman charge air coolers.

Featured Story – Life as a welding and materials engineer at Fluor Amsterdam

Jan-Willem Rensman works in the Energy & Chemicals Downstream business line at Fluor in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where he is a Welding and Materials Engineer. There, he is responsible for reviewing the welding procedures and vendor fabrication practices related to welding, corrosion, and materials performance. Taking time out of his busy daily schedule, he talked to us about his passion and enthusiasm for what he does, particularly regarding his work with heat exchangers.

Featured Story – Designing a myriad of heat exchangers An interview with Mr. Bandaru...

When it comes to talking about designing static and rotary equipment for use in the light chemical, specialty chemical, and allied industries, Mr. Bandaru Somasekhar is no novice. Leading a medium-sized team of twenty engineers and designers he exudes enthusiasm and knowledge about his chosen profession.

Featured Story – Field report: cleaning of shell & tube heat exchangers

Looking at some ways to clean heavily soiled shell & tube heat exchangers, with an assessment of the advantages and disadvantages of these methods.