Featured Story – Workshop report: heat exchangers connecting industry together
During the Stainless Steel World 2019 Conference & Exhibition, which was held in Maastricht, The Netherlands, November 26–28, a special workshop was dedicated to the huge variety of heat exchangers that perform critical duties in fundamental industries. Over sixty participants freely shared their experiences with an expert panel.
Featured Story – The bright future of heat pipe technologies
Brian Axcell, Professor at the Institute of Energy Futures at Brunel University and expert advisor on the EU-funded ETEKINA project, speaks with the ESCI about his career to date and the potential of heatpipes.
Featured Story – More efficient heat transfer through targeted turbulence generation
This article first briefly looks at the advantage and disadvantages of using thermal oils in heat transfer systems and the effect that their use can have on investment costs. It goes on to assess how turbulators (twisted tape inserts introduced into the heat exchanger) can not only significantly improve the heat transfer in the system itself, but can also help to ensure that the heat exchanger remains small.
Featured Story – Heat Exchangers at a manufacturer’s in India
Heat exchangers are to be found in a vast variety of industries nowadays, and certainly in the chemical specialty industry. We recently caught up with Mr. Mrinal Das, Chairman of the Flow Control Exchange Conference & Exhibition that was held in October in Mumbai, India, and who, in his everyday working life, is Executive Vice-President of Projects at Laxmi Organic Industries Ltd.
Electric heaters compared to heat exchangers: competitors or supplements
Whenever large electric heaters, flanged immersion or circulation heaters are shown at trade fairs, many visitors ask themselves whether this is a heat exchanger. Due to their external similarity, they can easily be confused with tube bundle or tube and shell heat exchangers. The purpose of this article is to provide a closer look at the differences of both systems, their limitations depending on specific applications and some advantages electric heaters may have.