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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 – 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.

Featured Story – Aluminium–bronze: a solution for tube and shell heat exchangers using brackish...

Aluminium–bronze and nickel–aluminium–bronze (NAB) are not necessarily widely known but have been developed as solutions for seawater corrosion issues. At the same time, they also offer other interesting properties, such as resistance to biofouling.

Featured Story – Efficient use of waste heat in air conditioning and process air

Energy consultants and industrial energy managers will continuously have to find, implement and prove significant savings in the coming years. But what can be done when the ‘usual suspects‘ have already been implemented, from combined heat, power and cooling to LED lighting and compressed air leakage minimisation? The energy audits are ‘insatiable’, further suitable measures must be found.

Featured Story – Overseeing Refinery Processes at Par Hawaii

Bob McKaig is a process engineer who has worked at Par Hawaii in Kapolei, Oahu for the last twenty years. While he has been part of a number of departments, today his job revolves around ensuring that the company’s plants are kept running smoothly and meeting production needs while staying in safety and environmental compliance. His responsibilities cover unit optimization, the documentation of management of change, and training.

Featured Story – How to avoid the top 10 heat exchanger ‘mistakes’

With around 40 years’ experience of designing and installing heat exchangers – whether as part of a brand-new production line or as an upgrade or replacement to an existing unit – our engineers and sales staff have encountered a wide range of issues on sites. Here are ten of the most common mistakes that can occur as a result of poorly-specified or badly-installed heat exchanger systems – and, most importantly, how you can avoid them on your next project.

Featured Story – Overview of laser metal deposition for waste-to-energy pressurized boiler components *

This article gives a brief overview of recent Laser Metal Deposition (LMD) advances in the WTE boiler industry.