
Model Helixchanger - Shell and Tube Exchangers
HELIXCHANGER® heat exchangers increase capacity and lower maintenance costs for existing plants as well as reducing capital investment, plot space and energy costs for grassroots applications. More than 5,000 HELIXCHANGER® heat exchangers are in operation worldwide throughout the oil and gas, refining, petrochemical and chemical industries. Exchanger Industries has designed and manufactured more than 300 HELIXCHANGERS® since beginning our partnership with Lummus Technology in 2004. With its double helix designs, 40-degree helix angles and up to 76-inch diameter, the HELIXCHANGER® provides you with an improved shell side heat exchanger transfer and reduced fouling. HELIXCHANGER® applications include crude pre-heat exchangers, feed preheat exchangers in delayed cokers, feed/effluent exchangers in refinery and petrochemical processes, bitumen exchangers in oil-sands, major system equipment in ethylene plants and polymer solution coolers in the chemical industry.
When compared with conventional, perpendicular, segmentally baffled shell and tube heat exchangers, HELIXCHANGER® heat exchangers offer several advantages:
- Enhanced heat transfer
- Lower shell-side pressure drops
- Capital cost savings – typically 20%
- Lower shell-side fouling
- Extended run-length and service life
- Reduced vibration hazards
- Reduced heating, pumping and maintenance costs
- Increased process capacity of up to 40%