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What Is a Heatric Printed Circuit Heat Exchanger?
Heatric’s Printed Circuit Heat Exchangers (PCHEs) are manufactured using a specialised solid-state joining process known as ‘diffusion-bonding’. This process creates a heat exchanger core with no joints, welds, or points of failure. The resulting unit combines exceptional strength and integrity with high efficiency and performance.
By incorporating diffusion bonding with micro-channel technology, Heatric is able to manufacture a unit that is up to 85% smaller and lighter than traditional technologies such as shell and tube heat exchangers. This reduction in unit size can lead to significant savings in structural costs due to elimination of excess pipework, frames, and associated equipment.
Heatric’s PCHEs have been well-established technology in the upstream hydrocarbon processing, petrochemical, and refining industries for many years. Customers such as Petrobras, BP, Shell, and ExxonMobil utilise PCHEs in a range of applications around the world. Thousands of Heatric exchangers are in operation in both onshore and offshore applications.
The advanced performance of PCHEs makes them well suited for a range of demanding applications. By utilising the benefits of this technology, Heatric continues to develop heat transfer solutions for a wide range of market sectors.
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What is a Heatric Printed Circuit Heat Exchanger?
The advanced performance of PCHEs makes them well suited for a range of demanding applications. By utilising the benefits of this technology, Heatric continues to develop heat transfer solutions for a wide range of market sectors.
Benefits of Heatric Heat Exchangers
Heatric’s unique diffusion-bonding manufacturing process creates incredibly high-integrity exchangers with no seams, gaskets, joints, or points of weakness and failure. This high integrity brings with it a host of benefits in both capital and operational cost savings including (but not limited to):
Compact Footprint
Compact footprint and reduced weight for structural and space cost savings.
Operating Parameters and Performance
Operational Savings
Further operational savings through reduced fluid flows.
Multi-Process Integration
Multi-process integration into a single unit for capital and operational cost savings.
Technical Features of Heatric Heat Exchangers
There are a number of key technical features which create the unique structural characteristics and, in turn, the key benefits of employing Heatric PCHE exchangers into your heat transfer projects.
These benefits combine to create a heat exchanger capable of superior performance over traditional models with an overall footprint as much as 80% smaller than a shell and tube heat exchanger. In addition, the inclusion of integrated maintenance nozzles makes cleaning the internal flow passages extremely simple and helps to maximise the overall uptime of your exchanger.
Minimising downtime ensures the PCHE is able to remain operational for the maximum time possible and reduces many of the overheads associated with unecessary repair work – helping your company to increase profitability and deliver exceptional service to your clients.
Materials
A wide selection of manufacturing materials to suit the demands of your heat transfer duty.
Chemical Etching
Chemical etching to produce bespoke flow plates, designed and manufacture to precisely match the duty requirements.
Flow Plates
Bespoke flow plates are designed and manufacture to precisely match the duty requirements.
Diffusion Bonding
Our unique diffusion bonding manufacturing process to create an exchanger with the highest integrity, strength and effectiveness.
Maintenance Nozzles
Improved-access maintenance nozzles to allow all areas of the core to be cleaned during servicing restoring maximum efficiency.
Manufacturing Printed Circuit Heat Exchangers
Heatric’s PCHEs are the product of over 30 years of manufacturing and development. As a result of the specialised manufacturing processes used during production Heatric’s printed circuit heat exchangers are robust, durable, and safe. By incorporating diffusion bonding and high-alloy welding, Heatric is able to produce gasket-less, seamless products that are immune to the catastrophic failure modes other heat exchanger technologies are vulnerable to.
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