Helixchanger
Altex’s Helixchanger heat exchangers are engineered for superior thermal efficiency and reduced fouling, thanks to their innovative helical baffle design. Ideal for challenging process conditions, they deliver enhanced flow distribution, lower pressure drop, and longer run times.
Tired of cleaning shell & tube bundles due to high-fouling on the shell-side?
Helixchanger® shell & tube heat exchangers are best suited to high-viscosity and/or high-fouling shell-side processes. The helical baffle design allows us to maximize the shell-side velocity within an allowable pressure drop.
Altex Industries was the first Helixchanger® Licensee in Canada and has fabricated over 100 Helixchanger bundles and exchangers since 2003.
- Higher average shell-side velocity
- Greatly reduced dead-zones (low-velocity areas).
- Increased heat transfer
- Reduced fouling (and reduced fouling-related corrosion)
- Optimized and potentially smaller exchanger sizes
- Reduced capital and operating costs.
When compared to a conventional shell & tube exchanger, Helixchanger® designs result in:
- Higher average shell-side velocity
- Greatly reduced dead-zones (low-velocity areas).
- Increased heat transfer
- Reduced fouling (and reduced fouling-related corrosion)
- Optimized and potentially smaller exchanger sizes
- Reduced capital and operating costs.
Helixchangers® are a licenced technology of Lummus Technology.
“The HELIXCHANGER® heat exchanger uses Lummus Technology’s industry-proven, enhanced heat transfer technology to provide solutions for common issues such as shell-side fouling, high-pressure drop and vibration. In the HELIXCHANGER® heat exchanger, quadrant shaped baffle plates are placed at an angle to the tube axis in a sequential arrangement to create a helical flow pattern.
Whether the need is to extend the operating period between cleaning campaigns of crude preheat exchangers, reduce capital costs in a petrochemical plant or improve energy-efficiency of feed/effluent towers, Lummus Technology’s advanced heat exchanger technology offers a lower life-cycle-cost solution.
Our experience and know-how comes from more than 4,000 HELIXCHANGER heat exchanger installations in refining, power and petrochemical facilities worldwide.”
Helixchangers® is a licensed technology of Lummus Technology.
The HELIXCHANGER® heat exchanger uses Lummus Technology’s industry-proven, enhanced heat transfer technology to provide solutions for common issues such as shell-side fouling, high-pressure drop and vibration. In the HELIXCHANGER® heat exchanger, quadrant shaped baffle plates are placed at an angle to the tube axis in a sequential arrangement to create a helical flow pattern.
Whether the need is to extend the operating period between cleaning campaigns of crude preheat exchangers, reduce capital costs in a petrochemical plant or improve energy-efficiency of feed/effluent towers, Lummus Technology’s advanced heat exchanger technology offers a lower life-cycle-cost solution.
Our experience and know-how come from more than 4,000 HELIXCHANGER heat exchanger installations in refining, power, and petrochemical facilities worldwide.
