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Brazed Aluminum Exchanger (Prico & Phillips)
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Brazed Aluminum Exchanger
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The coil-wound heat exchanger
Produces by:
Air Products and Chemicals Inc. in USA
Linde in Germany
The heat exchangers are made in aluminium
Dimensions of a the main LNG coil-wound heat
exchanger is as follows:
Height 10-50 m
Diameter 3-5 m
Core tube diameter 1 m
Tube length 70-100 m
Tube diameter 10-15 mm
Typical surface density 100-150 m2/m3
Typical heating surface 10.000-20.000 m2
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Train Size & Cryogenic Exchanger Trend
5.0
Million Ton/year/train
3.0
2.0
Cold Box APCI SWHE
1.0
Air Liquide TEAL
SWHE SWHE
Year Built
1964 1969 1974 1979 1984 1989 1994 1999 2004
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LNG Main HE Features Benchmarking
Spiral Wound Heat Exchanger also called Coiled Tubular Heat Exchanger
Plate Fin Heat Exchanger (PFHE) also called Brazed Aluminum Heat Exchanger (BAHE) or
Brazed Aluminum Exchanger (BAE), and since they are ussually packaged in a insulated
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In Search of LNG Exchanger
Design Excellence
The ideal LNG exchanger would be: large single unit, highest
heat exchange surface per volume, highest heat duty per
surface (lowest temperature approach), and . . . available
from many manufacturer (not a proprietary design)
Largest single unit, with highest heat exchange per volume is
currently the APCI spiral wound heat exchanger.
Largest single unit plate finned brazed aluminum exchanger is
1/10th of APCI LNG exchanger. Multiple units in parallel add
control complexity and gas/liquid re-mixing problem.
LNG exchanger
When the plate finned brazed aluminum exchanger
manufacturer (Marston, Altec, Kobe Steel and Sumitomo) or
Linde spiral wound can make very large LNG exchanger in
single piece, APCI hegemony will be in serious jeopardy. Stay
tuned . . .
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