About Us

Hexxcell Ltd. spun-off in 2013, acquiring technology developed at Imperial College London during a large-scale industrial research project, to deliver technology and services to industry in the area of advanced heat transfer and, in particular, crude oil fouling mitigation.

Ever since, we have developed our technology in large scale multidisciplinary R&D projects in collaboration with oil majors and validated extensively on their plants.We are now an independent private company based in Central London and a proud team of chemical, mechanical and process systems engineers with deep domain knowledge of heat transfer, mathematical modelling, artificial intelligence and a knack for data science.​

True to our origins, we keep innovating everyday, pushing the boundaries of what industrial software can do.

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2006 - 2011

£2MM UK government funded research project on heat exchanger fouling lead by Hexxcell co-founder, Professor Hewitt at Imperial College London, involving a consortium of major oil&gas companies

2013

Hexxcell acquires IP from Imperial College London and formally spins out

2014

Publication of ‘Crude Oil Fouling’ by co-founders Coletti and Hewitt

2015

First contract with major US oil&gas company

2016

First application of Hexxcell Fouling Propensity Analysis ™ to trouble shoot complex refinery fouling issues

First application to Petrochemicals

2017

Paper presented by Chunandang et al showing the use of Hexxcell Studio™ predict impact of fouling on pressure drops

2018

Corporate restructure and relocation to current offices

2019

Hexxcell Studio™ version 2.0 released, featuring the first Hybrid-AI digital twin for predictive maintenance of heat exchangers

2021-2023

Deployment to the cloud and expansion into other sectors

Areas of Expertise

Deep fundamental knowledge of heat transfer

Heat exchanger design

Mathematical modeling and optimization

Development, deployment, and use of digital technologies

Advanced process systems modeling capabilities for various systems

Industrial software development

Our People

Deep Domain Knowledge

Our team is very active in the fields of Heat Transfer, Process Systems Engineering, Mathematical Modelling, Data Science and AI and has published a significant amount of highly cited scientific literature on these subjects.

We spend a significant amount of our turnover in fundamental and applied R&D and we constantly engage with our customers in industry which enables us not only to improve our products but also to constantly learn, improve and get better at what we do.

Leadership

Francesco Coletti
Emilio Diaz-Bejarano
Head of R&D and Consulting
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Niccolò Le-Brun
Head of Digital Innovation
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Advisory Board

Himanshu Joshi
Advisory Board Member
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Mark Matzopoulos
Advisory Board Member
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Julio Mestroni
Advisory Board Member
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Maurizio Rovaglio
Advisory Board Member
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Careers

At the moment there are no open positions but we are always keen to meet talented engineers with a knack for data science that are passionate about solving complex problems and want to be part of our digital revolution.

If you feel you want to join us and have the right skills to offer, please feel free to send your CV and covering letter to: vacancies@hexxcell.com, we will be happy to consider your application when new roles are available.​

You can also check out our LinkedIn page for the latest on open positions