Powered by proprietary technology, our solutions enable to optimize operations, design and maintenance of heat exchange equipment in a variety of systems and industries. All our solutions are extensively tried and tested in the field and have helped customers saving millions of dollars and tens of thousands of CO2 emissions.
Data is one of operating companies’ greatest assets and is key to optimise operations and maintenance. However, making sense of plant data is not easy when measurements errors process noise and physical properties uncertainties come into play.
Hexxcell Dynamic Retrofit Test™ is a data-driven approach to test performance of a proposed retrofit design in Hexxcell Studio™ using historical plant data and assess how the exchanger would have performed if in operation over a given period. It allows identifying benefits in energy savings as a result of reduced fouling in the retrofitted exchanger taking into account complex network interactions.
Periodic cleaning is a common and often necessary strategy to maintain the performance of heat exchangers over long operation runs. However, deciding which heat exchanger to clean, when to clean it and how to clean it (e.g. mechanically or chemically) is a non-obvious task which often relies on past experience and simplistic performance indicators rather than being condition-based and driven by economic optimisation and operational constraints.
Crude Slate Design™, an add-on module to Hexxcell Studio™ dedicated to oil refineries, provides a data-driven, predictive approach to evaluating the effect that the selection of oils have on fouling behaviour on the crude distillation unit.
Relying on our expertise in heat transfer fundamentals, equipment design and operations troubleshooting, we developed industrial heat transfer training courses covering a wide range of topics, including heat exchanger design, operation, and maintenance, as well as fouling mechanisms and prevention strategies.
