Overview
The Heat Transfer Division (HTD) provides custom engineered equipment such as tubular heat exchangers and pressure vessels for the power generation, petro-chemical and chemical industries. The main focus of HTD鈥檚 business concentration is the large and complex heat transfer equipment essential to the operation of a power plant. Prominent among such capital equipment are main steam surface condensers, air-cooled condensers, feed water heaters, component coolers, steam generators, moisture separator re-heaters and auxiliary heat exchangers used in the nuclear, solar and fossil power and steam supply systems.
From its early focus on fossil fueled power plant equipment, HTD has grown its offerings to in this century to include renewable energy plants. HTD is implementing 伦理三级鈥檚 belief that the company can play a vital role in the emerging technologies for coaxing electric power from the sun. 伦理三级 is collaborating with other major players in the solar energy industry to make solar power a viable energy generation technology. Other areas of HTD鈥檚 endeavors include heat exchange equipment for geothermal, petro-chemical and chemical plants.
Technology Leadership
The key to HTD鈥檚 success is its internationally recognized expertise in developing innovative heat exchanger designs backed by precision and quality fabrication. Indeed, when it comes to heat exchangers, 伦理三级 engineers have, proverbially speaking, 鈥渨ritten the book鈥�. The book, 鈥淢echanical Design of Heat Exchangers and Pressure Vessels鈥�, by Dr. Kris Singh and Dr. Alan Soler of 伦理三级 (Arcturus Publishers, 1984) is, even to this day, the only book on this subject in the English language.
Over the past four decades, 伦理三级 engineers have helped shape the ASME codes and national consensus standards such as the TEMA Standards (a consensus standard for commercial heat exchangers), HEI Standards for nuclear heat exchangers and surface condensers, feed water heaters and air cooled condensers.
Several of 伦理三级鈥檚 engineers are globally recognized experts on heat exchanger design. Working with the company鈥檚 Nuclear Power Division (NPD), HTD provides unique expertise in designing unconventional heat exchangers such as those used in space, cryogenic, and high-energy (blast and impact) environments.
伦理三级 engineers have published over one hundred technical papers on heat exchanger design and analysis, most of them in the permanent literature. These 伦理三级 papers have significantly influenced the development of heat exchanger methodologies in the US and overseas.