From Enquiry to Installation: Creating the Right Heat Exchanger for your Business
What does it take to design and build a reliable, efficient tubular heat exchanger? In this article, we reveal how HRS Heat Exchangers’ team of engineers, designers, electricians and project managers turn an initial enquiry into a finished, bespoke product, perfectly suited to their client’ s needs.
Detailed quality systems ensure inspections are carried out at every stage, including welding
HRS Operations Director Marcos Antonio Alarcón González
From initial enquiry
Most projects begin with an initial enquiry. This may come from an existing or past client, perhaps with
36 FDPP- www. fdpp. co. uk a good technical understanding of the equipment they require, or may instead be a new business with minimal experience and a material that they need to heat, cool or process thermally. One thing that new clients may not always realise is that every single HRS project is completely bespoke and designed from the outset to offer the optimum solution to meet the client’ s requirements.
Once a project manager has been assigned, they work with the client to fully specify the project and, if necessary, analyse the product / s being handled to understand how they will behave under different physical, environmental and thermal conditions and may include trials using our equipment at the nearby National Technological Centre for the Food and Canning Industry( CTNC). This is a vital step which ensures that important product quality parameters are maintained, and that thermal processing is carried out effectively. The project manager is ultimately responsible for everything involving that order, including budget and delivery, timescales and testing, providing consistency to the client throughout the process.
State-of-the art thermodynamic modelling and design systems are then used to design the system, usually starting from an established type of tubular or scraped surface heat exchanger( for example, the AS Series of annular tube heat