Heat Exchangers

Manufacture and maintenance of heat exchangers

All heat transfer processes are required to be effective and reliable, independently of external conditions. This is of particular importance in power plants. Elcoline’s Sahala Heat Exchangers (HEX) cover all the needs and requirements imposed by the energy industry’s processes. Regardless of the power plant type – from nuclear power generation to biopower plants, refinery, chemical plant or paper and pulp mill.

Efficient and reliable heat exchanger solutions

The company’s development work extending over many decades, combined with its experience of hundreds of deliveries, have made our heat exchangers’ thermodynamical solutions efficient and economical. These solutions enable the optimal heat balance management for the various power plant types – in all production situations.

Reliability is a central element in efficiency. Our material, construction and dimensioning solutions are based on our vast experience of the special requirements imposed by power plant processes. We also develop our manufacturing methods on a continual basis. An example of this policy is the fully automatic MaTIC 500 orbital welding system, which is used to connect heat exchanger tubes to tube sheets. The new technology enables us to always produce high quality welds, with an identical quality level repeated time after time.

Elcoline’s Sahala Heat Exchanger product palette covers a power plants all heat exchangers and the feed water tank.

Special process requirements and material properties are also observed in our design and manufacture which uses state-of-the-art technology as required, including vibration analysis for the mathematical modelling of equipment vibration and the Finite Element Method (FEM) for material strength calculations. We also have a complete set of approved welding methods covering a wide variety of materials and process requirements.

The petrochemical and chemical processes require individual solutions

Sahala Heat Exchanger solid process experience of the petrochemical and chemical processes and their material requirements, plus the company’s consistent development of products and manufacturing methods guarantee that our individually designed equipment will function reliably and efficiently in any installation.

However, the required standard is continually rising as a result of new process methods, new chemicals and the increasingly stringent standards for raw materials used in oil production.

As the process conditions are currently much harsher than ever before, the manufacturing materials must be selected individually, in accordance with each installation’s special requirements.

Nevertheless, mere material selection is not enough – we have also mastered the manufacturing processes and particularly the welding methods, in compliance with the process-specific special conditions.