SHELL & TUBE HEAT EXCHANGERS

A Box Cooler is a vessel water cooling system. It comprises a U-tube bundle that is fitted in the sea chest on the side of a vessel, saving space in the engine room. The sea chest is equipped with inlet and outlet grids. Cooling sea water enters through the inlet grid and flows along the U-tube bundle to the outlet grid, thus cooling the water inside the tubes. The cooling effect is achieved by the forced circulation of sea water when the vessel is moving or by natural convection when it is stationary. Box coolers can be used for a wide variety of temperature-reducing duties on a vessel, from cooling the main engines, auxiliary engines and bow thrusters to air conditioning and hydraulic systems. Kelvion Box Coolers are ideal for small and medium sized vessels, including for example: tugboats, barges, fishing boats, carriers, dredgers, supply vessels, ferries, ice breakers, cargo freighters, tankers and reefers.

Different applications require different designs for an optimal fit, so we provide Shell & Tube heat exchangers in single tube design with plain, low and high fin tubes and also with compact fin bundles. The plain tube design is most suitable if media have similar heat transfer properties, where the compact fin design means the best possible performance if there is a substantial difference in heat transfer rate, for example when exchanging heat between oil and water. The low and high fin single tube solution is between the previous two designs in order to further optimize on flow, pressure drop and velocities of media.

Double tube safety heat exchangers play an important role in applications where preventing media mixing in the event of a leak is paramount. They are widely used and accepted as standard in the chemical industry, power, heavy and light industry, oil & gas, marine, transportation, refrigeration and food & beverage sectors. Kelvion has a long track record in developing ground-breaking technologies always aiming to reach the highest levels of safety, environmental protection and cost-efficient operation. Our expert engineers are fully trained to provide you with the best-in-class solutions tailored to your specific requirements. As industries face ever stricter regulations for safeguarding requirements of environment and water supply, double tube safety heat exchangers are the technology of choice.

Our range of transformer oil air coolers for forced oil cooling systems can be supplied in different mounting variants. The standard air cooler version is designed for direct mounting on the transformer tank. In addition, our range of products comprises free-standing transformer oil coolers designed to customer specifications. Transformer oil air coolers are available in different design versions.