Air Cooled Heat Exchangers

Air Cooled Heat Exchanger (ACHE) is a heat rejection equipment where the excess process heat is rejected to the atmosphere. It works on the principle of convection and conduction to dissipate heat from process fluid to air.Air cooled heat exchangers are available in several arrangements (induced, forced) with different types of finned tubes depending on the process. They are used mainly in the chemical, oil and gas, process and power generation fields.An air-cooled heat exchanger, or called air cooler, the advantages of air cooled heat exchanger are as following: High Heat Transfer Coefficient: The air-cooled heat exchanger has a high heat transfer coefficient, which is generally considered to be three to five times that of the shell-and-tube heat exchanger.