Basco® Hairpin Heat Exchangers

A hairpin design is often more thermally efficient than a traditional shell and tube, which results in a lower up-front cost and lower overall weight. Our experienced designers and engineers can meet any custom cooling requirement.

Removable Bundle Types.

Separated Closure Double Pipe: Type SCDP

  • Employs the industry’s most widely used separated head features
  • Shell side and tube side closures are separately bolted through, ideal for applications involving wide temperature or pressure differences between the shell and tube side fluids
  • In cyclic service, separately gasketed closures are more leak resistant compared to shell and tube designs
  • Separate shell and tube side seal configuration. This makes the tube bundle easy to remove, clean and replace.
  • Well suited for large imbalance of flow on shellside
  • Long fins are used to achieve high thermal performance with minimal pressure drop

Common Closure Hairpin: Type CC

  • Single bolted closure design. Ideal for applications involving low design temperature or pressure differences between the shell and tube side fluids
  • Enjoys the maintenance advantages of a Separated Closure Hairpin (Type SC)
  • The center ring keeps the shell gasket seated during the removal of the tube head for inspection or service

Non-Removable Bundle Types.

All-Welded Hairpin: Type AW

  • More cost effective design when removable bundle is not required
  • Fixed tubesheet design

Jacketed Pipe: Type JP

  • Most economical solution for any heat transfer application
  • Fixed tubesheet design

Basco® Custom Engineered Shell & Tube Heat Exchangers

Before there were standard products, there were engineered products, with each heat exchanger designed for the application. Our Basco shell and tube heat exchangers have filled virtually every heat transfer need for over seventy years. Our experienced design and engineering staff stand ready to bring the best team with the best tools in the industry to bear on your heat transfer challenge. Please contact us to discuss your application.

Codes.

  • EU Pressure Equipment Directive (PED) (97/23/EC)
  • Chinese Safety Quality License for Boiler and Pressure Vessel
  • Australian AS1210
  • Singapore Code
  • DOSH Malaysian Code
  • Canadian CRN, all provinces
  • Indian Boiler Regulations (IBR)
  • Polish Code
  • API 614, 660, 618

Plate heat exchangers have long been used in the engine rooms of container ships and cruise ships for a variety of cooling tasks. Our SIGMA plate heat exchangers – used on ships around the world – feature corrosion-proof materials, such as titanium, and support a complete range of seawater applications for commercial shipbuilding.

Warm, dry, compressed air is critical to many manufacturing processes. The presence of water or condensate in a compressed air stream can often lead to equipment damage, corrosion, premature wear, or total malfunction. Our refrigerant air dyers offer a cost-effective solution to reduce the moisture content while providing a stable continuous flow of warm, dry air.

API Heat Transfer’s advanced technologies and solutions can help with the safe and effective treatment of wastewater and waste, both of which have a direct impact on energy savings and environmental protection. Our SIGMASTAR evaporation systems can safely reduce the amount of wastewater, and our SIGMA plate heat exchangers can assist with heat recovery, so wastewater can be safely reused in other processes.

You can count on API Heat Transfer to provide a full solution for your heat exchange needs in the refrigeration industry. For two decades, our plate heat exchangers have played a key role in the refrigeration process. With their compact construction and excellent thermal performance, they are an indispensable feature of today’s advanced refrigeration systems.

No matter your petrochemical industry application, API Heat Transfer can select the right solution that’s efficient in cost, space, and emission requirements.

Shell and tube heat exchangers have long played a role in petrochemical applications. Gasketed and fully welded plate heat exchangers have become increasingly important within the industry as well. We offer both shell and tube and plate technologies to our customers in the petrochemical industry.

When performance under extreme pressure and temperature conditions is critical, our specialized shell and tube heat exchangers are ideal. In fact, ours are regularly used in the most varied offshore and onshore plants.

Our plate heat exchangers – with their high pressure and temperature capabilities, unique materials, and special sealing qualities – are ideal for heat recovery tasks or the condensation of solvents.

With ever-increasing energy costs, customers working with steel and metals can count on API Heat Transfer to deliver efficient heat recovery solutions. The cooling and tempering of different media for metal processing – such as grinding and cutting oils, emulsions, cooling water, and hydraulic oils – are among the main applications of our Schmidt SIGMA plate heat exchangers.

Thermal processing in metal construction uses quenching baths, which are filled with either oil or water. Since the heat generation is mostly higher than the bath is capable of absorbing through natural convection, the bath content must undergo a forced cooling process. That’s where the high efficiency of our plate heat exchangers can be counted on.

API Heat Transfer is a recognized leader within the chemical industry, thanks to our decades-long track record of success with our Schmidt SIGMA plate heat exchangers. We provide solutions that offer superior efficiency and operational safety, low capital outlay, and flexible capacity for the most diverse applications, including cooling and heating of base, intermediate, and final products; heat recovery; and tempering of containers, reactors, and autoclaves.

Our plate heat exchangers have become an important component in many chemical production processes due to their capabilities in CIP or mechanical cleaning as well as their utilization of special materials for critical media. Our Schmidt SIGMASTAR® evaporators can be used for nearly all evaporation processes. They perform especially well for problem products, viscous streams, slurries, and liquids with fouling tendencies that cannot be processed with falling-film evaporators. For extreme temperature and pressure applications, our Basco custom shell and tube heat exchangers can provide a solution.

Safe operation of power plants requires the steady cooling of bearings, lube oils, and rotor blades of diesel or gas motors and steam or gas turbines. We provide a full line of plate heat exchangers – available in various designs and sizes – to ensure the right solution for proper cooling and outstanding efficiency.

Proper cooling and condensing of process steam is another critical component to the safe operation of a power plant. Our Basco shell and tube exchangers offer an efficient cooling solution for these key processes.