Engineering and Consulting

Heat Exchanger Equipment Technology

One-source technology, engineering and detail design partner

Heat Exchanger Equipment

CADE delivers full design and engineering services for heat transfer and process equipment and other units in oil&power industries by playing a role of technology and engineering partner for manufacturing companies, EPC contractors and plant owners.

Direct Fired Heaters – Furnaces – Boilers (API560/ASME I/ASME IV)

For monophasic/multiphasic processes: HTF boilers, superheated water boilers, water bath boilers, crude heaters, refinery furnaces (convective+radiant sections), vis-breakers, saturated steam firetubed boilers, saturated steam watertubed boilers, fluidized bed combustion boilers.

Shell and tube heat exchangers (TEMA/API 660)

For monophasic/multiphasic processes: gas coolers, water coolers, compressor inter-coolers, recuperators, superheaters, reheaters, economizers, evaporators, condensers, LP-HP feedwater heaters, etc.

Air Cooled Heat Exchangers (API 661)

Forced or induced draft for monophasic/multiphasic processes: gas coolers, water coolers, oil-coolers, condensers, etc.

Cross-flow heat exchangers

Finned tubes and cross-flow gas for monophasic/multiphasic processes: recuperators/economizers, air preheaters, multi-effect evaporators, condensers, etc.

Direct contact heat exchangers

For monophasic/multiphasic processes: deaerators, degassers, cooling towers, exhaust gas heat recuperator (packed bed condenser), evaporative condensers, etc.

Cooling and heating of vessels/tanks

Internal/external: jacketed vessels, suction heaters for viscous fluids, coils (agitation/non agitation).

Engineering, process equipment and technologies

CADE goes along with manufacturing and plant owner companies by providing in-depth expertise and technical support along both bidding and construction stages.

Engineering and design services

Engineering and design services range from process, thermal, hydraulic and detailed mechanical design, to procurement, commissioning and process performance advisory.

Thermal & hydraulic design and plant process integration
CFD simulation of heat transfer and flows performance
Mechanical design
CHT studies (Conjugated Heat Transfer)
FEM advanced analysis
Detail engineering. Manufacturing drawings
Advisory around underperformance, heat losses, performance reduction and troubleshooting of existing equipment

Process equipment (mass transfer as main feature)

Separators

Gas (steam) vs. liquid 1 vs. liquid 2 (immiscibles): three phase separator gas-water-crude
Gas vs. solid: gravity separation, cyclones, bag filters, wet scrubbers, etc.
Gas vs. liquid: gravity separation, coalescers, demister pads, etc.
Liquid vs. solid: thickeners, clarifiers, centrifuges (hydrocyclones), plate filters, etc.
Liquid vs. liquid (immiscible fluids): gravity separation (decanters), coalescers, etc.
Solid vs. solid: gravity separation (decanters), coalescers, etc.

Separators (multi-component)

Distillation columns (random packed, structured packed, plates). Design of reboilers and condensers
Absorption/stripping columns (random packed, structured packed)

Dryers

Conduction, convection (spray dryers, trommel, fluidized bed, flash), radiation

Other process technologies

CADE delivers full engineering and proprietary design of process units and plants including detailed design of main equipment around the following technologies.

Aqueous solutions treatment

Removal of NH3, H2S, VOCs, CO2, alcohols, MTBE

Treatment of gas-phase streams

Adsorption drying of gas streams with organic and inorganic components
Absorption of H2S, CO2, NH3, etc. in refinery gases
Adsorption of HCl in refinery gases
Removal of solid particles by means of cyclones, scrubbers, venturi washers, etc.