Our Heat Exchanger Performance Monitoring software, called HeatEx, used prediction analytics software to accurately predict the decline in heat exchanger performance due to fouling. It is just like the drift in process analysers which is gradual, over time, hence almost impossible to quantify in the short term.
As you already know, there are several guidelines the industry uses, such as these https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6242994-heat-exchanger-performance-monitoring-guidelines to ensure that heat exchangers work at peak efficiency. To meet this goal, our HeatEx software offer the following benefits:
- The HeatEx software helps accurately schedule maintenance & shut down to clean or repair heat exchangers.
- The operators can set up Monitor or Alert, alarms or emails, for specific actions.
- The payback time for HeatEx software on a train in a refinery is usually a few months.
- It takes 4-8 weeks to install HeatEx in a Windows PC at a site, no shut down is required.
The best part is that in most cases HeatEx can use historical data, whether it is in paper-based reports or digital formats in a historian, to fine tune the model for accurate future performance.
Depending on availability, some typical process inputs that HeatEx uses for Heat Exchanger Performance Monitoring are:
- Inlet & outlet temperature of cooling & heating fluids
- Flow rate of cooling & heating fluids
You can watch this small to understand the power of our analytics software which can deliver this service.
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