Heatric喜获350万美元热交换器合同, 美捷特股份有限公司
Release Date: 2010-05-20
Heatric, in Poole, Dorset, UK, has won a £3.5 million contract for its specialist heat exchangers. Its biggest order for 18 months, the Meggitt operating company says this reflects the return of confidence to its oil and gas markets. Heatric’s prospects book is also healthy.Some 18 heat exchangers—for gas compression aftercooling—will be delivered by the end of 2010 for a brand-new ship-mounted oil and gas production system for MODEC, which specialises in constructing, selling and leasing such floating production, storage and offloading vessels (FPSOs).
Heatric has grown its business in the offshore sector over 20 years where it remains the only provider of the diffusion-bonded, micro-channel heat exchangers known as printed circuit heat exchangers (PCHEs).
PCHEs are engineered with great precision to accommodate the flow rates of individual oil and gas reservoirs and will last the lifetime of an operation.
They have special advantages over conventional tubular cooling equipment. The PCHE production process enables highly compact heat exchangers to be produced— approximately a quarter of the size as a rule of thumb—a significant advantage in offshore plant where space and weight is at a premium.
In terms of operational effectiveness, Heatric’s PCHEs exemplify the extreme environment engineering that characterises sister Meggitt businesses. They can accommodate extremely high pressures—up to 600 bar—needed to overcome the pressure of wells down which waste gas may be reinjected after separation from oil. On FPSOs, PCHEs cool the highly compressed, high temperature gas being prepared for reinjection, or piping to shore, improving the efficiency of gas compressors and conserving fuel.
The high pressure integrity of Heatric PCHEs arises from a production process that eliminates joints. This results in a leak rate that is 100 times less than any competing system and therefore easily managed and controlled. This reduces the opportunity for catastrophic failure dramatically.
Heatric’s technology is unique and is reproduced nowhere else globally at this scale or effectiveness.
| Type: | NORMAL |
| Company: | 美捷特股份有限公司 |
| Country: | 英国 |