Overview
Air cooled Heat Exchangers (or) Fin fan Cooler or Air Fin Cooler are used for Heat rejecting from a hot process fluid to the surrounding atmosphere by using the atmospheric air as a cooling media.
What is Air Finned Coolers?
The Air Fin Coolers are basically designed with multiple rows of finned tubes in a series of surface and required numbers of fans are used to move the low temperature atmospheric ambient air over the finned tube coil surface in order to cool the hotter fluid media
The various types of headers are Welded Bonnet Header, Plug Header, Manifold header, Plug and pipe header etc., The various types of Fins are 'L' type Wrap-On Fins, 'G' type Embedded Fins and Bi-metallic Extruded Fins etc.. In some small type heat Exchanger wire/ strip type copper wounded / knurled Fins are also used.
These Air Cooled Type Heat Exchangers are used in oil, gas, petrochemical, refinery, power and condensation plants. All type of fluids in process industries are cooled in Air Fin Coolers with the use of atmospheric air, as the cooling media which resulting in economy in running costs.
Air Fin Coolers consist of number of bays. Each bays consists of the following major equipment :
- Heat Exchangers Fin Tube Bundles
- Supporting structure for the Tube Bundles
- Fan arrangement with Gear Box and Motor or Belt & Pulley Drive
- Piping with valves and instruments as per the requirement etc.
