Oil & Gas Process Engineering PAGES Contact Us Privacy Terms Aerial Coolers - #1 ‘Aerial coolers are often used to cool a hot fluid to near ambient temperature. They are mechanically simple and flexible, and they eliminate the nuisance and cost of a cold source. In warm climates, aerial coolers may not be capable of providing as low a “temperature as shell-and-tube exchangers, which use cool medium. In aerial coolers the tube bundle is on the discharge or suction side of a fan, depending on ‘whether the fan is blowing air across the tubes or sucking air through them. This type of exchanger can be used to cool a hot fluid to something near ambient temperature as in a compressor interstage cooler, or it can be used to heat the air as in a space heater. re 314. lle ‘When the tube bundle is on the discharge of the fan, the exchanger is referred to as “forced draft. When the tube bundle is on the suction of the fan itis referred to as an “induced draft” exchanger. Figure 3- 14 shows a typical air cooled exchanger, and Figure 3- 15 shows a detail of the headers and tube bundle. In Figure 3-15 the process fluid enters one of the nozzles on the fixed end and the pass partition plate forces it RECENT POSTS Compressibility Factor (2) Apparent Molecular Weight of Gas Mixture Molecular Weight and Apparent Molecular Weight Hydrocarbon Gases Hydrocarbon Preparation CATEGORIES Acid Gas Treating Basie Configuration Basic Principles Centrifugal Compressors Centrifugal Pumps Centrifugal Pumps Bearings-Seals- Wear-Rings Characterizing the Flow Stream Chemical Solvents Choise Of Process Coil sizing Compressors Condensate StabilizationOil & Gas Process Engineering PAGES Contact Us Privacy Terms to flow through the tubes to the floating end (tie plate). Here it crosses over to the remainder of the tubes and flows back to the fixed end and out the other nozzle. Airis blown vertically across the finned section to cool the process fluid, Plugs are provided opposite each tube on both ends so that the tubes can be cleaned or individually plugged if they develop leaks, The tube bundle could also be mounted in a vertical plane, in which case air ‘would be blown horizontally through the cooler. rein rE a Ff 2.15. Side slovoton of i aloe. from Gs Prcesr Supers Sethian, fee Oo bok cn Forced-alr exchangers have tube lengths of 6 to 50 ft and tube diameters of % to IM-in, The tubes have fins fon them since air is non-fouling and it has avery low heat transfer efficiency. The fins increase efficiency by effectively adding surface area to the outside surface of the tubes. Some of the typical sizes of air cooled exchangers are shown in Table 3-5, Controlling Pulsating Flow Cooling and Lubricating System Crude Oil Treating system Cylinder Sizing Design Considerations Design Considerations Design Procedures for Amine System Direct Conversion of H2S to Sulfur Emulsion Treating Teory Flotation Units Fluid Properties ~ Basic Principles Fractions from atmospheric and vacuum distillation Gas Dehydration Gas Processing Gas Sweetening Processes as Turbine Generic Types of Centrifugal Pumps Glycol Dehydration Glycol Dehydration Gravity Separation Heat Exchangers Hydrates Ideas To Enhance as Flow Influent Water Quality Installation Liquid LoadtOil & Gas Process Engineering PAGES Contact Us Privacy Terms Tote Lene — eros ~ Tran cht os sp yin ti Feline AN et Ina single aerial cooler there may be several fans and several tube bundles as shown in Figure 3-16, which defines bay width, tube length, and number of fans. ‘Typically, on a compressor cooler there may be many “tube bundles—one for cooling the gas after each stage, one for engine cooling water, one for lube oil, etc, Categories: Heat Exchangers | Tags: aerial cooler, coolers | Leave a comment + Previous Post Next Post —> UX Units and Line Heaters Mechanical Design of Pressure Vessels Mechanisms of Heat Transfer Oil and Gas Processing Oil and Water Separation 011 Production Faclity Physical Solvent Processes Potential Operating, Problem Pressure Drop in Piping Pressure Relief Pressure Relieving systems GP Pressure Vessels - Design Process Cooling in Remote Location Process Heat Duty Produced Water “Treating System Production Process Component Pumps Reboller Reciprocating Compressors RECIPROCATING COMPRESSORS Reciprocating Compressors - Components Relief VaWve ~~~ SeparationOil & Gas Process Engineering PAGES Contact Us Privacy Terms Shell and Tube Exchangers Solid Bed ‘Absorption Solid Bed Dehydration Specification and Design Three Phase Separator Sizing Tower Pressure Tray Trays and Packing “Treater Vessels Sizing ‘Treating Equipment Two Phase Ol and Gas Separation Two Phase Separator Equipment Two Phase Separator Sizing Two Phase Separator Theory ‘Type OF Devices Types of Compressors Water Treating Equipment Water Teating Theory Well site Troubleshooting Wellhead Compression Wellhead Surface EquipmentOil & Gas Process Engineering PAGES Contact Us Privacy Terms © 2021 Oil & Gas Process Engineering, Theme: Ari by Elmastudio. 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