Forced Draft Air Cooler & Heat Exchangers
Your process requirements are unique – shouldn’t your air-cooled heat exchanger and air-cooled condenser be unique too?
We don’t build catalogue air-cooled heat exchangers, we build your coolers to your specifications. 100% custom-engineered and fabricated to meet your specifications and local requirements. No compromises allowed for our air-cooled exchangers.
Altex Industries offers a complete new air-cooled heat exchanger and air-cooled condenser design and fabrication per ASME VIII-1 and API 661. Recirculation (winterization) is available as needed.
Economy of Scale - We Build Big
Given our Edmonton location and immediate access to the high-load corridor in Alberta, we maximize bay size and minimize bay quantity. We can also combine multiple services into a shared bay for air-cooled exchangers, forced draft air coolers, air-cooled condensers, and other services. This equates to lower capital and operating costs.
Engineering, design, project management, fabrication, assembly, and testing – everything is performed in-house at Altex Industries at our Edmonton facility.
Various accessories can be added to our air coolers for air-cooled exchangers:
- Space Heaters – electric or gas
- Heating coils – glycol or steam
- Louvers – manual and/or automatic
- Bug (poplar fluff) screens, hail guards
- Anti-rotation devices (Anti-windmilling)
- Vibration switches or sensors
- Header access walkways and ladders
- Averaging RTD, thermo-couples
- Temperature indicating transmitters
- Floors – Grated or checker-plate
- Low-noise fan design
- Shipping prep – nitrogen purge, plywood covers, poly-wrap
- Other accessories upon request
To ensure optimal performance and heat transfer efficiency, surface preparation using grit blasting is often performed prior to coating or component assembly.”
Do you have a challenging application?
We offer solutions for:
- High-pressure designs
- Low noise requirements (near developments)
- Pressure-drop limitations (natural gas compressor stations)
- Air cooled heat exchangers
- Air-cooled condensers
- Forced draft air cooler
- Fin fan coolers
In-House Engineering Software:
- HTRI thermal design/rating program
- Autodesk Inventor – 3D Models
- RISA 3-D, STAAD PRO structural analysis
- Finite element analysis
- PV Elite
Design and Construction:
- ASME U, S, R, NB certified
- Canadian CRNs
- HTRI design in-house by our thermal engineering team
- Plug or cover-plate header-boxes
- Split headers, sloped headers
- L-Fin, embedded, or extruded fin-tubes for fin fan air cooler
Materials of Construction:
- Carbon Steel - SA-214, SA-179, SA-192, etc.
- Chrome-Moly - 1/2-Cr, 1-1/4Cr, 2-1/4Cr, 5Cr, 9Cr, 13Cr
- Stainless Steel - 304, 309, 316, 317, 321, 400 series, etc.
- Duplex - S32205, S31803
- Super Duplex - S32750, S32760
- Nickel alloys - Incoloy®, Hastelloy®, Inconel®, C-276, C-22, N06625, N08825, Alloy 59, C2000, etc.
- Clad or overlayed tubesheets with above metallurgies
- Clad or overlayed tubesheets with above metallurgies
Industries Served By Altex
- Natural Gas Processing
- Oil and Gas Transmission
- Petrochemical
- Refining
- Power Generation
- Geothermal
- LNG
- Heavy Oil / SAGD
- Shale Gas and Oil Production
- Gas Compression
- Carbon Capture
