Aftercoolers
Compressed air and gases contain high levels of liquid water vapour. Effective water removal leads to reduced maintenance costs, enhanced system operation and improved product quality. Parker’s range of aftercoolers represent the vital first step in this process, installed immediately downstream of compressors or blowers they eliminate over 80% of the water present within compressed air and gas systems.
Product Lineup
Hypercool Water Cooled Aftercooler
Compressed air and gases contain high levels of liquid water vapour. Effective water removal leads to reduced maintenance costs, enhanced system operation and improved product quality. Hypercool water cooled aftercoolers represent the vital first step in this process, installed immediately downstream of compressors or blowers they eliminate over 80% of the water present within compressed air and gas systems.
Controlled compressed air or gas temperature is essential for many industrial applications for efficient operation. The air or gas temperature can be very high at the compressor outlet. Hypercool water cooled aftercoolers can control this. They have been specifically designed to achieve maximum cooling at minimum cost, within a package designed to withstand the rigors of modern industry.
The ribbed tubing design offers high heat exchange efficiency with minimal pressure drops. Hypercool’s extensive range of models includes those with fixed and removable aftercoolers, high pressure configurations and versions with special materials for any gas and water quality requirement.
A high quality aftercooler properly sized is an excellent investment that can help ensure that the compressed air or gas system works properly thereby guaranteeing the quality of the finished product.
Features:
- Fixed or removable tube bundles
- Carbon steel shell and copper tubes for standard applications
- Cupro-nickel shell and tubes for sea water use
- Stainless steel shell and tubes for aggressive gas and/or water
- Carbon steel shell and stainless steel tubes for aggressive air or gas
- High pressures up to 40 barg (up to 80 barg on request) and low pressures down to 1barg
- Stainless steel centrifugal water separators are available on request
Benefits:
- Provides significant energy and capital investment savings
- Optimises compressed air system or gas treatment station performance
- Reduces maintenance and improves product quality
- Ensures reliable and continuous operation
- Very low pressure drops with optimum cooling performances
Hypercool BioEnergy Water Cooled Aftercoolers
The performance of biogas as a fuel depends on effective dehumidification. Saturated raw biogas contains water and impurities that need to be removed to avoid damage to engine equipment and pipelines and to reduce contamination of engine oil, increasing the efficiency of the whole plant and significantly reducing maintenance costs and plant downtime.
For biogas as a fuel, most of the impurities have to be removed, as they may cause corrosion, deposits and damage to equipment. In particular biogas needs to be dried by cooling it to temperatures close to 5°C using water cooled heat exchangers working with water chillers. Hypercool Bioenergy aftercoolers are a key component of this biogas treatment process.
Hypercool Bioenergy aftercoolers provide safe and reliable operation in the harsh environments typically found in Anaerobic Digester and Landfill biogas production areas thanks to the use of stainless steel components specifically treated to maximize corrosion resistance.
Features:
- Shell and tube heat exchanger with smooth pipes
- Material: Parts in contact with biogas in AISI304 or AISI316L, parts not in contact with biogas in AISI304
- Pickling and passivation treatment maximize corrosion resistance production
- Flow rates and performances aligned with CHP power range
- Suitable for horizontal & vertical installations
- Max working pressure: 0.5 bar g
Benefits:
- Highly reliable and continuous operation even in the harshest conditions typically experienced in a biogas plant or a landfill site
- Significant cost savings in investment, management and operation of the system
- High efficiency heat exchange and separation whilst maintaining a very low pressure drop
- Performances and flow rates aligned with CHP and power generation market
Hypercool Air Cooled Aftercooler
The Parker Hiross Hypercool range of air cooled aftercoolers represents a cost effective solution to easily remove water vapour from compressed air and cool it to safe usable levels for many industrial applications.
Hypercool air cooled aftercoolers can be used when cooling water is not available, limiting costs and plant complexity and will prepare the air for further filtration and drying. The aftercoolers can be installed immediately downstream of compressors or blowers in order to remove up to 80% of the condensate, protecting the entire compressed air system or production process.
A high quality aftercooler, properly sized is an excellent investment that can help ensure that the compressed air system works efficiently, thereby guaranteeing the quality of the finished product.
Features
- Robust construction and compact design
- Low pressure drop design
- Protective grill for fan and heat exchanger
- High efficiency and low noise axial fans
- Standard protection with epoxy powder coating
- Full range of matching centrifugal separators “Hypersep”
- Extensive range of condensate drains “Hyperdrain”
Benefits
- Significant energy and capital investment savings
- Optimised compressed air systems performance
- Reduced maintenance and improved product quality
- Reliability and continuous operation
- Very low pressure drops with optimum cooling performances