Water Cooled Charge Air Coolers

Custom designed in round shell and tube, or square engine and remote mounted fin designs, our high performance water cooled charge air coolers utilize extended surface cooling fins in either aluminium, copper, or stainless steel to ensure greater thermal effectiveness and durability. This means our customers receive superior performance at a practical price. For over 100 years, our heat exchangers have been trusted among equipment manufacturers in the transportation, power generation, construction, military and process industries.

Basco® Type ES Extended Surface Shell and Tube Fin Heat Exchangers

Our Type ES extended surface shell and tube fin heat exchanger is the industry leader for intercooler and aftercooler performance. Its unique patented compact plate fin design provides superior cooling of large air volumes at low pressure drops which means less energy consumption.

Basco® Type 500 Shell & Tube Heat Exchangers

Our Basco® Type 500 remains the industry standard in ultimate value and long-term reliability. This proven fixed tubesheet shell and tube heat exchanger offers the cost effectiveness that comes with having a highly standardized design, while easily providing various options to meet specific customer requirements.

Our Basco® Type 500 heat exchangers are manufactured in our ISO 9001 certified Buffalo, NY facility and our Suzhou, China facility. We employ Demand Flow Technology (DFT) manufacturing processes where finished goods are made “on-demand” from components and in-line support machining centers. We’ve invested heavily in DFT and embrace the superior quality, improved workflow, and cost controls inherent in DFT manufacturing.

Basco® Hairpin Heat Exchangers

A hairpin design is often more thermally efficient than a traditional shell and tube, which results in a lower up-front cost and lower overall weight. Our experienced designers and engineers can meet any custom cooling requirement.

Removable Bundle Types.

Separated Closure Double Pipe: Type SCDP

  • Employs the industry’s most widely used separated head features
  • Shell side and tube side closures are separately bolted through, ideal for applications involving wide temperature or pressure differences between the shell and tube side fluids
  • In cyclic service, separately gasketed closures are more leak resistant compared to shell and tube designs
  • Separate shell and tube side seal configuration. This makes the tube bundle easy to remove, clean and replace.
  • Well suited for large imbalance of flow on shellside
  • Long fins are used to achieve high thermal performance with minimal pressure drop

Common Closure Hairpin: Type CC

  • Single bolted closure design. Ideal for applications involving low design temperature or pressure differences between the shell and tube side fluids
  • Enjoys the maintenance advantages of a Separated Closure Hairpin (Type SC)
  • The center ring keeps the shell gasket seated during the removal of the tube head for inspection or service

Non-Removable Bundle Types.

All-Welded Hairpin: Type AW

  • More cost effective design when removable bundle is not required
  • Fixed tubesheet design

Jacketed Pipe: Type JP

  • Most economical solution for any heat transfer application
  • Fixed tubesheet design

Basco® Custom Engineered Shell & Tube Heat Exchangers

Before there were standard products, there were engineered products, with each heat exchanger designed for the application. Our Basco® shell and tube heat exchangers have filled virtually every heat transfer need for over seventy years. Our experienced design and engineering staff stand ready to bring the best team with the best tools in the industry to bear on your heat transfer challenge. Please contact us to discuss your application.

Codes.

  • EU Pressure Equipment Directive (PED) (97/23/EC)
  • Chinese Safety Quality License for Boiler and Pressure Vessel
  • Australian AS1210
  • Singapore Code
  • DOSH Malaysian Code
  • Canadian CRN, all provinces
  • Indian Boiler Regulations (IBR)
  • Polish Code
  • API 614, 660, 618

Plate heat exchangers have long been used in the engine rooms of container ships and cruise ships for a variety of cooling tasks. Our SIGMA plate heat exchangers – used on ships around the world – feature corrosion-proof materials, such as titanium, and support a complete range of seawater applications for commercial shipbuilding.

Warm, dry, compressed air is critical to many manufacturing processes. The presence of water or condensate in a compressed air stream can often lead to equipment damage, corrosion, premature wear, or total malfunction. Our refrigerant air dyers offer a cost-effective solution to reduce the moisture content while providing a stable continuous flow of warm, dry air.

API Heat Transfer’s advanced technologies and solutions can help with the safe and effective treatment of wastewater and waste, both of which have a direct impact on energy savings and environmental protection. Our SIGMASTAR evaporation systems can safely reduce the amount of wastewater, and our SIGMA plate heat exchangers can assist with heat recovery, so wastewater can be safely reused in other processes.

You can count on API Heat Transfer to provide a full solution for your heat exchange needs in the refrigeration industry. For two decades, our plate heat exchangers have played a key role in the refrigeration process. With their compact construction and excellent thermal performance, they are an indispensable feature of today’s advanced refrigeration systems.

No matter your petrochemical industry application, API Heat Transfer can select the right solution that’s efficient in cost, space, and emission requirements.

Shell and tube heat exchangers have long played a role in petrochemical applications. Gasketed and fully welded plate heat exchangers have become increasingly important within the industry as well. We offer both shell and tube and plate technologies to our customers in the petrochemical industry.

When performance under extreme pressure and temperature conditions is critical, our specialized shell and tube heat exchangers are ideal. In fact, ours are regularly used in the most varied offshore and onshore plants.

Our plate heat exchangers – with their high pressure and temperature capabilities, unique materials, and special sealing qualities – are ideal for heat recovery tasks or the condensation of solvents.