A software solution for heat exchanger design and modeling
HEAX's software is validated both experimentally and through extensive literature, ensuring reliable performance predictions
Why USE HEAX?
Need a fast solution to size a heat exchanger? Not sure which type of heat exchanger you need to use? Want to evaluate the expected thermal performance of your heat exchanger? HEATEX is designed to meet all these needs and more.
Quick Sizing Solutions: Get rapid and accurate sizing for any heat exchanger type, ensuring you find the best fit for your needs without delay.
Comprehensive Evaluations: Unsure about the right type of heat exchanger? HEATEX helps you analyze and compare different options to determine the best solution.
Performance Analysis: Evaluate the expected thermal performance of your heat exchanger efficiently and effectively.
Cost-Effective Investment: With minimal investment, you can comprehensively evaluate your thermal needs and make informed decisions.
All-in-One Solution: Model and size various types of heat exchangers anytime throughout the year with a single, versatile tool.
Operational Flexibility: Quickly assess how changes in operating conditions will impact the performance and size of your heat exchanger, allowing for dynamic and informed adjustments.
Discover the excellence
behind our innovation
HEAX software is a powerful design tool for the calculation of various types of heat exchangers, including:
Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers (STHE’s)
Plate and Fin Heat Exchangers
Tube and Fin Heat Exchangers
Coil Heat Exchangers
Recuperators
These heat exchangers are utilized across numerous industries, including Chemical, Oil & Gas, Wastewater, Food, Pharmaceutical, Automotive, and more. Designing these heat exchangers is fundamental for process installations to work at their optimum efficiency. It is vital that heat exchangers meet the desired duty within the available space and economic constraints (capex and opex).
Traditionally, designing the correct heat exchanger has meant the need for investment in costly software solutions, which are not available to everyone. HEATEX was designed to overcome this without compromising the calculation precision needed for modern industry.
Key Features of Our Engineering Services:
Two-Phase Flow Modeling: Accurately model two-phase flow, including evaporation and condensation processes, for enhanced performance analysis.
Versatile Heat Exchanger Modeling: Model more than 10 types of heat exchangers in various configurations, including parallel, cross, and counter-flow setups.
Customized Heat Exchanger Requests: Need a new type of heat exchanger modeled? We offer the flexibility to request and design custom heat exchangers tailored to your unique needs.
The Science Behind HEAX
To ensure the best calculation results, our engineers have conducted a thorough search through scientific literature to make sure the best methods for calculation in heat transfer engineering are included in our software. This literature scanning is an ongoing task. We are always looking for new developments in fields such as:
Calculation of heat transfer coefficients in laminar, transition, and turbulent flow regimes
Effects of free vs. forced convection
Advances in calculation of physical properties for mixes of pure components
Pressure drop correlations
Heat transfer calculations with baffles
Step 1: Thermal-mechanical calculation
We are able to define the type of exchanger suited to your needs. Also, we will define the power and the exchange surface. This is done according to your industrial process requirements Heat Exchangers are designed according to TEMA and ASME standards
Step 2: CFD modeling & local optimization
A CFD analysis can be performed for specific application.
Local parametrical and topological optimization can be performed to enhance the performance of the heat exchanger and reduce its cost
Step 3: Manufacturing plans
These contain details of the different parts of the heat exchanger.
Step 4: Manufacturing
The manufacturing of our heat exchangers can be done either by metal additive manufacturing (for compact heat exchangers) or by a typical manufacturing industrialized process done by our manufacturing partners.
Industry Verification
HEATEX was created within a heat exchanger company: HRS Heat Exchanger. HEATEX is the result of more than 20 years of software development within the HRS group. Not only does HEATEX benefit from trustworthy sources of scientific literature, but it is also a software package used by HRS thermal engineers in various global HRS facilities. We proudly state that a large number of industrial heat exchangers (performing to design duty) have been designed by our professionals using the HEATEX software. The software was only released to the market after extensive testing in real industry practice.
We Do More Than Just Offer Software Solutions
Delivering a good thermal design for a heat exchanger is a complex task. It is not enough just to have a state-of-the-art software package. Design choices will have to be made that require academic thermal engineering knowledge. For really complex designs, industry experience is, of course, highly beneficial. For any HEATEX user that struggles with these concepts, we offer a helping hand. Our engineers have many years of experience and the skills needed for successful delivery of heat exchangers:
Thermal Design
3D Design
Material Knowledge
Manufacturing
Installation and Commissioning
Troubleshooting
See our services page for details on how we can assist you in achieving the best results.
Welcome to HEAX
Discover the power of our state-of-the-art software tool designed for the precise modeling and analysis of heat exchangers. Whether you are an engineer, a researcher, or a student, THERM's accuracy, backed by both experimental validation and comprehensive literature, will elevate your work . Leave the complexities to us and focus on what truly matters - achieving remarkable results with confidence. Contact us today.