• Concept Engineering

Low Fin Tubes

Concept Engineering, manufacturer of heat transfer equipment, offers a range of Low Fin Tubes. These are formed by passing the tube through a set of rollers, which forms the fins from the parent material of the tube by making it flow in the desired way. This is very different from cutting grooves onto the tube as is often done by people wishing to take a short cut or who do not know better. It is possible to have internal grooves too for turbulation. Concept Engineering specialises in designing and making wire wound fin tubes and turbulators of all types. It can design heat exchangers that will use these tubes and turbulators, but its capacity to design and manufacture fin tubes and turbulators exceeds the capacity to make heat exchangers. The company prefers to work in partnership with customers’ world wide where it provides the design and material support, while they do the fabrication of heat exchangers. To assist fabricators who wish to add exchangers to their range, it also provides precision CNC drilling of tube sheets and baffles for local assembly; and designs the exchanger and supplies all the required components for local assembly. In the past this has included bought out components like tube expanders, dished ends also.

The low fin tube has the following advantages:

• It increases the area on the shell side to 3 times that of bare tube – this is very useful when the shell side coefficient is lower
• Is very efficient as the fins and tube are integral to each other