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Quotes - Engineering - SalesProcess Water Cooling
Process water cooling is the catch-all: any duty where water has picked up heat from a process and has to give it back before it is reused or discharged.
Where a second, cooler water supply exists - tower water, well water, city water - a shell and tube exchanger is the simplest answer, and the STA Series serves as a water-to-water cooler as readily as an oil cooler; the same MBH method applies with the water factor of 500 in place of the oil factor of 200. Where no second supply exists, the WAC closed-circuit cooler rejects the heat to air and the process water itself becomes the closed loop.
Wash Systems
Quench Tanks
Irrigation
Jacketed Vessels
Custom Builds
When the catalogue does not fit.
Checklist
- Stainless shell and tubes for treated or pure water
- Design pressures beyond 300 PSIG
- ASME U-stamp, CRN or PED as required
- Duties above 3,000,000 BTU/hr
IPAC Ranges
- Shell & Tube Oil Coolers — Seventeen sizes from a 3 inch shell 14 inches long to an 8 inch shell 72 inches long
- Packaged Coolers — Nine packaged models from 62,000 to 476,000 BTU/hr
- Water-Cooled 59 Series — Nineteen close-approach models from 37 to 11,970 SCFM, all 59 inches long
| RANGE | TYPE | COVERS | RATING | PART NUMBERS |
| Shell & Tube Oil Coolers | Shell & Tube Oil Cooler | Seventeen sizes from a 3 inch shell 14 inches long to an 8 inch shell 72 inches long | Call for rating | 17 |
| Packaged Coolers | Closed-Circuit Water Cooler | Nine packaged models from 62,000 to 476,000 BTU/hr | Call for rating | 9 |
| Water-Cooled 59 Series | Water-Cooled Aftercooler | Nineteen close-approach models from 37 to 11,970 SCFM, all 59 inches long | 200 PSIG (300 PSIG small NPT units) | 19 |
More About Process Water Cooling
Where IPAC Equipment Does This Job
IPAC equipment turns up in this role on wash and rinse systems, quench tanks, jacketed mixers, irrigation and pump-seal cooling, and as the water source for water-cooled compressors and aftercoolers in plants that have no tower. Each case is sized on the same information: the heat load, the flow, the temperatures in and out, and what is available to cool against.
Outside the Catalogue
For anything outside the catalogue - stainless steel throughout, unusual pressures, sanitary or high-purity water - IPAC's successor builds custom shell and tube units to ASME, CRN and PED, and we can quote those alongside the standard ranges.
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SERIES • OIL COOLER
Shell & Tube Oil Coolers
Seventeen sizes from a 3 inch shell 14 inches long to an 8 inch shell 72 inches long.
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SERIES • FLUID COOLER
Packaged Coolers
Nine packaged models from 62,000 to 476,000 BTU/hr.
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SERIES • AFTERCOOLER
Water-Cooled 59 Series
Nineteen close-approach models from 37 to 11,970 SCFM, all 59 inches long.
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Yes. The same MBH method applies with the water factor of 500 in place of the oil factor of 200, and the same charts give the pressure drop. Put the fouling water on the tube side, where the bonnets come off for cleaning.
Use a WAC closed-circuit cooler: the process water itself becomes the closed loop and the heat is rejected to air. Nine catalogue sizes run to 476,000 BTU/hr; larger units are built to order.
Yes, as a custom build. Stainless shell and tubes, pressures beyond 300 PSIG, sanitary or high-purity construction and duties above the catalogue are engineered to ASME, CRN or PED as the site requires.
