Since 1968 FBM Hudson Italiana is one of the world’s acclaimed suppliers of Air Cooled Heat Exchanger for Oil & Gas, Refineries, Petrochemical, Chemical and Power

We provide Clients with a complete range of services starting from thermal and mechanical engineering, complete manufacturing, modularization, supervision at site, after-sales service and supply of spare parts.

Air Cooled Heat Exchangers are typically used when plant location and ambient conditions do not allow an easy and economic use of other cooling systems.

The most important advantages of Air Cooled Heat Exchangers are:

• No need of cooling water or other cooling media.

• No problems associated with thermal and chemical pollution of cooling fluids

• Flexibility for any plant location and plot plan arrangement (allowing installation over other units)

• Reduction of maintenance costs (cleaning is normally limited to the inside of exchanger tubes)

• Easy bolted assembly installation

Configurations

Air Cooled Heat Exchangers may be supplied in different configurations:

Forced draft type

Allows easier maintenance of the fans. Fans deliver air at ambient temperatures with consequent higher efficiency.

Induced Draft type

The plenum chambers are mounted on top of the bundle and protect the finned surface against wind, rain, snow and partially hail. The location of the fans also ensure an optimum air distribution, limit air recirculation and allows lower level at maintenance walkway level.

Recirculated type

For special process and suitable for cold climates, it is advisable to provide warm air recirculation to prevent freezing. This recirculation may be achieved by means of louvers, steam coils and variable pitch fans.

Pre-Assembled Air Coolers

Our product is designed and tailored to suit our clients’ assembly and operating guideline and overall needs.A new philosophy in the supply of air cooled heat exchangers, is achieved by making use of air cooled pre-assembled modules.The long construction time needed for the installation of the plants as well as the lack and cost of manpower, has prompted the introduction of pre-assembled units to the market.These units are expressly designed for safe transport and easy installation at the plant, and can be shop tested before delivery.Our extensive experience in this area allows us to work together with clients to achieve their specific objectives offering them not only the supply of equipment, but also complete service and assistance.

Liquefied Natural Gas Industry

FBM Hudson Italiana is a key Air Cooled Heat Exchanger supplier in the LNG Industry where the company has shown its ability and trusted experience in delivering ever-increasing LNG train sizes.

Latest LNG plants have increased 30 times the size of the ones constructed in the 60s, pressing the need for modular LNG components.

The extensive experience in LNG field allows FBM Hudson Italiana to tailor make equipment according to clients’ specific objectives.

This involvement has lead FBM Hudson Italiana to improve performance in the evolution of modularization, which aims at obtaining bigger & bigger modules by extending the inclusion of pre-assembled components.