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Beyond the Basics: Engineering Checklists in Xchanger Suite
June 25, 2025
Discover the power of Xchanger Suite® 9.3 and its groundbreaking Engineering Checklist feature. With this exciting new capability, you can create and apply digital checklists directly within your design workflow, enabling automatic assessment of heat exchanger cases against user-defined rule sets. By streamlining compliance checks and consolidating technical requirements into a single, actionable...
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Sneak Preview: Xchanger Suite 9.3
April 22, 2025
Considered to be the most advanced thermal process design and simulation software, Xchanger Suite® rates, simulates, and designs a variety of heat transfer equipment. This webinar a focused summary of the major new features in Xchanger Suite 9.3, including Engineering Checklist allowing evaluation of case files against user-defined rule sets case comparison...
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Achieving high efficiency in heat transfer equipment with HTRI digital twin technologies
February 11, 2025
The North American Refining Technology Conference (NARTC) was held January 21 — 22, 2025 in Houston, Texas. In the official conference newspaper, HTRI staff discuss the role of digital twins in heat transfer efficiency and how HTRI is at the forefront of developing solutions to advance predictive and preventive maintenance. ...
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Discover the enhanced power and innovative features of Xchanger Suite® 9.3
January 15, 2025
With more than 50 enhancements, Xchanger Suite 9.3 is a version you won't want to miss. Let us take you through some of the standout features that make this version truly exceptional. Method improvements We continually update the predictive methods in our software based on experimental data and analysis from our...
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Exchanger Optimizer 7 now available
September 04, 2024
Exchanger Optimizer is an innovative tool that allows engineers to consider fabrication, installation, and operational costs in heat exchanger design decisions for shell-and-tube and air-cooled heat exchangers. We have added new capabilities in Version 7. Shell-and-Tube Setting Plan Drawings The most notable features to arrive in Version 7 are the addition of true to...
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Beyond the Basics: Thermodynamic Availability in Xchanger Suite
June 26, 2024
Energy efficiency has always been an important consideration for process heat exchanger design. Current design approaches implement steady-state conservation laws only for mass and energy (the first law of thermodynamics) and are limited because the efficiency value always approaches unity. This webinar explores a new, more discriminating efficiency analysis in Xchanger Suite® that...
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Sneak Preview: Xchanger Suite 9.2.1
May 22, 2024
Considered to be the most advanced thermal process design and simulation software, Xchanger Suite® rates, simulates, and designs a variety of heat transfer equipment. This webinar offers an overview of Xchanger Suite 9.2.1 and the major new features in Version 9.2, including improved kettle methods in Xist® improved falling film evaporator (FFE) methods in Xist exergy calculation...
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Insights From the Second Law
January 08, 2024
In the December issue of Hydrocarbon Engineering, Thomas G. Lestina and Kevin J. Farrell examine how using a second-law approach can help to improve the efficiency and environmental impact of process heat exchangers. If you're having difficulty viewing the article above, you can visit this link instead....
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Industry Interest in Electric Heaters Continues to Heat Up
November 06, 2023
Process electric heaters are an intriguing alternative to fuel burning heaters like the shell-and-tube exchangers commonly used in industrial plant settings. Electric heating elements, rather than heated fluid in tubes, provide constant heat flux. Electric heaters can thus control duty more precisely and produce higher heat fluxes than steam condensers. Since...
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Revamped Xchanger Suite® pages enhance your user experience
July 31, 2023
Have you had a chance to explore our revamped Xchanger Suite webpages? The latest changes are all part of our efforts to improve the way you can interact with us and learn more about our products and services. From the ease of navigating through the different pages to the relevancy of...
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Sneak Preview: Xchanger Suite 9.1
February 16, 2023
Considered to be the most advanced thermal process design and simulation software, Xchanger Suite® rates, simulates, and designs a variety of heat transfer equipment. This webinar offers an overview of the major new features in Version 9.1, including fouling estimation option in Xist® plotting of phase envelopes with VMGThermo® detailed piping report...
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Beyond the Basics: Specifying Critical Pressure in Xchanger Suite
July 29, 2021
The critical pressure is a fundamental parameter in many HTRI correlations associated with boiling processes. But do you know enough about it? Do you know what "critical pressure" is? how to specify it in Xchanger Suite®? which correlations it affects? how the pseudo critical and true critical pressure of a mixture differ?...
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Beyond the Basics: Effective Use of the Property Generator in Xchanger Suite
May 20, 2021
The selection of a suitable thermodynamic model to generate accurate fluid properties in Xchanger Suite® can be a challenge for novice and experienced users alike, yet the importance of this decision cannot be overstated. Selection of an appropriate thermodynamic model is crucial to the generation of valid physical properties, which are absolutely necessary...
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Getting Started: Specifying Fluid Properties in Xchanger Suite
November 19, 2020
Two important considerations in heat exchanger design and analysis with Xchanger Suite® are defining a heat exchanger’s geometry and specifying fluid properties. This webinar focuses on fluid property specification. We will provide an overview of the available options in Xchanger Suite, illustrate these options using simple examples, and discuss HTRI’s recommendations and guidelines. ...
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Sneak Preview: Xchanger Suite 8 Embedded Costing
November 19, 2019
The integration of Exchanger Optimizer™ into Xchanger Suite® 8 provides costing capabilities from within Xist® and Xace®. Using case studies, this webinar will demonstrate how to estimate fabrication, installation, operating costs, and view results in the new Costing Reports available in Xchanger Suite 8. ...
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TechTip: Interpreting Latent Heat Warning Messages in Xchanger Suite
July 25, 2019
This webinar describes how Xchanger Suite® determines latent heat. We identify the common latent heat warning messages issued in Xchanger Suite and discuss potential impacts to your design....
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Technical Support
October 16, 2018
Updated in November 2024 HTRI's Technical Support staff is dedicated to providing timely and accurate answers to member questions about Xchanger Suite® and other HTRI technology. Our daily immersion in HTRI products allows us to maintain a thorough knowledge of our research and software. This knowledge, along with broad experience in...
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Applications of Computational Fluid Dynamics
October 12, 2017
Kevin J. Farrell, Principal Engineer, Computational Simulation & Validation When heat exchangers perform ineffectively, engineers often turn to computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for insight. In fact, most companies use CFD in this reactive manner to validate and troubleshoot their operating exchangers. But innovative companies use CFD proactively to explore designs and...
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TechTip: Tube Layout Design and Customization
August 24, 2017
This webinar discusses the tube layout options in Xchanger Suite® 7. Specifically, we will discuss the different features of the view and edit mode; describe a recommended workflow for Xist®, and review output drawings. Updated for Xchanger Suite 7.3.1....
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Beware of Unauthorized Software
July 10, 2017
Software piracy is a significant problem for companies around the world. For some, the impact of piracy is simply a loss of revenue, but for highly technical software like HTRI Xchanger Suite®, pirated and cracked versions can lead to far more serious problems for our member companies, often in ways they...
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Research Update: Boiling on Enhanced Surfaces
January 16, 2017
This webinar reviews improvements in boiling heat transfer through the use of passive surface enhancements. Commercial tubes enhanced with porous coatings or mechanically with integral structure provide a larger surface area for heat transfer and nucleation site density when compared with plain tubes. Boiling heat transfer enhancement for clean fluids increases...
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TechTip: Using the HTRI Automation Server
January 28, 2020
HTRI Xchanger Suite® provides an application programming interface (API) called the HTRI Automation Server. The HTRI Automation Server is easily accessed by external applications and may be used to access data from Xchanger Suite files and to run Xchanger Suite calculations.You may want to leverage the HTRI Automation Server to: integrate Xchanger...
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TechTip: Effectively Selecting Physical Properties in Xchanger Suite
January 16, 2017
The correct choice of the property package and model used for providing physical properties is important for obtaining good results. The purpose of this webinar is to help you select suitable packages and models for different processes, such as heat release curves for two-phase flow, two liquid-phase properties, and special cases....
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TechTip: Using the HTRI Parametric Study Tool
January 16, 2017
Attending this webinar will help you get started using the HTRI Parametric Study tool, which extends the capabilities of HTRI Xchanger Suite® using Microsoft Excel and the OLE automation server interface and API that is installed with Xchanger Suite. This tool allows you to run many Xchanger Suite cases in series based...
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TechTip: Service Type Defaults in Xist
January 16, 2017
Xist® service types are improved and expanded in Xchanger Suite® 7. During this webinar, we will discuss and demonstrate the default values provided for thermosiphon reboiler and reflux condenser service types....
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TechTip: Modeling and Designing Non-round Bundles for Kettle Reboilers
January 16, 2017
This webinar discusses the advantages of flat-top bundles, reviews the implementation of the circulation boiling model in Xchanger Suite® prior to version 7, and discusses the improvements in version 7....
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TechTip: Using the HTRI Material Property Explorer
January 16, 2017
To facilitate better mechanical design calculations, we have expanded the number of materials available in Xchanger Suite® 7. This webinar will demonstrate the capabilities of the HTRI Material Property Explorer, a new tool that allows you to explore available materials, compare material properties, and create user-defined materials for use in Xchanger Suite...
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Research Update: Pressure Drop of Vacuum Condensation in a Vertical Tube
January 16, 2017
This webinar discusses the status of HTRI vacuum condensation research plans, describes the current methods in Xchanger Suite®, and proposes a method to be implemented in future versions of Xchanger Suite....
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Research Update: Evaluation of HTFS and HTRI Shellside Condensation Methods
January 16, 2017
Using available open literature sources and data from HTRI’s shellside condensation database, HTRI compared the predictions of horizontal shellside condensation correlations documented in HTFS™ reports and methods contained in HTRI Xchanger Suite®. The results show that HTFS methods slightly overpredict heat transfer coefficients for pure components and poorly predict heat transfer...
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TechTip: Modeling DX Evaporators
January 16, 2017
This webinar provides an overview of DX evaporators and how to model them in Xist® and Xace®, including what has changed in Xchanger Suite® 7....
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Research Update: Condensation with Desuperheating
January 16, 2017
When superheated vapor enters a condenser, the vapor cannot condense until the sensible heat content is removed in a process called desuperheating. Reports CT-21 and CT-22 present experimental data, discuss the principles of pure components and mixture wet-wall desuperheating, and review available heat transfer models and correlations. These reports also propose...
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TechTip: Customized Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop Calculations in Xchanger Suite
January 16, 2017
Xchanger Suite® provides sophisticated modeling capabilities for a wide range of heat exchangers. Occasionally, you may need to customize the software to extend its capabilities. In this webinar, we discuss the reasons for using non-standard solutions and explore the range of customization options available. Additionally, using an example case, we review and...
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