Overview

This presentation will showcase the current scope of research, design considerations, and engineering experience that CALGAVIN has gained over the last 38 years to support its business providing clients with solutions for more efficient operation of heat exchangers.

Certainly, in it’s simple form, heating and cooling fluids is not a complex concept, but the optimisation of the processes and equipment can be extremely complex, if a high level of efficiency is to be achieved. Phase change, maldistribution, fouling, transient temperatures, product variation, poor design etc, can all have significant impact on actual performance and many in combination.

Experience gained globally will be presented, explaining how flow analysis techniques, together with in-house design and development capability, is used to provide often unique solutions for Oil, Gas, Offshore, Refining and downstream processing industries.

Presenters

Martin Gough - Founder and Managing Director, CALGAVIN

Martin Gough is the founder and Managing Director of CALGAVIN, formed in 1980 to research and develop enhancement solutions to improve the performance of tubular heat exchangers and reactors. Martin has gained extensive experience internationally through the incorporation of university research programmes with on-going industrial needs. Martin is past chairman of the Heat Transfer Society and past board member of HTRI.

Tom Higley - BEng (Hons) Chemical Engineering, Loughborough University

Tom is Technical Sales Manager at CALGAVIN and started as Thermal Process Engineer. Tom’s major role is the co-ordination and provision of technical information to potential clients in the evaluation of projects, to help provide thermal process solutions.