Overview

This webinar is a joint webinar of the Heat Transfer Society and HEXAG, supported by the Aberdeen Members Group.

Metal Additive Manufacturing (AM), or 3-D printing as it is often termed, enables great freedom of 3-D design with complex voided geometries that could not previously be built, or only at unacceptably high cost. Initially for thick-walled components, it can now build very thin walls.

Heat exchangers, whose basic technology has not advanced since diffusion bonding emerged in the 1980s, are ripe for change. HiETA Technologies pioneered and is now a global leader in using AM for compact heat exchangers, reducing their size and weight by up to 80% in some cases.

In this forum we outline the history of AM and provide examples from HiETA’s customers in defence, aerospace, Formula 1 and the energy sector, and summarise prospects for the future.

Presenters

Drummond Hislop, Founding and R & D Director, HiETA

With a career in technology assessment and choice, focusing on small scale energy systems in Africa and Asia, in 1985 he founded a company to develop Stirling engines. A search for solutions to the problems of heat exchange in the Stirling led to an early sighting of AM at Liverpool University in 1999-2000, and, in 2011-12, to the formation of HiETA.

Andy Jones, Head of Innovation at HiETA

Specialising in developing novel AM thermal management solutions. Andy has over 14 years of experience in consultancy, manufacturing and product design.

The material presented in this webinar has not been peer-reviewed. Any opinions are the presenter’s own and do not necessarily represent those of IChemE or the Aberdeen Members Group. The information is given in good faith but without any liability on the part of IChemE.

Time

12:30—13:30 GMT.

Software

The presentation will be delivered via Zoom, please register to attend below.