The Industry Standard for Durability and Versatility.
Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers
Proven performance for your most demanding environments. AIC's shell and tube family is built without compromise. Every shell and tube heat exchanger we build is engineered around one thing - your exact requirements. Whether you choose a standard or fully custom unit, you get equipment that works from day one and doesn't stop.
Easy to Maintain
Removable tube bundles, accessible cover plates, and straightforward tube isolation mean minimal downtime and low lifetime maintenance costs.
Built for Stress
Robust construction that is engineered to withstand high pressures, thermal cycling, and aggressive process fluids.
Energy Efficient
Our exchangers are optimised for maximum heat transfer efficiency, minimising energy costs and reducing your carbon footprint across the unit's operating life.
Our products and manufacturing process are fully certified to the highest extent of industry standards.
Our Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers
The most widely used heat exchanger in the world that are proven across refineries, power plants, food & beverage, marine, and chemical processing industries. Our heat exchangers are engineered for environments that demand the most.
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Key Advantages of Shell & Tube Heat Exchangers
The most widely used heat exchanger in the world that is proven across refineries, power plants, food & beverage, marine, and chemical processing industries.
Shell and tube heat exchangers are the industry standard for high pressure and high temperature applications. Their straightforward two-fluid design deliver what engineers need most: reliability, versatility, and value.
Here’s why they remain the top choice:
- Handles the highest pressures and temperatures of any heat exchanger type.
- Cost-effective compared to plate heat exchangers of equivalent duty.
- Simple, robust design that is easy to maintain and service.
- Tubes can be double-walled for added safety
- Easy leak detection and tube isolation.
- Less prone to fouling than plate heat exchangers.
FAQ: Shell and Tube HX
Two fluids flow through the unit simultaneously with one through the tubes, one around them inside the shell. Heat moves through the tube walls from the hotter fluid to the cooler fluid by conduction and convection. The two fluids never come into direct contact, making it indirect heat transfer that is ideal for hazardous, reactive, or high-value process fluids.
Our Cobrex double-wall design places two physical walls with an air gap between the process fluid and the potable water circuit. If a leak ever occurs, fluid drips safely out of the unit rather than mixing with the drinking water.
Corrugated tubing physically tumbles the fluid as it flows, eliminating stagnant layers against the tube wall. The result is significantly higher heat transfer efficiency and a self-scouring effect that resists mineral buildup — meaning better performance and longer service intervals.
Yes, our TW-Line (Titanium) is specifically designed for corrosive salt water and chlorine applications.
Yes, our P-Line is a sanitary U-tube design polished for high-purity pharmaceutical water.
It uses two tube walls with an air gap; if a leak occurs, the fluid escapes through a vent rather than mixing.
U-Tubes are better for steam or high-temp fluids because they handle thermal expansion without mechanical fatigue.
Need something custom?
When standard doesn't cut it, we build to fit. Our engineers design custom shell and tube heat exchangers around your exact fluid properties, flow rates, and spatial constraints.
