APEX Group is pioneer in the market of plate-type heat exchangers. Our proprietary heat exchangers are heavy-duty, custom-designed engineering solutions, able to bare extreme requirements of wide range of gas-to-gas heat transfer applications, such as air preheating, heat recovery, emissions control, gas cooling.
Our strength consists of +50’ years of in-house developed know-how, resulted in patented technology and leading-edge engineering. This ensures economical and compact design and extends lifecycle due to corrosion protection and increased operation range to lower Reynolds numbers.
Find out more about the general benefits of installing a heat exchanger in your system and about the extra benefits of using APEX Group’s heat exchangers, which are custom-designed according to client’s needs, both process-wise and structurally. Learn about how heat exchangers work and the innovative technologies developed by our R&D department, in order to solve current challenges of diverse applications and working conditions.
The need for reduced CO2 emissions requires higher efficiency in the fired heaters, in industry processes. This can be achieved by lowering the stack temperature, but this might lead to acid condensation in the heat exchanger, causing corrosion in almost all metallic heat exchangers. Our R&D Department has studied the acid condensation process and the corrosion of metallic surfaces, and found an excellent solution for this type of recurrent problem. Find out more about our experiments and about the two types of heat exchangers we developed and that are suitable to work under corrosive conditions.
Our in-house R&D Department is dedicated to broaden our knowledge in heat transfer, fluids mechanics and construction materials’ properties to continuously improve our products and to deliver the best possible engineering solution to our customers. Find out more about the experiments we do here and how we validate our analysis, using cold flow modelling, CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) analysis and latest Laser Optical measurement techniques for flow visualization.
Along 30+ years of our operations we are proud of the below numbers:
After spending over 6 unsuccessful months of CFD modeling to determine a satisfactory method of blending two fluegas streams at significantly different temperatures, we were running out of options. We contacted APEX for help and they offered their “Temperature Equalizer”. The Temperature Equalizer was installed in one of our North American Carbon Black plants and has proven to be a resounding success, mixing the two streams in extraordinary fashion. The APEX group solved the mixing issue with a very robust and effective design and we are very pleased with the results. – Orion-Americas Project Team - Orion SA
During the preparation, design and manufacturing process, we have been able to experience the cooperation with APEX as pleasant and the complete package meets the requirements as stated in the scope of supply. - Shell Replacement Team
The unit was put into service in October 2010, and passed performance test in January 2011. Temperature, pressure-drop and leakage all meet the design requirements. Now, it is still in good conditions.
We deeply appreciate your efforts on in-time delivery, advanced products and precision site supervision. Formosa is able to not just meet the EPA regulation, but also benefits from high waste heat recovery. - G-WATT
We certify that we have in operation two air preheaters supplied by Benelux-Apex B.V. The units were installed in our Port Arthur refinery and have been in continuous operation to our full satisfaction since April 10, 1999.