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First Supreme Court Decision Allowing Enforcement of Arbitral Award Which Orders a Daily Monetary Penalty in Korea

Yulchon successfully represented Euro Apex B.V. (“Apex”), a Dutch manufacturer of heat exchangers, in a Supreme Court proceeding for enforcement of a Dutch arbitral award against a Korean defendant, a manufacturer of similar products. Apex sought an enforcement decision for an arbitral award rendered under the Arbitration Rules of the…

First court decision allowing enforcement of arbitral award which orders indirect compulsory performance penalty in Korea

Yulchon successfully represented Euro Apex B.V. ("Apex"), a Dutch manufacturer of proprietary heat exchangers, in an arbitral award enforcement proceeding in Korea against a Korean Company ("Defendant"), a Korean manufacturer of similar products. In the proceedings before the Korean court, Apex sought to obtain an enforcement judgment for an arbitration…

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APEX Group is leading the launch into the digital era

APEX Group is excited to announce the launch of its APEX Suite, which will soon be available under its Premium Software Platform. APEX suite consists of various options tailored for the needs of its customers: - Apex Suite - Digital H-EX Twin - Apex Suite - Original - Apex Suite…

APEX Group – Gold Sponsor for PRC Europe 2018, an outstanding international downstream oil and gas event

New technologies and solutions will be presented at PRC Europe 2018, on the focus-exhibition by the leading service providers of the market. The special focus this year is driven to process safety, automation, OpEx, asset management and new regulations. Dr. Jens Kitzhofer, R&D Manager, will present APEX Group’s innovations in order to…

Computational and Experimental Fluid Dynamics Applied to Gas-Gas Heat Exchangers

Online webinar: Computational and Experimental Fluid Dynamics - Gas/Gas Heat Exchangers Date: Wednesday, 22 June 2022 Time: 15.00 – 16.00 CET Event link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/33623489180092688 About: You are invited to join our second webinar for this year. The webinar will present state of the art Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Experimental…

APEX Group is a Sponsor in ERTC Europes Largest Meeting Place for the Worlds Downstream Leaders

ERTC is Europe’s largest and most senior meeting place for the world’s downstream leaders, bringing together refineries and technology providers to address the short, medium and long term issues affecting the industry. Hot topics for 2021 include the recovery from a volatile 2020 and shaping refining’s role in Europe’s long-term…

New Build Facility in The Czech Republic

APEX Group proudly announces the opening of a new build factory and offices in Czech Republic! After 7 months of hard work, which is relatively short for this type of investment, we managed to finalise over 7,500 m2 of fabrication & administration building, in an overall premises of 30.000 m2.…

COVID-19 Information

APEX Group actions concerning coronavirus COVID-19 In December 2019 in Wuhan China, originated an outbreak of a novel coronavirus also called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). The disease it can cause is called coronavirus disease 2019, abbreviated as COVID-19. In early March 2020, the World Health Organization (“WHO”) has…

Experimental Investigation on the Effect of Dimple-Protrusion Surfaces in a Counter Flow Heat Exchanger

APEX Group is proud to congratulate Sakina Tinwala for her successful graduation 'honored with cum laude' at the Technical University of Delft. Sakina has written her master thesis in collaboration with our R&D Engineers and also while doing the experiments in APEX Group’s Laboratory. After graduation, we welcomed her to…

Apex Group R&D Department presents at the 13th International Symposium on Particle Image Velocimetry, Munich, Germany, 22-24 July 2019

APEX Group is proud to congratulate Bastiaan Bijvoet for his successful graduation at the Technical University of Delft. Bastiaan has written his master thesis in the R&D department of Apex Group. The results of his thesis will be presented at the 13th International Symposium on Particle Image Velocimetry taking place…

APEX Group – attendance at the PRC Europe 2019, an international Petrochemical & Refining Congress

PRC Europe is an annual international downstream oil and gas event, which gathers industry leaders to discuss upgraded business models and new technologies, in order to face the global challenges of the downstream industry and make contribution to the Oil and Gas industry development. After successfully presenting innovations during PRC…

Apex-Research R&D Engineer, Tomas Daubner, presents Development of a Large-scale Static Mixer by using Sim Center FloEFD and Laser Based…

DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL LARGE-SCALE STATIC MIXER BY USING SIMCENTER FLOEEFD AND LASER BASED MEASUREMENT APEX Group’s R&D Department would like to thank Mentor, a Siemens Business, for the invitation to present our approach in using Flow Simulation Software FloEFD at the Siemens Sim Center conference 2018. Following our effective…

APEX Group has proudly participated in the Dutch television program on RTLZ Doe Maar Duurzaam – Be Sustainable

Take a peek in APEX Group's R&D Laboratory to see LASER experiments and to understand how we contribute to sustainability. See our Founder and our R&D Manager presenting innovative measurement techniques and APEX Group's vision.

Summary on validation of APEX Group Plate-Type Heat Exchanger Design Software

APEX-Research B.V. set up a scaled-down transparent model of our plate-type heat exchanger to analyse and optimize the fluid mechanical properties, such as turbulence and pressure drop of our units. The transparent multi-channel facility allows the analysis of one fluid stream with Reynolds numbers ranging from 1.000 to 20.000, covering…

APEX Group will present our latest developments for temperature equalization, at the 16 th European Conference on Mixing

9-12 September 2018, Toulouse, France Nowadays, process heat is usually recovered by Heat Exchangers to increase the efficiency in any process. The preheated air and the cooled flue gas is then guided to downstream equipment. Global non-uniform temperature distribution at the outlet might cause problems for downstream equipment, like centrifugal…

APEX R&D Department will present at The 5th International Conference on Experimental Fluid Mechanics (ICEFM)

The conference will take place on 2-4 July 2018, in Munich, Germany. The presentation will focus on “Time resolved PIV visualization of the generation of coherent structures and their effect on the transition process in narrow rectangular channels.” Our R&D’s main interest is to improve flow control in our heat…

3rd SOCAR INTERNATIONAL CASPIAN AND CENTRAL ASIA DOWNSTREAM FORUM

Baku, Azerbaijan, 23-26 Аpril 2018 APEX Group has confirmed their participation as a Silver Sponsor of the upcoming SOCAR's Refining and Petrochemical Industry of the Caspian and Central Asia Conference, which will be held in Baku on 25-26 of April, 2018. We are happy to present Improvement of Fired Heater’s…

APEX Group uses PIV and LDA to improve the performance of heavy duty heat exchangers

Optimizing the heat exchange and pressure drop in rectangular heat exchanger channels, using Dantec Dynamics’ time resolved PIV solution. Apex Group has a strong R&D department who optimizes the products in terms of efficiency and reduced power consumption, by reducing the pressure drop in the system. Heat exchanger design has…

Reliability and Efficiency Increase of Fired Heaters by State-of-the-art Air Preheating System

APEX Group presents Reliability and Efficiency Increase of Fired Heaters by State-of-the-art Air Preheating System at Refining and Petrochemical World, 5-6 February, Bangkok, Thailand. Refining & Petrochemicals World is a premier platform strives to deliver the best experience for industry leaders to discover the maximum downstream potential of the emerging…

Experimental fluid mechanics 2017 Conference

The conference Experimental fluid mechanics 2017 is organized by the Technical University of Liberec and Cryptomania s.r.o.. The conference will take place from 21.11.2017 – 24.11.2017 in Mikulov, Czech Republic. For further information, please visit http://efm.kez.tul.cz/. APEX-Research B.V. is proud to contribute with the paper titled “Experimental investigation of five…

Validation of computational fluid dynamics for industrial processes

Apex-Research B.V. established an experimental set-up to validate Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) results and to calibrate the CFD software for the application of plate type flow configurations. This allows the reliable prediction of flow field characteristics like pressure drop or flow uniformity in our plate type heat exchangers with our…

APEX-delfino Technology Publicly Unveiled at Power-Gen 2017

During Power Gen-Europe 2017, R&D Manager Jens Kitzhofer publicly unveils Apex Group's technological innovation. Our new APEX-delfino® technology optimizes flow distribution and influences turbulence for improved operation of Free-flow Plate-type Heat Exchangers. Find out more in the video below.

APEX Group at Power-Gen Europe 2017

APEX Group's mobile transparent flow facility equipped with state-of-the-art laser optical measurement technique (PIV) set up at Power-Gen Europe 2017 Conference & Exhibition.

Innovation in Heavy Duty Heat Exchangers APEX-delfino Technology

APEX Group’s Research and Development team proudly presents our latest innovation in Heavy Duty Heat Exchangers: APEX-delfino® Technology. The new technology optimizes flow distribution and influences turbulence for improved operation of Free-flow™ Plate-type Heat Exchangers. Large amounts of hot Fluegas and Air are guided through the tailored Plate-type Heat Exchanger.…

Power-Gen Europe

APEX Group is proud to take part of this year’s Power-Gen Conference & Exhibition taking place in Cologne from 27 th to 29 th of June. Now, in its 25th year, POWER-GEN Europe and co-located Renewable Energy World Europe, is the dynamic center point, where a rapidly evolving power industry…

International Conference on Experimental Fluid Mechanics

APEX Research and Development Department is proud to announce a scientific contribution to the 19th International Conference on Experimental Fluid Mechanics held in Zurich, Switzerland. Our research paper is intiled: “Experimental Investigation of Plane Jets Exiting Five Parralell Channels with Large Aspect Ratio” and it presents the results of an…