air cooled exchanger fin specification

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An air cooled, finned exchanger in amine regenerator overhead cooling service has reached the end of its useful life and needs replacement. The tube fabricator offers embedded, extruded, wrapped, or serrated-extruded. Does anyone have experience with the serrated extruded fins? By their own admission, the S-E fins are difficult to clean, but have the best heat transfer.


Steve Grzywa
sgrzywa@citgo.com