Bronswerk Develops Air-Cooled Coolers and New Fans

By DE Editors

Bronswerk Heat Transfer BV (The Netherlands) used EFD.Pro, a general purpose fluid dynamics software from Flomerics Ltd. (Marlborough, MA), to develop air-cooled coolers and new fans targeted at industries requiring a "greener" solution. The companies say that the new designs achieve up to 80 percent efficiency.

The engineering team at Bronswerk used a combination of Pro/Engineer Wildfire and EFD.Pro. Since EFD.Pro is fully embedded inside Pro/Engineer Wildfire, Bronswerk could use a single design platform for geometrical design as well as mechanical and aerodynamic analysis.

Bronswerk's air-cooled coolers are used as process coolers in the oil/gas and chemical industries. While designing the cooler systems and fans, the engineering team needed to make them as quiet as possible to meet environmental standards, and the new fan design had to withstand environmental conditions.

“Our challenge was to develop the quietest cooler system. The added efficiency was an additional and unexpected huge benefit,” explained Guus Bertels, senior engineer. “Sometimes when you want to improve something you can't just improve it a little bit. You need a large improvement to break through into uncharted territories."

Interested readers can watch a free EFD.Pro online demo here.

To learn more about Bronswerk Heat Transfer BV, click here. 

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.