HRS Heat Exchangers

2012 ISSUE 3 It gives me great pleasure in bringing to you our first newsletter of the year. This newsletter is not only a testament of our consolidation in the various regions across the world, but also a reflection of our ongoing commitment to provide our customers with sound processes and applications.

I would like to extend my appreciation for the enthusiasm and passion that our partners bring to us each day. This year saw wide-ranging and exciting initiatives at HRS. In this edition of the newsletter, we have covered a small selection of some recent success stories, which we hope you find informative.

Steven Pither, Managing Director, HRS

2011 has been a successful year for HRS despite the financial meltdown and its adverse effects on the industry. Our success mantra - we have been developing more packaged solutions incorporating our heat exchangers and using process experience. We have been able to successfully design and re-package our solutions to meet customer demands and needs.

North America and Europe collectively account for more than 50% share of the global Heat Exchangers market and is projected to reach US$12.72 billion by 2015, according to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc. HRS Heat Exchangers would like to spearhead this revolution, along with other key players in the industry.

I would like to conclude here by thanking everyone for their phenomenal efforts towards making HRS Heat Exchangers a market leader and welcome any suggestions on how we can make this newsletter more interesting and informative.

Providing state-of-the art technology for the management of digestate From the UK, HRS Heat Exchangers Limited has signed a €1.3 million contract with Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) to deliver a Scraped Surface Vacuum Evaporator, for their

Barkip anaerobic digestion plant in North Ayrshire. The HRS self-cleaning evaporator system overcomes the fouling issues associated with the evaporation of organic digestate.

The Barkip plant will be the first of its kind to incorporate a novel digestate processing stage: Waste heat from the CHP engines is used to concentrate the liquid fraction of the digestate into a nutrient rich liquid fertilizer.

Under the terms of the contract, the HRS technology will enable the Barkip Anaerobic Digestion plant to process 75,000 tonne’s of waste annually, in a plant setup that produces around 2.5MW of renewable electricity, which will contribute towards Scotland’s renewable energy industry.

At the heart of this technology is HRS’ Unicus Dynamic Scraped Surface Heat Exchanger that ensures that any high organic load in contact with hot surfaces does not lead to fouling. The project was co-developed by Zebec Biogas, which has the specialist enzyme and biological process expertise.

HRS Pig Manure Evaporator

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India Success Story: Mango Pulp Evaporation HRS PSL has supplied their first major evaporator in India.

The evaporator plant was commissioned by Rasaa Foods Pvt. Ltd., which produces mango pulp for fruit-based beverages to reduce pulp volume and considerably lower packaging and logistics costs. HRS won the order for complete design, engineering, supply, installation and commissioning of the evaporator following the success of an HRS pasteuriser at the unit.

The evaporation plant is made up of both tubular and surface scraped types to obtain the best thermally stable product.

Both types use a forced recirculation system in which fluid is pumped through the evaporator at many times the flow rate of the evaporator feed. Higher flow rates maintain high heat transfer and keep the evaporator design relatively small.

The HRS UNICUS dynamic scraped surface heat exchanger optimises the heat exchange area by increasing the heat transfer coefficient. It also prevents fouling and the subsequent downtime required for cleaning.

The new Rasaa Foods plant has a process capacity of 3000kg/ hr for 28brix and 5000kg/hr for 21brix of mango pulp and operates with a 95% capacity utilisation meaning that 15,000 tonnes of mango pulp were processed in an uninterrupted full 60-day season this year with no equipment breakdowns or malfunctions. The average output of the new plant is 1520% more than committed by HRS and so efficient that Rasaa Foods are looking at upgrading their existing lines with HRS technology to enhance product quality and productivity.

RASAA Foods Mango Pulp Evaporator

HRS supplies regenerative heat exchangers HRS Heat Exchangers in USA have provided Amcor Rigid Plastics in Manchester, Michigan with a heat exchanger to regenerate energy in their processing facility. Amcor Rigid Plastics are the biggest manufacturer of PET containers in the world, supplying products to the food, beverage, pharmaceutical and home and personal care industries. HRS supplied Amcor Rigid Plastics with a new support design with the heat exchanger model K 7 76/18 3.0 304/316L H.

HRS K Series

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Regenerative heat exchangers have cyclical or repetitive flows. Incoming fluid is heated with the energy given off by exiting fluid and as a result only small levels of extra heat are needed to maintain the temperature. As most of the heat energy is reclaimed, this system provides significant savings in energy. HRS provides many products that are both energy saving and environment friendly. This made them an obvious choice to help Amcor Rigid Plastics in its commitment to reducing energy consumption and helping the environment.

Breaking New Ground With EU Grant HRS Heat Exchangers Limited has recently been awarded a grant for a million Euros, by the European Commission-Research Executive Agency (EC-REA). The grant has been generated towards the development of a new evaporation technology and better processes for volume reduction of environmental waste.

The project is being financed by the European Commission-Research Executive Agency (ECREA), under the 7th program, which provides financial aid to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to carry out Research & Development activities.

The project is aimed at developing an integrated and cost-effective solution to reduce the volume of pig slurry, minimize the pollutant emissions and process energy consumptions. The main technology to be used here is the special version of the Unicus for evaporation applications.

The contract required a small and medium enterprises (SMEs) consortium to be formed, including a University. HRS Heat Exchangers took the initiative, and along with the help of Tecnologias Avanzadas Inspiralia (ITAV) formed this conglomerate and submitted the proposal to the European Commission, which was later, approved and awarded the grant.

ITAV is a non-profit Research & Technology Development Group, in Spain that supports (SMEs), industrialists and inventors, in competitiveness of the product and quality and access to European networks of Research and Development.

Multiple Effect Plant

HRS To Provide Solar Package for the World’s First Zero Carbon City off storage calorifiers and associated electrical backup, the system variable speed pumps, calorifier control valves with automatic control of the calorifier temperature and also utilises heat dumps within the buildings’ swimming pools and also air/water heat exchangers.

HRS in the Middle East have designed and started manufacture and procurement for a solar system for the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi. The system will consist of 8 off copper-lined steel storage calorifiers being manufactured at our factory in Halifax and heated by 600 square metres of evacuated tube solar collectors, with the solar irridation & calorifiers feeding various applications within the institute. The system is completely controlled by an integral BACnet controls package, designed, supplied & commissioned by HRS. The BACnet system controls the 8

HRS offered this package as a complete M&E turnkey solution with advice and designs for the contractor to install the equipment and associated pipe work and HRS engineers will fully commission the system after installation. The solar package was offered with a BACnet control system to provide intuitive controls and also to provide a wide range of outputs so the site BMS can collate all the necessary data for the measurement of solar irridation being absorbed by the system. The Masdar Institute of Science and Technology is a research-focused university within Masdar city, an ongoing project to create a zero-carbon, zero-waste, sustainable community relying exclusively on renewable energy sources, particularly solar power.

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HRS HEVAC HRS HEVAC recently supplied a fully packaged solution to Hopwood Hall College in Rochdale. A fully integrated domestic hot water package was installed comprising of boilers, solar panels, dual coil calorifier, low loss header and all necessary pipework, pumps and valves to make the system work. HRS controlled all this using a BACnet BMS control system that was designed and supplied by us to work in conjunction with the Colleges’ control package.

HRS Opens New Malaysia Office HRS Heat Exchangers is pleased to announce that it has recently opened a new office in Malaysia.

This is the first HRS office in the region and another positive step for the company that values customer needs. The Malaysian office is of strategic importance and we are excited about this opportunity to expand our business and better serve our customers in the new region. The new office will be providing heat transfer solutions and applications to various processes, spanning industries from Food, Chemicals, Renewable Energy, Pharmaceuticals etc. Our products and process innovation will support customers in the things that matter such as energy efficiency and competitively priced products. We are actively recruiting new employees to support a variety of business and technology operations.

Gabrielle Yin joins the HRS Heat Exchangers ‘new’ Malaysia office as a Technical Sales Engineer. In her new role Gabrielle will provide pre-and post-sales technical advice and support about products and act as the key point of contact for clients, answering queries, providing technical advice and introducing new products.

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Gabrielle Yin

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HRS Middle East +971 501427386 www.hrs.co.uk HRS South America +511 448 0317 www.hrs-americas.com

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