HTRI operates an international consortium founded in 1962 that conducts industrially relevant research and provides software tools for design, rating, and simulation of process heat transfer equipment. HTRI also produces a wide range of technical publications and provides other services including contract research, software development, consulting, and training.

Products:
HTRI Xchanger Suite - Integrated graphical user environment for the design, rating, and simulation of heat transfer equipment.

Xace – Designs, rates, and simulates the performance of air-cooled heat exchangers, heat recovery units, and air preheaters.

Xfh – Simulates the behavior of fired heaters. Calculates the radiant section of cylindrical and box heaters and the convection section of fired heaters. It also designs process heater tubes and performs combustion calculations.

Xhpe – Designs, rates, and simulates the performance of hairpin heat exchangers.

Xist – Designs, rates, and simulates single- and two-phase shell-and-tube heat exchangers, including kettle and thermosiphon reboilers, falling film evaporators, and reflux condensers.

Xjpe – Designs, rates, and simulates jacketed-pipe (double-pipe) heat exchangers.

Xphe – Designs, rates, and simulates plate-and-frame heat exchangers. A fully incremental program, each plate channel is calculated individually using local physical properties and process conditions.

Xtlo – Graphical standalone rigorous tube layout software; also integrated with Xist.

Xvib – Performs flow-induced vibration analysis of a single tube in a heat exchanger bundle. It uses a rigorous structural analysis approach to calculate the tube natural frequencies for various modes and offers flexibility in the geometries it can handle.

Xchanger SuiteEducational—Customized version of Xchanger Suite with the capability todesign, rate, and simulate shell-and-tube heat exchangers, air-coolers, economizers,and plate-and-frame heat exchangers. Available to educational institutionsonly.

KBC Linnhoff March Energy Services
Targeting House
Gadbrook Park
Northwich, Cheshire
CW9 7UZ  UK
Phone: +44 (0)1606 815100
Fax: +44 (0)1606 815151
E-mail: energy@kbcat.com
http://www.kbcat.com/lm

Company Bio:
KBC Advanced Technologies is a leading independent consulting and technology services group, delivering improvements in business performance and asset value to owners and operators in the oil refining, petrochemical, and other processing industries worldwide.  Linnhoff March, an operating division of KBC, provides process and utility integration through a range of software and services to help reduce capital expenditures and energy/utility requirements.

Soteica Ideas & Technology, L.L.C.
16010 Barker’s Point Ln, Suite 580
Houston, TX, 77079
Phone: 281-829-3322
Fax: 281-966-1710
Email: infousa@soteica.com
www.soteica.com
Other Soteica Office Locations:
Europe/Middle East: +34 (93) 375 3503
Latin America: +54 (11) 4555 5703

Company Bio:
Soteica is a Process Engineering Software Company dedicated to the development, implementation, support and sustainability of its hydrocarbon and energy management applications, S-TMS and Visual MESA. For more than 20 years, Soteica has successfully deployed its applications in refineries and petrochemical plants throughout the Americas and Europe. Our customers have achieved millions of dollars in recurring benefits from the sustained use of our applications.

Products:
Soteica’s Energy Management System, Visual MESA:

• Is an online computer program that acts as your sitewide Utilities/Energy Watchdog.
• Allows operators and engineers to have detailed coverage in four distinct areas:
1. Monitoring the steam, electric, water and fuel systems by providing warnings of important changes.
2. Optimization of the production and use of steam, fuel and power to reduce costs. Recommends how to operate the utility system at minimum cost within equipment and emissions constraints.
3. ”What If?” Case Studies and Planning by predicting how the utilities systems will respond to proposed changes.
4. Auditing, Accounting and Data Validation: tracks the imbalances that are key sensor and model health monitoring variables.
• Runs continuously connected to online data from any historian via OPC.
• Is the calculation engine for Energy Key Performance Indicators initiatives.
• Has a MS-Visio based GUI with drag and drop model building tools.
• Presents results via MS-Excel based reports, MS-Visio drawings and HTML web pages.
• Has an excellent ROI (usually less than 6 months).
• Is a proven and validated software with over 20 years of successful applications.
• Current users include major refiners and petrochemical producers.