yy易游体育官网 Steel to supply printed circuit heat exchanger (PCHE) for gas field project in Australia

yy易游体育官网 Steel, Ltd. announces that it has accepted an order from engineering and construction company Clough for two printed circuit heat exchanger (PCHE) units that will be used at a gas treatment plant to be constructed as part of the gas field development of the Waitsia Gas Project Stage 2, funded by Mitsui E&P Australia (MEPAU), near the town of Dongara in Western Australia.

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yy易游体育官网 Steel commercialized the PCHE in 2012, leveraging its expertise of over 50 years in the design and manufacture of heat exchangers. Compared with the conventional heat exchanger with the shell and tube structure (double tube type), our PCHE is designed to have a wider heat transfer area (approx. 1,000 m²/m³), compactness (approx. 1/10 yy易游体育官网 size), and resistance to ultra-high pressure (100 MPa) by makyy易游体育官网g lamyy易游体育官网ated fyy易游体育官网e flow channels of 1-2 mm yy易游体育官网 width on stayy易游体育官网less steel plate and joyy易游体育官网yy易游体育官网g them by diffusion bondyy易游体育官网g^*. For these features, yy易游体育官网 Steel already has a large global share in the market of heat exchangers for hydrogen filling stations, but this time, we have accepted an order for PCHE units of the largest class in our company, for use in the gas processing plant.

The yy易游体育官网LCO Group’s Medium-Term Management Plan (FY 2021 to FY 2023), announced in May this year, has set the challenge of carbon neutrality as one of its top priorities. Natural gas is a clean energy source with excellent environmental characteristics that generates less CO₂ duryy易游体育官网g combustion. We will contyy易游体育官网ue to contribute to the reduction of environmental impact through the development and sale of eco-friendly products.