Heat Transfer
State-of-the-art engineering and design of fired and unfired heat transfer equipment — fired heaters, heat exchangers, heat pumps, heat pump water heaters, vacuum pumps, boilers, and HRSGs — for power, refinery, oil & gas, petrochemical, energy, and process industries. Serving all of California & Alaska.
ELPI Engineering is a registered, State of California, professional engineering consulting firm with capability of providing in-depth innovative quality consulting services that are based on the most current technologies available. We provide state-of-the-art designs and engineering services in mechanical engineering: process, oil and gas, energy, petrochemical, chemical, pharmaceutical, general industries, and power engineering fields.
We use exclusive in-house developed computer programs for rating & design of Fired Heaters, Heat Exchangers, and Boilers. Commercial programs like FRNC-5, TDST, ProVESSEL, COMPRESS, are also available on a fee basis.
Heat Exchanger Types & Design
Various exchanger design configurations per current industry, TEMA and ASME standards & Codes: Shell & Tube, Rodbaffle, twisted tube, Frame & Plate Heat Exchangers, etc.
Exchanger Types
- —Shell & Tube heat exchanger design (TEMA standards & ASME codes)
- —RODbaffle heat exchanger design and rating
- —Twisted tube heat exchanger design
- —Frame & Plate heat exchanger evaluation
- —Air-cooled heat exchanger specification
- —Commercial validation: ProVESSEL, COMPRESS
Pressure Vessels & Static Equipment
- —ASME Section VIII Division 1 & 2 design and analysis
- —Fitness-for-service assessments (API 579)
- —Nozzle load analysis and reinforcement calculations
- —ProVESSEL and COMPRESS software design and rating
- —Process Fired Heaters, Biogas Boilers, Waste Heat Boilers, Boilers
- —Pressure Vessels and Storage Tanks (ASME)
- —Vacuum Pump system design and specification
- —Industrial vacuum pump sizing and selection (liquid ring, dry screw, rotary vane)
- —Evaporators-Crystallizers, Oil/Gas Separators
Furnace Types & Applications
Heater of various configurations and different applications can be designed, including but not limited to: Atmospheric or / and Vacuum Crude, Platformers, Reboilers, Circulating Oil Heaters, Cokers and Vis Breakers, Steam Superheaters, Reformers and Cracking Furnaces. Beside the heaters, programs can be used for Waste Heat Boilers & Heat Recovery Steam Generators (HRSGs) per API 534. Centrifugal Fans per API 560 - Appendix E.
Design & Rating
- —Thermal Design and Rating of new or existing furnaces
- —Mechanical design per API 560, API RP 530 and ASME Codes as applicable
- —Air Preheat Systems for Fired Process Heaters per API 560 - Appendix F
- —Fired Heater Thermal Efficiency Evaluation per API 560 - Appendix G
- —All services, all firebox and coil geometries and for any fuels
- —In-house program: FRNC-5 for fired heater rating
- —Burners per API 535 and Complete Combustion Analysis
Boilers, HRSGs & Steam Systems
- —Waste Heat Boilers per API 534
- —Heat Recovery Steam Generators (HRSGs)
- —Biogas Boilers design and rating
- —Steam drum and steam generation system engineering
- —Boiler feedwater system design
- —Centrifugal Fans per API 560 – Appendix E
- —Thermodynamic cycle analysis
- —Detail drawings of furnaces from client design inputs
Fossil Power Plants, Co-generation & Heat Pump Systems
Power Systems
- —Fossil Power Plants and Co-generation
- —Combined cycle power plant engineering
- —Steam turbine and gas turbine system integration
- —Cooling water and cooling tower system design
- —Plant-wide energy audits and pinch analysis
- —Waste heat recovery system design
Advanced Energy
- —Heat pump system design — air-source and ground-source (California and Alaska)
- —Arctic and sub-arctic heat pump engineering (Alaska)
- —Heat Pump Water Heater (HPWH) design — commercial and industrial
- —Commercial water heater system sizing and specification
- —Energy conservation and efficient utilization studies
- —Resolving Operational Problems
Heat Transfer Engineering Projects
Heat Transfer Engineering in Orange County & Southern California
From our Seal Beach headquarters, ELPI Engineering provides heat transfer and thermal design for clients throughout Huntington Beach, Irvine, Newport Beach, Costa Mesa, Long Beach, and greater Orange County and Los Angeles County — plus projects across California and Alaska, with P.E.-stamped drawings for plan check.
We also provide MEP Engineering, Structural Engineering and P&ID / Process Engineering — and the full list of cities and regions we serve.
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