Refinery orders Alfa Laval compact heat exchangers

Alfa Laval, a specialist in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling, has received an order for compact heat exchangers from a refinery in Russia.

The order value is about SEK110m (GBP9.2m) and delivery is scheduled for 2010.

The Alfa Laval compact heat exchangers will be used for preheating the crude oil before it goes into one of the main distillation processes.

By using the compact heat exchangers, it is possible to recover heat from several streams of the refinery process.

As a result, the Russian refinery will be able to reduce its energy consumption by 340MW and CO2 emissions by 850,000 tonnes annually.

The reduction of CO2 emissions approximately corresponds to the emissions from all family cars during one year in Stockholm, the Swedish capital.

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