Air Cooled Heat Exchanger Designing

Air-cooling has many advantages over water-cooling : Air cooler can be located anywhere, unlike water cooler which has to be near water source. Maintenance cost of air cooler is lower than that of water cooler. Typical applications are : Hydraulic oil cooer Turbine oil cooer Pentane vapour condenser Hot air generator using steam Cooling of Methane gas extracted from Coal mines.