| £90 GBP | £450 GBP – 5 Licenses (Valid for 3 Years) |
Air Cool Heat exchanger software (ACHex) is a powerful and comprehensive tool designed to streamline the thermal design and sizing calculations of air-cooled heat exchangers. Whether you’re working with horizontal induced draft or forced draft units for liquid and gas services, ACHex delivers precise results and provides a detailed three-page summary report complete with a basic design drawing representation.
Key Features
Advanced Calculations
- Supports S.I. Units and U.S. (English) Units for global usability.
- Flexible unit converter with over 200 unit conversions across 23 measurement categories.
- Options to design induced draft or forced draft units.
- Perform detailed sizing for bays, fans, tubes, tube rows, and tube bundles.
- Calculate outlet air temperature using iteration or increment techniques.
- Determine heat duty or use it to calculate hot-side mass flow rates.
- Log Mean Temperature Difference (corrected and uncorrected).
- Analyze surface areas for both bare and fin tubes.
- Calculate fin efficiency, air mass flow rates, bundle face areas, and more.
- Comprehensive tube-side flow analysis, including velocity, Reynolds number, flow regime, and Nusselt number.
- Options for air-side heat transfer calculations using Briggs and Young, ESDU, Kern, or Ganguli correlations, or input custom values.
- Evaluate pressure drops for tube-side and air-side using multiple equations.
- Fan-related calculations, including diameter, projected area, and driver power requirements.
- Pressure-to-altitude conversions and vice versa.
Productivity Tools
- Seamless data import from Microsoft Excel or WeBBusterZ Physical Properties Database (integrated software included).
- Customizable databases for fluids, components, tubes, and fins. Save and reuse data across projects.
- Save/load results and export data to .csv format for use in Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice.
- Generate tabulated case trials for easy comparison and documentation.
Results and Reporting
- Three-page summary reports featuring detailed results and editable design drawings.
- Export and integrate results into your custom reports.
- Access a rich library of built-in databases, including:
- Dry Air Properties: Calculate density, viscosity, specific heat capacity, thermal conductivity, and more.
- Pure Component Properties: Access data for over 1,450 components, including thermal conductivity, density, heat capacity, and viscosity.
- Fouling factors and material thermal conductivities.
- Water and steam properties for accurate calculations.
ACHex equips engineers and designers with a complete solution for air-cooled heat exchanger projects, delivering precision, flexibility, and unmatched productivity.
License
- Single user license – This license is locked to computer and Permanent, can’t be removed once installed
- Network license – This license is available to install on network. All users Must have a read/write access to a shared folder on your network. The license is valid for 3 YEARS from the date of activation. Other license terms are available during the purchase.
Demo Version
There is a demo version available to download. The demo version will only function with the preset examples provided with it, the full version doesn’t have any restriction. We don’t offer a fully working domo version. To download the demo version please click here.
The update history of this software can be found by clicking here
Screen shots and videos demonstrations
Click here to see screen shots for this software on our Flickr gallery, For video demonstration please click here our YouTube Channel
System Requirements
Air cooled heat exchanger design software (ACHex) needs the following system requirements to run:
- Microsoft Windows operating system
- 64 MB RAM
- 30 MB free disk space
- Dot Net 4.8 Framework
- Installed printer
This software will work on Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 & Windows 11 (32 bit & 64 bit)