Air Cooled Heat Exchangers

Serving traditional and emergent industries

Air cooled heat exchangers dominate the landscape of natural gas processing plants, liquefaction facilities, refineries, petrochemical complexes, and power plants and are key to emergent sectors, such as data centers.

Superior Design, Engineering & Manufacturing

Our products are engineered to order ensuring that your air cooler is designed and manufactured to exact specifications using the latest software available.

Combined expertise and best practice, leading edge design and a fully streamlined system for maximum accuracy and responsiveness from quotation to delivery.

In-house proprietary software
HYSIS
AspenOne
HTRI
RISA 3-D structural analysis
Finite element analysis

Engineering and manufacturing in Beasley, TX and Tulsa, OK.

The efficient design of our coolers reduces plot space and delivers significant costs savings in LNG liquefaction plants.

Applications

Through our brands, Chart boasts a rich heritage of innovation and continuous improvement with hundreds of patented designs and thousands of products hard at work in plants around the globe.

Natural gas processing
Natural gas compression
Natural gas transmission
LNG
Refinery and petrochemical
Power generation
Data centers

In addition to the primary Hudson Products, Smithco and Air-X-Changers brands, Chart also owns associated legacy brands, including Hammco and Cooler Service Company.

Complete Portfolio

We built our reputation pioneering and continually improving technology to solve urgent problems in the field and we have never lost that passion for finding ingenious, cost-effective solutions for our customers.

Full range of horizontal and vertical coolers
Forced and induced draft
Multiple fan designs
Engine, electric motor and hydraulic motor driven configurations
Full range of accessories including winterization, maintenance and header walkways, ladders, bug screens, louvers, heating coils and warm air recirculation

Total Aftersales & Service

Chart provides the industry's most comprehensive aftersales service and support for all air cooled heat exchangers, regardless of OEM.

New or replacement units
Upgrades
Field service support
On-site customer training
Spare parts
Commissioning and start-up support
Equipment check rates
Replacement bundles
Redesigned tube bundles
Trouble shooting / performance issues
Temperature / pressure re-rates
Bundle re-rates
Thermal and air-flow testing

Model EH is the world's most widely used engine driven cooler

This compact, unitized cooler combines engine and compressor cooling in a single unit. It is designed to deliver unrivalled performance and durability in the compressed natural gas industry.

Our excellence is recognized around the world

Hudson is responsible for pioneering many industry developments and trademarks, such as Fin-Fan®, Tuf-Lite® and Hy-Fin® that are recognized around the world.

World class manufacturing facilities

World's largest air cooler engineering and manufacturing facility in Beasley, TX. Engineering and manufacturing in Tulsa, OK and an additional service and site crew mobilization center in Franklin, IN.

Developing clean energy solutions

Chart is at the forefront of developing air cooled heat exchanger solutions for Direct Air Carbon Capture, which is an exciting clean energy application.

Additional Resources & Quick Links

This manual is intended to familiarize users with the types, components, and features of Air-Cooled Heat Exchangers (ACHXs) using simplified explanations and procedures.

This manual is designed to familiarize users with applications for axial flow fans, velocity recovery stacks, seal discs and variable flow fans. Calculations are provided for estimating fan power consumption and noise.

Chart cryogenic, cooling and decarbonizing equipment, technology and solutions have emerged as key to highly efficient cooling and clean energy power systems demanded by the new generation of data centers.

Chart air cooled heat exchangers and Tuf-Lite fans played a pivotal role enabling a leading digital infrastructure firm engineer a complex hybrid cooling system that enables high-density computing while reducing water consumption and improving energy efficiency.

In this on-demand webinar, Chart Industries explores how integrated infrastructure solutions can support the next generation of data centers, balancing performance, sustainability and reliability.

Hudson Service

Details of our commissioning and start-up team.

Air Cooled Heat Exchangers and Axial Flow Fans

Overview of the air cooled heat exchangers and axial flow fans manufactured by Chart through the acquisition of Hudson Products and Air-X-Changers.

Air Cooled Heat Exchangers for Gas Compression

Models with specifications for our Air-X-Changers and Cooler Service Company brands serving the gas compression market.

Gas Compression C of E in Tulsa

Through our Air-X and CSC brands, CHART designs and builds a full range of air cooler models for the gas compression market in Tulsa, OK.

Hudson Products - Leading Edge Technologies

Overview brochure for the air cooled heat exchangers and axial flow fans manufactured by Hudson Products.

Data Centers Are Hungry For Power

Chart is answering the call with solutions for high capacity cooling and clean burning power. Article first published in Bisnow.

Empowering Hyperscale Data Centers

Our success story in providing a complex hybrid cooling system, enabling high-density computing while reducing water consumption and improving energy efficiency.

Scalable cooling for hyperscale data centers

Chart responded when a leading hyperscaler needed cooling solutions for their rapid data center expansion. With multiple facilities under development across the United States, they needed a partner capable of matching exact technical specifications while delivering at scale – and on an accelerated timeline.

Tip Seal Installation Manual R1

Air-X-Changers Model Data Sheets

CCSC H Model

Specifications for Chart Cooler Service Company H Model air cooled heat exchanger.

CCSC L Model

Specifications for Chart Cooler Service Company L Model air cooled heat exchanger.

CCSC M Model

Specifications for Chart Cooler Service Company M Model air cooled heat exchanger.

CCSC S Model

Specifications for Chart Cooler Service Company S Model air cooled heat exchanger.

CCSC V Model

Specifications for Chart Cooler Service Company V Model air cooled heat exchanger.

Self-Aligning Shaft Bearings

Basics of Axial Flow Fans

Air Flow Testing Procedure

API Standard 661 - 5th Edition/ISO 13706

API-661-6th-Edition-ISO 13706 (Second) - Summary of Changes

Basics of ACHEs software

Basics of Air-Cooled Heat Exchangers

Consider Variable Pitch Fans

Design of Quiet Air-Cooled Heat Exchangers

Exact-A-Pitch

Extruded aluminum finned tube benefits

Fin Fan® Air Cooled Heat Exchangers - Life Cycle Costs

High Torque Drive (H.T.D.)

Hot Air Recirculation by Air Coolers

Improve-Fin-Fan-Performance

Improving Cooling Tower Fan System

Minimizing Fan Energy Costs - Parts 1 and 2

Noise Control Air-Cooled Heat Exchangers

Onsite Training Trailer

Performance Improvement Air-Cooled Heat Exchangers

Specify the right fin type for air-cooled heat exchangers

The Cost of Noise

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