Technology Leadership in HX Technology

Feed Water Heater during assembly A Multi-Pass Heat Exchanger during assembly

When it comes to heat exchangers, Holtec engineers have, proverbially speaking, "written the book", viz.:

The book, "Mechanical Design of Heat Exchangers and Pressure Vessels", by K.P. Singh and Alan I. Soler, (Arcturus Publishers, 1984) is, even to this day, the only book on this subject in the English literature.

Since the early 1970s, Holtec engineers have participated in writing TEMA Standards (a consensus standard for commercial heat exchangers), HEI Standards for nuclear heat exchangers and surface condensers, and the ASME Codes.

Several of Holtec’s engineers are globally recognized experts on heat exchanger design. The company’s NPD provides unique expertise in designing unconventional heat exchangers such as those used in space, cryogenic, and high-energy (blast and impact) environments.

Holtec engineers have published over seventy technical papers on heat exchanger design and analysis, most of them in the permanent literature.

These Holtec papers have significantly influenced the development of heat exchanger methodology for over three decades.