Re: BUCKLING OF AIR FIN COOLER TUBES

fin fan is actually trademark by Hudson (now McDermoot) and has now been accpeted as the generic desc for finned air coolers whtether induced or forced. We have use of lot of these fin fan coolers (Hudson and GEA) in our condensing system. Most of the problems that i have been involved with is assoicated with the accumulation of dirt in the tube banks, high vibration of the fan, and corrosion of the finned tubes. My guess is the buckling of the tube is a low risk failure event due to the inherent operating limits of the cooler itself. We have actually consider such event the first time we have tried using a ferrules supplied by CTI to repair a leaking fin fan tubes.

• In PipingDesign@y..., Sachin_Bapat@r... wrote: >
  > Views are invited from team members about probable causes of
  buckling of
  > air fin fan cooler tubes .
  > Regards
  > Sachin Bapat