Up to 50% of a refinery’s operating budget is tied up in energy costs and almost 40% of those costs are taken on the two distillations (ADU and VDU).

Energy efficiency is a top priority, and one way to increase it is by recovering and optimizing the use of energy.

Heat recovery efficiency can be increased by up to 50% by simply switching from Shell & Tubes to Welded Heat Exchangers, known as “technology conversion” technique.

The payback period for replacing S&T with Welded Heat Exchangers are normally short, often less than 6 to 10 months.

Additionally, reduced fuel consumption also leads to lower emissions of CO2, NOx and SOx.

If the Refinery operates under a cap-and-trade system, this will contribute to cut the costs even further.

A 150,000 bpd Refinery can easily cut CO2 emissions by 50,000 tons per year by improving the heat recovery efficiency in the crude pre-heat train of an ADU.

This will help our customers save approximately $1,000,000.

Vitherm works on a complete Hydrocarbon Chain, ranging from upstream and drilling, to Refining, to Petrochemicals. We work closely with all the speaking partners and stakeholders.

Our clients are Endusers, EPC and Process Licensors.

Vitherm’s expertise is to refine and fine-tune the design of a Heat Exchanger.

In order to improve our customer’s energy savings, Vitherm analyse the risks and the issues the customers are facing and will then propose the most suitable Heat Exchanger to meet their needs.

Vitherm knows how reliability is key to your process and to your organization. Our objective is to have a long term working relationship with our customers, providing and delivering high quality technical support. We aim to provide complete service solutions to our customers.