Industry Profile on Houston Pressure Vessel & Heat Exchanger Manufacturer

Houston pressure vessel and heat exchanger manufacturers, Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger, offers custom pressure vessel and heat exchanger engineering design and manufacturing.

“For the past 50 years, Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger has served the chemical, petrochemical, pulp and paper, and manufacturing industry with an outstanding reputation for quality, reliability, market-leading pricing, and best of class workmanship,” said Fred Weissbach, Gulf Coast Regional Sales Manager with Bendel.  “We are so excited to offer our company’s pressure vessel and heat exchanger design and manufacturing service to Houston and the extended Gulf Coast.”

Pressure Vessel Manufacturing Profile

• All Bendel Pressure Vessels and Reactors are designed and fabricated in strict accordance with ASME (Section VIII, Division I)
• ASME vessels can be fabricated from Carbon Steel, Stainless Steel or Nickel Alloy materials
• Specialty pressure vessels with wall thickness exceeding 1″, diameters up to 15 feet and weighing up to 70 tons
• Bendel welders are required to pass stringent performance requirements per ASME Section IX prior to welding on any Vessel or Reactor

Heat Exchanger Manufacturing Profile

• We design and fabricate all three types of Shell & Tube Heat Exchangers: Fixed Tubesheet, U-tube and Floating Tubesheet
• Our heat exchanger manufacturing facility uses the Quickmill Intimidator milling and drilling machine…precision drilling by experienced operators
• All design and manufacturing is done in-house under the Bendel name
• Compress and HTRI software experts in-house
• Shell & Tubesheet Heat Exchangers can be fabricated from Carbon Steel, Stainless Steel or Nickel Alloy materials
• Each heat exchanger is designed, inspected and tested at our facility to meet stringent ASME and TEMA B, C and R standards

“Our Houston pressure vessel and heat exchanger customers in the chemical, petroleum and petrochemical markets rely on Bendel for these vital pieces of equipment,” said Weissbach.  “Quality, performance, reputation and safety are high on the list of demands from our customers, and we always exceed their requirements.”

Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger only delivers the best quality developed for the best overall performance.  If your company needs engineering design and manufacturing for Pressure Vessels or Heat Exchangers, please contact Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger in Charlotte, NC at 866-596-5112 or Fred Weissbach in our Gulf Coast office in Houston, TX at 832-436-4626 or email weissbach@bendelcorp.com.

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Gulf Coast Heat Exchanger Manufacturer in Houston Serves on ABC Committee

Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger’s Gulf Coast Regional Sales Manager Fred Weissbach has joined the Greater Houston ABC’s marketing committee as a new member.  Fred will serve on the marketing committee to help promote positive industry image and work to gain maximum media and industry exposure for the association.

“The ABC is the nation’s leading commercial and industrial construction trade association, representing 23,000 members nationwide,” said Weissbach.  “ABC believes that companies should reward employees based on performance and encourage them to reach their highest level of achievement, and that contracts be awarded based on safety, quality and cost effectiveness – regardless of labor affiliation.”

If your company is in Houston or New Orleans or the Gulf Coast region, please contact Fred Weissbach at Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger in Houston at 832-436-4626 or email weissbach@bendelcorp.com to inquire about our heat exchanger, storage tank and pressure vessel programs!

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Heat Exchanger Manufacturer Services Heat Exchanger Customers from East Coast to Gulf Coast in Houston!

Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger manufactures shell and tube heat exchangers to TEMA and ASME specifications in our manufacturing facility in Charlotte, NC.  For almost 50 years, Bendel has provided exceptional design and manufacturing of storage tanks, pressure vessels and heat exchangers to customers across the East coast and Southeast United States.

Recently Bendel expanded our company footprint to include servicing customers along the Gulf Coast states by opening a regional sales office in Houston, TX, staffed by Gulf Coast Regional Sales Manager Fred Weissbach.

Our expansion of services into the Gulf Coast region gives Bendel customers more direct contact with our company through our Houston office and Fred Weissbach.

Beyond our internal engineering and design teams inside Bendel, we offer our heat exchanger manufacturing clients a complete turnkey product…delivered to your location on our own fleet of trucks.  Our heat exchanger manufacturing facility on the Bendel campus includes our own $1M Quickmill Intimidator drilling machine and an experienced operations team.  We even provide outsourced drilling services as our customers need it.

To find out more about our specific manufacturing products, please call Jim Rozsa rozsa@bendelcorp.com or Vince Petrucci petrucci@bendelcorp.com at Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger headquarters in Charlotte, NC at 866-596-5112.  Or if you are in TX, AR, LA or OK and the Gulf Coast, please call our regional sales manager Fred Weissbach in Houston at 832-436-4626 or email weissbach@bendelcorp.com.  We look forward to serving you soon from Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger.

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Petroleum Storage Tank Manufacturers Conference from API is Oct. 17-20, 2011

Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger would like to let you know that the American Petroleum Institutes (API) Storage Tank Conference is being held this year on October 17-20, 2011 at the Westin Casuarina in Las Vegas, NV.

API Storage Tank Conference & Expo  (October 19-20)
API is the world leader in tank standards. The annual API Storage Tank Conference provides attendees with new information on tank-related research, latest technologies, and API petroleum standards. The conference features multiple panels and speakers that will help you understand the requirements to maintain tank integrity while complying with new and existing environmental rules. Several members of the API tank standards committees will be on-site, allowing plenty of opportunities to network with colleagues and establish new business connections. 

API Safe Tank Entry Workshop (October 17-18)
Attendees learn the basics of ensuring safe tank entry and maintenance. Topics cover tank decommissioning, isolation, degassing, safe tank entry, cleaning, return to service, and associated work. This hands-on program also provides an understanding of atmospheric monitoring, with instruction in the operation, calibration, and maintenance of field instruments that sample and analyze levels of oxygen, gases, and vapors. Attendees have the chance to calibrate and use the instruments. NFPA will award 0.7 Continuing Education Units for each day of instruction.

You can register online for the API Storage Tank Conference here.

Registration fees are available to download here.

If you would like to have information about the Bendel custom storage tank manufacturing process for the petrochemical industry, please call Jim Rozsa  rozsa@bendelcorp.com or Vince Petrucci petrucci@bendelcorp.com at Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger headquarters in Charlotte, NC at 866-596-5112.  Or if you are in TX, AR, LA or OK, please call our regional sales manager Fred Weissbach in Houston at 832-436-4626 or email weissbach@bendelcorp.com.

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Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger Expands into Houston, TX with Fred Weissbach

Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger has expanded deeper into the Southern USA to service customers in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Arkansas.  To strengthen the Bendel brand and product line into this region, we are introducing our new regional sales manager for these states, Fred Weissbach.  Fred will be headquartered in Houston, TX.

Bendel has a long-standing reputation across the country and the south and southeast states are very important to our business.  “We are strengthening our presence with new and existing customers in the petroleum and chemical industries in these states,” said Fred Weissbach.  “Our sales and marketing emphasis will extend into these states with our heat exchanger product line, as well as our traditional storage tank and pressure vessel products.”

Fred Weissbach can be reached at 832-436-4626 (office) or 832-704-0806 (cell) and his email address is weissbach@bendelcorp.com.

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Heat Exchanger Fabricators & Manufacturers Complete a Custom Heat Exchanger Project.

Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger fabricates custom heat exchangers for many different industries and fabricators, including the piping fabrication market.  The two heat exchangers in these photos were fabricated for a piping fabricator’s project.

The piping fabrication industry fabricates custom pipes and equipment for markets like Medical Gas, Pre-Insulated Underground, Jacketed, Chemical, Process, Sanitary, Steam, Hydronic, and Plumbing.  Other industries that benefit from piping fabricators include Power Generation, Food & Beverage, Pulp & Paper, Automotive, Chemical & Petrochemical, Pharmaceutical, Refinery Piping, and Water/Wastewater Treatment.

If your company would like to learn more about Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger and our custom heat exchanger fabrication program, please contact Bendel at 866-596-5112 or email Vince Petruccior Vivek Patel at Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger.  We look forward to talking with you soon!

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Heat Exchanger Manufacturer Shares Knowledge on Reboiler Heat Exchangers

Bendel Tank and Heat Exchanger is a leading heat exchanger manufacturer.  We routinely receive questions from our clients about various types of heat exchangers and how they may fit into the heat exchanger manufacturer process.  One of our recent clients came to us with questions on distillation column reboilers.

Reboilers are heat exchangers typically used to provide heat to the bottom of industrial distillation columns. They boil the liquid from the bottom of a distillation column to generate vapors which are returned to the column to drive the distillation separation.

Proper reboiler operation is vital to effective distillation. In a typical classical distillation column, all the vapor driving the separation comes from the reboiler. The reboiler receives a liquid stream from the column bottom and may partially or completely vaporize that stream. Steam usually provides the heat required for the vaporization. The most critical element of reboiler design is the selection of the proper type of reboiler for a specific service. Most reboilers are of the shell and tube heat exchanger type and normally steam is used as the heat source in such reboilers.

Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger notes the most commonly-used type of reboilers include:

• Kettle reboilers.  Kettle reboilers are very simple and reliable.  In this reboiler type, steam flows through the tube bundle and exits as condensate. The liquid from the bottom of the tower, commonly called the bottoms, flows through the shell side.
• Thermosyphon reboilers.  These do not require pumping of the column bottoms liquid into the reboiler. Natural circulation is obtained by using the density difference between the reboiler inlet column bottoms liquid and the reboiler outlet liquid-vapor mixture to provide sufficient liquid head to deliver the tower bottoms into the reboiler. Thermosyphon reboilers (also known as calandrias) are more complex than kettle reboilers and require more attention from the plant operators.
• Fired reboilers.  Fired heaters (furnaces) may be used as a distillation column reboiler. A pump is required to circulate the column bottoms through the heat transfer tubes in the furnace’s convection and radiant sections. The heat source for the fired heater reboiler may be either fuel gas or fuel oil. Coal would rarely, if ever, be used as the fuel for a fired heater reboiler.
• Forced circulation reboilers.  This type of reboiler uses a pump to circulate the column bottoms liquid through the reboilers. It should be noted steam is not the only heat source that can be used. Any fluid stream at a high enough temperature could be used for any of the many shell and tube heat exchanger reboiler types.

If you would like to learn more about our reboilers and shell and tube heat exchanger manufacturer, please contact Bendel at 866-596-5112 or email Vince Petrucci or Vivek Patel at Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger.  We look forward to talking with you soon!

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