Box coolers

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Box coolers

Maintaining optimal operating conditions for marine engines and onboard systems is paramount to ensure the efficiency and performance of vessels. With a wealth of experience spanning decades, WEKA Marine specializes in providing rugged heat exchangers capable of withstanding the harsh conditions of the open seas.

Among our extensive range of solutions, the box cooler stands out as a top choice for maritime applications. Meticulously designed for this demanding environment, it offers efficient and robust cooling, ensuring reliability over an extended service life. The box cooler features a U-tube bundle, ingeniously fitted into the sea chest on the vessel’s side, effectively saving space within the engine room.

The sea chest is thoughtfully equipped with inlet and outlet grids, facilitating the cooling process. Cooling seawater enters through the inlet grid, courses along the U-tube bundle, and exits through the outlet grid, effectively lowering the temperature of the water within the tubes. This cooling mechanism is achieved either through forced circulation of seawater when the vessel is in motion or by natural convection when it’s stationary.

A significant advantage of box coolers is their ability to function without the need for an entire external water circuit, including sea water pumps, filters, valves, pipelines, and associated components. Since seawater serves as the cooling medium, our box coolers are constructed using anti-corrosive materials, ensuring durability in marine environments. Furthermore, this heat exchanger type is virtually maintenance-free and can be tailored to meet specific operational conditions and temperature requirements.

In areas where biological fouling could pose a challenge, WEKA offers specialized anti-fouling solutions to address these concerns. Our commitment to providing reliable and efficient cooling solutions in the maritime sector remains unwavering, backed by our wealth of experience and dedication to quality and performance.

Regulating air conditioning and hydraulic systems

Applications

WEKA Marine’s box coolers stand as the optimal choice for small and medium-sized vessels, encompassing a broad spectrum of vessels, including tugboats, barges, fishing boats, carriers, dredgers, supply vessels, ferries, icebreakers, cargo freighters, tankers, and reefers. Box coolers provide versatile temperature control solutions, serving various functions from cooling main engines, auxiliary engines, and bow thrusters to regulating air conditioning and hydraulic systems.

Our range of box coolers offers flexibility in terms of size, shape, and configuration to suit specific cooling capacity requirements. A prominent application for our box coolers involves efficiently dissipating waste heat generated by diesel engines and other heat sources like charge air coolers, lube oil coolers, and gear oil coolers.

WEKA Marine prides itself on the innovative technology that underpins our high-performance box coolers. Years of dedicated innovation and engineering excellence have led to the development of these top-tier solutions. This commitment drives our continuous efforts to enhance and optimize the mechanical design and thermal performance of our products, ensuring they meet the exacting demands of our valued customers, the evolving market, and classification societies across the globe.

Ensuring they meet the exacting demands