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From Our Family to Yours!

Here at Bendel, we would like to express our thanks to all of our clients for making 2022 such a great year!

We have enjoyed being one of the industry’s top heat exchanger & pressure vessel manufacturers for another year.  Your trust in us to design and fabricate something as important as your pressurized process and storage equipment is not

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Celebrating Our Long-Time ABC Membership

Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger has been a member of the Greater Houston chapter of the Associated Builders & Contractors, Inc. (ABC) organization since 2011. 

John Jurisich, Business Development Manager, Gulf Coast Region represents Bendel in the organization, and recently accepted a Silver level award, recognizing our safety record as measured by the ABC STEP

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Industrial Contract Drilling Specialists

In addition to delivery of complete shell and tube sheet heat exchangers, Bendel offers contract drilling services for tube sheets, baffles and support plates.  We recently shipped the clad tube sheet shown above, for Alloy Engineering.

Total Approach to Flexibility

Our total approach to flexibility gives you a

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We're Thankful for You!

Heat exchanger manufacturer, Bendel, would like to extend our warmest wishes to our clients for the upcoming holiday!  For over 50 years we have cherished the opportunity to serve you every day.

“It gives us great pride to be able to help our clients with their needs,” said John Jurisich, Business Development Manager, Gulf Coast Region, “We know that many of the

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Heat Exchanger Fabrication Specialists

Shell & Tube Heat Exchangers are used in applications where the demands from high temperatures and pressures are significant. Bendel manufactures heat exchangers for a variety of industries, for projects that include power plants, chemical plants, petrochemical plants, petroleum refineries, natural gas processing operations, and sewage treatment facilities.

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HIGHEST QUALITY HEAT EXCHANGERS

Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger is committed to the highest standards of professional design, fabrication, engineering and manufacturing of custom heat exchangers.

We have instilled a long-standing commitment to our Quality Control Statement that has guided our design and manufacturing process for several years.

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Your Heat Exchanger Questions Answered

We get many questions about heat exchangers such as, “what exactly does a heat exchanger do” and “what is the science behind how the heat exchanger works?”

In addition to some of our customers, we think all the students out there who've landed on our website while researching the topic might enjoy a thorough

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Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger Options Explained

Heat exchangers offer a reliable method of transferring heat between liquids and gases, without direct contact between the two mediums.  

There are several classes of heat exchangers including double-tube, shell and tube, tube in tube, and plate heat exchangers

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We have been posting some “behind-the-scenes” and educational information about Heat Exchangers, how they work, what is the science behind them, and so forth.  Today we'll take a look at “flow arrangement” and how we classify flow arrangement when fabricating our Heat Exchangers.

When it comes to flow arrangement, there are two primary classifications of heat exchangers:

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Shell & Tube Heat Exchanger Fouling Explained

What exactly is “fouling” in a shell and tube heat exchanger and can it hurt or damage our heat exchanger? ​Fouling occurs when a fluid goes through the heat exchanger, and the impurities in the fluid precipitate onto the surface of the tubes.

Precipitation of these impurities can be caused by:

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