Automated Tube Insertion Equipment For Heat Exchanger

2025-04-21 14:42:22

In the field of modern heat exchanger manufacturing, automated tube-piercing machine is becoming a key equipment to improve production efficiency and product quality. This type of equipment realizes the precise and rapid assembly of heat exchanger tube bundles through a highly intelligent mechanical system, which completely changes the limitations of traditional manual operation.

Core advantages

The core advantage of automated tube insertion equipment for heat exchanger lies in its excellent precision and efficiency. Taking the actual case of a chemical equipment manufacturer as an example, it takes 6 workers 8 hours to assemble a large shell and tube heat exchanger using traditional manual methods, while using the automated tube-piercing machine, it only takes 2 operators 3 hours to complete, and the efficiency is nearly 5 times higher. At the same time, the laser positioning system and force feedback device equipped with the equipment can control the tube bundle assembly error within ±0.05mm, greatly reducing the risk of leakage caused by improper assembly.

Technical composition

From the perspective of technical composition, a complete set of automated tube insertion equipment usually includes three core modules:
1. Intelligent tube delivery system: automatically identify and deliver heat exchange tubes of different specifications
2. Multi-axis collaborative robot arm: realize precise movement of complex spatial trajectories
3. Visual inspection unit: real-time monitoring of assembly quality and automatic correction of deviations

Application fields

In the fields of high-end equipment manufacturing such as petrochemicals, electric power, refrigeration and air conditioning, new energy, food and medicine, this type of equipment has become a standard choice to enhance competitiveness. Especially in the manufacture of high-temperature and high-pressure heat exchangers, the automated tube-piercing machine can ensure the matching accuracy of each heat exchange tube and tube sheet, thereby ensuring the long-term stable operation of the equipment under harsh working conditions.

With the development of Industry 4.0, the new generation of automated tube insertion equipment for heat exchanger is rapidly evolving towards intelligence. By integrating the Internet of Things technology, the equipment can collect force and position data in the assembly process in real time, and continuously optimize the process parameters based on machine learning algorithms.

In the future, as heat exchanger products develop towards large-scale and high-parameterization, the technological innovation of automated tube-piercing machine will continue to promote the improvement of the manufacturing level of the entire industry.

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