Industries Served

Oil & Gas

Oil & Gas Industries are complex and require industry specific codes such as TEMA, API 620, 650 and 660.

Harris Thermal has extensive experience in North America supplying custom fabricated equipment to companies in the oil & gas industry. Our experience includes the following products in all of the ferrous, non-ferrous, and reactive metals.

Tanks
Chillers
Towers
Condensers
Evaporators
Crystallizers
Shell & Tube Heat Exchangers

Pulp & Paper

Harris Thermal designs and fabricates many types of equipment for the pulp and paper industry. We are capable of manufacturing all the stainless, duplex stainless steels and higher alloys.

Our products include:

Heat Exchangers
Cyclones
Evaporators
Columns

We also offer custom fabrication for pulp and paper processes. We welcome your calls for additional information and offer expertise to help you ensure that your equipment will be of the highest quality.

Power Generation

The electric power industry is closely related to industrial development. The industry covers 3 distinct phases including electric power generation, transmission, distribution, and the sale of electric power. Electric power generation includes Hydroelectric power generation, fossil fuel electric power generation, nuclear electric power generation, solar electric power generation, wind electric power generation, geothermal electric power generation, biomass electric power generation, electric bulk power transmission and control, and electric power distribution.

Harris Thermal has fabricated custom equipment for all of the applications above and offers the technical expertise and experience to provide our customers with equipment that will serve them efficiently for many years.

Renewable Fuels & Waste to Energy (WTE)

Harris Thermal offers significant expertise and experience in fabricating equipment that is used in the waste to energy process.

Biomass is the leading renewable energy source, and the most important fuel in use apart from oil, coal, and natural gas. Biomass can be used as feedstock to produce electricity, either in dedicated or electricity only biomass plants, or in co-fired facilities using biomass in conjunction with coal. With areas available for use as landfills for municipal waste becoming difficult to find, the focus is shifting towards thermal waste recovery. Combustion, gasification, pyrolysis, and anaerobic digestion are some of the technologies used to convert biomass into various energy forms such as fuel, gas, or electricity. Growth in the market is being propelled by the increased uptake of waste-to-energy technologies along with policy changes and population growth. The waste material discarded on a global scale possesses the potential to address about 10% of worldwide electricity demand each year. Additionally, waste-to-energy market, incorporating digestion and thermal methods of generating power, lessens the hazard associated with pollutants released from landfills such as parasites, volatile organic compounds, carbon dioxide, and methane gas.

Water Treatment

The advancement of water treatment technology has created an ever-growing opportunity for firms working in this field. Harris Thermal has been at the forefront of this effort, providing equipment to the primary engineering firms that dominate this immense and growing field.

Advanced water treatment technology provides:

Purification equipment to provide drinking water servicing municipalities
Treatment of saltwater utilizing desalinization equipment
Treatment of process water for safe discharge to the environment
Wastewater treatment
Crystallizing and filtering equipment for the removal of solids

Harris Thermal has invested significantly in the clean water industry and offers much experience and expertise in building equipment that is used to clean water across many different applications and in the most demanding environments. Our customers in the water industry have trusted us in partnering with them to advance the technology and capabilities they offer with their proprietary processes and equipment.

Food processing

Harris Thermal is the premier supplier of heat exchangers for the potato processing industry. Harris has worked with the major potato processors in both the frying and blanching processes.

Food processing is a major business in the Northwest with:

Potato crops worth $450 million per year
Processed french-fries over $3 billion per year

Our systems are:

Efficient
Easy to maintain
Deliver maximum production
Maximum production with minimum waste

If you have experienced fast food french-fries, you have likely experienced them processed with a Harris Thermal heat exchanger.

Mining & minerals

The United States’ mining industry has a long history, and it continues to be an important and active industry to this day. The products produced through mining provide the foundation for all manufacturing, giving factories the raw materials needed to produce their goods.

Slurry Chillers
Condensers
Autoclaves
Basket Strainers

Harris Thermal offers significant expertise and experience in fabricating equipment that is used in various applications within the mining industry.

Chemical

Harris Thermal has worked with many of the leaders within the chemical industry throughout the United State and worldwide. The Chemical and Petroleum Industries are complex and require industry specific codes such as ASME, TEMA, API 620, 650 and 660.

The Chemical Industry accounts for a substantial portion of products that are used in our daily lives. The Chemical Industry can be broken down into three major groups: 1. Basic Chemicals (Polymers, Petrochemicals, Basic Inorganics) 2. Specialty Chemicals. 3. Consumer Chemicals. Our experience includes the following products in all of the ferrous, non-ferrous and reactive metals. Some common equipment used within the Chemical Industry that Harris Thermal can provide include:

Tanks
Chillers
Towers
Condensers
Evaporators
Crystallizers
Shell & Tube Heat Exchangers
Pressure Vessels
Tubular Reactors
Fixed Bed Reactors
Fluid Bed Reactors

Formaldehyde Converters / Resins

Due to its low cost and high purity, formaldehyde has become one of the most important industrial and research chemicals in the world. We work with the leaders in this industry who have trusted Harris Thermal to build high quality equipment that they rely on to support the ever growing demands on their production capacities for formaldehyde.

Our long-standing reputation of excellent service and superior products has made us the leader in this field. We offer custom engineering and manufacturing equipment for a wide range of services.

LNG

The process begins with the pre-treatment of a feedstock of natural gas entering the system to remove impurities such as H2S, CO2, H2O, mercury, and higher-chained hydrocarbons.

Feedstock gas then enters the liquefaction unit where it is cooled to between -145 °C and -163 °C Although the type or number of heating cycles and/or refrigerants used may vary based on the technology, the basic process involves circulating the gas through aluminum tube coils and exposure to a compressed refrigerant. As the refrigerant is vaporized, the heat transfer causes the gas in the coils to cool. The LNG is then stored in a specialized double wall insulated tank at atmospheric pressure ready to be transported to its final destination.

Harris Thermal offers significant expertise and experience in fabricating equipment that is used in the processing of LNG.

General manufacturing & industry

Harris Thermal also offers services and equipment for many other manufacturing and industrial processes in addition to the ones mentioned above. Please do not hesitate to reach out to Harris Thermal for your current or upcoming project.

Oil & Gas

Pulp & Paper

Power Generation

Renewable Fuels & Waste to Energy (WTE)

Water Treatment

Food processing

Mining & minerals

Chemical

Formaldehyde Converters / Resins

LNG

General manufacturing & industry

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