Helical coil heat exchanger design (HCHex) software is made to demonstrate the thermal design calculations for helical coil heat exchanges.
The software will do all the sizing and thermal calculations involved in the design and will generate a summary of all results. Below are some features for this software along with any limitations.
Helical Coil Heat Exchanger Software Features

+ Design helical coil heat exchangers, two models are supported.
Model 1 with core tube design, Model 2 without core tube design.
+ Support S.I Units and English (U.S) Units of measurement.
+ Units converter includes 23 measurements units with 200-unit conversion
+ Add your own Nusselt correlation
+ Save/Load results
Calculations
+ Ability to calculate unknown Cold or Hot side temperatures. Unknown exit temperatures on both sides or any two temperatures on both sides
+ Unknown Flow rate on either hot or cold side, calculate both flow rates also if heat duty and temperatures are specified.
+ Pressure Drops for both shell and tube sides (frictional, inlet, outlet and total)
+ Overall heat transfer coefficients, heat transfer coefficients for shell and tube sides.
+ Nusselt number estimation
Helical coil heat exchanger design software includes Nusselt number correlations and will also allow you to use your own correlations in three formats,
The software will also allow you to enter your own Nusselt number or enter a heat transfer coefficient if needed.
+ Area and heat load (heat duty) calculations
+ Vessel dimensions, length, height and diameter and other values
+ Number of spiral turns for the helical tube and its length.
The software will also accepts heat duty or heat load as input and calculate other needed variables
Included databases
+ Estimate the Physical properties of pure components for more than 1450 fluids; the database has the ability to estimate Thermal Conductivity, Density, Heat Capacity and Viscosity. The database also included critical properties, boiling and melting points and come as a standalone interface but easily integrated with the software.
+ Estimate mixture properties. (ALL ESTIMATION METHODS CURRENTLY SUPPORT LIQUIDS ONLY)
+ User database functions to allow user to add/delete fluids, Tube geometric sizes and heat transfer coefficients and load to hot/cold side (Empty database!).
+ Fouling factors
+ Add your own Nusselt number correlations, three formats are available.
Charts
Plot temperature profile for counter current flow and co-current flow. detect temperature cross.
Results
+ Export Results summary to Microsoft Excel Engineering Datasheet format. Save/Load results. Generate/Print a summary of results
+ Display multiple cases in results grid
+ Export Results summary to .rtf file format that can be opened in Microsoft Word
Limitations
+ Single tube units, multi tubes are not supported.
Download
Click here to download the demo version of the product. Please also note that the demo version of this software will only operate with set examples which are restricted in our demo version and doesn’t necessary have all the updates added to the full version. To compare the demo version with the full version simply check the update history of the full version against the version of the demo. The full version of this product does not have any restrictions.
We don’t offer a fully working demo version.

Video Demonstration links:
Click here to watch the videos from this website
To watch the videos on YouTube:
- Features and interface video – Click here
- Helical coil heat exchanger design software example in SI Units – with core tube present Click here
- Helical coil heat exchanger design software example in SI Units – No core tube present Click here
- Helical coil heat exchanger design software example in US Units – with core tube present Click here
- Helical coil heat exchanger design software example in US Units – No core tube present Click here
- Helical coil heat exchanger design – how to generate results for multi-case scenarios Click here
Screen Shot
Below is a screen shot of the main software screen, for more screen shots please visit our screen shots page

System Requirements
Helical coil heat exchanger software needs the following to operate:
1. Microsoft Windows operating system
2. 64 MB RAM
3. 30 MB free disk space
4. Microsoft Dot Net 4.8.1 Framework
Windows platform:
Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows 11
32 bit & 64 bit operating systems.