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Air preheaters at Shentou Power Station were permitting excessive amounts of leakage, due to erosion of the sealing surfaces. Conversion to the Howden VN sealing system reduced leakage from 17% to 6%.

Products

Howden designs and manufactures large fans and blowers, rotary heat exchangers and process gas compressors for utility and industrial applications.  All Howden equipment is built to order to individual customer specification and is engineered to provide long and reliable service, even in the most demanding conditions.

In this section...

An Axial Booster FanAxial Fans
Howden axial fans are found throughout the world operating in industrial processes where performance, reliability and maintainability are of paramount importance. Ranging in diameter from 200mm to over 9.3m, and with a variety of impeller designs, control systems and layout options, they form a comprehensive...

Centrifugal fan - Peterhead PSCentrifugal Fans
Howden centrifugal fans are found throughout the world operating in industrial processes where performance, reliability and maintainability are of paramount importance. Ranging in diameter from 200mm to over 5m, and with a variety of impeller designs, control systems and layout options, they form...

Running FanCooling Fans
Howden industrial cooling fans are designed for cooling towers, heat exchangers and steam condensers.  They range in size from fans for packaged cooling systems to fans up to 25m diameter for cooling towers. 

Picture of a Burton Corblin CompressorCompressors
Howden process compressors and complete compressor packages are used in the petroleum, petrochemical, refrigeration, fuel gas and other markets where performance and reliability are crucial.  We have over one hundred years of experience behind us and supply our compressors...

High Pressure Blower with Cladding High Pressure Blowers
Howden supplies various types of blower, ranging from high pressure multi-stage fans to specialist submerged blowers developed for the nuclear industry.   

Rotary heat exchanger diagramRotary Heat Exchangers
Rotary regenerative heat exchangers provide a compact, cost effective, and reliable solution for heat recovery in power plant and flue gas desulphurization systems.

A reactive silencer in situOther Products
There are a number of other products that Howden supplies that do not fall into the main product areas.  Many are only offered in a particular region, being the speciality of the Howden company there.   In all cases they relate to other Howden products.


Howden UK Awarded ASME Nuclear Accreditation

HUK Nuclear Products Department underwent a successful audit by an ASME Survey Team in early February 2009 and was awarded an unqualified Certificate of Authorisation. 
Howden wins Scottish Engineering award

Howden was presented with the Scottish Engineering Award for 2009 at Scottish Engineering’s annual dinner and awards ceremony on May 21st 2009.


The Howden story re-told to help others

The fascinating story of Howden and its growth from a small Glasgow Engineering company founded in 1854 to a global business is recounted in a new book by David H. Hume.