Old Document but useful
April 15, 2010
Although, several decades ago, shipbuilding used to tea major of copper alloys, its percentage importance in the field of heat exchange applications has decline ever since. In view of the growth experienced by other uses, such as desalination, thermal power generation (both nuclear and furl-based) and petrochemical plants.
The Author is unaware of any recent world wide survey of copper alloy tube usage in heat exchange application, but a likely subdivision of present-days production of some 40.000 MT of these materials by end use (excluding copper tube for air conditioning and refrigeration, which may account for an additional 150.000 to 170.000 MT per year) could be as follows:
| Desalination | 15.000 MT |
| Power generation | 12.000 MT |
| Petrochemical and oil industry | 7.000 MT |
| Ship building | 3.000 MT |
| Other miscellaneous | 3.000 MT |
| Total | 40.000 MT |
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