Industrial Heaters and Heating Elements Reference Materials

Description: To heat a magnetic steel insert for a metal-to-plastic insertion application for a supplier to an engine manufacturer. ...

Description: Fluids at precisely controlled and elevated temperatures are integral to a wide range of industrial processes. To generate the necessary supply of heated liquid, many plants utilize a simple tank ...

Description: Industrial electric heaters are useful for delivering heat when you need it and controlling temperature at a steady rate that you have determined. However, poor design through improper placement of ...

Description: The mining industry uses a variety of corrosive chemicals in the extraction process of minerals such as gold, silver, platinum and other valuable raw materials. In the extraction of gold, for example, ...

Description: Immersion heaters are best for oil heating for several reasons. The electric immersion heaters that are sheathed for indirect heating provide a steady constant heat flow that keeps oil viscosity ...

Description: Electricity produced through solar panels is used for heating water effectively and efficiently when attached to immersion water heaters equipped with sensors and controls. Depending on the average ...

Description: One of the audacious projects that connects US and Canada is found in the Keystone Pipeline Project stretching over 2,150 miles across the border, piercing through 3 Provinces and more than half a ...

Description: While it is always important to consider the cost and time requirements or a new heating system. Top of mind should be how effective that heating method is at reaching your product goals. Saving time ...

Description: Large hydraulic tanks in Arkansas, required electric heating elements to maintain their liquid at accurate temperatures for operations. In addition, a failsafe system was required to make sure that ...

Description: Process heating systems have wide applications in the manufacturing of various industrial and consumer products. Smelters, furnaces, heaters, ovens, and kilns are some of the most common heating ...

Description: Petrochemical and other heavy industries such as power generation, oil, and gas need high wattage (multi-MW) electric heating elements. In order to meet this demand, until now, these industries ...

Description: A large manufacturer of steel cables from Detroit, Michigan contacted Wattco with a problem: the cables they manufactured were corroding in their warehouse and needed a solution to prevent this from ...

Description: A Fortune 500 power plant in Dallas, Texas requested assistance in the preheating of their natural gas that is used in their natural gas turbines. The purpose of this was to help improve energy ...

Description: A rocket facility located in Cape Canaveral, Florida required a circulation heater capable of heating up nitrogen to high temperatures and able to withstand high pressure (2000 PSI). This industrial ...

Description: The petrochemical industry requires that industrial and process heating equipment be maintained at the highest level not only to reduce production shutdowns but also to protect the environment and the ...

Description: Thermal insulation is one of the most common practices used to minimize energy loss in heat generation, transfer, and transmission processes, while insulation and refractories are used to enhance the ...

Description: Process heaters play an important role in thermal systems. Effective use of heaters helps industries save energy and maximize the efficiency of their processes. Thermal insulation is one of the most ...

Description: Control panels are an important element of mechanical or electrical devices. They help regulate temperature, humidity, pressure and other factors while operating as a safety mechanism. With the ...

Description: Phase equilibrium is the study of the equilibrium which exists between or within different states of matter namely solid, liquid and gas. Equilibrium is defined as a stage when chemical potential of ...

Description: Pipes are used heavily in the oil refinery industry to transport chemicals both in liquid and in gaseous form. Pipes suffer from degradation over time for various reasons such as when transporting ...

Description: A construction company was awarded a contract to repair roads in a local community. The road surface painting used an asphalt mixture that was stored in a 5000 gal tank. Here parts were dunked into a ...

Description: A power plant located in North Dakota uses large holding tanks that contain demineralized water that is used in the process of their turbines. The challenge was to keep this water at an acceptable ...

Description: A major oil refinery in Calgary, Alberta traditionally used gas heating for their crude oil reservoirs. Maintenance was getting expensive and an alternative process heating solution was needed. ...

Description: Pressure vessels are components used to store as well as transmit liquids, gases, or vapors that are under pressure. Pressure vessels, by design, keep liquid or gases at a pressure that differs from ...

Description: There are certain industries located in colder climates such as Edmonton, Alberta or even Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that require protection to prevent their liquid products from freezing. The most ...

Description: The fluids in heat transfers are crucial to many of its processes. Ensuring the safe, ongoing operation of these systems depend to a great extent on the fluid, during the regular operation and ...

Description: Road oils and emulsions can be a difficult product to transport from one large container to another especially in the petrochemical heating industry. In large highway projects such as in Los Angeles ...

Description: A major manufacturer of automotive parts in Ontario and Detroit Michigan, required a heat source to help them with the cleaning of automotive parts in their assembly line. Steam pressure systems were ...

Description: WATTCO heaters can be installed in a tank or a container that is mounted on wheels for easy portability. (See Figure 1.) Many applications demand heat in hard-to-reach places, which require heaters to ...

Description: Interest in alternative energies in the United States is growing at an exponential rate, as the search for alternative and cleaner fuel sources becomes more challenging. The use of biofuel has been ...

Description: A major manufacturer of automotive parts in Ontario and Detroit Michigan, required a heat source to help them with the cleaning of automotive parts in their assembly line. Steam pressure systems were ...

Description: A popular chemical compound that often requires heating is wax, which is an organic compound that has a plastic texture at room temperature. Wax begins to melt at 44 degrees celsius resulting in a low ...

Description: Digital control panels are widely used in industries to monitor and control system variables. Humidity, pressure, and temperature are some of the variables that are easily controlled using these ...

Description: Air duct heaters are commonly used in the HVAC industry. They provide supplementary heat to the delivered air inside an air-delivery duct. For heavy duty industrial applications, duct heaters are a ...

Description: Although immersion heaters are most often the best possible solution for tank content heating, sometimes it is not feasible, here are some alternatives. ...

Description: In places like Houston Texas, bitumen is well known in the construction industry as tar or asphalt, a very important substance in paving the road or roofing. The key to heating bitumen is all about ...

Description: One of the most effective methods of chemical cleaning is with the application of circulation oil heaters. There are many different types of circulation heaters on the market that can be used to ...

Description: Circulation heaters, containers/vessels with the heating element inside, are used to heat gases and steam for different types industrial applications. ...

Description: Heating corrosive solutions, whether alkaline or acidic, is often an important step in the process industry. Circulation heaters, from WATTCO, are designed and built to work for a variety of corrosive ...

Description: An advanced gas cooled nuclear energy consortium contacted Wattco to help them with their research and development team that required an industrial heater to heat up CO2 - carbon dioxide - gas that is ...

Description: Circulation heaters are widely used in the petrochemical industry in locations such as Calgary Alberta, for heating fluids, chemicals, and other mediums. Circulation oil heaters consist of a huge ...

Description: Industrial water heaters can often fail as a result of aging equipment and faulty temperature controllers. Wattco was contacted by a heater distributor in Houston Texas to help replace an aging 100 ...

Description: Thermal fluid systems or thermal heaters have been in use since over 80 years, yet there are many myths that surround them and they are considered a source of fear, anxiety, and paranoia in users. ...

Description: The term "oil flushing" is used extensively in the process heating industry to refer to the cleaning of pipes and process equipment. Typical applications use immersion or circulation heaters that heat ...

Description: A lot of emphasis is given to industrial heating elements and sheath materials when discussing the electric heaters. However, equally important are the control panels for process heaters to function ...

Description: Digital control panels have a wide range of application in industries. Application of digital controllers in industrial equipments has resulted in increased efficiency, reliability, and flexibility of ...

Description: In this article we discuss the Joule-Thomson effect as it applies to natural gas, and explain how to size a flanged electric heater for this application. Specifically, we calculate the heater power ...

Description: This case study looks at electric immersion heaters in industrial storage tanks and what sensors are required to prevent freezing or fire damage. ...

Description: A topic brief about the Joule-Thomson Effect & its industrial applications ...

Description: Freeze Protection: With many weather conditions being unpredictable year after year, many companies look at protecting their mediums whether they be water based, or oil based from freezing through the ...

Description: Types, design, maintenance, and demand of different heat exchanges ...

Description: With the advancement in technology and increase in industrial demand, industries have started to mobilize over different heating methodologies such as whether to use heating cables or immersion ...

Description: A client from Montana had a large oversized aquifer that required a special decontamination process after receiving a job at a hazardous waste site. The specific flow rate of water was up to 150 ...

Description: Heating is an essential task in most industrial applications. Operating on a large scale, any energy wastage comes with a large price tag. Efficient heat application means big savings in any industry. ...

Description: Since 2009 the beer brewery business has been booming. With government subsidies and popular demand, the craft brewery bubble is not about to go flat anytime soon. In Ontario alone, the number of ...

Description: Immersion heaters are used in industries for various manufacturing processes that include preservation of various chemicals, fluids and gases by keeping them warm. These are installed over large tanks ...

Description: Delves into the specific influences of several types of immersion heaters on water tanks. ...

Description: Describes the functions, applications and advantages of electric process heaters. ...

Description: Discussing the usage and advantages of immersion water heaters in a myriad of industries. ...

Description: Agriculture is the oldest industry in history. Despite its age, it relies heavily on modern technology to continue operating safely and efficiently. The role of industrial heaters is essential to the ...

Description: Tubular heating elements are commonly used in industrial heating due to their versatility and affordability. They are used for heating liquids, solids and gases through conduction, convection, and ...

Description: Thermal fluid heating is a form of indirect heating. The basic premise is that the heat transfer medium is heated and circulated within a loop system. This distributes heat to one or more sources ...

Description: A new use of WATTCO's flanged immersion heateris helping natural gas drillers maintain the operation in cold, wintery conditions. Hydraulic fracking is a mining technology that helps produce large ...

Description: Among the industrial heating applications in places like Houston Texas or Tulsa Oklahoma, tank heating is one of the most basic of all. It usually involves water or liquid heating, and the types of ...

Description: Keeping contaminants and debris out of equipment can ensure a long life for machinery. Proper care and cleaning techniques are essential, and while maintenance can be a chore sometimes, it often ...

Description: The Carnot cycle, proposed by French engineer N. L. Sadi Carnot in 1824, consists of a series of four reversible processes. Because the cycle is entirely reversible, it is the most efficient means of ...

Description: Industrial circulation heaters, also known as immersion heaters, have become quite popular in the oil industry over the last few years. They aid in the heating of many liquid materials, such as ...

Description: Thermal conductivity refers to the core property of any and all types of material that relate to their capability to conduct heat. This means that the heat transfer in this case happens when material ...

Description: Thermoelectrics deal with the conversion of temperature to current as well as the conversion of current to temperature showing its reversible nature. This can be further explained to show how ...

Description: This case study looks at the use of immersion heaters for a small dairy farm. The need for pasteurization calls for high heat that can be strictly regulated. ...

Description: In Cleveland Ohio, a large food manufacturer called WATTCO™ for some flanged immersion heaters that were to be used to heat up vegetable oil in large tanks. In the food industry, oil heating is ...

Description: Most of the parts of flanged heaters are made of stainless steel-an alloy that is mainly comprised of iron, carbon, and chromium. Of these, chromium is the chemical element that makes the steel ...

Description: Thermal heaters, also known as thermal fluid heaters, employ the use of a thermal liquid such as water, glycol, mineral oil, synthetic liquids or aromatics as the source of heat transfer. The medium ...

Description: Ice dams are formed when interior heat escapes and warms the roof. The melting snow then runs to the colder eave, where it refreezes. This process can cause severe damage to your roof, and potentially ...

Description: This articles explains membrane Roofs (EPDM or TPO/PVC) and the options of heating them, life expectancy and other options. ...

Description: Leaks in the attic? Stains on the ceilings? Damaged roof shingles after a long winter? You may be suffering from ice dams. This article is an explanation of ice dams and possible solutions to prevent ...

Description: Introduction to heating equipment in the beer brewing industry. ...

Description: Industrial heating elements are among the most crucial components in any industrial heating system. Selecting the right industrial heating element can save money, time, and create a more efficient ...

Description: Proper maintenance of your immersion heater will drastically improve performance, efficiency, and increase lifespan. Being proactive about heater care saves money, and increases safety. This guide ...

Description: It is important to choose the right immersion heater for your specific application to get the most efficiency and longest lifespan. Selecting the right industrial heating equipment reduces cost, ...

Description: What is more important to your company's production: up front cost of the heater or total cost of heating? ...

Description: The seizure of a cartridge heater in a bore can mean many hours of maintenance labor to extract the heater, downtime, and lost productivity. ...

Description: Uniform sheath temperature is critical when working with engineered plastics, most of which require tight temperature windows for processing. ...

Description: There are typically two types of boilers in the industry that utilize a standby-mode strategy -auxiliary boilers and process boilers. Each boiler type has a very specific role but essentially performs ...

Description: Vacuum diffusion pumps require an effective heating system to drive the pump. Conventional designs often employ a complicated series of components that must be carefully matched up, adding unnecessary ...

Description: Reference information to assist you in the selection of Watt-Flex heaters for new process heating designs. ...

Description: The food manufacturing industry requires dependable, efficient industrial heating equipment to create the high-quality products consumers expect. Wattco industrial immersion heaters are a perfect fit ...

Description: Wattco inline heaters are designed to enhance the performance of a regular immersion heater, heating up liquid solutions while maximizing efficiency. These units are ideally suited for heating ...

Description: Circulation heaters, sometimes called In Line Heaters, are compact heating units used in a variety of ways across industry. Common applications for circulation heaters include heating liquids and ...

Description: Induction heating relies on the existence of eddy currents discovered by Léon Foucault in 1855. Briefly, when a changing magnetic field passes through any conductive object, current flow is induced in ...

Description: In case proper temperature is not maintained during cold winter weather, the liquid solutions stored within the tank would freeze resulting in wastage of a large amount of these costly liquids. Using ...

Description: The type of heaters used in bitumen heating will depend on how much of viscosity is required and how high the temperature must reach. ...

Description: The use of electric heaters in homes has become common for a while, but it is only now that their use in petrochemical and chemical industries has increased. This is largely due to the enhancement of ...

Description: Flange heaters are made to mount on tanks via an external flange. These flanges can easily be bolted on but in some cases, it's necessary to weld matching components for installation. ...

Description: Before installing an immersion heater for industrial processes, it is crucial to choose the right kind of heater fit for your purposes. ...

Description: Industrial Heaters, or Process Heaters, as they are commonly referred to, are used to make a wide variety of processes more efficient across a large range of industries including the water ...

Description: Flanged Immersion Heaters are one of several known for heating gases and liquids such as water, oil, heat transfer fluid and corrosive solutions. The direct immersion method is both energy efficient ...

Description: Many industries such as manufacturing and chemical processing require substances to be at precise temperatures to manufacture products. Often times, industrial heaters are used for their efficacy and ...

Description: An immersion heater is a device which heats various fluid types like water, oil, salts, solvents, and acids. With it immersed in the fluid that it is warming, all the heat generated is within the ...

Description: Immersion heaters are the best way a food processing business can maintain a high-quality product and comply with governmental safety requirements. Immersion heating is a reliable and efficient ...