HEAT TRACING

Applications

Electric heat tracing system

Heat tracing is a system to compensate the heat that is discharged. Through the insulation, it keeps the temperature in the pipe or storage container to preserve the material’s unique characters (temperature, viscosity, solidifying point, etc). The purposes are freeze prevention, temperature maintenance, and temperature rise. It needs to consider the pipe’s diameter, storage container’s size, insulation’s material and thickness, fluid’s specific heat, specific gravity, latent heat and so on. So it needs sophisticated design and control. Hot water or steam can also be used, but electric heat tracing is more in general use. It has more advantages in terms of performance, function, convenience, and cost. According to heating method, there are different kinds such as parallel type (self-regulating heating cable, zone heater), series type (MI heating cable, series heating cable), or SECT system (skin effect current tracing). According to the object, appropriate method needs to be selected. This system needs sophisticated design that considers heat-resisting property, durability, cost, etc.

Freeze Protection

This system prevents freeze of pipes and tanks in the industrial field which could be frozen and burst in the winter.
There are ambient sensing method which controls the work through air temperature, and line sensing method which controls the work through the pipe and tank temperature.

Temperature Maintenance

This system maintains constant temperature in pipes, tanks, or reactors which needs to keep constant temperature in the industrial field. One method maintains the temperature by on-off control through thermostat. Another method attaches temperature sensor and send the temperature information to TIC (temperature indication controller) attached on control panel. By this way, it controls the temperature and also display the constant temperature on the screen. Through the information like surrounding minimum temperature, diameter of pipe, insulation’s material and thickness, we calculate the required heat and decide the appropriate heater.

Heat-up

When the pipe or storage container’s fluid temperature decreases by blackout or shut-down, this system considers the character of the fluid and increases the temperature in certain time.
It calculates the required heat for maintaining the fluid temperature. In addition pipe(storage container) or fluid’s specific heat, specific gravity, rate of flow, heat-up required time, etc need to be considered. When the state changes from solid to liquid or liquid to gas, the latent heat of the material should be considered in designing process.

Tank / Hopper heating

  • Freeze prevention/temperature maintenance

    This system prevents burst of the container by the freeze of the liquid inside the tank, hopper, vessel, etc. Also it maintains the constant temperature to keep the unique character of the fluid.

  • Incineration facility heating

    It is used in harmful gas filtering system in the incineration facility. When the temperature of bag filter hopper or SDR hopper decrease suddenly, the condensate water degrade the performance of the filter. By giving the heat, it prevents the formation of hazardous material like dioxin.

  • Tank bottom heating

    This system prevents the damage of bottom concrete structure of the tank which contains ultra-low temperature gas like LNG or propane.

  • Tank lorry heating

    This system prevents the state change by the temperature drop while liquid is transferred to the container like tank lorry. It uses the power source from car battery or generator

Snow/Ice Melting

  • This system melts the snow and ice for the safe movement of cars and pedestrians by installing the heating cable on slope, ramp, parking entrance, bridge, entrance of tunnel, pedestrian way, exterior stairway, etc. Recently, it is often used to remove the ‘black ice’ which is formed on the surface of the road almost invisibly.

  • Complete removal method gets rid of snow on all applied area. Wheel track removal method gets rid of the snow following the contact surface with the car wheel. Cutting construction method cuts the road, insert the heating cable inside, and refill the space.

  • Installation of the heating cable on the roof slope and drainpipe prevents the load burden by the accumulated snow on the roof. It also prevents formation of ice dam in the winter, and prevent the danger from icicle and its falling.

  • It is applied on the runway of the airport, heliport, deck of ship, concrete runway of light rail, etc.

  • It is applied in the ice rink, and it is used for removal of the frost in refrigeration warehouse. Also it prevents the power drop that can occur by the snow accumulation on mobile communication antenna system.

Surface heating

  • This system heats by installing the heating cable on the floor.

  • There’s general electricity heating method and midnight electricity heat storage method. This system uses electrical energy. This system is necessary which can’t install boiler or which requires silent and pleasant environment.

  • According to the form of living, there are cases of installing on the wall, not only on the floor.

  • Applied location : house (living room, bedroom, restroom), school, church, hospital, studio apartment, auditorium, library, museum, exhibition hall, condo, funeral hall, etc.