Education is crucial when it comes to selecting the right valve for your hot oil application. You don’t want to waste valuable resources by installing a gland-packed valve when a bellows-sealed valve is really what’s needed. Click here to read about a processing plant that had made safety provisions for its leaking valve a part of its SOP—because no one there knew better.

A collection of tips and practical guidelines from industry experts on thermal fluids and related operations...summarized advice intended to take the guesswork out of dealing with heat transfer fluids and to improve the overall user experience.

Explosions and fires in fuel-fired and electric fluid heaters — due to overheating or the release of flammable or combustible fluids from the heater tubing — can cause loss of life, property and production. In industrial fluid heaters, where heated fluid may flow under pressure, most causes of failures can be traced to human error.

When it comes to industrial applications, process control is absolutely critical. Poorly optimized process control can quickly become costly in terms of lost energy, translating to financial loss.

A water bath heater typically consists of a shell that contains a fire tube and process heating bundle. A burner is mounted on one end of the fire tube, which doubles back to an exhaust stack.

Within the Sirius 3RW5 range, the devices can be used for the soft starting of three-phase asynchronous motors from 7 to 1600 hp. The soft starters are suitable for any motor and can be integrated into a new or existing automation system. 

Have you tried turning it off and on again? This question illustrates the extent of troubleshooting most of us go to for IT equipment. However, it’s far from best practice for industrial systems.

Unicus is designed to provide effective heat transfer with difficult materials, particularly those which have a high fouling potential yet need delicate handling. 

Model FT4X with datalogger records flow rate, totals and other events and alarms. Other features include 40 daily totals; settable contract time defines the contract day; time/date stamped alarm and event logs; power-off totalizer; and display of density and gross heating value based on selected gas composition.

Three system-cleaning products are designed for use in thermal-fluid heaters and systems. These products fit into two product types, based on how they are used.