Piovan Group completed its acquisition of IPEG Inc., which owns Thermal Care, Conair, Pelletron and Republic Machine. A Delaware-based company, IPEG supplies industrial automation systems, engineered solutions and services for storage, conveying and processing of plastic and food. Conair manufactures a range of dryers, process heaters and chillers.

With the GasTrac process air heaters, plastics processors can replace electricity with natural gas as a heat source for dehumidifying dryers and realize energy cost savings, says the manufacturer.

The company uses product platforms to provide standard catalog-type designs as well as customized designs in a fast turnaround window. 

Now that you have a general idea of the types of heaters that are available, how will you go about specifying the right one for your application?

Although Heatec makes, sells, and services a range of heaters, liquid storage tanks, and related products, their goods are part of a total heating system solution. Heatec offers complete design services for heaters that are used at facilities such as oil and gas producers, chemical producers, food producers, food and pharmaceutical packaging, paper and film converting, roofing manufacturers, power plants, hotmix asphalt (HMA) plants, asphalt terminals, emulsion terminals, and concrete producers.

When using heaters for freeze control, the difficult part is to calculate how much power is needed to keep a certain size of tanks filled with particular contents.

A seven-page white paper compares one medium voltage electric heating system to alternatives.

Thermal fluid heaters are offered in 0.5 to 75 million BTU/hr in horizontal or vertical, two-pass or three-pass models, and up-fired or down-fired configurations.