Process Heating Magazine

Check out the February 2020 edition of Process Heating: Drying organic and inorganic materials, modern drying ovens, control system issues, product drying and much more!

Combustion Control

Specifying Burners and Combustion for Process Heating

Careful selection of burners and combustion controls ensures safer operations.

Jason Howard, PowerFlame Inc.

February 20, 2020

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The spectrum of applications found in the process industries means that burner designs must vary widely. Smaller burners are utilized in paint booths, ovens and furnaces while larger burners are specified for incinerators, thermal oil heaters and oxidizers.

Combustion Control

Do You Have Control Issues?

Consider whether these 5 issues with the control system for your air pollution equipment may be hiding in plain sight at your plant.

Matt Kuss, PolSys Services

February 24, 2020

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If you are like many manufacturing engineers today, you may think the legacy controls on your air pollution control equipment are working well enough. But, is the production output as good as it could be if the reliability of your oxidizer or scrubber were increased?

Ovens

Modern Drying Ovens: Advancing at the Pace of Technology

A lot has changed in just 35 years. Consider how modern industrial ovens compare with those of the past. The innovations help improve the thermal processing of your products.

Rolf Kragseth, Despatch Industries

February 19, 2020

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When I started my junior year of engineering school in the mid ’80s, the lease on the apartment I rented did not start until October. The university was 200 miles from where I grew up, but it just happened that my dad was working at that time in the same city.

Evaporative Cooling

How to Successfully Implement Evaporative Cooling

Two case studies highlight ways evaporative cooling is used in the process industries to reduce the impact of heat-generating equipment such as paint ovens and plastic-molding equipment.

Mike Kaler, Mestex, a Division of Mestek

February 5, 2020

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Evaporative cooling has been around for centuries. Also called adiabatic cooling (particularly in Europe), evaporative cooling is the earliest form of air-side cooling known to man. In spite of that, it also is probably the least understood — and sometimes maligned — solution to cooling.

Dryers

Why the Size and Composition of Your Product Matters

Industrial dryers are not one-size-fits-all systems. Key differences between drying inorganic and organic material mean that when researching drying technologies, it is important to start with the product to be dried.

Becky Long, Thompson Dryers

February 10, 2020

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Imagine, if you will, the process of specifying an industrial dryer if you were explaining it in a classic children’s book.

Cooling Towers

An Alternative to Field-Erected Cooling Towers

The features found in plastic cooling towers are prompting some industrial processors to rethink selection criteria.

Greg Rankin, Delta Cooling Towers

February 1, 2020

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When it comes to heavy industrial operations, large cooling towers — often the size of multi-story buildings — are required to cool processes and keep high temperatures in check.

Commentary

Harness the Internet to Improve Your Processes

Linda Becker

February 1, 2020

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Interested in learning more about steam generation, combined heat and power (CHP) systems, combustion safety via LFL process monitoring, industrial heaters or industrial ovens? Tap our on-demand webinars as well as a new resource from the Department of Energy.

Places & Faces: February 2020

February 1, 2020

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Rockmart, Ga.-based Miura redesigned its website to streamline the boiler-buying process by making it easier to access relevant information, locate a representative, receive an estimate or purchase a new boiler.

Industrial News

Paint Shop Adds RTO to Control VOCs

January 14, 2020

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A regenerative thermal oxidizer (RTO) will help a Midwest automobile manufacturer control volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in its paint shop.

Industrial News

CSB Releases Factual Update on Fatal Explosion at Illinois Facility

January 14, 2020

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The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) released a factual update into the May 3, 2019, explosion and fire at AB Specialty Silicones in Waukegan, Ill. The factual update provides a comprehensive incident timeline, detailing the events that led up to the massive explosion and fire that fatally injured four workers and seriously injured another.

Industrial News

Gasbarre Moves Furnace Manufacturing to One Facility

January 14, 2020

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All manufacturing for the Thermal Processing Systems business unit of Gasbarre Products Inc. was moved to Gasbarre’s 50,000 ft² facility in St. Marys, Pa., at the end of 2019.

Industrial News

IIoT Solutions Expand Data Analytics Platform

January 14, 2020

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Emerson added two Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutions to its Plantweb Insight data analytics platform that will enable industrial facilities to transform the way they manage their enterprise-level wireless network infrastructure. The applications provide a quick-to-implement, scalable IIoT solution to help customers advance their digital transformation strategies and achieve greater operational efficiencies.

Industrial News

Sandvik Acquires Thermaltek

January 14, 2020

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Sandvik acquired privately owned Thermaltek Inc., a manufacturer of high temperature furnace systems and metallic heating elements based in Concord, N.C. Thermaltek operates out of a 42,000 ft² facility with approximately 30 employees.

Industrial Heating Products

Vibrating Fluid Bed Dryers and Coolers

February 24, 2020

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Process heating equipment skids include standard unitary steel bases that allow cover-lift hoists, process air ductwork, control panels, monitoring instrumentation and other auxiliary equipment to be attached to the system as a single unit.

Industrial Heating Products

Managed Security Services Help Protect Against Industrial Cybersecurity Threats

February 24, 2020

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CyberVantage Managed Security Services help users enhance industrial control system (ICS) capabilities and increase protection against cybersecurity attacks.

Industrial Heating Products

Profile Oven Curing of Painted and Powder-Coated Products

February 21, 2020

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Datapaq EasyTrack 3 has a rugged, lightweight polycarbonate casing that withstands harsh treatment and heat up to 212°F (100°C) without distortion or harm to the electronics.

Industrial Heating Products

Top-Loading Test Oven for Oil-and-Gas Drilling

February 20, 2020

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Line of PTC top-loading ovens includes a 48 ft3 unit designed and used for burn-in, qualification testing and calibration of down-hole drilling instruments.

Industrial Heating Products

Severe-Service Gate Valves

February 19, 2020

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Swivldisc are offered in 0.5 through 4” sizes in ASME/ANSI-pressure classes through #4500. The severe-service valves have a wedge-gate design that employs a flexible disc that permits the seating surface to achieve good alignment.

Industrial Heating Products

Mineral-Insulated Cables

February 18, 2020

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Also called MI cables, mineral-insulated cables have conductors or wires enclosed by a metal jacket and insulated with hard-packed magnesium oxide (MgO).

Industrial Heating Products

Skid Solutions for Boilers

January 13, 2020

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Line of preengineered, skid-mounted boilers provide the system as prepiped and ready for startup. The company offers boiler skids for its full line of hot water boilers.

Industrial Heating Products

Controls to Manage Heat-Trace Circuit Performance on Process Lines, Tanks and Instrumentation

February 14, 2020

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Via a touchscreen user interface, TraceNet Genesis gives instant access to heat-trace circuit information, including circuit performance history, fault analysis and circuit drawings.

Industrial Heating Products

Double-Block and Bleed Valves

February 12, 2020

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Taurus Series provide a double-isolation function with a twin-ball design and a bleed function by different bleed/vent valve designs. The block valves are available from 1 to 6” full bore (8” reduced bore).

Industrial Heating Products

Heat Pipes Provide Adaptable Methods to Cool Hot Components

February 10, 2020

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Flat and round copper heat pipes for electronics thermal management provide stand-alone cooling. The heat pumps can be combined with heat-spreading devices to deliver high levels of passive or active cooling.

Industrial Heating Products

Aluminum Foil Heaters

February 7, 2020

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Foil-backed electric resistance heaters can be customized to meet size, shape, layout and cut-outs requirements, lead wire options and lead termination options.

Industrial Heating Products

Venturi Scrubber with Spin Separator

February 5, 2020

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Designed to remove high particulate loadings emitted from molybdenum concentrate and mineral dryers, Series 8500 is supplied with an induced-draft fan, recirculation pumps, piping, full instrumentation, electrical and controls mounted on the company’s ScrubPac skid-mounted platform.

Industrial Heating Products

Electrically Heated Heavy-Duty Ferris Wheel Batch Oven

February 3, 2020

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Designed for the aerospace industry, the Ferris wheel oven will be used to cure epoxy resins and varnishes on assorted aerospace parts. The maximum operating temperature is 500°F (260°C), and work chamber dimensions are 3.33 x 3.5 x 3.5’.

Industrial Heating Products

Shelf Oven Dries Resin Powders on Trays

February 1, 2020

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No. 859 is designed for drying powdered resin in trays. Workspace dimensions of the 550°F (288°C) shelf oven measure 44 x 30 x 60”, and 12 KW are installed in Nichrome wire heating elements.