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WHAT IS HEAT TRACING ?

Heat tracing is the application of a controlled amount of electric surface heating to pipework, tanks, valves or process equipment to either maintain its temperature (by replacing heat lost through insulation, also referred to as frost protection) or to affect an increase in its temperature.

The primary function of heat trace cable systems is the prevention of freezing within water pipes and subsequently bursting.

With temperatures dropping during the Winter months, freezing pipes are always a major concern for homeowners, businesses and industry alike. By maintaining the ambient temperature inside the pipe, frost cannot build up and pipes will not freeze. This means pipes will not burst due to ice expansion.

Did You Know…..  A gallon of water, when frozen, will expand to a volume 9% greater than the original gallon.

Heated Gas Sample Lines Using Eltherm Flexible Hose. Analytic heated hoses ensure the transport of liquid and gaseous media without the loss of temperature in industrial and hazardous area applications

The following Guest Blog by Daniel Court from Eltherm UK discusses the application of heated hose technology to the transportation of gases for analytic applications and their wider use for the transfer of fluids and vapours by high pressure heated hose.

Throughout industry there exists the requirement to analyse gas emissions, whether it be from the chimney stack of a plant where fumes are generated (for example from incineration, power generation or chemical process), or in the automotive sector where rigorous testing of a new engine’s exhaust is required to ensure compliance against ever increasing environmental requirements.

Often, the gas must be sampled at temperature, despite there being some distance between the point of exhaust and the physical location of the testing equipment.

Heated Hoses & Some Further Application Areas

Gas Analysis

Bitumen

Chemical & Petrochemical Industry

Mechanical Engineering

Automotive Industry

Food & Beverage Industry

Utilities – Water, Gas & Electricity

Manufacturing Processes

How to handle liquids, gasses and viscous substances at elevated process temperatures

T&D specialise in providing specialist heating solutions including Eltherm's heat tracing cables and heated hoses.

Today T&D present a guest blog from Eltherm's Commercial Manager Daniel Court on the benefits of using heated hoses.

Handling of pressurised liquids, gasses and viscous substances at elevated process temperatures is a very common requirement throughout the manufacturing and process sectors, but all too often in a scheme design, the linkage between a trace heated pipework system and the point of dispensing of the heated product is an aspect which is not considered during the design process, or is left for addressing once the rest of the system is built and in place. The solution to this issue is a specialty of Eltherm.