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How to choose the right kind of heating element for your industry

 

Heating is an integral part of everyday life like various types of cooking but when this heat is required for large manufacturing units, industrial heating elements are required. Every industry requires a special type of industrial heaters and so the heater selection is the most important part of this process.

 

Heaters come in a variety of distinguishing features, shapes, sizes, performance specifications, energy sources, special application and environment controls as well as RoHS / WEEE compliance. To understand which product suits your process best one first needs to understand their classification.

  1. Classification as per application: The common classification in this case is the duct heaters, circulation heaters, immersion heaters and space or room heaters. The duct heaters heat a gas moving through a duct like seen in a room heater. The circulation heaters use the moving streams of fluids to transfer heat. The immersion heaters are placed inside the substance that is to be heated and room heaters heat up a confined space and are generally portable.
  2. Classification by medium: The heaters under it are simply classified as air heaters or water heaters depending upon the substance they heat. An earlier classification also had oil heaters but they are now mostly classified under water heaters that are made with special materials.
  3. Classification by physical properties: This grouping consists of flexible heaters and explosion proof heaters. Flexible heaters can be molded as per the shape of the container or of the heated object while the explosion proof are constructed with protective housings that can be heated and resist sparks and flames.
  4. Classification by fuel source: The commonly used fuel sources for the industrial heating elements define this type of heater in the form of electric heater, gas or propane heater and oil or kerosene heaters. The gas and oil heaters have very specific applications while the electric heaters are the most commonly used industrial heaters nowadays as they do not produce any environmental pollution.
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