Heat Transfer
Proven design and know-how are built into this waste incinerator
An important component of designing and operating an active-pharmaceutical-ingredient (API) batch plant is the treatment of all the offgas and waste generated from it. Preferred solutions to handle fluctuating gas and waste streams from such systems are incineration plants with…
Automated Condensate Sampler Eliminates Personnel Hazards
In order to monitor pure steam quality in sterile plants in the pharmaceutical, food and beverage industries, samples are regularly taken from the steam ring mains and analyzed for contamination in the laboratory. This firm has developed a completely new…
This Series of thermal fluid heaters includes new sizes
With the addition of the ASME Code 16-mil. and 20-mil. Btu/h thermal-fluid heaters, these Btu fuel-fired horizontal heaters are now available from 2.4-mil. to 20-mil. Btu/h output. In addition, the firm offer fuel-fired vertical heaters from 0.2-mil. to 14-mil. Btu/h…
Problem-free pumping of heat-transfer fluids
Etanorm SYT is the latest generation of single-stage volute casing pumps, which were developed for applications in modern heat-transfer systems and hot-water circulation. Besides hot water, the pumps handle mineral-oil-based thermal fluids and synthetic thermal oils at temperatures up to…
Heat Treatment can Be Fast with this Tubular Furnace
This tube furnace (photo) provides fast cycle times under protective gas and vacuum, making it suitable for heat treatment of powders and for brazing and annealing processes. The insert tube with a gas-tight end cap is arranged on a sliding…
Heat Transfer Fluid Leaks: Break the Fire Triangle
Management of process plants requires the understanding and application of the fundamental tenets of safe design, construction, and operation of each facility. In that context, many years of practical experience with systems that use very high-temperature organic heat-transfer media has…
Steam Generation Thermodynamics
Although proper water treatment and conditioning for combined-cycle units and standalone steam generators are vitally important for reliability in the chemical process industries (CPI), a well maintained and operated steam generator can also save the facility much money with regard…
Focus on Steam Handling & Production
ESCO Technologies Boiler-tube expanders with precise torque control A full line of air-powered tube expanders and rolling motors for creating steel-to-steel mechanical seals in boilers, heat exchangers and condensers is available for sale or rent from this company. The Millhog…
Super emulsion slashes biodiesel production costs by 25%
The research group of Kazuo Tajima at Kanagawa University (Yokohama, Japan; apchem2.kanagawa-u.ac.jp) have developed a new emulsification process that enables biodiesel fuels (BDFs) to be used without any purification process, thereby reducing production costs by one fourth. Tajima estimates that…
Heat Transfer Fluids: System Filtration
OVERVIEW Indirect heating of processes by organic thermal-liquid fluids offers highly reliable operation, and the heat transfer systems are generally treated as low-maintenance utilities. Occasionally, the heat transfer fluid can become contaminated, resulting in the formation of sludge particles, or…