Wirex has a long history of helping its customers to provide the right solution for their Pre-insulated Tubing or Piping needs.  With both the technical expertise to identify the best suited product and an abundant level of inventory to support short lead times Wirex is the chosen source for many customers.

Pre-insulated Tubes are highly engineering assemblies designed to enable the transfer of hot (or cold) gases, steam or fluids.  They are largely used in processing industries such as:

  • Petrochemical Refineries
  • Chemical Processing
  • Power Generation
  • Stack Gas transfer for emission testing
  • Cryogenic Cooling

Simplistically a Pre-insulated Tube is a 3 part construction:

-Inner tubes, acting as the transfer conduit can be made of copper, stainless steel or titanium

-Insulating material surrounds the inner tube and is made from either Fiberglass or Aerogel

-Outer protective conduit encases the entire tube assembly to protect it from the external environmental conditions

There are essentially 5 categories of pre-insulated tubing products:

  • Pre-insulated Tube – Dekoron Unitherm
    • Single line metal or polymer process tubes available in a wide range of tube sizes and materials such as Copper, Stainless, PFA/FEP Teflon, Nickel, Hast-elloy C0276, Monel and Inconel. inorganic , moisture resistant fibrous thermal insulation, and a seamless weather protective outer jacket materials which include Flame Retardant  Low Temperature PVC, TPE and Flame Retardant PE.
    • Pre-insulated Aerogel insulated Pipe (Up to 50% smaller than traditional insulated pipe) – Single line metal process pipe, Aerogel Insulation, Flame-retardant, low temperature PVC or Halogen Free Polyurethane Outer Jacket
  • Steam Traced Tube – Dekoron Unitherm
    • Light or Heavy Trace design, Process and Tracer tubes
    • available in a wide wide range of tube sizes and materials such as Copper, Stainless, PFA/FEP Teflon, Nickel, Hast-elloy C0276, Monel and Inconel
    • Jacketing materials include PVC, TPE and Flame Retardant PE
  • Electric Traced Tube – Dekoron Unitherm-
    • Low Temperature or High Temperature Maintenance, Freeze Protection utilizing Self-Regulating, Constant Power Density, or Mineral insulated heaters for General Purpose or Explosion Proof applications
  • Heated Hose – Dekoron Unitherm
    • Complete family of standard models but specialize in the custom design of heated products to customers specific requirements.
    • Freeze protection, constant flexing hoses can be manufactured in virtually any length, diameter and voltage required; electronically and hydraulically complete; ready to install
  • Industrial Tubing – Dekoron Unitherm/Eaton
    • Metallic and Non-Metallic cabled multiple tubes with an extruded polymer outer jacket

The specific application will drive the requirements for the tube construction and sizing; Wirex has the expertise to help select the right product for a given set of operating requirements.

 

     

 

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