There are a vast number of applications in both Industrial Processing and Commercial environments where a surface needs to be target heated to either ensure optimum operating performance or to simply protect it from the effects of freezing. Wirex can provide products that deliver all the way up to 1100 F in heating and can provide continuous lengths of certain cable up to 25 kilometers. Wirex has the expertise to translate your performance requirements into recommending a product that will best meet your needs. Wirex can also perform the necessary calculations to determine the layout/routing of the heat trace lines to meet your operating requirements.
Applications in the Industrial Processing market can include:
- Maintain fluids at optimum processing temperatures
- Prevent unwanted precipitation of chemical compounds
- Maintaining optimum operating temperatures for instrumentation lines
- Corrosion prevention
In the Commercial marketplace, most of the applications are centered around freeze protection, de-icing solutions or hot water temperature maintenance, but can be used to address any target heating requirement.
The types of electric Heat Trace products fall into 3 general categories
- Self Regulating – adjusts output to respond to temperatures along the cable length and maintain a minimum specified temperature
- Constant Wattage – delivers a constant wattage output, often used in higher temperature applications
- Mineral Insulation – generally built for high temperature, high wattage applications and can be used in corrosive environments
Wirex’s expertise, in combination with access to the technical resources available at the world’s leading manufacturers will ensure that you have the very best advice to select the right product technology for your application. In addition Wirex maintains a wide variety of product in stock to ensure quick delivery.
