Electric Heat
Reduce carbon emissions by designing and estimating carbon-free electric heaters for custom and unique applications including endothermic reactors.
Reduce carbon emissions by designing and estimating carbon-free electric heaters for custom and unique applications including endothermic reactors.
High temperature endothermic catalytic reactor using electric heat. Examples include a 60-foot-high 600 °C adiabatic FCC reactor for Mobil Research. Also fluidized catalytic beds surrounded by radiant shells.
Solvent stripping electric heaters and controls for Mobil research.
Five custom designed electric heaters for DuPont in Wilmington, DE. These were associated with pilot plants for testing twenty automotive sensors using gas composition control and temperature control.
Electric radiant heater design using radiation calculations confirmed by R&D work leading to worldwide successful commercial implementation of heaters. Determination of view factors and emissivities.
Extensive experience with the most popular electric heater type in the process industry, the immersion heater, including R&D and an intimate understanding of its weak points.
Impedance heater design and selection experience for many custom applications. Able to assist purchasers in developing specifications and RFQs for the correct type.
Many custom and exotic electric heater designs using radiation, conduction, convection, supercritical fluids, vaporization.
Experience with electric heater transient behavior.
Common and advanced electric heater control panel design. Design and selection of wiring, layout, logic, controllers, PLCs, DCS, LabVIEW, programming, SCRs, SSRs, transformers, FAT/SAT development and execution, breakers, contactors, and more are available.
Numerical methods are offered for conduction in non-trivial geometries and other applications. Methods available are finite difference (FD), finite element (FEA), and finite volume (FV) methods. Custom programming is available if needed for FD and FEA.
Electric heater design must focus on hot spot heat transfer and is significantly different than conventional heat exchanger design. Assistance with localized heat transfer is available.
Will develop an R&D program for new unproven applications. Many years of R&D Management and Testing experience result in cost and schedule savings.
The administration, testing, and documentation required to obtain ATEX and CSA approval.
Electric heat tracing of lines is very easy for most applications. Applications like asphalt which are too hot for self-regulating cables are much harder. Electric heat tracing of tubes and pipes for suspension (solid and liquid) flow are the hardest. These require very precise control to avoid plugging (too cold) or melting (too hot). Contact me if you need tracing to lower the temperature in lines. Tracing to lower the temperature is generally a non-electric application.