Industrial realizations
Temperature maintenance of piping systems using the Joule effect

To maintain the temperature of an oil unit, the user has defined the geometric characteristics of the lines to be drawn and the calculation assumptions:

• temperature to be maintained: 80 C to ± 5 C ;

• minimum outside temperature: – 15 C ;

• pipe diameters: 4 and 6 inches ;

• total length of all pipes to be traced: approx. 10,000 m ;

• thermal insulation: 40 mm thick rock wool;

• no preheating required.

A specialist manufacturer was entrusted with all the thermal studies, the characteristics of the ribbons to be installed and the control system, and was responsible for all supplies, implementation and...