Process Heating September 2011

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Use our Equipment Overview on Infrared Heaters to target those manufacturers that can deliver heat where you need it.

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It is important to be knowledgeable about the products that you buy, so you will be aware of what you need, if the product will meet your specifications, and whether or not there is a danger of the product failing due to changing conditions.

Q Top 5 Reasons to Consider a Fluid Tracing System Each system is analyzed using software to predict and prevent failure. Each application is specifically designed for specific heating requirements to offer precise temperature control and precise energy consumption.

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Heat Exchangers: 10 Tips Stretch Your Heat Exchanger Dollar We all understand the importance of keeping costs low while maintaining efficiency and productivity, and most businesses are quite adept at keeping their internal costs down. This same type of benefit is available to engineers that skillfully make use of a supplier’s sales engineering staff.

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Achieving Furnace Lining Efficiency An efficient furnace or boiler lining is key to reducing overall maintenance costs and ensuring that facilities run smoothly without undue revenue loss due to downtime.

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Heat Tracing Effective Fluid Heating Increasing and maintaining temperatures in process piping is important to the operation of many industrial facilities. Selecting a heating system is not usually a quick and easy decision because there are short- and long-term cost and operability implications. Heat tracing systems can provide effective and efficient fluid heating.

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Equipment Overview: Infrared Heaters Hit the Spot Use our Equipment Overview on Infrared Heaters to target those manufacturers that can deliver heat where you need it. Online and in print, it helps expedite the selection process.

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By Linda Becker

Commentary Be a Process Heating Paparazzi

You Ought to Be in Pictures Have you ever noticed that when it comes to pictures, there are two types of people: those who labor assiduously behind the camera, and those who happily pose and even mug for it? I fall firmly in the former camp and find fault with most pictures of me. I usually ask the photographer not to use or keep the photo — and get blithely ignored. Fortunately, since I’m so often the photographer, I have a great collection of photos from events large and small. Cute cat and dog poses? Check. Sunrises and sunsets over water? Check. Family and friends through the years? Check. Cool work shots? Ch… well, not so much. And that’s where you come in. During my years with Process Heating, I’ve learned about the manufacturing intricacies of such diverse products, from personal hygiene products to car parts, to gelatin and kraft paper, and everything in between. Yet I have relatively few photos. So, for an upcoming feature, I’d like you to be my photographer and share the coolest heat processing photos you’ve taken. Now, we don’t want to violate anyone’s confidentiality agreements or get anyone in hot water. Remember to ask permission before you snap and give credit where it is due. But once that’s taken care of, here’s how to send it to us:

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A thin-film coating process for manufacturing thermal batteries — first used in nuclear weapons and other munitions, and which was invented at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M. — will be industrialized under a new corporate partnership with a Maryland company. The process could lead to the creation of lighter batteries. A thermal battery is a non-rechargeable single-use energy source that can remain inert for years at room temperature before becoming activated at temperatures as high as 1,100°F (~600°C). The thin-film coating process changes the way some thermal batteries have been made since the 1950s. Sandia researchers also are looking into whether a patented binder used in its thin-film coating process has commercial applications. Examples include lithium-ion batteries in electric and hybrid vehicles and in batteries used in the petroleum industry when drilling deep underground in hot geothermal environments. Sandia and ATB Inc., a Cockeysville, Md.-based manufacturer

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of thermal batteries, have signed a cooperative research and development agreement to test the coating process for large-scale industrial production. “We can take the developments that we’ve had in the lab, scale up the quantities of materials that we use and, instead of producing tens of batteries, we can produce hundreds of batteries in ATB’s facility,” says Tom Wunsch, manager of Sandia’s Advanced Power Sources Research and Development Group. “It’s beneficial to us to have an industrial partner to work with on these issues and for them to have this technology.” Guy Chagnon, CEO of ATB, says his company and Sandia have been working independently on changing the process for producing thermal batteries. The goal “is to industrialize a new process, to manufacture, to build and to test the battery,” he says. “We’re putting our resources together to reduce the size and the cost of thermal batteries.” Sandia’s expertise in thermal batteries stems from their use in nuclear weapons and other munitions, where they must be extremely reliable, remain inert for 30 years at room temperature and then spring into action on a moment’s notice. Sandia has developed about 30 thermal battery designs since 1975. Sandia researcher Frank Delnick led the effort to make the thermal battery components as thin-film coatings instead of pellets. The process will work best for thermal batteries that are active for a fraction of a second to a few minutes, he says. Traditional thermal batteries are made by pressing powdered materials into electrochemically active pellets used as the anode, cathode and separator of the battery. The pellets must be a certain thickness to maintain mechanical integrity and prevent them from falling apart Sandia researcher Frank Delnick works with a thin-film coating he developed to make thermal battery components.

when handled. The amount of material required to achieve mechanical stability can be up to 10 times greater than what is needed to make the battery work. Therefore, considerable reduction in size can be achieved by making the components thinner, Delnick says. The goal of the agreement is to jointly develop thinfilm coatings that will cut the time and materials need to make thermal batteries. Current thermal batteries are cylindrical and range in size from a man’s thumb to a one-pound coffee can. The first thermal battery made using the process was slightly thicker than a postage stamp and about the size of a quarter. Chagnon says if the research and development are successful, large-scale manufacturing could begin by late 2012. The process uses relatively inexpensive equipment common in the paint industry that coats the battery components as thin films onto stainless steel foil. The coatings are held together and bonded to the foil using a patented binder. The binder must withstand temperatures of about 660 to 1,100°F (350 to 600°C), which are required to melt the salt electrolyte and activate the battery. Once activated, the binder must remain chemically and mechanically stable throughout the discharge of the battery without emitting gas or producing other side reactions that could adversely affect the performance of the battery. The coated materials in the batteries are much tougher than those in current models, says Delnick, who expects that thin-film thermal batteries will perform much better in high-shock environments and will be much more amenable to automated manufacturing. “Since the parts are more robust, you don’t have to handle them as gingerly,” he says.

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Finishing Program Expands to 52 Hours of Sessions The Fabtech 2011 conference of the Chemical Coaters Association International, Taylor Mill, Ky., has added to its lineup of industrial finishing technologies sessions. Set for November 14 through 17 at Chicago’s McCormick Place, Fabtech will offer 52 hours of presentations, including those on going green, energy and cost savings, and advancements in coatings technologies. Sessions will cover

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2 Solar Plants Select Solutia’s Fluid A Therminol heat transfer fluid from St. Louis-based Solutia Inc., has been chosen for use in two solar power plants in Spain. Synthetic fluid Therminol VP-1 will be used in the projects, which are each 50 MW solar power plants with thermal storage. Heat transfer fluid is used in the trough-shaped mirror assemblies to absorb concentrated sunlight, heating up to about 752°F (400°C). The stored heat can be used to produce energy during periods of little to no sunlight, including evening hours. The heated Therminol is used to generate steam, which drives the power-generating turbines. For more information on the heat transfer fluids, go to www.therminol.com.

roughly eight times higher than ever previously reported for a solar thermoelectric device such as one that produces electricity from solar heat. It does so by generating and harnessing a temperature difference of about 392°F (200°C) between the interior of the device and the ambient air. The concept “is very radical,” says Gang Chen, MIT’s Carl Richard Soderberg Professor in Power Engineering and director of the Pappalardo Micro and Nano Engineering Laboratories, who co-authored the paper with MIT doctoral student Daniel Kraemer and collaborators from Boston

Solar Power with a Side of Hot Running Water Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., and their collaborators have come up with an unusual, highly efficient and possibly less expensive way of turning the sun’s heat into electricity. Their system, described in a paper published online in the journal Nature Materials, produces power with an efficiency

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Inner Workings College and GMZ Energy. The work is funded by the SolidState Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center, an Energy Frontier Research Center at the U.S. Department of Energy. While solar thermal electricity systems are not a new idea, they typically involve vast arrays of movable mirrors that track the sun and focus its rays on a small area. The new approach uses flat stationary panels similar to traditional solar panels, eliminating the need for tracking systems. Like the silicon photovoltaic cells that produce electricity when struck by sunlight, Chen’s system is a solid-state device

with no moving parts. A thermoelectric generator, placed inside a vacuum chamber made of glass, is covered with a black plate of copper that absorbs sunlight but does not reradiate it as heat. The other side of the generator is in contact with ambient temperatures. Placed in the sun, the entire unit heats up quickly, even without facing the sun directly. The device requires much less material than conventional photovoltaic panels and could therefore be much less expensive to produce. It also can be integrated into solar hot water systems, allowing the expenses of the structure and installation to serve two functions at once. Such solar water heaters are rarely seen in the United States, but are already a highly successful massmarket product in China and Europe where they provide households with hot water and in some cases space heating as well. The materials used to build such solar thermoelectric generators, made through a nanostructured process, were developed jointly a few years ago in Chen’s MIT lab and in co-author Zhifeng Ren’s lab at Boston College. Their teams have continued to work on improving these materials and integrating them into complete systems. Chen points out that the DOE has programs to develop thermoelectric systems, mostly geared toward harnessing waste heat from car and truck engines. He says that solar applications for such devices also can have an important role to play in reducing carbon emissions.

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A vegetable-oil plant in India has placed a $10.2 million order for separators, mixers and heat exchangers from Alfa Laval, Lund, Sweden, for refining different types of crude oils such as soy bean oil into high quality oils. “We continue to see a good development in India,” says Lars Renström, Alfa Laval Group president and CEO. “The latest order confirms the positive trend in the country’s food and vegetable oil industry.” The system should be operational in 2012. According to Alfa Laval, the Indian edible oil industry is expected to grow six percent annually by 2015. The growth in India and other developing countries has been driven by increased living standards and a growing population.

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To combust recovered chemicals more efficiently, UBE Chemicals, Bangkok, has ordered a chemical recovery boiler. 10:02 AM UBE produces nylon from raw materials, and the production process releases chemicals that can be combusted. Helsinki-based Metso will provide a system that is based on its recovery boiler concept used in the pulp and paper industry. Metso will replace the entire pressure vessel with a newly designed incinerator situated within the existing structure. The current combustion process will be replaced with a complete solution in terms of recovery and end-combustion of chemicals, with a next summer startup scheduled. “Metso has previously performed a similar replacement for UBE Chemicals in Spain when a new combustion plant for chemicals was installed with exceptional results,” says Watchara Pattananijnirudorn, UBE Thailand executive vice president. The pressure-vessel concept will utilize burners at two levels where fuels are sprayed into the burning-chamber section of the boiler. Combustion air then is added in a three-level air system in which the air ports are equipped with automatic rodding devices for remote operation. The firing technique reduces the amount of sodium carbonate carryover in flue gases and heat is recovered in the heatabsorbing surfaces consisting of water screens, convection and economizer. The various heat absorption areas are cleaned by soot blowers. The smelt is discharged to the dissolving tank through the water-cooled smelt spout, and the spout is designed for automatic rodding by Metso’s DeckHand, an industrial type robot.

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Your Heat Exchanger Dollar By Paul Boedecker and Gregg Fayer, Xchanger Inc.

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e all understand the importance of keeping costs low while maintaining efficiency and productivity, and most businesses are quite adept at keeping their internal costs down. They are able to do this because they are experts in their respective fields. This same type of benefit is available to engineers that skillfully make use of a supplier’s sales engineering staff. As design engineers taking calls at a company that designs and manufactures heat exchangers on a build-to-order basis, experience through the years has shown that some people consistently get more value for their dollar than others. They are not necessarily heat transfer experts, but they understand the fundamentals well enough to know how their specifications affect the heat exchanger’s cost. They also are masters at tapping the knowledge of their suppliers and working together with them to come up with appropriate designs. Would you like to become a savvier shopper as well? Here are 10 tips on heat

Understanding your heat exchanger can help get more heat transfer bang for your buck. exchanger fundamentals that you can use to get the most out of your supplier.

1 Say What You Want

Tell your supplier how you expect the heat exchanger to benefit the process. Most heat exchangers are complex, intricately engineered products and, if you speak directly with a design engineer who knows the product and its application backward and forward, they are likely to have solved the same type of problem many times before. Their experience and knowledge generally come free of charge.

2 Master the Approach

Understand the concept of “approach temperature.” The approach temperature refers to the difference in temperature between the exiting process fluid and the entering service fluid. For example, if an

ambient-air fan-cooled heat exchanger cools hot water to 40°F in a 30°F ambient, the approach is 40°F - 30°F = 10°F. In other words, the approach temperature represents how closely the water temperature approaches the air temperature. The approach is fairly constant for many heat exchangers, so it is a handy way to think about their performance under varying conditions.

3 Know the Conditions

Understand the concept of a “design condition.” Few things in this world are the same every day, including the flow, composition and temperature of the fluids flowing through heat exchangers. Although heat exchangers can function properly with all kinds of variability, it is not possible to design to a range. A good design condition factors in the variability the heat exchanger will experience, so it will perform adequately under all required conditions.

Overlook 4 Don’t the Basics

Know the basics of what makes a heat exchanger work. A fundamental relationship of heat exchanger performance is described in terms of energy transferred (Q), by just two equations:

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Fluid (Both Hot and Cold): ˙ • cl • 6T Q=m where ˙ is mass flow. m cl is specific heat. 6T is the temperature difference (T1 - T2).

Heat Exchangers Heat Exchanger:

A good design condition factors in the variability the heat exchanger will experience, so it will perform adequately under all required conditions.

Q = U • A • 6Tmean where U is the U Value, which is determined by the vendor. It is specific to a particular design and application. A is the surface area. 6Tmean is the mean temperature differential between hot and cold fluids in a particular heat exchanger.

for gases. In process systems with blowers and heat exchangers, gas density is constantly changing and flow specifications in volume terms (cfm or m3/hr, for instance) only have meaning if they include a density or reference temperature and pressure.

˙ • cl • 6T)Cold-Fluid = m ˙ (cl •6T)Hot-Fluid = U • A • 6Tmean Q = (m

If there is phase change involved — either condensation or evaporation — things become a little more complicated, but the relationships are very similar.

5 Factor In Fouling

If you want some “safety factor” in a heat exchanger, fouling factors must be considered. There are other methods used to attempt to generate safety factors; however, they will very likely come with unintended (and sometimes catastrophic) consequences. Here are some examples of what not to do. • Specifying Greater Flow. This method requires larger flow-area to maintain acceptable pressure drop. If the actual flow is a lesser value, the fluid temperature will be a lesser value as well, resulting in a reduction in U value. The decline in U may not be offset by the decline in Q. In other words, a heat exchanger designed for 150 percent of the actual flow may not work properly with 100 percent flow. • Specifying Greater Fluid Temperature Change. Because heat exchangers are largely defined by their mean temperature difference, a decision to add safety factor by designing to cool an extra 10°F ˙ • cl will skew not only the load Q = (m • 6T), but also the 6Tmean; therefore, the area A = Q / (U • 6Tmean). • Specifying a Percentage Excess Area. This case has the least propensity to cause error, but if the concern is based on silty cooling water or oil mist in a process airstream, this approach treats both the hot and cold side the same and fails to properly address the concern with any precision. The result is likely a design that will be short on performance and long on cost.

6 Avoid Bottlenecks

In heat exchanger design, bottlenecks move. Depending on the heat exchanger construction and process conditions, it could be surface limited, flow limited or 6Tmean limited. Consider a heat exchanger designed for a very close approach: changing the amount of surface area or service flow has a much smaller effect than increasing the approach. It is “approach limited.” With other operating conditions, the same equipment could be surface limited.

7 Keep an Eye on Materials

Materials of construction affect cost, U value and pressure drop. While it is obvious that some metals are more costly than others, there are a several less obvious factors that enter into heat exchanger design. The thermal conductivity and cost of fabrication are different for various metals, so the cost of a heat exchanger made from different metals will often be driven by these factors.

Through 8 Think Installation

Though the type of installation — electrical, indoors, outdoors, ventilated, airconditioned, heated, nozzles sizes/types, etc. — may not seem pertinent to the process, it really is. For example, consider a water-cooled heat exchanger outdoors in a Minnesota winter. Enough said.

9 Understand Their Strengths

If you need to heat or cool air or another gas, understand that heat exchangers are designed for mass flow. This is not much of an issue for liquids, which have nearly constant densities, but it is not the same case

Overlook 10 Don’t Humidity

If your application involves cooling humid air or any gas with humidity that condenses, it is important to have a good understanding of humidity. During a typical 24-hour period, relative humidity will go from 100 percent when the dew falls when it’s 60°F (15.5°C) in early morning to 30 percent during the afternoon when it is 90°F (32°F). Because the daily range of humidity is 30 to 100 percent and the temperature range is 90 to 80°F (32 to 27°C), do not make the mistake of thinking a good design condition is 100 percent at 90°F. Those conditions may both happen, but not at the same time. A far better way to think of humidity is in terms of dewpoint. Unlike relative humidity, the dewpoint does not change with respect to temperature. It is only relative to pressure. So take these fundamentals and better understand how your specifications affect the heat exchanger’s cost. PH Paul Boedecker and Gregg Fayer are engineers with Xchanger Inc., Hopkins, Minn. The company can be reached at (952) 933-2559 or www.xchanger.com.

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Dryer Gears and Pinions Knowing these 10 basic tips will help keep your dryer drive system up and running.

By Roland Sutter, Industrial Kiln and Dryer

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his article introduces you to everything you need to know about dryer gears and pinions — from types to wear to alignment to maintenance tips — and how to keep them in tip top shape so your dryer runs smoothly.

Helical 1 Consider and Spur Gears

Helical gears are preferred over spur gears for large equipment because they require a smaller face width for the same horsepower rating. On a spur gear, only one tooth is in contact with the surface at one time. In the case of a properly designed helical gear, overlapping occurs, and there is always a portion of tooth contact at the pitch line. In other words, before the engaged tooth loses contact, the next tooth is engaged. A In gear and pinion tooth geometry, it is important to understand pressure and tooth angles. 20

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term for this factor is the face contact ratio, which must be greater than one. A helical gear also is smaller in face width, with less weight and less manufacturing cost than a spur gear when design conditions warrant its use. Another factor to consider is the thrust load applied to the pinion pillow blocks due to the fact that the teeth are cut at an angle (helix angle). Many processors do not choose to employ helical gears because they consider them less forgiving and have to be kept in alignment more often. This is not really the case. A spur gear is more applicable on lower horsepower drives because, in order to maintain the proper contact ratio, the helix angle gets too large, increasing the gear cutting cost and thrust load.

Gear 2 Understand Rating Factors

The American Gear Manufacturers Association (AGMA) established the AGMA 6004 rating system in the early 1980s to define the engineering standards for designing gears and pinions. These

standards consider factors such as rotations per minute (rpm), face contact, tooth geometry, load distribution and alignment, hardness, dynamic factors, machining quality, allowable contact stress and allowable bending stress. When choosing a gear, you must familiarize yourself with these standards and ask the right questions.

About 3 Learn Undercutting of a Gear

Undercutting results in removal of a portion of the involute profile below the pitch line. Undercutting greatly reduces overlapping and tooth strength and constitutes a problem. Ignoring the fact that 20° full depth involute pinions with less than 18 teeth will exhibit undercutting in the cutting process is a mistake. Undercutting can be avoided in several ways: • By increasing the pinion’s outside diameter. • By increasing the addendum and decreasing the outside diameter of the gear.

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The action does not change the gears center distance, pitch diameters or whole depth, but does modify the tooth thickness.

4 Consider Tooth Geometry

In gear and pinion tooth geometry, it is important to understand pressure and tooth angles. A 20° pressure angle, which is most common, should not be combined with a 25° angle tooth, or the gear will not work properly. Many will find that mismatching these measurements may sometimes result in a satisfactory operation, but in the end will result in failure.

5 Remember Gear Lubrication

AGMA provides clear guidelines for the lubrication of gears. Once the lubricant is placed on the gear, the diluents evaporate, leaving the dense lubricate intact. If a gear is kept clean, aligned and lubricated properly, it should last 20 years or more, as explained in AGMA Standard 9005 E02. The selection of the proper lubrication is a function of operating temperature, ambient temperature, pitch line velocity and type of application.

6 Learn Critical Terms

Three critical terms to master are radial runout, backlash and root clearance. The axial runout occurs when the gear wobbles back and forth because the gear side face is not perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the shell. This error will reduce the face contact surface between the pinion and gear teeth. Radial runout occurs when the gear is not concentric with the center of rotation of the shell. Radial runout results in a sliding motion between the gear and pinion rather than rolling and, if excessive, can cause the tip of tooth to root interference. Backlash is the error in motion that occurs when a gear changes its direction. It is recommended that a gear is initially set up with the help of a feeler gauge to make sure the backlash is the same on both sides. The use of a “Prussian Blue” or

Usually, in high heat, a leaf spring mount is used, where springs allow for expansion and transmit the load.

other means to check the contact pattern is also recommended because, on worn pinions or gears, setting the backlash equally on both sides may not result in a good contact. Root clearance is a critical item and is defined as the distance from the tip of the pinion tooth to the root of the gear tooth when they are in mesh. Most gearsets have the pitch lines scribed on the side face. The pinion pitch diameter must always be outside the gear pitch diameter. Most dryer open gearing is cut with no backlash because the center distance is adjustable. On a new gearset you can set the root clearance by setting the backlash to the correct value. However, on a worn gearset, backlash cannot be used to set the root clearance. Checking the position of the pitch line and an actual measurement of root clearance at several points around the gear is necessary in order to take into account radial runout.

Another consideration is gear thermal expansion. Heat will be transferred from the dryer shell to the gear; thus, the gear will expand into the fixed position of the pinion, reducing the root clearance and backlash. Because you are setting the pinion in the cold condition, the root clearance must be increased to accommodate this factor. If you have an operating unit, it is advised that periodic measurements of gear temperatures be taken. Insufficient root clearance can result in extremely costly tooth failure.

Dual 7 Understand Pinion Drives

In high production applications, dual pinion drives are used to nearly double the horsepower rating of the gearset for the same face width. The downside to employing two electric motors is that it is difficult to have matching speed load curves. This will result in two motors fighting each other. Even variable-speed drives (VFDs) www.process-heating.com • S e p t e m b e r 2 0 1 1

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pose problems when running together long term. The use of two hydraulic drives is recommended, as hydraulic motors set at the same operating pressure will result in equal loads to each pinion.

8 Think About Gear Mounts

Achieving successful gear mounts depends on the temperature of the dryer. Usually, in high heat, a leaf spring mount is used, where springs allow for expansion and transmit the load. With this type of mounting, gears do not get as hot as the other surfaces and are stressed less due to differential thermal expansion. Flange mounts are not recommended. Lug mounts with slotted holes are applicable for low temperature applications. Leaf spring mounts can be used on any application.

9 Remember Gear Inspections

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Regular shutdown and inspection of the gear sets should be a priority. It is also suggested that the gear be tested prior to installation. While the unit is not running or the gear is just being installed, ultrasonic testing, mag-particle inspection, eddy current testing and various other ways to detect possible cracks can be employed. What many don’t expect is a crack in the root of the gear tooth that can create sudden catastrophic failure. Shutting down production after a serious gear break and waiting for the replacement is a time-consuming and costprohibitive process.

1 0 Perform Thermal Imaging

Because you can’t fully inspect a dryer while the unit is in production, a heat gun should be used to measure the temperature and look for refractory failures. If hot spots are found and corrective action is not taken, it is likely that a shell replacement and unit alignment will be needed. A relatively uniform temperature is the desired result. This should be performed at least once a week and logged. Recording bearing temperatures, tire temperature and the shell temperature near the tire, temperature across the pinion face and tire creep should be done weekly. Plants with a strong training record show better results on their units. PH

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Achieving

Furnace Lining Efficiency Prevent downtime and keep facilities running smoothly with proper care and maintenance. By Steve Chernack, Morgan Thermal Ceramics

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n efficient furnace lining is key to reducing overall maintenance costs and ensuring that facilities run smoothly without undue revenue loss due to downtime. Follow the five tips below to keep your furnace lining running efficiently.

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Evaluate Using Infrared Thermography inspection

Infrared thermography scans are an essential step for evaluating the quality of the furnace or high temperature heating vessel lining. Lining quality is critical to protecting the equipment structure from heat and also to limiting heat loss and promoting overall furnace efficiency. Typically, the scan involves pointing an infrared camera at several points on the casing to analyze the outside temperature and identify hot spots where the unit is leaking heat or experiencing design issues that may not be visible from the outside. This is a particular issue with a painted surface. Obviously, scanning from the outside is of great benefit because the unit can continue to operate. Figure 1 shows an infrared camera detecting hot spots or other

problems with the lining. In many cases, specially trained applications engineers conduct the infrared imaging, analyze the scans and provide recommendations on the most appropriate repair options.

Online 2 Use Maintenance Repair

Depending upon the temperature, the difficulty of getting to a particular area or how big the hot spot is, conduct online repairs wherever possible. Most maintenance managers prefer the online repair option because it is reliable and fast. After all, boilers and process units are generating revenue, so it is of great value if repairs can be made while the unit is online. This avoids revenue loss from the unit in question as well as the consequential losses from shutting down additional connected units.

the Right Material 3 Choose for Furnace Rebuilds When infrared scans indicate that the area of concern is too large for online repairs, the unit must be shut down for a furnace reline or process heater reline. Material selection is key to a successful furnace rebuild that will improve efficiency and reliability and lower maintenance costs. Material properties, including hardness, density, mechanical resistance or insulating factor, may vary depending upon the furnace’s application. Selection of the proper material frequently is done by using a heat flow analysis software program in which temperature and use factors are input to obtain information on the best materials to be used. Keep in mind that many units have old style insulation. Because there are many more efficient insulation types now available, consider upgrading when you have to reline the furnace. For example, some fibers have up to 20 percent lower thermal conductivity than current insulations, which are up to 17 percent more energy efficient than traditional refractory ceramic fiber (RCF) and any other alkaline earth silicate (AES) insulations. Figure 2 shows materials used in furnace rebuilds.

Consider 4 Carefully Engineering Design

After selecting the proper materials, be sure that the engineering design is suit-

Figure 1. An infrared camera is used to detect hot spots or other problems with the lining.

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Figure 2. Material selection is key to a successful furnace rebuild that will improve efficiency and reliability and lower maintenance costs.

able. Engineering is extremely important to ensuring that the furnace relining will last as long as possible. Make sure the materials have enough studs to hold them in place and have sufficient joints for expansion or shrinkage. For instance, if you install a brick lining without the proper expansion joints, the brick could actually grow and end up pushing the entire lining off the furnace wall.

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Installation Is Key to Success 5 Proper

Be sure that installation of furnace lining material is done properly and those doing the job have the proper skills for the task. There are many products available and each has different installation requirements. For example, with concrete products, if the concrete is not mixed with the right amount of water at the

proper temperature, the material will not develop, will be difficult to place and will not reach expected properties. The bottom line is that if you do not install it right, it is as bad as not having a good design and not making a good material choice. PH

Steve Chernack is manager of applications engineering with Morgan Thermal Ceramics, Augusta, Ga. For more information, call (706) 796-4200 or visit www.morganthermalceramics.com.

Heat Tracing

• Potential for leaking process materials into the heating medium. • Time-consuming and costly to modify. • High energy consumption.

Heat tracing systems can provide effective and efficient fluid heating. By Thomas W. Perry, QMax Industries Inc.

Traditionally, fully jacketed pipe and tube tracing (or pipe tracing) were the only widely accepted systems using fluids as the heating medium. As an alternative, a fluid tracing system for process piping offers advantages over traditional fluid heating methods. Its design addresses factors considered when selecting the heating system for piping.

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ncreasing and maintaining temperatures in process piping is important to the operation of many industrial facilities. Selecting a heating system is not usually a quick and easy decision because there are short- and long-term cost and operability implications. Important factors when making this decision include: • Effectiveness. Will the system perform as intended? • Capital cost. • Maintenance cost. • Energy efficiency.

When designed properly, fully jacketed pipe — jacketing the core pipe with a second, outer pipe and conveying heating medium in the annular space — is the most effective system for maintaining process temperatures in piping. Jacketed pipe offers the greatest heating surface area around the process pipe and offers direct heating contact between the process and heating medium. However, jacketed pipe also has some disadvantages: • Relatively high capital cost. • Potential for leaking heating medium into the process materials.

Tube tracing — running a stainless or copper tube along the pipe, which conveys a heating medium — is typically a non-engineered system with relatively low capital cost. Unfortunately, this system is sometimes ineffective for maintaining elevated process temperatures due to poor heat transfer from the heating medium to the process. Theoretically, there is a line contact between the tubing and pipe wall that facilitates a conductive heating path. All too often, this line contact is never attained during installation. The uneven contact between the pipe and tubing can result in convective heating rather than conductive heating, which leads to unpredictable performance. The convective heating is inefficient because it heats the air surrounding the tubing and the air then attempts to heat the process pipe.

Fluid Tracing System One fluid tracing system that has been introduced can maximize heating and energy efficiency (figure 1). It is constructed with a conductive aluminum channel that fits over stainless or copper tubing. The high conductivity maximizes heat transfer from the tubing — conveying the heating medium — to the process pipe. It is intended to combine the flexibility and cost advantages of a tube tracwww.process-heating.com • S e p t e m b e r 2 0 1 1

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ing system with the predictable results of jacketed pipe. Such a fluid tracing system converts standard stainless or copper tubing from inefficient convective heat transfer to conductive heat transfer using highly conductive aluminum as its main heating body. The heating surface area also is increased to as much as 3" per strip. The two enhancements increase two of the three parameters in overall heat transfer from the process to the heating medium.

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where Q is heat transfer, from heating medium to process, needed to overcome natural heat loss and/or to heat a process to a specified temperature. U is combined heat transfer coefficient from heating medium to process. A is the contact area between the heating medium and process. 6T is the temperature difference between heating medium and process.

System Comparison From an operability standpoint, the main selection considerations are the ability to heat the process from an upset condition to its desired operating temperature, and the system’s ability to maintain that temperature during normal operation. Consider raising the temperature of asphalt from 50 to 300°F (10 to 148°C) in 26

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Figure 3. The figure compares the energy transferred to a process via the fluid tracing system and jacketed pipe.

an insulated 6" carbon steel pipe. Figure 2 reflects the effectiveness, or energy transfer (BTU/hr/ft), from the heating medium (in this case, 150 psig saturated steam at 365°F [185°C]) into the asphalt from the system, via jacketed pipe and a stainless steel convection tracer. This comparison also is an indicator of each system’s ability to maintain the desired operating temperature of 300°F (148°C) during normal operation. Fully Jacketed Pipe. In jacketed pipe, the “UA” is maximized and more energy is transferred from the steam into the process than any other system. After the operating temperature of 300°F is reached, the

jacketed pipe system continues to heat the process. This may be a disadvantage if a process has an upper temperature limit that cannot be exceeded. Due to the maximum energy transferred, the cost of the heating medium should be analyzed because it may be substantial. Tube Tracing. In this example, the tube tracing is not effective at transferring energy into the process. The heat energy from the steam must transfer through stagnant air before entering the pipe and asphalt. Stagnant air is a great insulator (its “U” is very low), which prevents effective heat transfer. In fact, at 150°F

Heat Tracing (65°C), the tube tracing has reached equilibrium and has no more available energy to heat the process. This inability to transfer the energy into the process makes the system appear to be energy efficient. As reflected in figure 2, it uses less energy than any other system at every temperature. Once the maximum temperature of the process is met, all extra energy is lost through the insulation.

The system consists of a conductive aluminum channel that fits over stainless or copper tubing. Fluid Tracing System. The fluid tracing system heats the process effectively until it reaches the operation temperature of 300°F. The system is designed using software that models the heat transfer and allows the system to precisely control the amount of energy needed to meet the specific goal. In other words, the “UA” is specifically designed into the system. The fluid tracing is effective at increasing process temperatures as needed, yet is also energy-efficient. It does not continue to add unnecessary heat energy into the process once operating temperatures are met. Normally, the fluid tracing system is

designed to reach equilibrium at a temperature slightly higher than the target temperature unless designing specifically for heat-up or melt-out. The system can be designed to approach the performance of fully jacketed pipe if heat-up or melt-out is the primary goal (figure 3). As the pressure to increase plant efficien-

cies and minimize downtime become more important, the need to consider innovative solutions is critical. PH Thomas W. Perry is president of QMax Industries Inc., Charlotte, N.C. For more information, call (704) 643-7299 or visit www.qmaxindustries.com.

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Infrared heaters are used to transfer heat through a process or to a product via radiation. Our Equipment Overview on Infrared Heaters, an apples-to-apples comparison of the capabilities of a range of radiant heater

makers, will help you narrow the field of potential suppliers to those that can satisfy your process needs. Find the type of heater you want and run down the column to see which manufacturers supply it.

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Product Highlights Wondering where to find products beneficial to your process? This department provides a number of new products each month and allows you to easily request more information. Simply call those companies in which you are interested, or visit those companies’ web sites using the published web addresses.

Product P d c Take Take-Off Off No Overheating Worries with Adjustable-Heat Hot Air Blowers Heating d directly l ffrom the machine, the Prem new Hotwind Premium and Hotwind Sy System hot air blowe let you manually ers a adjust maximum air v volume up to 237.8 g gal/min via the potentiomet om eter er or o control system. Both ometer units can reach maximum air-outlet temp te mper erat atur ures es o temperatures of 1,492°F (81°C). Hotwind Premium functions either as ins nsta talllled ed device dev evic ice e or a hand han and d tool. Features include: an installed • • • • • •

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Ovens for Composite Curing The S-Series is typically used for aging, curing, bonding, annealing, drying, baking and heat treating. Features include vacuum ports, lift doors and tight temperatures. Ovens provide “uniflow” airflow that delivers heated air from both sides of the chamber for uniform operating temperatures. This air moves horizontally and vertically through the work chamber to be reheated and recirculated through the system. For parts and molds with unusual heat transfer requirements, the company can work with the user to design an airflow that is best suited to provide fast, uniform heatup time. Despatch • (952) 469-5424 • www.despatch.com

Double Conveyor Oven Class A double conveyor oven is built and outfitted to accommodate a number of customer-specific requirements. The uniquely modified conveyor model shown has a gas-fired topmount heat chamber. Features include two powered side-byside chain-driven roller conveyors with reversible drives along 32

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The Hotwind System — a more robust version of Hotwind Premium — is for either open or closed systems. In addition to the Hotwind Premium features, this product includes:

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with pneumatically operated vertical lift doors on both ends. The unit was designed to accommodate the processing of up to 4,000 lb of product at a time. Each component weighs 325 lbs and, as part of the process, is loaded alongside five other commutators per batch onto customer-provided 19 x 19" perforated plates, where the ensuing preheat process takes place for 4.5 hours at 392°F (200°C). Precision Quincy Corp. (815) 338-2675 • www.precisionquincy.com

Batch and Conveyor Ovens The company offers dryers, ovens and furnaces for a range of applications. Heating equipment is designed in both batch and continuous designs, including overhead trolley, chainon-edge and belt conveyors. Standard temperature ratings include 500, 650, 800, 1,000, 1,250 and 1,400°F (260, 343, 427, 538, 677 and 760°C). They can be heated by gas (direct or indirect fired), electric and steam. Wisconsin Oven Corp. • (262) 642-3938 • www.wisoven.com

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Product Highlights Tray Dryer Turbo-Dryer is a proprietary continuous tray dryer design that consists of a stack of rotating circular trays in a sealed enclosure. The larger capacity model can be used to heat treat a fine (70 μm) metal oxide powder. This design is capable of operating at temperatures up to 1,200°F (650°C) to calcine or sinter metal powders. The unit includes an internal electrical heating system to provide the heat to remove the residual moisture. A small purge of dry air or nitrogen is used to purge water vapor from the system, keeping fines carryover to a minimum. Wyssmont Co. Inc. • (201) 947-4600 • www.wyssmont.com

Electric Immersion Heaters With the SmartOne technology, thermal overtemperature protectors are not required for safe operation. The PTC heaters will not burn out in air like traditional resistance heaters. They utilize solid-state ceramic heating elements as the heat source. The devices are selflimiting: the maximum temperature is internally limited regardless of the operating conditions. If the temperature goes down, so does the resistance (thereby increasing power output). Process Technology (440) 974-1300 • www.process-technology.com

Electric Tracing System Model ETS maximizes the performance of constant power and self-regulating electric tracing systems. It creates a conductive path between the electric tracing and the pipe, increasing the heating surface area to as much as 3" per strip. The energy from the electric tracing is efficiently and effectively transferred into the pipe and process. QMax Industries (704) 643-7299 • www.qmaxindustries.com

Cabinet Oven No. 900 is a gas-heated 350°F (177°C) floor level cabinet oven used for drying polycarbonate plastics. A modulating natural gas burner provides 100,000 BTU/hr and workspace dimensions are 36 x 36 x 60". The oven has 4" insulated walls and a 750 cfm, 0.75-hp recirculating blower provides vertical airflow to the oven. Safety equipment such as a 325 cfm, 1/3-hp 34

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powered force exhauster is included as required by IRI, FM and the National Fire Protection Association Standard 86 for gas-heated equipment. The oven also has shelf supports on 3" vertical centers that are rated 200 lb per level, for a 1,000 lb maximum oven load. Grieve Corp. • (847) 546-8225 • www.grievecorp.com

Integrated Production Control System The field control system (FCS) offers four times the processing performance, twice the application storage capacity, and five times the control network throughput of previous systems from the company. It includes a unified gateway station (UGS) that improves integration with other systems, allowing it to control and monitor all the systems at plants, including PLC systems. In oil and gas fields and other applications where facilities may be scattered over a wide area, the UGS can establish a link with the small-scale systems (such as utilities) at each site. Yokogawa • (800) 888-6400 • www.yokogawa.us

2-, 3-Pole Hybrid Relays Series RMD combines elements of solid-state technology and electromechanical relays to provide a hybrid relay. The design ensures virtually no contact arcing, which results in prolonged relay life and less emission inside of the panel. Features include a full amperage rating at elevated operational temperatures. Fully rated up to 140°F (60°C), the mercury-free switching solution is suited for controlling the heating element inside food ovens, fryers and other food equipment. Carlo Gavazzi Inc. • (847) 465-6100 • www.carlogavazzi.com

Condensing Boiler Long offered as an ultra-high efficiency condensing hydronic boiler, Vantage boiler now can use B100 biodiesel and ultra-low sulfur (under 15 ppm) heating oils for full condensing operation. It has been available for a number of years for dual fuel operation: natural gas and No. 2 heating oil during gas supply interruptions. However, previous system controls intentionally prohibited the boiler from operating in condensing mode during oil-fired operation. Fulton • (315) 298-7182 • www.fulton.com

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Alzeta Corp.

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Buhler Aeroglide

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Chem Show

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Dwyer Instruments/Love Controls

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Epcon Industrial Systems

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Grieve Corp.

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Hubbell Electric Heater Co.

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Micron Fiber-Tech

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MultiTherm

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Places & Faces Eclipse Inc., Rockford, Ill., has made the following promotions: Jeff Townsend, vice president, business operations; Jim Corbett, director of European operations, and Rick Steder, director of Americas operations.

Bishop-Wisecarver Corp., Pittsburg, Calif., has received national certification as a Women’s Business Enterprise by the Astra Women’s Business Alliance, a regional certifying partner of the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council. “I am really excited to become certified as a woman-owned business since there are very few of us in our industry, especially within linear motion and power transmission,” says Pamela Kan, Bishop-Wisecarver president. “The selection process includes an indepth review of the business and site inspection by Astra, and [it] is designed to confirm that the business is at least 51 percent owned, operated and controlled by a woman or women.” Colmac Coil Midwest in Paxton, Ill., has earned certification for its coils, meeting the American Society of

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Ray Pearce has rejoined ECD, Milwaukie, Ore., a manufacturer of thermal profiling equipment and software, as sales engineer. Pearce Pearce will specialize in quality assurance tools and software required to manage and control heating processes applications. When a customer needs to determine which machine from Eraser Co. Inc. will work best for their application, the Eraser Sample Program (ESP) allows them to send in a sample of their material to be tested. Once processed, Syracuse, N.Y.-based company 38

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Volcanic Heater Inc., Alliance, Ohio, a manufacturer of marine and landbased thermal heating systems, has launched a new website aimed at providing superior customer service and extensive product information. The site, www.volcanic-heater.com, includes the capability to request a quote online and obtain specialized assistance in the design of all aspects of tank heating. The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded Metabolix, a Cambridge, Mass., bioscience company specializing in the chemicals, plastics and energy industries, a $6 million grant to develop renewable biofuels.

We Energies, a subsidiary of Wisconsin Energy Corp., Milwaukee, has begun construction on a biomassfired cogeneration facility at the Rothschild, Wis., pulp and paper mill owned by Montreal’s Domtar Inc.

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