Pirobloc electrical steam boilers

The new range of PIROBLOC Electrical Steam Boilers has been conceived as a monobloc group, provided of all the security and control devices, as an electrical control panel, water feeding pump, levels, pressure switches, etc.

As a result of the R+D+i department of the company, this complete line includes powers from 25 kW to 200 KW, and so, a steam production from 35 to 300 kg/h.

The maximum pressure of the standard service is 8 bar (working temperature up to 180 ºC), but also other pressures under particular specifications can be supplied. The design code used is EN-13445. As a variant, we can make it completely in stainless steel.

These equipments will go mainly destined to Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Food and Cosmetic Industries.

Besides the manufacture, the company can make the assembly, the installation, the start up, the legalization of the installation and the after sales service.

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Pirobloc will be present in Expoquimia 2008

I take the advantage of this mean to announce you that PIROBLOC, S.A. it will be present again in the International Exhibition of Chemical EXPOQUIMIA that will take place from the 20th to 24th October 2008 in Barcelona and concretely in the exhibitions area of the Gran Via.

You can visit our stand nº I 1644 in the pavilion number 3, in which we will present two of our habitual manufactures as well as, a new boiler to give answer to the numerous requests received during the last two years: an electric boiler to generate steam.

This new boiler concept is born of the acquired experience with the steam boilers of Ferroli Spa that we distribute exclusively for all Spain, as well as, of the hole in the market, of boilers of those characteristics for low powers and heating requirements.

Therefore, we wait you in our stand where you will be able to see and to touch our equipments, as well as, to receive all the necessary information to determine the most appropriate solution to your necessities.

Not doubt to request us your free tickets in advance. We wait for you.

About Expoquimia 2008:

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The used oils and their elimination

For those already users of thermal oil facilities, as well as, for the companies taking the decision of installing this technology, we want to clarify the question: What can you do with the used thermal oil, once its useful life is finished?
Following what we have said in our previous blogs, the oil of industrial use, being mineral or synthetic, it has some properties that make it able for the transport and transmission of indirect heat in industrial processes thanks to its properties, having a useful life superior to the 25.000 working hours, whenever the installation has the following premises:

• A correct dimensioning of the installation.
• A correct design of the thermal oil heater.
• A correct evacuation of the vapors.
• The tightness of the installation to avoid the oil oxidation.
• Demanded hours of work.
• And the election of the most appropriate thermal oil for the necessary working temperature in the process, as well as, of the recirculation group.
  

Once the oil has lost its properties, it should be changed, using a new one. In the market there are companies that they collect it for its destruction, or in some cases, for its preparation for its use as fuel in big steel furnaces and big industrial companies of several sectors.

Other types of used oils (as dielectric ones, lubricant oils, etc.) they are regenerable if the owner doesn't mix them with vegetable oils, synthetic ones, water or solid particles, before they are picked up by the company specialized in recycling. The service of picking up will be free or paid, according with the analyses previously realised by them on oils. Read More!

An interesting article about chips

Following our last blogs, I would like to treat today the use of the thermal fluid in the food industry and concretely to ask your attention on an article published in the Spanish magazine ALIMENTACIÓN Equipos y Tecnología, nº 233. This article speaks about the correct manipulation of the potato like primary element and base of a great industry in Spain and also in other countries like Poland (origin country of part of this article) like the snack sector.

It comes off the article, that in the process of production of the fried potatoes (chips), it is necessary to have in consideration the quality and characteristic of them, that they can vary according to the rain of the origin area, composition of the floor, etc., but it is also necessary to have into account the temperature of the fry oil which should be about 180º C if we want to obtain a final good product to the palate. The most efficient way to achieve that temperature, preserving the possible maximum time the useful life of the vegetable oil used to fry, it is using indirect heat production systems, as thermal fluid heaters through white oils as heat transfer fluids.

We recommend the reading of this article for all people interested in the topic at background level.

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The white oils and their uses in the industry (II)

As I have already written in our previous blog, in this occasion we will enumerate processes in those white oils are used, being two the mainly ones:

• as heat transfer fluid in installations in those the final products are for direct human consumption ,
• as an oleic base of a final product that will be used directly by humans, and which we consider medicinal white oils.

In relation to the first topic, it is recommended the use of the white oils as heat transfer fluids in the installation of thermal fluid heaters, when the last ones are used with reactors, friers or equipments able to produce pharmaceutical products, food, etc., in order to avoid the alteration of the final product of human consumption during the production process, because of an accidental leak of a toxic thermal fluid.

According to the information that we have found, we think that there are two types of white fluids: the medicinal ones (base of products) and those used as heat transfers, both with low toxicity. If some reader agrees with the present statement, please confirm!!!!

In reference to the second subject, hereby we include a list of products in which medicinal white oils are present as base component:

Preparation of cosmetics:

- Cream, sun lotions and milks, ointments, paper impregnation, etc.
- Softening and moisturizers (oils and cleaner milks, lipsticks, powdered make-up);
- Products for children (shampoos and bathroom oils);
- Products for the hair care;
- As protective and neuter diluter for other ingredients of cosmetics, as essential oils; as anti-perspirants and deodorants in bar.

For their use in the food industry are added inhibitors of the corrosion:

- Unmolding in bakery products and pastries,
- Frying potatoes or chips, fruits as peanuts, etc… and ready or pre-cooked meals.
- Also used in treatment of rice,
- Emulsified oils for jams,
- Packaging of fruits,
- Conservation of eggs.

In the pharmaceutical industry, it has a high level of security due to:

- Their maximum purity (absence of toxic aromatic polyciclics and heavy metals),
- The complete destruction of germs in the process of production at high temperature,
- Used in specific procedures of packaging and manipulation: ingredients of the pharmaceutical ointments of topic use and petroleum jellies.
- It can be used as auxiliary element in the production of pills and in the production of capsules of jelly. The white medicinal oil is used in laxatives and liquid vaselines.

The white medicinal oils should satisfy the requirements of the regulation FDA defined in the clause 21 CFR 172.878 of the U.S.P. (USA), D.A.B. (Germany), B.P. (United Kingdom), CODEX (France) and Spanish Pharmacopea.

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