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Thermal fluid heater: the best location

In the present article we would like to give some advices to consider at the moment of the constitution, possible construction and start up of a new production line or a new plant. These advices can result in a more efficient and rational way to raise the positioning of your production sources, such as the thermal fluid heater:

In the case of a new industrial plant in which the roof does not still exist and the heater has important dimensions, people usually takes advantage of the nonexistence roof to enter the heater. Please, consider to make an opening in the plant of the dimensions of the boiler, for possible future repairs or even for the moment in which the heater will be dismantled and in order to avoid to disassemble part of the tile roof in the future.
At the time of the thermal oil heater definitive positioning, it can be located near the consumer and/or of the working area of the staff in charge of its maintenance and monitoring. This action will revert in an economic saving as far as materials of installation and time used by that staff in the control of the boiler.
You must remember that we have boilers with vertical and horizontal design to save any difficulty of space you can have.
In reference to the fuel to be used in the burner of the boiler, you should remember that:

In case of using natural gas, you should avoid the placement of the heater in cellars. In this way, you would not have to make a forced ventilation installation, necessary to facilitate the combustion of the gas burner if placed in such places.
In case of use light oil or heavy fuel oil, you will need a storage tank for these fuels, reason why you can save the installation of an intermediate vessel if you install the heater the closest possible of the main fuel storage tank.

In reference to the necessary elements for the good operation of a thermal oil circuit, you should take into account one expansion and one collecting tanks of certain dimensions.
To finish and speaking about the chimney, remember that it must exceed minimum 1 meter over the surrounding buildings within a radius of 10 meters with respect to the axis of the chimney.

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The most interesting published subjects

Three years ago, we published the first post in this blog. After this lapsed time, we have stated that some subjects have been more visited and interesting than others and for that reason, following you can find them:

The day to day and just the short time at disposition, they do that our readers receive by RSS the new publications on the blog, but we receive very little commentaries.

Thanks to your commentaries, we could know what information is more interesting to you than other of each subject, and thus we can develop it or answer to you.

We invite to you to comment and in any case, we promise to always answer.

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Our Christmas present

According with the success of the thematic of the last posts and the dates in which we are, we want to do a gift to you.

Following with our policy to share the knowledge, we have the pleasure to announce to you that we have put at the disposal of all you in our Website and concretely in the section of Technology, some formulas of calculation that can be useful for the future professionals in our sector of activity and also for our clients.

Also, we are thinking especially about our readers who are not engineering specialists: When they will need a heating generator for a thermal fluid circuit, they will be able to have a priori more comprehensible specific parameters, which they will receive from their suppliers.

We hope that this gift serves to make easy your future decisions of investment in heating systems. As Goethe said: “The love and the joy are wings for the new projects”.

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Our third anniversary

Three years ago, we published the first blog in google.

Lapsed that time, we have been object of a study next to other companies, we have received some consultations and we hope to have contributed with enough information on the technology that we develop, technical points of view and to have helped to decide on the convenience or not of its use in the investment projects of the people in charge of industrial plants.

By our part, we are thankful for the visits to our blog and about the received comments of the readers.

PIROBLOC born in the secondary sector and oriented its activity to the national market as well as to the foreign one, using this blog and other tools at disposal today for everybody, to continue transferring knowledge and technology to which wants to continue reading us.

We hope to be able to continue receiving your visits and your consultations, to improve and to grow in all the industrial sectors in which our long experience is a guarantee. Read More!

Election of the fuel for your process

At the beginning of its activity or during the same, a company must choose the fuel whereupon to work in its processes and other many they are submitted to the provision that they have at disposal.

The factors that affect the election of the fuel are different according to the point of view from which they are studied:

The availability in the zone.
The initial investment to realise:

The price of the burner, being the most expensive dual burners (able to burn 2 or most fuels), burner of H.F.O. (heavy fuel oil); those of gas and finally those of light oil.
The necessary cost of the pipeline of fuel provision till the burner, vessels, safety measures, etc. This point has major incidence that the previous one.

The considered consumption derivative of the activity: The election in this case, can depend on the hours of process and the calorific necessity of the same. The ideal is to do a comparison by unit of calorific power like kilocalories or thermia (1000 kcal) necessary in its process: The product of the multiplication by the PCI of each fuel and the cost in kg, liter or m3 of each, will give to you the cost by thermia and therefore, what fuel is the most convenient for your activity. In the following table appear the PCI's of the more current conventional fuels:

Type of fuel	Calorific power
	Inferior	Superior
Natural gas	9.270 kcal/m3
Liquefied petroleum gases
Comercial Propane	11.082 Kcal/Kg	12.052 Kcal/Kg.
Methane	5.500 kcal/m3
Commercial butane	10.938 Kcal/Kg	11.867Kcal/Kg.
Light oil type C	10.100 kcal/kg
Biodiesel	It depends on his composition
H. Fuel oil	9.400 kcal/kg

You can visit a web about Liquefied petroleum gases in which there is an example about the equivalence of 1 kg of propane in reference to the energy provided by:
1,24 ms ³ of natural gas;
1,20 lt. of H. fuel-oil;
3 ms ³ of citizen gas;
1,30 lt. of light oíl;
3 to 6 kg of firewood (generic data);
14 kWh of electricity;
to 2 kg of coal.

On the basis of the tariffs that propose to you: With an approximate calculation of the consumption you will obtain the supply tariff of your gas and electricity suppliers, whose prices are very tie to the zone in which you are located.
On the basis of the maintenance: The burners with gaseous fuels always have a simpler maintenance than those of light oil and heavy fuel-oil (being used these last ones in boilers and furnaces of major heat ratings), because gases have a cleaner combustion.
On the basis of the environment: Companies located in cities, laboratories or other companies of nonpolluting character, are forced in many occasions to use the electricity to avoid emissions of CO2 to the atmosphere.