Hotfoil-EHS Industrial Heating, Welding, and Heat Treating Blog

A blog that provides educational information on electric heating systems used on hoppers, chutes, tanks and vessels; electric heating systems used for pre and post weld heat treating; heat treating power consoles; custom heat treating furnaces; and single & multi-operator welders. For more information, visit HotfoilEHS.com

Heat Transfer - The Basics

Industrial hopper heaters are example of conductive heat transfer. Heat transfer is the movement of heat from one body or substance to...

Welding Preheat Basics

Why preheat welds? Weld preheating is the process of heating the base metal (parts to be welded) to a specific temperature prior to weld...

Automatic Heat Treatment Power Consoles

Typical Power Console (courtesy of HotfoilEHS ) Automatic heat treatment power consoles are used to control various heat treatment proc...

Heat Tracing of Long Pipelines - Part Two

Part Two of Two Part Series Installation of Heat Tracing Heating tapes can be either “straight” traced or “spiraled”. Obviously, the ...

Heat Tracing of Long Pipelines - Part One

Pipelines provide a simple means of transporting materials, liquids, powders, and gasses over sometimes relatively long distances, both...

Prevent Flash Freezing in Hygroscopic Aggregate, Mined or Quarried Materials with FRP Heaters

FRP heaters installed (click for larger view) When aggregate material with trace amounts of absorbed water comes into contact with ver...

Welding Application Note: Demand Pulse Technology Saves Three Weeks Production Time

Demand Pulse technology welder (courtesy of Aftek EHS ) Demand Pulse is a unique, patented welding process. Because of the low peak cu...

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