Process Air Heaters Vs Other Heaters

Sept. 24, 2012 - PRLog -- When you hear the word “heater”, you may think of the water heater in your home, a space heater, or a rooftop heating unit for commercial utilization. However, when a “process air heater” or even an “air heater” is mentioned, the heater being discussed is an industrial air heater, used to heat process air streams in a manufacturing facility.

In any application, direct fired heaters heat directly via a flame and generate by-products. Indirect fired heaters implement a heat transfer mechanism, such as a heat exchanger, and thus the process air stream does not contain any combustion by-products.

Process air heaters are used in industries such as food, chemical, pharmaceutical and ceramics. If the end product cannot be contaminated by the by-products of combustion, the manufacturing process will require an indirect fired air heater. Such industries include: chemical production, tobacco manufacturing, food processing, grain/fiber drying, milk drying, print drying, pharmaceutical manufacturing, ect. Industries that generally use direct fired air heaters include: ceramics, laminated curing, printing, coating, cement production, composite curing, fertilizer production, ect.

Stelter & Brinck manufactures both, direct and indirect fired process air heaters, among other process heat equipment. Stelter & Brinck also provides combustion burner field services.



For more information on process indirect fired air heaters, visit http://www.stelterbrinck.com/indirect-fired-air-heaters.htm
For more information on process direct fired air heaters, visit http://www.stelterbrinck.com/direct-fired-air-heaters.htm