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[Movers]

Hi!!!

I would like to ask You if somebody has ever designed water tracing? Could You share your experiences? I need evaluate quantity of trace pipes for each of the process pipes.

Edited by Movers, 08 December 2009 - 03:37 PM.

[djack77494]

I have heard of and designed steam and electric tracing, and steam jacketing. I've heard of hot oil tracing. But I've never heard of water tracing. Is your product especially heat sensitive so as to eliminate steam or electric tracing? I suppose water tracing might be suitable under those conditions...if you don't have to worry about freezing.

[Movers]

Product is not especially heat sensitive. It is water. But Client wants to have water tracing. I have never heard about it before too, and I have a big problem.

Edited by Movers, 17 December 2009 - 01:44 PM.

[kkala]

I would like to ask You if somebody has ever designed water tracing? Could You share your experiences? I need evaluate quantity of trace pipes for each of the process pipes.

The only thing I can remember is that hot water tracing was selected (after long discussion over steam tracing) for fuel oil (and probably soda pipe) from harbor to tanks in an Alumina Project (ca 1990). The original opinion was that hot water would circulate in small pipes, no big difference to steam tracing. When the decision was told to the Engineer (another company), they stated no experience on this and asked specific design criteria. The result was that we reverted to steam tracing.