Thermal Clad A Service To The Industry

Thermal Clad also offers a Trace Heating service to pipework and vessels. We are at present working with our clients on new build projects installing Trace Heating and Insulation to chilled pipework & heating pipework on external plant areas, which require frost protection.

We also supply and install Trace Heating to many other applications including the maintenance of hot water supply, and to vessels for temperature maintenance.

The term “trace heating” describes the application of heat to the surfaces of pipelines, tanks, vessels and similar items, whether continuously or intermittently, to raise and/or regulate temperature around and inside those items.
The term “surface heating” is also sometimes used.

Electrical trace heating will:

protect your operations from frost damage
raise the temperature of your product storage and flows where required
maintain temperature of products within pipelines, tanks, vessels etc during manufacture
generally ensure that all vital product flows are kept moving and/or stored at the required temperature
In principle at least, there are very few factories or large buildings in the UK, or indeed worldwide, which could not benefit from some form of electrical trace heating.
Your products may be sited in flame proof areas, in locations below freezing point, or high ambient temperature locations. It makes no difference to our designers as the products available in the field of surface heating can cope with all these situations.

There are many types of trace heating tapes and cables available on the market ranging from self regulating heater tapes whose outputs vary dependent on the temperature of the product being heated, parallel circuitry heater tapes which are fixed wattage regardless of the length and basically comprise a new circuit every one metre, heating cables constructed from copper, cupro nickel or stainless steel which cope with high temperature work in dangerous environments and corrosive environments etc series parallel circuitry heater tapes constructed from glass, fibre glass, mica etc.