Circulation heaters are highly efficient heating cells designed to heat liquids and gases as they flow through a pipe body. These units are 100% energy efficient, compact, and easy to install. They offer primary heating or act as a backup/start up heating source to natural or forced circulation systems.

The core of a circulation heater is a screw plug immersion heater or a flanged immersion heater that is installed into a pipe vessel. The vessel is thermally insulated and a stainless steel or rust proof painted outside metallic jacket protects the insulating material. The vessel is connected to a system through inlet and outlet NPT threaded fittings or flange connections.

Circulation heater design concept at Bucan incorporates all the rugged and durable features of a tubular heater with the flexibility of a heat exchanger.

Design specifications may require a unit to meet the boiler and pressure vessel code. Bucan can supply the unit designed, built and registered to the ASME code, with the applicable code stamps.

Options

• Sheath materials - selected to suit the liquid or gas being heated
• Connections - NPT nipples or flanged inlet and outlet connections
• Flange pressure ratings -  selected based on the temperature and pressure design conditions
• Terminal Enclosures
  • General Purpose (NEMA 1)
  • Weather Resistant (NEMA 4)
  • Hazardous Location (NEMA 7)
• Passivation - when required
• Support frames - for stand-alone mounting
• Vessel materials - steel, stainless steel, or other specialty metals
• Cross flow baffles - to improve heat transfer characteristics, when required
• Controls - built in thermostats, thermocouples, and high limit thermocouples

Specification Sheets

Tables for standard circulation heaters

Technical information circulation heaters