Design Guidelines | Chromalox

When specifying a project, large or small, our design guides will help you to determine exactly which products you need. The guides will take you through each calculation, and include handy tips for reducing manufacturing costs.

Heat Trace Design Guide

The Chromalox Heat Trace Design Guide provides support to calculate pipe heat loss, guidance to select the right type of heat trace cable and installation tips through a quick install guide

Cartridge Heaters Selection, Application & Installation Guidelines

For the best description of how to heat metal parts, use the cartridge heaters selection, application and installation guidelines.

Circulation Heaters Selection Guidelines

This guideline explains the many uses for circulation heaters, including the feature for indoor or outdoor installation and weather resistance.

Comfort Heating Sizing Guide

Use this handy reference guide when specifying comfort heating requirements for any indoor area.

Fire Sprinkler Piping Freeze Protection Design Guide

Our fire sprinkler pipe freeze protection system is listed and approved to the latest NFPA 13, IEEE 515.1 and UL 515A Standard for installation of heating cable on wet fire sprinkler piping.

Flanged Immersion Heaters Selection Guidelines

Similar to the screw plug, the flange immersion heaters use a bent hairpin tubular element. The guidelines explain the proper applications for each heater type and element.

Flexible Heaters Selection Guideline

Flexible heaters are flexible in design and application to fit your specific needs. Use this guideline to see how.

Large Tank Heater Selection Guidelines

By using Chromalox packaged control centers, large tank heating systems can be operated with little or no manual attention. The large tank heater selection guidelines show how to apply those heaters.

Open Coil vs Metal Sheathed Heaters

After looking at the design construction as well as benefits or pitfalls of open coil elements vs metal sheath elements, we can see that metal sheathed elements are the better alternative in a majority of applications.

Over-the-Side Immersion Heaters Selection Guidelines

By using this guideline, you can find out how to install the over-the-side immersion heater so that the heated portion is directly immersed along the side or at the bottom of the tank.

Packaged Systems Selection Guidelines

Heat transfer systems can be categorized (grouped) by the type of fluid used in transferring the heat to the process. The guidelines help make the selection a bit easier.

Process Air Heaters Selection Guidelines

Even though the applications may widely vary between industry and temperature, this selection guideline will help narrow down the list of process air heaters.

Process Radiant Heaters Selection Guidelines

The process radiant heaters selection guidelines help explain the differences between the sheath materials, standard intensities, and many other details.

Screw Plug Immersion Heaters Selection Guidelines

Screw plug immersion heater use hairpin bent tubular elements brazed or welded into a screw plug. By using these guidelines, you can identify the right element to the screw plug application.

Steam Boilers Selection Guidelines

This selection guide shows how Chromalox's packaged electric boilers offer the advantage of electricity as the heat source to provide low or high pressure steam or hot water.

Strip & Ring Heaters Selection & Installation Guidelines

This guideline shows the different types of accessories and modifications that come with the strip and ring heaters.

Tubular Heaters Design & Installation Guidelines

These design and installation guidelines are helpful when looking for specific details on the tubular heaters modifications, factory bending guidelines, and even accessories.