Case Studies - Component Heating Solutions

Aircraft Pressure Relief Valves Tested with Electrically Heated Pressure Tank

Pressure relief valves used in the fuel lines of jet turbine engines need to stand up to rigorous testing.

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CHS Steam Generators: Lowering Costs and Meeting Requirements

Learn how we met a major electric car company’s sustainability requirements and timing needs with our Horizontal Steam Generators all while lowering costs.

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Chromalox is Proud to Have Been Part of the NASA Return-to-Flight Mission

After the Columbia shuttle tragedy, Chromalox played a crucial role in making the shuttle safer.

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Kapton Flexible Heaters Meet Stringent Demands in Thermal Vacuum Testing Chamber

Chromalox Kapton® Flexible Heaters help simulate deep space conditions for terrestrial testing of satellites and other space systems.

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Strip Heaters Used for Severe Instrument Heat Tests

It was important for this aircraft manufacturer to provide heat tests for airplane altimeters to meet new Air Force requirements.

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Chromalox Heats Recycled Plastics to Develop Sustainable Fuel Source

During the re-plasticizing process of recycled plastics, the plastic materials need to be melted and the temperature accurately maintained.

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Chromalox Keeps the Power Flowing No Matter Which Way the Wind Blows

Ensuring reliable operation of today's next-generation wind turbines has become a critical issue.

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Chromalox Safely Heats Government-Mandated Increases in Highly-Flammable Alternative Fuels

State legislature has mandated an increase in the amount of organic additives used in biodiesel fuels manufactured in Pennsylvania.

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Kapton® Heating Technology Reduces Energy Consumption

Chromalox Kapton® flexible heaters help to provide consumers with clean and green on-demand water heating.

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Chromalox Keeps the Temperature Perfect, No Matter How Fast the Ride.

This transportation equipment OEM's engineering team was challenged with providing comfort heat in the seating area of passenger cars.

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Luxury Car Seats Use New Heated Gel Technology

How does one heat, sense, and control a gel-filled, carbon fiber backed heated seat for a high-end luxury automobile?

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Safe, Efficient Rail Car Heating Achieved Through Flexible Design

Chromalox Silicone Laminate Heaters keep passengers warm.

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Automatic Electric Heat Ends Pre-Dawn "Light-Offs" At Asphalt Plant

No one likes to get up and go to work before the sun comes up, especially on cold winter mornings.

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Edge-Gluing of Peeled Wood Laminations Improves Quality

The tremendous increase in building construction in past years and the wider use of laminated plywood has brought about an improvement in the art of making the plies for laminating into plywood.

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Outdoor HVAC Enclosures Require Temperature Maintenance

A rating/testing agency that provides third-party approvals informed an HVAC manufacturer that one of its air-cooled chiller model’s fan circuit drives were not rated for the model’s maximum low temperature, negating the required approval.

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Flexible Heating Solution Prevents Frost Caused by Cryogenic Liquids

Cryogenics means "the production of icy cold"; a synonym for the low-temperature state. The customer had an application in which the piping (at cryogenic temperatures) formed ice.

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Fast Paint Bake Required to Speed Production

An infrared lamp paint baking oven was a bottleneck, slowing all production, because it was unable to produce sufficiently high temperatures.

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Infrared Oven Key to New Business

With metal, the finishes required must be baked on, which meant they needed to install a baking oven.

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Lower Cost for Paint Baking with Radiant and Strip Heaters

Infrared lamps, used in an oven for about 18 years, required replacement about twice a year.

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Radiant Drying Oven Reduces Handling, Does Better Job

Batch drying in a circulating hot air oven was slow and involved additional handling in loading and unloading.

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Radiant Heat Bakes Paint Evenly on Aluminum Laundry Tubs

A 50 feet oven using glass heat lamps gave an uneven paint bake.

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Radiant Heaters Bake Paint on Auto Grille

The auto manufacturer needed to quickly construct a paint baking oven large enough to handle one piece automobile grilles with a minimum of capital expenditure.

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Strip Heaters and Temperature Controls Aid Safe, Profitable Culvert Coating Operation

To safely heat a special asphalt for corrugated pipe coating in a tank semi-circular in cross-section was a particular challenge for this manufacturer.

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Virtual Mapping Provider Focuses on Rugged Temperature Control for Camera Lenses

A major web mapping service applications provider contacted Chromalox to come up with a unique flexible heater design for their land base and aerial earth mapping cameras.

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Cartridge Heater Integrity in Airline Coffeemaker

Chromalox developed a safe, reliable cartridge heater using deep draw technology to prevent in-flight short circuiting of coffeemakers for airlines.

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Chromalox Tubular Seal Meets Challenging Third-Party Demands

New UL 197 requirements create a challenge for a commercial cooking appliance manufacturer.

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Deep Drawn Cartridge Heater Minimizes Electrical Short-to Ground Risk

Some cartridge heaters, such as this one, are constructed with a heli-arc welded end disc where small pin holes can form and lead to failure.

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DIN Temperature Controller Saves Time and Dough

This customer needed a temperature controller which was simple to use and available for quick shipment.

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Kapton Heating Technology Provides Efficient Zone Control

A global manufacturer and supplier of commercial equipment for many of the food service leaders needed a more efficient way to heat a new line of multilevel food warmers.

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New Heat Transfer System Solution Cuts Energy Costs by Half

Silicone laminate heaters provide better heat transfer and cut costs in food warming equipment application.

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Radiant Heat Prevents Food Infestation

Insect infestation was a serious problem at a dog food production plant.

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Radiant Heat Satisfies "Sweet-Tooth"

The former method used by this food processor was to soften the candy by heating it with a gas burner prior to and during cutting and shaping.

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"Home-Made" Oven Using Strip Heaters Saves Electroplater Time and Money

Plating hangers, to which the metal items are attached and immersed in an acid plating solution, have to be plastisol-coated periodically to prevent expensive metal deposits on the hanger.

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A Heater No Bigger Than a Postage Stamp Packs Ultra High Watt Density

Chromalox was asked by a leading designer and manufacturer of custom solenoids and solenoid valves to collaborate on a new micro-solenoid valve heating project.

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Chromalox Helps Protect Air Quality by Maintaining Diesel Exhaust Fluid

A manufacturer of large tanks for DEF required protection from both freezing and maximum degree temperatures.

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Chromalox Is the Perfect Fit for Generator Manufacturer; Provides Innovative, Compact Solution

A large custom motor and generator manufacturer required a Class 1 Division 2-rated condensation heater for its manufacturing line.

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Chromalox Products Help To Protect the Environment

Chromalox helps OEM manufacturer create mechanism for maintaining exhaust sampling and analyzing equipment to ensure safe pollution control from factory stacks.

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Chromalox Provides Freeze Protection for DEF on EPA Compliant Mobile Heavy Construction Machinery

Chromalox engineered and manufactured innovative heaters for Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF) to meet the EPA standards of emissions from mobile heavy machinery.

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Electric Heat Used in Combination Dehydrating Oven and Vacuum Furnace

In this process, castings with the physical properties of forgings are possible through the use of deeply anodized aluminum molds.

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Electric Heater Assemblies Preheat Aluminum Tapping Pots

To prevent thermal shock from molten aluminum the tapping pots must be preheated.

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Electric Vacuum Pumping Oven is Safe, Easy to Handle

In this testing process, cathode ray tubes must be heated before evacuating all the air from the tubes with a vacuum pump.

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Heated Bonding Tunes Up Guitar Manufacturing

A manufacturer of custom guitars had a need to better control the lamination process for bonding the side panels that make up the guitar body shape.

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Maintaining Processing Temperatures in Micarta Strips Until Reaching Press

Maintaining a temperature of 250° F on Micarta strips after after removal from a pre-heating oven.

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New Heating and Control System Increases Reliability of Resin Impregnation System

A machining and tooling company was asked to retrofit an existing conveyor system that used a quartz bulb heating design in a two-stage oven.

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Precisely Controlled Heat Needed in Core Box Oven for Shell Molding Process

A core box oven used in a foundry required tight temperature control. The core box is used for curing the resin binder in the sand.

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Single-End Tubular Heaters Help to Control Mercury Emissions

A world leader in the manufacture of smoke stack sampling equipment for power and process industries needed some help meeting EPA rules.

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Strip Heaters Maintain Temperature in Resin Kettles

Resin stored in large kettles would solidify when the temperature dropped too low.

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Versatile Electric Strip Heaters and Solid State Power Control: A Case Against Gas Fired Steam

The customer uses piping and metal parts in the fabrication of high speed turbines and compressors. In addition, the customer also rebuilds used turbines and compressors.

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Cartridge Heater Fits Tight Space Tolerances; Meets Electrical Safety Requirements

Medical equipment manufacturer uses Chromalox cartridge heater for balloon catheter manufacturing process to meet strict size and electrical safety certification requirements.

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Chromalox Assists OEM Client Develop Melting Point Apparatus for University Research Laboratories

Chromalox helps OEM client develop a specialized melting point apparatus for the melting of elements for research experiments in university laboratories.

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Chromalox Designs Precise Heating Element for Replication of DNA by Medical Researchers

Replication and processing of DNA requires precise, uniform heating imitating the internal temperature system of the human body.

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Chromalox Flexible Heaters Help Process and Replicate DNA

A major medical laboratory came to Chromalox when an issue with a lab instrument occurred.

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Custom Kapton Heater Protects 3D Microscope from Adverse Effects of Liquid Nitrogen

Scientists use liquid nitrogen to freeze and preserve samples for analysis through 3D, X-ray imaging. The resulting nitrogen gas interfered with the delicate operation of the specialized microscope lens.

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DNA Sequencing Requires Precise Temperature Control for Better Yield and Purity

The DNA sequencing process involves multiple PCR cycles which involves specific temperature shifts for specific dwell times.

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Gas Chromatography Flows with Chromalox Cartridge Heaters

Chromalox cartridge heater solves gas chromatography lab issue.

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Major Analytical Laboratory OEM Chooses Chromalox for Critical Components in Ware Washer Units

Sanitizing duty in the ware washers requires compliance with NSF/ANSI 3 standards.

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Silicone Laminate Heaters Solve Ambient Temperature Issue

Chromalox silicone laminate heaters solve HVAC laboratory temperature problem.

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Radiant Heater and Thermostat Help Keep Mining Safety Showers Flowing

Chromalox heating specialists were called upon to keep mining safety showers from freezing.

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Chromalox Alters Design of Band Heaters, Delivers Perfect Fit to Customer

An oil and gas production and exploration company’s test chamber, used to evaluate down-hole drilling components, needed heaters that could withstand pressures up to 35,000 pounds per square inch and temperatures up to 500° F.

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Radiant Heat Preheats Bottle Necks to Obtain a Tight Seal

To achieve a tight seat on bottle tops, wax liners are inserted and twisted into position.

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Radiant Heaters Dry Off Water from Soluble Oil, Permits Immediate Packaging of Steel Parts

A protective, water-soluble oil is applied to the screws in a dip tank, then parts are conveyed through a furnace designed to dry off the water.

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Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Responsive Service Builds Relationships

A manufacturer of packaging equipment for the poultry industry was unhappy with their current supplier of water tight elements for use on its machines.

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Electric Preboarding Oven Improves Production Efficiency

An old steam preboarding machine used for shaping hosiery needed to be replaced.

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Electric Strip Heaters are Flexible Heat Source for Large Rubber Splicing Operation

Weather stripping for automobile windshields, extruded of sun-resistant synthetic rubber, is produced in long strips, then cut to size, and spliced to be ready for installation on the auto assembly line.

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Preheating to Vacuum-Form Thermoplastic Requires Consistent Heat

To heat thermoplastic sheet material for vacuum forming, heating must be rapid, uniform and controllable.

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Strip Heater in "Cooking" Room Solves Shocking Problem of High Voltage Transformers

The numerous high voltage transformers located outdoors and on poles are constantly subjected to the heavily moisture-laden atmosphere.

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Etching Semiconductor Wafers Relies On Tight Temperature Control

All semi-conductor wafers, as part of their micro-fabrication, must undergo an etching process which chemically removes layers from the surface of a wafer during manufacturing.

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