Importance of heat transfer fluid in industry

Nowadays, thermal oil has widespread use in the industrial sector, widely used as a heat transmitter and in many cases it is usually an ideal substitute for the use of water vapor due to its properties and capabilities.

One of the capabilities of systems with thermal oil is to be able to maintain a fine regulation of the temperature, which makes them ideal for a large multitude of industrial applications, where other systems with heat transfer processes are difficult to regulate, and can work at temperatures of more than of 300 degrees Celsius.

Another capacity that makes thermal oils ideal in industrial processes is the low pressure of use compared to other heat transfer fluids, avoiding leaks and corrosion, allowing for simplified installation, maintenance and improved safety, as well as facilitating the adaptation of the heater to the production process, and convert thermal oil equipment, in terms of boiler classification, into equipment that very often occupies the least restrictive category.

The first processes that used thermal oil were processes that required high temperatures to work, not making water vapor a favorable alternative

Since the introduction of the first thermal oil boiler installations, the application to industry has not stopped developing, making thermal oil installations the most suitable alternative technology in indirect heating industrial processes, which are comparatively low maintenance. and thermal precision.

Thermal oil installations have an almost unlimited durability, which allows easy application in very varied sectors such as the pharmaceutical sector, the chemical sector, the plastic sector, the automotive sector, the hospital sector, the hotel sector, the food sector, the petrochemical sector. , to give some examples.

The capacities and properties of thermal oil make this technology more appropriate than the traditional water vapor technology, due to its lower maintenance costs, better amortization of the installations, its longer use time and the lack of need for fluid treatment. thermal among some of the improvements it offers.