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Thursday, October 11, 2012

Moving Heat- How Heat Exchangers Can Heat a Space



Heat exchangers are used for industrial, commercial, and even personal use.  Any time that a method is needed to move heat from one location to another, a heat exchanger is called upon.  People rarely associate heat with energy, however that is exactly what heat is.  The transfer of energy through a moving machine needs to be discarded to another place in order to prevent overheating and damage to a machine.  Oftentimes, businesses, industrial, and commercial operations will use heat exchangers to transfer heat to a specific location, heating the space as a direct result of their operating machines.

In some settings, tubular heat exchanges are implemented and installed on large machinery in order to transfer the heat to heat a specific spacing.  How this works, is that long and large tubular heat exchangers are attached to the side of the machine where the most heat develops.  For most machinery, this is right near the engine and central power plant.  Attaching the tubular heat exchanger is fairly simple, however the ease of operation is specific to the unit that is being attached to.  Then, simply assembling the heat exchanger to smaller pipes and transferring this heat to an open space becomes extremely cost efficient and highly valuable.

This is most common amongst warehousing units and anywhere specifically where a large space needs to be heated.  In order to successfully transfer the eat from the machine to the open space, a proper size and power based heat exchanger is needed.  Businesses that can leverage this in their commercial use can take advantage of accomplishing two tasks with once main device.  That is, taking the heat away from the primary machine and transferring it to a specific location that needs to receive the heat is efficient as this eliminates the need to maintain a heating system and incurring utilities and overhead expenditures.

Installing a heat exchanger to deliver the necessary heat to a desired location is highly effective and cost efficient.  Not only, is it also highly valuable as this eliminates the need to invest in heating units in order to heat the facilities.  In doing it this way, businesses can save on expense by leveraging what they already have plenty of (heat) and simply transferring that to a desired location.  Companies that leverage this save time and resources, which can in turn impact the bottom line.

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