Chromalox is Going Green!
The Chromalox catalog remains the familiar bright red, but Chromalox has the expertise and products to support today’s green industries. And what is greener than BioFuel? With today’s sustained high oil prices, manufacturing and using ethanol and biodiesel has become a viable alternative.
Ethanol is primarily derived from corn, although other organics such as sugar cane, wheat, wood chips and even manure powder can be used. The process involves liquification, fermentation and distillation of alcohol from the original organics. Mash slurry and syrup tanks require heating for proper chemical reactions and pumping viscosities. Water is used extensively in the process, and that water has to keep flowing, regardless of the weather. Chromalox produces electric tank heating and pipe tracing products specifically designed to meet these industry requirements, including agency approvals for hazardous areas.
Through a process called transesterification, biodiesel is manufactured primarily from soy beans, although any one of a number of other feed stocks such as yellow grease, palm oil and canola can be used. Chromalox offers large tank heaters to keep these materials at the proper temperature for introduction into the transesterification reactors.
Even wind turbines need Chromalox electric heaters. Circulation heaters warm hydraulic fluid used in the generation system, while flexible heaters are used for freeze protection in turbine blades and loadbanks provide load management. Chromalox even supplies the controls needed for precise curing of the resins in the turbine blades themselves.
Whether your process is an old standby or the newest green technology, Dittman & Greer and Chromalox have application engineers who understand your requirements. Let Dittman & Greer make the best heating recommendations from the red catalog for your green project.
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