Indirect fired water bath heaters are commonly used in the oil and natural gas industry for a variety of applications including: heating natural gas and preventing hydrate formation. Linc Energy Systems represents T.E.R.I., Total Energy Resources Inc., who manufactures both vertical and horizontal Indirect Fired Water Bath Heaters and are typically used when process temperatures don’t exceed 170 degrees F.

Common applications include:

• Heating natural gas upstream of a pressure regulator to eliminate the frost formation typically occurring after the pressure has been reduced
• Preventing hydrate formation in well stream fluids
• Heating well stream fluids prior to phase separation
• Heating process streams to maintain fluid viscosity at a minimum to reduce HP pumping requirements
• Heating critical feed stocks that require tightly controlled film to bulk temperature differentials
• Heating turbine fuel gases to maintain a given dew point temperature

The traditional horizontal T.E.R.I. heater contains a heater shell, a vessel that houses a process coil, firetube and heated media. The submerged firetube heats the surrounding heat media (a mixture of ethylene or propylene glycol and water) which in turn heats the process stream within the process coil. An expansion tank is engineered to reduce internal corrosion within the heater shell.

T.E.R.I.’s most recent new design is a vertical heater which is a modification of their horizontal glycol-water bath heater. The features of this new design include:
 

• More aesthetically appealing and quiet – The enclosure can be customized to the client’s needs, and the instrumentation is housed within the closure keeping instruments from severe weather.
• More efficient – The firetube is engineered to efficiently transfer heat to the surrounding heat media.
• Vertical unit requires less square footage area.

The combination of better aesthetics, being quieter and requires less square footage makes the vertical unit more appealing in communities where residents may object to the sight of the horizontal style unit.

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