Benefits

Often is the ThermEx Thermal Maintenance System, both technical and commercial, compared with fully jacketed piping or with tube traced systems.

Compared with Jacketed Piping:

• Cross contamination free: The TE system is not welded avoiding the heating medium getting in contact with the process medium or vice versa. Cross contamination caused by corrosion or welding-failures is impossible.
• An engineering product performance guaranteed: The TE system is based on thermal analyses.
• Less steam consumption: Supplies and returns are specified as per steam consumption calculation (opex).
• Less expensive (capex)
• Process pipes can be but welded instead of flanged spools for jacketed piping.
• All in-line components remain line-sized.
• Much less expansion loops required. The stress analysis is reduced to only one calculation.
• Easy to install and easy to modify in case of revisions or changes on site.
• The TE system can offer a redundant system, allowing an easy periodical maintenance of the steam traps

Compared with Tube Tracing:

• An engineering product performance guaranteed: The TE system is based on thermal analyses.
• Less expensive (capex) in circuitry because fewer steam traps are needed.
• Less circuitry results in less steam traps results and in less overall maintenance cost (opex).