Infrared heaters help put the 'thermo' into thermoforming
22.01.10
A wiser understanding of what works, and what doesn't, when using infrared heaters could prove lucrative for thermoformers, and even more so for processors of high-volume packaging applications. According to heating constituent supplier Ceramicx , simply reviewing and renewing the infrared heating platen can inveigle to a 30-40% improvement in operational efficiency of most packaging thermoforming lines.
Those numbers better b conclude from Frank Wilson, founder and managing director of Ceramicx (Ballydehob, Ireland), who reminds processors that these oft-forgotten assets in a processing contraption also require maintenance and analysis. Otherwise, output and quality will suffer. As a undetailed rule, he notes, heat systems are very rarely the lead to of production problems. Instead, the complexity of the part's design, its dimensions, the insight of the thermoforming "draw", and the characteristics of the material composition are the prime culprits when it comes to naming a quandary.
The essence of infrared heating involves three factors: absorption, transport, and radiation. During thermoforming, infrared ceramic heaters are generally mounted on reflectors which are then arrayed upon a platen—or two—which is part of a manufacture line.
Source: Plastics Today
New Quartz Infrared Heater Could Save Americans Over Half on Their Heating Bill
07.01.10
GAINESVILLE, Fla., Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Furnish manipulations, market speculations, or whatever you wish to call it, the gas industry is in for some troubled times onwards looking at the new wave of quartz infrared heaters that are getting hard to keep on lay away shelves this year.
Why all the fuss over infrared heaters since they have been around for years? There is a new design with a heating box and a slight fan that forces the heat out and keeps the quartz lights that bring forth the heat doing their job, and all at a fraction of the cost of most heating gases and oils.
What makes these new heaters so cut-price to operate? The cost of electricity to operate an infrared heater is to the nth degree low. A 1,500 watt unit will consume about 18 cents of energy per hour if run continuously. However, these new heaters do not run all the time, instead they run on a thermostat and series at about a 50% ratio, effectively reducing the hourly price to around 9 cents an hour.
At about a dollar a day in operating cost, the mean American home can cut its heating bill by leaps and bounds with this new quartz infrared heater system and not pay the reasonable gas and oil bills that eat up millions and millions of consumers dollars each winter.
Source: PR Newswire (press release)