IBC Heating Jackets : Caramel Heating
Published 17 Mar 2017

T&D are the UK’s largest stockist of Drum, IBC & Tank Heaters & Jackets. Delivering UK & Worldwide.
T&D’s online library of IBC & Drum Heating applications is now updated to include the following : caramel heating stored in IBC’s in a hazardous area location for the food and beverage industry.
Visit Silicone Heaters for details of electric surface heating solutions – flexible silicone heaters can be applied to heat the most complex shapes, geometries, curves and pipes.
Specified Product Solution : LMK Inteliheat Hazardous Area IBC Containers.
HEATING JACKET TYPE
- Drum
- IBC ✓
- Bespoke
AREA CLASSIFICATION
- Safe Area
- Hazardous Area (Zone 1 & Zone 2) ✓ Â
HEATING FLUID, MEDIUM, CONTENTS
- Water
- Oil
- Wax
- Chemicals
- Petrochemicals (Solvents, Detergents, Adhesives, Other)
- Food Ingredients (Liquid, Powdered, Granulated) ✓ – Caramel
- Other
Did you know?Â
Caramel is produced by heating sugar slowly to around 170ºC when the molecules break down and re-form into compounds with the characteristic colour and flavour of caramel. At low temperatures caramel solidifies.
caramel HEATING APPLICATION

T&D, The Hazardous Area Heating Specialists
- Frost Protection
- Reduce Viscosity ✓
- Temperature Maintenance
- Low Temperature Heating (0-20 degrees Celsius)
- Medium Temperature Heating (21-50 degrees Celsius)
- High Temperature Heating (50 degrees Celsius+)
- Other
Notes : Â the outdoor storage conditions for the IBC containers with exposure to freezing temperatures combined with a hazardous area (potentially explosive atmosphere) location required an ATEX certified heating solution.

IBC Heating Jackets – T&D supply heating and drum insulating jackets for plastic or steel metal cage IBC’s for bulk liquid storage.
HEATING JACKET VOLTAGE
- 110 Volt
- 230 Volt  ✓
- Low Voltage
HEATING APPLICATION : DRUM, IBC, TANK OR VESSEL
- 25 Litres
- 50 Litres
- 105 Litres
- 205 Litres
- 1000 Litres  ✓
- Other
VESSEL MATERIAL
- Steel
- Stainless Steel
- Plastic ✓
- Cardboard
- Other
HEAT UP TEMPERATURE
- 0-5 degrees Celsius
- 5-20 degrees Celsius
- 20-50 degrees Celsius ✓
- 50-70 degrees Celsius
- 70+ degrees Celsius
- N/A (Frost Protection)
HEAT UP TIME REQUIREMENT
- 0-4 Hours
- 4-12 Hours
- 12-24 Hours ✓
- 24-48 Hours
- N/A (Frost Protection)
Contact T&D for specification, support and sales of Electrical Heating Equipment for safe, industrial and hazardous area plant and equipment – we provide process temperature heating and frost protection (Winterisation) products for pipework, valves, IBC’s, drums and tanks, including hazardous area water heaters.
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