IBC Heating Jackets : Marine Fuel Oil Heating
Published 29 Sep 2016

T&D are the UK’s largest stockist of Drum, IBC & Tank Heaters & Jackets. Delivering UK & Worldwide.
T&D’s online library of Drum, IBC & Tank Heating applications is now updated to include the following : marine fuel oil heating stored in IBC’s in a hazardous area location for the upstream and downstream oil industry.
Visit Silicone Heating Products (Application Cases) 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 Heating JacketÂ
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)
- Other ✓ – Marine Fuel OilÂ
Did you know?Â
MFO (Medium Fuel Oil) is a blend of MGO (Marine Gas Oil) and HFO (Heavy Fuel Oil) with less gasoil than IFO (Intermediate Fuel Oil) according to marine fuel standard ISO 8217.
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 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 pipework frost protection (Winterisation) products for pipework, valves, IBC’s, drums and tanks. Complete range of heating cables and trace heating cables are available for process temperature maintenance.
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FOR EXPLOSIVE ATMOSPHERES
Thorne & Derrick are Specialist Distributors of Hazardous Area & Explosion Proof Equipment with IECEx & ATEX Certifications to the onshore and offshore oil, gas, petrochemicals and process industries.
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