IBC Heaters For Heating & Melting Vegetable Cooking Oils

Published 28 Feb 2017

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  • By Chris Dodds : estimated reading time 4 minutes

Vegetable Oils – Heaters For IBCs & Drums

Vegetable oils are a lifeblood of the food industry and provide essential fatty acids and an energy source to maintain human health and nutrition. Typical food processing applications requiring vegetable oils include frying, cooking and baking.

Most common types of vegetable oils include:

  • Rapeseed Oil
  • Soya Bean Oil
  • Olive Oil – Extra Virgin & Pomace
  • Palm Oil
  • Blended Oil

Specialist heated containers for coconut oil drum heating are also available.

vegetable Oil Heating, Storage & Handling

2KW v 3KW IBC Heaters

Vegetable Oil Heating

Oils are sensitive to heat, light and exposure to oxygen and all vegetable oils must be stored in a cool, dry place.

To ensure optimum yields and productive use it is important to maintain vegetable oil temperatures to avoid oil thickening and provide rapid heating for processing and melting applications – typically 1,000 litre IBC containers can be heated using our standard 2 kilowatt heaters with insulated lids. The heaters establish correct liquid viscosity of the vegetable oil reducing wastage to a minimum.

Rapid Heating

T&D test data indicates a temperature increase of 1-2°C per hour of IBC container contents using 2KW IBC heaters.

For applications requiring a more rapid heat-up time of vegetable oils contained in IBC’s we can provide a high power 3 kilowatt heater jacket which improves and accelerates the heating time to approximately 4-6°C per hour.

IBC Drum Heaters - Food Industry

T&D provide Electric Heating solutions to the world’s leading food brands and companies.

Where Quality Counts & Service MattersHeating Drums Containing Vegetable Oils

T&D International are the UK’s leading supplier of IBC & Drum Heating Equipment – since 1985 we have developed a strong reputation based on technical support, customer service and trust.

T&D heating jackets are UK manufactured and supplied with a 12 month warranty – competitively priced, delivered from stock and built to last.

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Heating & Melting Vegetable Cooking Oils

Drum Heaters

For further information about electrical heating visit Drum & IBC Heaters – here follows a recent application case for heating vegetable oil using IBC heating jackets:
HeatING JACKET Type
  • Drum
  • IBC ✓
  • Bespoke
area Classification
  • Safe Area ✓
  • Hazardous Area (Zone 1 & Zone 2)
HEATING FLUID, MEDIUM, CONTENTS
  • Water
  • Oil ✓ (Vegetable Cooking Oil)
  • Wax
  • Chemicals
  • Petrochemicals (Solvents, Detergents, Adhesives, Other)
  • Food Ingredients (Liquid, Powdered, Granulated)
  • Other
HEATING APPLICATION
  • 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 
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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 frost protection heating cable products for pipework, valves, IBC’s, drums and tanks.

Further reading

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IBC Heaters – Electrical Process & Container Heating For Food Industry

Gas Detection In The Food Processing Industry Using Portable Gas Detectors

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