Drum Heaters – T&D are the largest supplier of Drum Heating Equipment in the UK. Contact Us Today
At T&D we are regularly asked: “what’s the best drum heater to heat ‘X’ product?”.
It’s a tricky question to answer. Our drum heaters and bulk container heaters are used in diverse applications across hundreds of industries and consequently one rule doesn’t suit all heating requirements.
The problem with giving specific recommendations are the variables involved. Variables such as heat-up time, stirring or not stirring, acceptable condition of product after heating and possible flash points. The workplace location of the drum heating requirement determines whether a “safe” area or hazardous area certified (ATEX) heater is required – drum heaters certified for safe use in hazardous areas and potentially explosive atmospheres can be supplied.
T&D offer two different types of heaters for drums; heaters for plastic drums and heaters for metal drums.
Our option for plastic containers is the HISD. An easy to fit, efficient and effective insulated heating jacket solution for all types of drums; particularly plastic containers, our HISD insulated Jacket heater is used for gentle warming of drum contents.
This heater is suitable for products which have a high viscosity; foodstuffs such as glucose, syrups and honey, which take a significant amount of time to absorb heat. Designed and constructed from high quality, durable materials the HISD drum heater is manufactured with a double insulated silicone heating cord which is threaded evenly across the length of the heater.
HTSD Drum Heater
This drum heater is the one to choose for thermally efficient heating of products which require consistently gentle heating.
There are several options available from T&D for heating products stored in metal drums. Firstly, the HTSD Side Drum Heater is specifically designed for melting or reducing the viscosity of products that require aggressive heating or high temperatures for handling.
Used to achieve product temperatures of up to 200°C this heating jacket provides the industry standard for handling products such as waxes, soaps and materials with a high water content.
Constructed with an outer layer of silicone coated glass fibre the HTSD has excellent thermal transfer properties and presents a great solution for maintaining consistently high product temperatures when held in metal drums or storage containers.
The HTSD is favoured when the entire contents of the drum needs to receive heat from top to bottom. It also acts as an insulation jacket once heated ensuring that the contents of the drum are heated as economically as possible.
Our HSSD is an effective and simple element offering exceptional heating performance. The heater delivers uniform heating from accurately positioned PTFE coated, multi-stranded resistance wires and is used to reduce the viscosity of materials such as soaps, fats, foodstuffs, varnishes and chemicals allowing them to be pumped or poured with ease.
The HSSD is the drum heater of choice for products which are moving in and out of drums and consequently the level of material inside the drum fluctuates. Three of these heaters can be placed on one drum at the same time offering the option of turning off the top two heaters as the level inside the drum drops.
Manufactured from 2mm thick mild steel for extra rigidity on uneven surfaces and with tapered edges for safe drum location the HBD Base Drum Heater is designed for use in tough industrial environments. The product supplies heat through an etched foil silicone heating element bonded under the platen area and is protected by a resilient high temperature coating.
Used for similar purposes to (and sometimes in conjunction with) the HSSD, the Base Drum Heater offers uniform heating across the base of a drum ensuring the product is evenly heated to anywhere up to 150°C. This product is favoured for the same reasons as the other two high temperature options but is T&D’s most robust drum heating element.
As always, T&D are available to contact for further application advice on which drum heater to use.
When you call us please be sure to let us know; the material of your drum, what your product is, what the ambient temperature of the application is, what heating temperature you want to achieve and how quickly you want to heat the product. Please remember all of the above products are available as bespoke items – contact Thorne & Derrick to discuss your drum heating requirements.
Thorne & Derrick hold the largest UK stocks of frost protection & winterisation equipment to help keep your plant and personnel operational during the winter months.
Thorne & Derrick understand that prolonged periods of low ambient temperatures can bring operations to a standstill costing thousands of pounds in lost downtime.
Experts in heating solutions for use in industrial & explosive atmospheres, Thorne & Derrick have the knowledge & expertise to help clients prevent unnecessary down time this winter.
We can provide overnight delivery of Trace Heating Cables at the most competitive prices to guarantee frost protection of your pipelines and mechanical services.| Ask About Our Heat Trace Design Service.
💡 Contact us today and our skilled and friendly team can provide technical support as well as reliable, fit for purpose and compliant solutions to suit your exact requirements.
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Drum Heaters: T&D International are the UK’s largest stockist and supplier of Insulated Heating Jackets for Drums & Containers – Contact Us
Prevent Drum Contents Freezing
In cold ambient environments and winter months, frozen drum containers and contents can be difficult to handle.
T&D supply drum heaters and heating jackets to suit a range of drums and container sizes to overcome costly loss of production, revenue and reputation caused by drum contents freezing.
Drum heating jackets provide frost protection to drum containers and their contents distributing surface heat and preventing the contents from freezing. Drum heater jackets can also be used to heat up drums further and maintain a steady temperature.
Drum heating jackets are available to suit 25, 50, 105 and 200 litre drums.
Alternatively, custom heating jackets can be provided to fit other drum sizes.
Contact T&D to discuss drum heating solutions for hazardous area locations and potentially explosive atmosphere Zones (both Zones 1 & Zone 2).
Cold weather typified by freezing air temperatures, wind chill, snowfall and ice formation pose serious challenges to plant engineers, production managers and warehouse managers – contact T&D to discuss Winterisation and cold weather protection for plant including drums, valves, pipework, tanks, instrumentation and sensing lines using heat tracing cables.
T&D supply Drum Heaters for all industrial steel and plastic drums
Thorne & Derrick hold the largest UK stocks of frost protection & winterisation equipment to help keep your plant and personnel operational during the winter months.
Thorne & Derrick understand that prolonged periods of low ambient temperatures can bring operations to a standstill costing thousands of pounds in lost downtime.
Experts in heating solutions for use in industrial & explosive atmospheres, Thorne & Derrick have the knowledge & expertise to help clients prevent unnecessary down time this winter.
We can provide overnight delivery of Trace Heating Cables at the most competitive prices to guarantee frost protection of your pipelines and mechanical services.| Ask About Our Heat Trace Design Service.
💡 Contact us today and our skilled and friendly team can provide technical support as well as reliable, fit for purpose and compliant solutions to suit your exact requirements.
Trace Heating | Process Heating | Heating Jackets | Drum & IBC Heaters | Heated Hoses |Silicone Heating Mats
➡See our Winterisation blog TOP PICKS, including our most read articles about Trace Heating and the requirement for electrical heating products and systems to combat and mitigate Winter weather effects.
Competitive Prices | Extensive Stocks | Technical Support | Express Delivery
IBC Heater Jackets In The Food And Beverage Industry
T&D are major distributors of IBC Container & Process Heating Products to the food and beverage industry supplying major customers with bespoke solutions to overcome heating challenges faced with consistent and reliable production – our range of IBC heaters provide reliable surface heating to bulk containers ensuring optimum contents viscosity, frost protection and temperature maintenance.
The range of Electrical Process & Drum Heating products that T&D supply can be used to ensure consistency, hygiene and guaranteed plant performance which is absolutely vital in the food processing industry.
IBC heating jackets and systems provide effective electric surface heating for food industry containers and drums:
Common heating applications include IBC’s, containers or drums storing honey, corn sugar, palm oil and molasses.
Powders including flour and sugar are routinely stored on site at bakeries – when mixed with air, they can form a potentially explosive mixture and are classified as Zones 20 / 21 under ATEX guidelines.
T&D distribute ATEX IBC heaters for safe use in both hazardous area gas (Zone 1 & Zone 2) and dust (Zones 20, 21 & 22) atmospheres – typical food industry applications include wheat starch, gluten, wheat gluten production, grain processing and sugar production.
Other combustible dusts include:
Thorne & Derrick are distributors and stockists of low voltage IBC heating jackets which provide a consistent heating solution at safe low voltages of either 24V or 48V.
Low voltage IBC heating jackets have been used in the past in a case study for Fox’s Biscuits. Fox’s Biscuits manufacture a wide range of premium quality biscuits within the UK and are part of the Northern Foods PLC.
The client required a heating method to maintain an IBC containing glucose at 35ºC to ensure consistent flow during production and had previously used trace heating to achieve this but found that heat tracing cables did not provide an even temperature across the large surface area of the IBC.
To provide a more suitable solution a low voltage IBC heater jacket was provided which wrapped around the IBC covering the entire surface area, along with an insulated PVC lid. Additionally, custom sized low voltage heater jackets were supplied to fit around 40 metres of associated process pipework.
Using IBC heater jackets, the client was able to achieve a constant heat, ensuring the glucose could be fed through the pump and at the optimum temperature production.
Sugar Glucose – sugars provide sweetening, texture, bulk, colour and act as preservative agents in the food and beverage industry.
T&D also provide heat tracing cables for the temperature maintenance of food industry process pipework.
IBC Heaters – HIBC/A
T&D have supplied Nestle Bulgaria with an IBC heater to heat up liquid caramel. Our client required a process heating method to maintain the temperature of the caramel between 40 and 50ºC to reduce the viscosity of the caramel and approached T&D to supply IBC heating jackets.
The client held the caramel within ‘bag-in-a-box’ style IBC containers to which HIBC/A IBC heating mats are ideal for providing surface heating.
HIBC/A silicone IBC heater mats are placed underneath the container before filling and provide heat through the container. Insulated IBC jackets and insulated lids help to reduce heat loss from the container.
HIBC/A heating mats have a PTC temperature sensor which can be connected to a digital temperature controller to allow for accurate monitoring and control of the temperature.
Bag In A Box – IBC Heaters
Bag in box IBC systems offer safety and hygiene with replaceable liner bags – the reusable bulk container protects the liquid contents providing ideal transportation conditions. T&D provide IBC heating jackets to suit all type of plastic or steel containers.
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Thorne & Derrick hold the largest UK stocks of frost protection & winterisation equipment to help keep your plant and personnel operational during the winter months.
Thorne & Derrick understand that prolonged periods of low ambient temperatures can bring operations to a standstill costing thousands of pounds in lost downtime.
Experts in heating solutions for use in industrial & explosive atmospheres, Thorne & Derrick have the knowledge & expertise to help clients prevent unnecessary down time this winter.
We can provide overnight delivery of Trace Heating Cables at the most competitive prices to guarantee frost protection of your pipelines and mechanical services.| Ask About Our Heat Trace Design Service.
💡 Contact us today and our skilled and friendly team can provide technical support as well as reliable, fit for purpose and compliant solutions to suit your exact requirements.
Trace Heating | Process Heating | Heating Jackets | Drum & IBC Heaters | Heated Hoses |Silicone Heating Mats
➡See our Winterisation blog TOP PICKS, including our most read articles about Trace Heating and the requirement for electrical heating products and systems to combat and mitigate Winter weather effects.
Competitive Prices | Extensive Stocks | Technical Support | Express Delivery
Thorne & Derrick International, based in the UK, are the largest stockist and supplier of Heating Jackets for drums and IBC containers – contact our expert team of Sales Engineers who can recommend and supply standard or customised heating jackets.
In this Blog section, we highlight the diverse range of applications our Electric Heating Jackets are used for. Whether providing Winterisation preparation to protect drums or IBC’s against frost, freezing and low temperatures or process temperature maintenance in both onshore or offshore locations including hazardous area workplaces subject to ATEX Compliance requirements.
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Heating Epoxy Resin
Q1/ I’m looking for an IBC heater jacket to warm full IBCs of liquid epoxy resin to 60 degrees Celsius before we decant the resin. The electrical heating process can take place over 24-48 hours – we’d need to run on 240V power supply. Your IBC heater jackets look ideal for this application. Please could you advise on the most suitable product for this application and advise typical lead times.
The IBC containers are located within a safe area, non-hazardous therefore no ATEX Certification is required.
A1/ Yes, here we would supply a 3KW IBC heating jacket – our stock item IBC- HF6IBC23 would provide sufficient electrical surface heating to allow decanting of the epoxy resin. Heating jackets are ex stock, delivery is to world-wide locations.
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 : resin curing for a sailing boat to speed up the manufacturing process.
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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 trace heating cables for pipework, valves, IBC’s, drums and tanks.
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