Flexible hoses for temperature critical materials

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Nov 8, 2001

Isopad Flexible Heated Hoses, from Tyco Thermal Controls, offer resistance to the high temperatures, pressures and aggressive materials often present in processing plant.

Isopad Flexible Heated Hoses, from Tyco Thermal Controls, offer resistance to the high temperatures, pressures and aggressive materials often present in processing plant.

They are designed for the transfer of substances in the types of hostile environment that preclude the use of fixed lines with constant temperature control.

These specialist, controlled heat, flexible hose systems offer significant advantages for processing plants which handle temperature critical material such as wax, bitumen, glues, heavy oil, gases, rubber, fats and foodstuffs.

They can be used to keep media free-flowing for processing and attain their optimum properties, ensure uniform quality levels, link mobile components and, in the case of gases, prevent condensation.

The high quality inner hose, which carries the liquid or gas being moved, is surrounded by a heating element and separated from it only by a steel braid wound with glass fibre tape.

Within an outer layer of insulating foam, temperature sensors maintain a pre-set value irrespective of ambient fluctuations.

An armoured jacket completes the hose construction to provide the pressure resistance.

All the components of the heated hoses are available in materials and formats to suit the process and on-site environment.

In this way Isopad heated hoses are available in a range of configurations to meet all popular industrial requirements.

Where a highly specialised application solution is demanded, Tyco Thermal Controls offers a customising service to develop a suitable heated hose concept.