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The skin effect heat tracing solution is using an effect where alternating current tends to avoid travel through the center of a solid conductor, limiting itself to conduction near the surface.
This effectively limits the cross-sectional conductor area available to carry alternating electron flow, increasing the resistance of that conductor above what it would normally be for direct current:
Skin effect: skin depth decreases with increasing frequency.
Advantages:
Comparison to Current Heat Tracing Solutions
Product | Service | Pipe Material | Maximum Maintenance Temperature | Maximum Exposure Temperature (Power off) | Length Limit | Equipment Cost | Installation Cost | Maintennace |
Mi Heating cable | Temperature maintenance and fluid heating | Metal only | 900 ℉ | 1100℉ | 1000 feet | Low | High | High |
Impedance | Temperature maintenance and fluid heating | Metal only | 1800℉ | Up to request | 2500 feet | High | Media | Low |
Skin effect | Temperature maintenance and fluid heating | Metal only | 302℉ | 482℉ | 15 miles | High | low | Low |
Applications:
Petrochemical, chemical, pharmacy and fine chemicals, metallurgy, waste and recovery, textile, food, cable manufacturing, battery production, paper and packing