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C5PG Water Bath Heaters

C5 Process Group, Inc. (C5PG) designs, fabricates and commissions indirect, water bath heaters for the oil, gas storage, gas transmission and utility industries.

Indirect heating is the safest way to heat hydrocarbons, ensuring flammable gases are warmed by an inert heat medium, typically propylene or ethylene glycol, rather than direct contact with a flame. Line heaters, dew point heaters, bath heaters, indirect heaters.

Water bath heater properties:

  • Uniform heating from the bath media
  • Removable firetube and process coil
  • Convective heat transfer
  • Ethylene glycol, propylene glycol or other heat mediums
  • Flammable process streams are completely isolated from an ignition source
  • Long firetube life
  • Vessel operates at atmospheric pressure
  • Heat duties ranging from 500,000 Btu/hr to 20,000,000 Btu/hr
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Water Bath Heater
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Reasons for water bath heating.

Water bath heaters operating at bath temperatures of 180 degrees F to 200 degrees F are used in the following applications:

  • High pressure gas in production environments
  • Produced gas in gathering lines to prevent hydrate formation
  • Fuel gas at city gate stations
  • Take-off from transmission gas pipelines to prevent the cooling effect of expanding gases
  • High viscosity oils to reduce pumping pressures and to increase pipeline capacities
  • Superheat light hydrocarbon liquids (propane) for alternate or standby fuel
  • Light hydrocarbon liquids for stabilization or turbo-expansion
  • Fuel gas conditioning for power generation

Options:

  • Natural Draft or Forced Draft Burners
  • Bath or Process Temperature Control
  • Pneumatic or Electronic Burner Management
  • Natural Gas, Propane, Fuel Oil Burners
  • Optional High Efficiency Firetubes
  • Low Noise Burners / Sound Enclosures
  • Low Nox and Low Co Burners

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