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Application Note Photographs
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Descriptions by code letter: 
  - Even heating of gas cylinders to dry very high levels of purity. Other gas
    bottle applications include driving-off acetone from spent acetylene
    cylinders.
 
  - Plant producing a wide range of cosmetic and toiletry products. The
    depicted process involves adding a range of fragrances to shaving cream.
 
  - Very confined space leading to use of manual safety winches.
 
  - Non "drum" applications, heating a process vessel in a hazardous
    location. The company manufactured wall sections for the Channel Tunnel
    between England and France.
 
  - Supplier of bitumens for road-surfacing and roofing. Shown emptying
    heavily filled bitumen into an oil heated process vessel below.
 
  - Shoe manufacturer - demonstrating easy access to drum whilst heating.
 
  - Aerospace - mobile pumping stations for Ciba-Gigy epoxy resin, used in the
    manufacture of aircraft propellers.
 
  - Drums of glycerin mounted on dollies to enable quick removal/access to a
    pumping head on the "Jaffa-cake" production line.
 
  - LMK stacker for Thermosafe
 
  - Paint manufacturer - heating 110 litre drums.
 
  - Honey farm - frames allow application of banks of up to six heaters at a
    time to be applied.     
 
  - Non "drum" application, heating special process vessel.
 
  - Pharmaceutical manufacturer - six heaters replaced a drum oven heating
    sorbitol, the main constituent of liquid medicines. The heaters sit on
    rubber mats on a tiled floor, allowing for hosing down even when in
    use. 
 
  - Luboil blending - heaters are kept overhead when not in use (replaced
    steam oven, allowing shut-down of boiler during the summer months.) See also
    "T".
 
  - Heating bitumen for injecting into undersea cables.
 
  - Food plant - heating beef fat oleo. 
 
  - Food plant - providing a monitored flow of lecithin at constant
    temperature to the adjacent plant manufacturing a butter-type cooking oil
    used in bakeries.
 
  - Plastics manufacturer - 2 heaters by the side of each plant making
    continuous plastic film. 24 hour operation, with 1 drum feeding, the other
    as back-up. 
 
  - Luboil blending - 18 drums in one line along wall. See Esso Project Report,
    Eastern Electricity award winning case history. Became the model for this
    major oil company's luboil plants around the world.
 
  - Luboil blending - close-up of "N" above.
 
 
  
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