INDIAN OILFIELD

Indirect water Bath Heater

🔥 Indirect Water Bath Heater

📌 Product Overview

An Indirect Water Bath Heater is a highly efficient industrial heating system used to safely heat gases or liquids without direct flame contact. It ensures uniform temperature control and is widely used in oil & gas, petrochemical, and process industries.

⚙️ Working Principle

The system operates by heating a water bath using a burner. The process fluid flows through a coil or heat exchanger immersed inside the heated water bath.
This indirect method provides consistent heating while eliminating the risk of overheating or thermal damage.

Water Bath Heater

The configuration of the heater may differ depending on the process application. Usually, the heater consists of main body with coil tubes, burner, firetube and flue stack. Sometimes skid may consider an expansion tank.

The main body refers to the basic vessel into which the firetubes and process coils are inserted from opposite ends. The burner ignites the fuel gas or fuel oil and blow it into firetube to heat the water in the vessel, and the hot water heats the medium in the coils such as crude oil or raw natural gas. The process coils are “bathing” in the water, and that’s why it’s called a water bath heater.

The heater shell has two saddle types supports, which is cuboid form and mounted on skid or special-designed bases. Outlet temperature may vary, but usually don’t exceed 86-88 °C.

Burner Management System

HC also offers water bath heaters with several types of Burner Management System (BMS). BMS is widely use in industrial heaters, boilers, and furnaces. BMS is designed to perform several functions, such as protection, operation, control, monitor, and communication. BMS controls and monitors pilot lines, fuel gas lines, temperature, pressure of whole unit, as well as shutdowns and alarms in case of emergency. BMS is very essential for oil & gas heaters. However, there are several types of BMS offered by HC.

HC supplies three types of BMS for industrial heaters:
Simple mechanical site operated control panel. It does not require complex cabling, and expensive components, and easy to operate.
Control system with microprocessors. Control system with microprocessor provides additional digital control features and enable send and receive signals from remote control panel.
Third type is BMS with PLC and additional digital control and operating functions. BMS enables to connect unit with SCADA or main control system of facility. BMS with PLC has a lot of advantages over conventional BMS, but requires more cables, more electric protection, and expensive components.

As BMS is installed near the burner of heater, it shall be explosion proof and SIL-rated. HC Petroleum Equipment provides water bath heaters and other industrial indirect fired heaters with comprehensive and reliable BMS, meeting project requirements and client’s expectations both in price and quality.

As a leading provider of oilfield water jacket heaters, we are committed to delivering exceptional solutions for you.Our team possesses extensive experience and expertise, allowing us to provide customized solutions tailored to your needs and ensure your requirements are met.

If you are looking for an oilfield heating treater, please contact us for the latest quotation. Alternatively, send your inquiry to sales@hcpetroleum.hk . We will reply to you within 24 hours.

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Application
Heating of well fluids coming from choke manifold to prevent freezing/waxing of crude.
Heating of raw natural gas before turbines.
Heating of sulfur gas in sulfur processing facilities.
Heating of chemicals to maintain proper temperature meeting process requirements.