• DocumentCode
    828576
  • Title

    Design of Electric Tracing Systems for Petrochemical Process Pipelines

  • Author

    Illing, Milton H.W. ; Shafer, William A.

  • Author_Institution
    Union Carbide Olefins Co., Div. of Union Carbide Corp.
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1965
  • Firstpage
    51
  • Lastpage
    66
  • Abstract
    Recent developments in electric tracing as a medium to facilitate the flow of viscous material in pipelines have placed a valuable aid at the disposal of the process designer. An attempt has been made in this paper to update the knowledge of electric tracing. Discussed are the installation of electric tracing on systems not compatible with custom-made heaters and the design of heaters for those who prefer to fabricate their own MI-cable electric-tracing system. The paper contains various data and illustrations useful in the design of pipeline tracing.
  • Keywords
    Cable insulation; Conductivity; Dielectrics and electrical insulation; Equations; Foot; Petrochemicals; Pipelines; Resistance heating; Temperature; Thermal resistance;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Industry and General Applications, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-943X
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TIGA.1965.4180511
  • Filename
    4180511