The heating of tanks is a common industrial practice in many applications. Heating may be required to maintain pumping viscosity of heavy oil or resins, to prevent crystalline precipitation (sodium hydroxide), to facilitate production processes, for freeze protection, and hundreds of other applications. MATRUSREE offers literally hundreds of ways of heating tanks of all sizes. Included in this guide is an overview of the types of tank heating approaches. The manual is not meant to be a complete guide to each of these heating methods, rather an overview of what is available. Once a specific method is selected, further investigation should be made into the suitability of the heater for the application. Finally, the manual is a detailed guide on sizing heaters for large tanks. This guide includes sizing details that are beyond the scope of the sizing guide presented in the general catalog.

MATRUSREE offers the broadest range of Liquid & Fluid heating solutions in the electric heating Industry. There are two main methods to tank heating; direct and indirect tank heating. Direct tank heating consists of placing the heater in direct contact with the heated medium by placing the heater directly in the tank or circulating the fluid directly through the heater. Indirect tank heating uses a heat transfer medium to apply the heat to the tank. Indirect methods can vary from external heating of the tank using the tank wall as the heating medium to utilizing a heat transfer medium to carry the heat to the tank. Some heaters or systems can be utilized in direct and indirect methods and appear in both sections of this manual.