How to Easily Install Heating Tape

How To Easily Install Heating Tape

Published with permission from BriskHeat Corporation

Heating tapes are easy to use, ideal for a wide range of thermal applications, and inexpensive. This article will provide simple installation tips to improve your heating tape product life, application performance, and most importantly, your safety.

Why heating tapes?

Heating tapes offer many advantages for solving a wide range of gas, liquid, and solid heating applications.

Advantages:

1. Flexibility: easily installs directly to a wide variety of surfaces and geometries (i.e. 1/4" diameter or larger piping, glassware, valves, reactors, chambers, etc.)

2. Rapid and uniform heat-up due to high watt densities and user-configurable installations

3. High temperature ranges

4. Easily controlled with standard temperature controlling devices

5. Variety of sizes, wattages, temperature ranges, and styles available to meet your exact heating requirements

Selecting the proper heating tape

Selection of your heating tape depends on: