What Application Scenarios are Steam Heaters Suitable for?

What Application Scenarios are Steam Heaters Suitable for?

Food Processing and Beverage Industry

Steam heaters are commonly used in food processing, such as the sterilization of canned food. Steam can quickly raise the temperature in the sterilizing kettle to the required sterilization temperature, such as about 121°C. Due to the large latent heat of steam, it can provide a large amount of heat in a short period of time, effectively killing the harmful microorganisms in the food. In the beverage industry, steam heaters are also widely used for the pasteurization of juices, milk and other liquids, where the liquid is heated to 60 - 90°C by steam for sterilization.

Sterilization and Evaporation in the Pharmaceutical Industry

In the pharmaceutical process, steam heaters are used to sterilize pharmaceutical equipment and containers. For example, steam sterilization of fermentation tanks, reaction kettles, etc. utilizes the high temperature and high penetrability of steam to kill bacteria and spores. Meanwhile, in the process of drug extraction and concentration, such as the concentration of traditional Chinese medicine extract, the steam heater can heat the extract to evaporate, so that the solvent volatilization, to achieve the purpose of concentration.

Distillation and Reaction Preheating in Chemical Industry

In the process of chemical distillation, steam heaters are used to provide heat to vaporize the mixed liquids, and then the vapors are cooled to liquids by condensers to achieve the separation of components with different boiling points. For example, in petrochemicals, distillation of crude oil separates different fractions such as gasoline and diesel. In addition, before some chemical reactions, the reactants need to be preheated, and steam heaters can quickly provide heat to bring the reactants to the temperature required for the reaction.

Building Heating and Humidification Systems

In the centralized heating system of a building, steam heaters can be used as a heat source to transfer the heat from steam to hot water, which is then piped to each room for heating. At the same time, in places where humidity needs to be controlled, such as textile factory workshops and electronics factory workshops, steam heaters can spray steam into the air to increase air humidity to meet the requirements of the production process.