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Plating, Anodizing and Quench Duty
Metal finishing needs heaters and coolers on plating solutions, anodizing baths, pickling tanks, strike solutions and quench oil, plus cooling for welders, induction heaters and hydraulics.
Immersion is the usual answer for tanks. A Temp-Plate immersion assembly is fully welded with no gaskets, which is precisely what a hot acid or caustic bath demands. Alloy and finish are selected against the chemistry.
Clamp-on for retrofits. Where a tank already exists and needs temperature control it never had, a clamp-on jacket bolts to the outside without cutting the vessel.
Utility side. Seal water coolers, welder cooling, induction heater cooling and hydraulic oil cooling are all straightforward plate exchanger duties, usually against tower water.
Typical Specification
- Tank duty: Temp-Plate immersion assemblies
- Retrofit: Clamp-on jacket panels
- Typical baths: Plating, anodizing, pickling, strike solutions
- Quench oil: Plate exchanger, sized on peak burst load
- Utility cooling: Welders, induction heaters, hydraulics, seal water
- Materials: Selected against bath chemistry
- Construction: Fully welded; no gaskets in the bath
- Cooling source: Usually tower water via isolation exchanger
- Control: Medium temperature controlled to protect the bath
- Cleaning: Assemblies designed for removal where required
Common FAQs
A Temp-Plate immersion assembly, fully welded so there is no gasket for the chemistry to attack, in an alloy selected against the bath. Clamp-on jackets are the alternative where the surface must stay out of the solution.
Yes. A clamp-on Temp-Plate jacket bolts to lugs welded to the outside of the shell, so the tank is never cut and downtime is minimal.
On the peak burst load rather than the average, because quench heat arrives when parts are dropped rather than steadily. Sizing on average gives a system that runs hot exactly when it matters.
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