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Ceramic IR Heaters
Ceramic IR Heaters
Alok International offers IR based Industrial Heating Solutions. The main products are ceramic infrared heaters and short wave IR lamps. The company also supplies coil heaters, cartridge heaters and thermocouples for use in plastics industry. Infrared radiation (IR), by virtue of being effective and efficient for heating applications, has become the preferred mode of heating in industrial processes. Advantages of infrared heating: Efficient – precise targeting and control is possible with minimal peripheral heat loss, it is possible to apply heat only where and when it is required; Effective – very high rates of heat transfer can be obtained; Rapid – energy is transmitted at the speed of light from the element to the product, a constant rate of heating is obtained because the source temperature is normally much higher than that of the product even at the end of the heating cycle; and Clean – no products of combustion, no forced air currents to convey contaminants to the product. Construction: by design, a coiled heating element of nickel-chrome alloy is embedded in a glazed ceramic body, which gives protection against thermal shock and prevents attack by atmospheric oxygen. The refractory material has a high emissivity value in the region of 0.9, which approaches the ideal black body conditions required for efficient radiation. The ceramic infrared heating elements emit energy with peak emission wavelengths between 3.3 microns to 5.7 microns. Main applications: pre-heating of plastic sheets for vacuum forming and thermoforming, drying paints, lacquer and vanish curing, drying printing inks, drying textiles, activating adhesives, removing surface water from objects or moisture removal from fabric and paper, animal husbandry and rearing.