Flexible Ceramic Pad Heater

FCP heating elements come in various power ratings and standard voltages to meet any of your heating needs, fitting any pipe size and configuration for preheating or postweld heat treatment of butt welds.

The heating element is composed of sintered alumina pink ceramic beads and nickel 212 cold tail wires welded onto its core wire, enabling coiling and bending capabilities, making them suitable for curvier applications.

Flexibility

No matter the industrial setting, flexible ceramic pad heaters can make any job easier by quickly preheating pipes before welding, or annealing them afterwards. Built to withstand corrosion while providing targeted heat distribution across applications.

Heat treating welding blankets are commonly used as pre-weld and post-weld heat treatments to accurately raise metal temperatures before, during and after welding in order to avoid porosity, cracking and brittleness issues. They can also be used for stress relief heat treating of large structures like towers and pipe C-Seams as well as preheating metal components like tanks or ship hulls prior to welding.

Flexible pad heaters are typically constructed of nichrome resistance wire wrapped with high purity alumina ceramic insulation parts and come in various shapes, sizes and thermal capacities to meet your application requirements. You can bend or coil these flexible heaters into tracked and rope-shaped forms for PWHT applications; their camlock connectors are protected from heat exposure via cold pure nickel tail wires that attach securely.

Durability

Ceramic pad heaters are known for being long-term solutions that provide consistent performance in industrial settings. Their durable design can withstand harsh environments while withstanding corrosion, chemicals, and solvents; additionally, these heaters feature an array of ceramic pads that evenly disperse heat distribution to eliminate cold spots for even performance and ensure consistency across their lifespan.

Flexible pads offer the ideal way to preheat equipment before welding, or provide postweld heat treatment for stress relief on welded pipes, offering different sizes and voltage options to meet your specific requirements.

These pads are made from a special type of porcelain block that makes bending it easy, with higher power density compared to general pad heaters. Equipped with insulation material and shell for self-insulating flat plate heaters, it makes installation on workpieces simple; especially useful when preheating metal components prior to welding or PWHTing afterward.

Safety

Ceramic heating pads are specifically designed to reduce setup times for preheating butt welds and post-weld heat treatment (PWHT), and post-weld heat treatments (PWHT). Furthermore, they’re an ideal way to provide resistance heating for other applications.

Their construction involves threading multi-strand nickel-chromium 80/20 resistance wire through passages in sintered alumina oxide ceramic beads to form a flexible mat that fits on both curved or flat application surfaces, joining multiple heaters together into longer lengths for greater safety. Their ends are further secured using cold pure nickel tail wires welded directly onto their core wire for additional peace of mind.

Insulating materials used in these pad heaters ensure that metal surfaces are heated slowly, without sudden temperature shifts that could result in thermal stress. This helps maintain an even temperature throughout the process and avoid defects such as porosity, cracking, or notch weakness during welding. Moreover, their heating elements are electrically insulated to protect them against thermal shock.

Customization

Flexible ceramic pad heaters can be tailored to fit the specific requirements of any application, including being shaped to suit a work area and having custom length leads. Furthermore, flexible heaters come equipped with various power ratings and standard voltage options so that they provide just the right amount of heat to suit any task at hand.

FCPs are ideal for preheating metal components before and during welding – such as large towers, high-pressure vessels, bridges and weld preheat of high-pressure pipelines – as well as postweld heat treatment of pipework butt welds. Their use is convenient in both curved and flat applications.

Heating elements feature 80/20 nickel/chrome multi-strand wire rope encased with high purity alumina ceramic insulation pieces for increased energy efficiency and flexibility in heat application. This allows crawler type or rope heaters to be created specifically tailored to each workpiece, so they can be spliced, bent or wrapped around it for heating purposes.