Heating Pad
• The heating pad is used to evenly reheat the liquid cargo before unloading. The heating pads use either steam or hot water as a heat source to allow liquids that have a low melting point and are easily solidified at low temperatures, to be discharged from the Flexitank (Flexibag).
• At low temperatures, products with high viscosity would become sticky and difficult to discharge. Therefore, when transporting liquid cargo at low temperatures, customers can install a heating pad to solve this problem. The heating pads are placed along the entire length and breadth of the container, and below the Flexitank (Flexibag) for maximum exposure to the heat source. The average time it takes to heat up a container of liquid is about 4-6 hours, but this depends on the actual temperature and specific heat capacity of the liquid.
- The heating pad has a maximum heat input of 124 ºC and a maximum pressure of 300 PSI (20 Bar).
| Pressure Units | ||||||
Pascal (Pa) |
Bar (bar) |
Technical Atmosphere (at) |
Standard Atmosphere (atm) |
Torr (Torr) |
Pound per Square Inch (psi) |
|
| 1 Pa | ≡ 1 N/m² | 10-5 | 1.0197×10−5 | 9.8692×10−6 | 7.5006×10−3 | 145,04×10−6 |
| 1 bar | 100000 | ≡ 106 dyne/cm2 | 1,0197 | 0,98692 | 750,06 | 14,504 |
| 1 at | 98.066,5 | 0,980665 | ≡ 1 kgf/cm2 | 0,96784 | 735,56 | 14,223 |
| 1 atm | 101.325 | 1,01325 | 1,0332 | ≡ 1 atm | 760 | 14,696 |
| 1 torr | 133,322 | 1,3332×10-3 | 1,3595×10−3 | 1,3158×10−3 | ≡ 1 Torr; ≈ 1 mmHg | 19,337×10−3 |
| 1 psi | 6.894,76 | 68,948×10−3 | 70,307×10−3 | 68,046×10−3 | 51,715 | ≡ 1 lbf/in2 |
Example: 1 Pa = 1 N/m2 = 10−5 bar = 10,197×10−6 at = 9,8692×10−6 atm, etc.