Hot oil heater efficiency
Hot oil heaters
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High efficiency reduces costs
A hallmark of our helical coil heater is high thermal efficiency. Thermal efficiencies of our standard heaters range up to 85 percent LHV, depending upon fluid outlet temperature and fuel.

Thermal efficiency is the total amount of heat produced by the burner versus the portion actually transferred to thermal fluid flowing through the coil. Thus, in our heaters, up to 85 percent of the total heat is transferred to the thermal fluid. Increasing efficiency reduces fuel usage. 

WHERE THE HEAT GOES

Efficiency diagram of hot oil heaters

Achieving super-efficiency
Adding a Stackpack™ heat exchanger boosts thermal efficiency another 5 percent. It makes our current heater super-efficient. That extra percentage reduces monthly fuel usage by 261 gallons of No. 2 fuel oil or 345 therms of natural gas. The Stackpack heat exchanger usually pays for itself in a year or less. Click here for Stack Temperature Efficiency Chart

 Stackpack heat exchanger boosts efficiency of hot oil heaters

 






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