Delivering precision heat for a leading Aerospace manufacturer
A leading aerospace manufacturer needed rapid heat up, combined with precise temperature control to use in their composite curing ovens.
Secomak’s Heat Pack delivered 300 °C of heat with extreme accuracy.
With several industrial ovens for composite curing, complex shapes and components of high value - the customer needed a solution that offered both a quick heating time and precision point accuracy when it comes to temperature control.
Flexibility was key
The customer has ovens of various shapes and sizes and rarely manufacture the same component back-to-back.
The system needed to scale easily, providing additional heat where the process demanded. It was also required to be mobile, making it easy for the user to move between ovens.
Solving a complex problem
The requirement for precision heating control, meant Secomak included our most sophisticated control system ever.
Our heater and blower Heat Pack included:
- Model 648 Heater 18 kW Output
- Model DD643 Direct Drive Fan
- HMI Control Station (Human Machine Interface)
With this innovative solution we were able to develop a system that can provide 300 °C of heat at the outlet, combined with up to 23 mbar of pressure and 2,200 m3/hr of volume
Precision needed, precision delivered.
The heater was controlled with three separate 6 kW solid-state relays, together with a PID temperature control (Proportional, Integral and Derivative). This meant the output temperature was highly accurate to less than ± 1% and ensured superb energy efficiency.
Planning ahead to add future value
We decided to take our solution a step further and designed with future expansion in mind. The system was built to allow for three further 18 kW Heat Packs to be added and controlled by the single HMI.
A solution for every application
At Secomak we pride ourselves at taking on complex challenges and providing bespoke solutions to meet our customers’ needs.