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advantages and disadvantges of electric heating (industrial)

advantages and disadvantges of electric heating (industrial)

advantages and disadvantges of electric heating (industrial)

(OP)
Hi all,

Please enlist the advantages and disadvantages of industrial electric heating methods as compared to other heating methods (e.g. gas, oil heating etc).

Thanks to all in advance.

RE: advantages and disadvantges of electric heating (industrial)

It depends on a lot of things peculiar to your project site, fuel cost and availability. Hire a consultant.

Rafiq Bulsara
http://www.srengineersct.com

RE: advantages and disadvantges of electric heating (industrial)

The main advantage may be cost.
The main disadvantage may be cost.

Bill
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"Why not the best?"
Jimmy Carter

RE: advantages and disadvantges of electric heating (industrial)

How long is a piece of string?  

David Castor
www.cvoes.com

RE: advantages and disadvantges of electric heating (industrial)

Heating what?

"If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe." -- Abraham Lincoln  
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RE: advantages and disadvantges of electric heating (industrial)

Have you checked your utility bill lately?  I did all those things you are supposed to do to lower your home bill.  I now pay more for the basic service charges a year than I do for the total gas used with supplemental charges.  And that is with last years numbers before I added even more insulation.  This was also a very cold winter.

RE: advantages and disadvantges of electric heating (industrial)

That's why I said "Heating what?". Space heating for offices / work spaces I'd say gas or oil, hands down. But if you are trying to melt titanium, that's a different issue. You would not get the BTUs out of fuel oil to do it very effectively.

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