Thermal fluid heaters, also called hot oil heaters, are used in many different applications and processes because of their ability to have high temperature fluid at a low pressure. Most applications the fluid also stays in a liquid form, so you do not have to worry about fluid phase changes and dealing with a vapor and liquid like a boiler with steam and condensate.  Specialty thermal fluids can be heated up to 700F in our helical coil heaters. Standard fluids by MobilTherm, Dow, Therminol or Xceltherm as well as many as others are commonly used in process heating applications. Thermal fluid heaters are typically used in the oil and gas industry for reheating of amine, Joule-Thomson effect, or other heat exchange needs and also in chemical reactor heating, petrochemical plants, cooking and frying, plastics, automotive, asphalt, organic rankine cycles (ORC), heating of wood presses and platens, biodiesel production  and many other applications.  Process heaters are also available for heating thermal fluids like glycol or other fluids and gases like ammonia, nitrogen as well as direct fired steam superheaters.  Electric thermal fluid heaters as well as heat recovery thermal oil heaters are also available. If you have an application that requires a thermal fluid heater or plant processes that needs engineering support to help design for safety and best efficiency practices, let Thermal Process help you.