Power and ElectricalElectrical Heat Tracing Systems
Heat tracing keeps process lines above a temperature that a product, an instrument or a safety case depends on, and its failures are usually discovered when something has already frozen or solidified. This course covers designing and maintaining it. Delegates work through tracing types including self regulating, constant wattage and mineral insulated, heat loss calculation and circuit design, and the selection of insulation, which affects the result more than the cable does. Control and monitoring, hazardous area requirements and certification of installations are covered, and the course closes on commissioning tests, fault finding on an installed circuit and the maintenance regime that catches a degraded circuit before the process notices.
Course objectives
- Compare self regulating, constant wattage and mineral insulated tracing
- Calculate heat loss and design a tracing circuit to maintain temperature
- Select thermal insulation appropriately for the design
- Specify control, monitoring and temperature limiting
- Apply hazardous area requirements to a tracing installation
- Commission a circuit and carry out the required tests
- Find faults on an installed circuit and maintain against degradation
Who should attend
- Electrical and instrumentation engineers
- Process and project engineers
- Maintenance technicians
- Commissioning engineers
- Contractors installing tracing systems
Course outline
- 01What heat tracing is protecting, and the cost of its failure
- 02Tracing types and their characteristics
- 03Heat loss calculation
- 04Circuit design and sizing
- 05Thermal insulation selection
- 06Control, monitoring and temperature limiting
- 07Hazardous area requirements
- 08Commissioning, fault finding and maintenance
Scheduled sessions
| Dates | Venue | Format | Price | Register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 to 15 September 2026 | Lusaka, Zambia | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |
| 9 to 11 October 2026 | Maseru, Lesotho | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |
| 16 to 18 October 2026 | Nairobi, Kenya | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |
| 27 to 29 October 2026 | Nairobi, Kenya | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |