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Celebrating 80 Years of Progress: The Pick Heater's Legacy

In the 1940s while working at Pick Manufacturing, Alan Pick and consultant engineer C.D. Kern developed a concept of direct steam injection water hea...

The Crucial Role of Temperature Control in Process Heating

In the world of food processing, chemical manufacturing, and pulp and paper manufacturing, maintaining precise temperature control is not just a pref...

Direct Steam Injection Cooking for Soy Production

In the realm of soy-based product manufacturing, the utilization of direct steam contact cookers, also known as jet cookers, has yielded significant ...

Starch Cooker for Pulp and Paper Processing

Heating the Way: Pick Heaters – Direct Steam Injection Solutions for Pulp and Paper Processing

The pulp and paper industry plays a crucial role in our daily lives, providing essential products such as paper, packaging materials, and tissue prod...

Pick Heaters is proud to announce the appointment of Mark Brueggemann as its new President.

We’re proud to announce the appointment of Mark Brueggemann as our new President.

Exploring the Efficiency and Benefits of the Pick Desuperheater

If you are looking for a simple, cost-effective, and reliable way to cool steam to within 10°F of saturation, you could benefit from Pick Desuperheat...

What is Steam Hammer and How a Pick Heater Can Help

Pick Steam Injection Heaters are an ideal replacement for tank spargers and other heating methods that may be prone to steam hammer issues. If you ar...

How Pick Heaters Can Meet Customers’ Specifications and Requirements with Customized Fabricated Heater Designs

What if your application requires a heater that goes beyond what would be considered a standard offering? What if you need a heater with a larger pip...

Pick Custom Design: Innovative Process Solutions for Heat Transfer Applications

Are you in search of a reliable and cost-effective solution for your heat transfer requirements? Look no further than Pick Custom Design (PCD). PCD, ...

Maintenance Tips for Steam Injection Heaters: Ensuring Efficiency and Reliability

Steam injection heaters play a critical role in various industries, providing efficient and reliable heating solutions. To ensure their optimal perfo...

Pick Variable Flow Steam Injection Heater

Enhancing Food Processing Plant Safety and Efficiency with Direct Steam Injection Heaters

One of the key aspects of the food industry is process heating, which is required for various purposes such as cooking, pasteurization, sterilization...

Pick Constant Flow Steam Injection Heater

The Importance of Using Steam Injection Heating in the Chemical Processing Industry

Steam injection heating has many advantages and applications in the chemical processing industry, where maintaining stable and precise temperature co...

How to Choose the Right Direct Steam Injection Heater for Your Needs

When choosing a Direct Steam Injection Heater, there are a few factors you need to consider, including the type of liquid being heated, how much the ...

An Innovation in Plant Sanitation

Pick Heaters used a unique approach to meet the requirements of a specific customer and in the process hit upon a system design with an unprecedented...

Advantages of Using a Direct Steam Injection (DSI) System to Process Pet Foods and Pet Supplements

One effective method to consider for processing heated pet food products or supplements is through the use of the Direct Steam Injection (DSI) System.

Benefits of Steam Injection for Starch Cooking

When considering a new process line, production facilities should examine the type of Direct Steam Injection Heater used. Many think of the jet cook...

Facing the Limits of Indirect Heat Exchange - Part 1

The challenges of heating fluids and providing a steady hot water supply are important to a wide range of industry types, and there are many solution...

Finding the Solution of Direct Steam Injection - Part 2

The limits to indirect heat exchange examined in Part 1 become more significant as greater temperature or pressure is required for heat and hot water...

Steam Injection for Sanitation, Sterilization and Cleaning-In-Place

Among the most important aspects of any food, beverage or pharmaceutical processing operation is the ongoing assurance of sanitary equipment. Effecti...

Improve Your Waste Grease Recycling Process with Steam Injection

Most brown grease from waste traps has historically ended up as landfill, but recognition of its value for production of fertilizer, biodiesel and ot...

Ensuring Food Safety with Direct Steam Injection

Sanitization is critical to food production. Food production machines need to be sterile, or the food could potentially become contaminated. There ar...

Gas Injection - Food’s Secret Ingredient

Food production is a process that must be hygienic from start to finish. From the utensils to the equipment to the packaging, everything needs to be ...

Saving Money, Improving Efficiency with Direct Steam Injection

The most common method of transferring energy with steam is indirect heat exchange, which has a significant drawback. Due to the pressure drop as the...

Pick Steam Injection Constant Flow Heater

Improve Jacketed Heating Systems with Direct Steam Injection

Steam still has an important role to play in jacketed heating, but a Direct Steam Injection (DSI) Heater provides the most precise and energy-efficie...

How to Calculate Your Steam Needs

Learn how to easily calculate your steam needs, and the difference in the equation between indirect heat exchanges and direct steam injection.

Pick Constant Flow Steam Injection System

Why Direct Steam Injection Liquid Heating is the Preferred Choice for Many Industrial Applications

Customers have many choices for heating water, liquids or slurries, but Direct Steam Injection (DSI) Heaters should be at the top of the list of opti...

Benefits of Industrial Wastewater Treatment Using Steam Injection

A Direct Steam Injection System can rapidly and accurately maintain temperatures for processing difficult materials, such as wastewater, and thereby ...

Pick's Kick - The Pick Connection to College Football

Learn about Pick Heaters interesting connection to college football.

The Benefit of Precise and Accurate Temperature Control with Direct Steam Injection Heaters

Direct Steam Injection (DSI) Heaters are systems that inject steam directly into a liquid or slurry to heat it up to a desired temperature. DSI heate...

Direct Gas Fired Hot Water Heaters-Running on Empty

In this last in a series of Pick Blogs covering methods of heating water for plant sanitation, we take a look at direct contact hot water heaters. Th...

Hose Station Heating with Direct Steam Injection

Getting Into Hot Water – Indirectly

Previously, we compared two methods of heating water for plant sanitation, both involving DSI (direct steam injection). While the use of individual s...

Plant Sanitation - The Safe Way to Get Into Hot Water

An ongoing challenge faced by food industry customers is maintaining a reliable, yet safe plant sanitation system. This means making sure that all ar...

Industrial Water Heating – Methods and Means

While digging through the Pick factory archives the other day, I came across a 14-page pamphlet titled Industrial Water Heating – Methods and Means. ...


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