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Pick Industrial Heater Brochure

Steam Injection Heater Brochure

Direct Steam Injection Liquid Heaters hold process temperature to extremely close tolerances, regardless of fluctuations in steam or water pressures and liquid flow rate.

Industry
  • ALL
Product Type
  • Constant Demand DSI Water Heater
  • Packaged System
  • Specialty DSI Heater
  • Variable Demand DSI Water Heater
Pick Sanitary Cooker Brochure

Sanitary Jet Cooker Brochure

Pick Sanitary Cooker/Heater can be used to heat/cook any water miscible liquid or slurry instantly on a continuous straight through basis.

Industry
  • Food & Beverage
  • Pharmaceutical
Product Type
  • Sanitary DSI Jet Cooker
Pick Custom Design Brochure

Pick Custom Design Brochure

Pick Custom Design Systems - A division of Pick Heaters offering innovative process solutions for heat transfer applications.

Industry
  • ALL
Product Type
  • Packaged System
All Pick Heaters Products Brochure

All Products Brochure

With a continuous flow of refinement and innovations, Pick Heaters has developed a family of products to provide solutions to customers for their application needs.

Industry
  • ALL
Product Type
  • Constant Demand DSI Water Heater
  • Desuperheater
  • Nitrogen Injector
  • Packaged System
  • Sanitary DSI Jet Cooker
  • Slurry Heater
  • Specialty DSI Heater
  • Variable Demand DSI Water Heater
Pick Constant Flow DSI Heater

Constant Demand DSI Heater

The Pick Constant Flow Direct Steam Injection Heater can be used wherever there is a constant demand of hot water or liquid at a precisely controlled temperature.

Industry
  • ALL
Product Type
  • Constant Demand DSI Water Heater
Pick Variable Flow Heater Literature

Variable Demand DSI Heater

The Pick Variable Flow Direct Steam Injection Heater provides hot water instantly with the widest operating range of any Steam Injection Heater.

Industry
  • ALL
Product Type
  • Variable Demand DSI Water Heater
Variable Flow DSI for Hose Station Literature

Variable Flow Heater for Hose Stations

The Pick Variable Flow Direct Steam Injection Heater is ideal for hose station service.

Industry
  • ALL
Product Type
  • Variable Demand DSI Water Heater
Sanitary Detailed Sell Sheet

3A Certified Steam Injection Sanitary Jet Cooker

The Pick Sanitary Steam Injector is the preferred choice for in-line product cooking, CIP heating or nitrogen gas injection.

Industry
  • Food & Beverage
  • Pharmaceutical
Product Type
  • Sanitary DSI Jet Cooker
Sanitary Starch Cooking Literature

Sanitary Heater for Starch Cooking

Pick Sanitary Heaters have proven ideal for cooking candy starch slurries.

Product Type
  • Sanitary DSI Jet Cooker
Pick Packaged Direct Steam Injection Systems

Packaged Direct Steam Injection Systems

Pick Direct Steam Injection Packaged System components are integrated to meet the requirements for heating jacketed reactors and kettles, liquid-to-liquid exchangers, rotary vacuum dryers and blenders, plate and frame heat exchangers, pasteurizers, CIP systems and other applications.

Industry
  • ALL
Product Type
  • Packaged System
BX Centrifuge Recovery of FOG Sell Sheet

Pick BX Heater for Centrifuge Recovery of Fats, Oils and Grease

Effective separation of solids and heavy liquids requires heating of the waste fluid upstream of the centrifuge. The Pick “BX” steam injection heater has a proven track record on this service - offering precise temperature control and negligible liquid side pressure drop.

Industry
  • Ethanol & BioFuel
  • Food & Beverage
  • Other
Product Type
  • Slurry Heater
  • Specialty DSI Heater
BX Slurry and Mash Heater Sell Sheet

Pick BX Slurry Heater

The unique design of the Pick BX Heater offers key advantages over other high-velocity, high-pressure drop venturi devices and less efficient indirect heat exchangers.

Industry
  • Ethanol & BioFuel
  • Food & Beverage
  • Other
  • Pulp & Paper
Product Type
  • Slurry Heater
  • Specialty DSI Heater
Steam Injection Heater for Starch Cooking

Pick BX Starch Cooker

A Pick BX Heater provides instantaneous and complete cooking of starch and other miscible slurries. It is proven effective on pearl, modified, and cationic starches with solids concentrations up to 35% and cooking temperatures ranging from 90ºC - 150ºC.

Industry
  • Ethanol & BioFuel
  • Pulp & Paper
Product Type
  • Slurry Heater
Pick Fabricated Heater Literature

Custom Fabricated DSI Heaters

Pick Heaters offers customized fabricated heater designs for applications that go beyond our standard model offerings.

Pick Desuperheater Literature

Pick Desuperheater

The Pick Desuperheater is a water spray type with a single nozzle.

Industry
  • Chemical
  • Energy & Power
  • Pulp & Paper
Product Type
  • Desuperheater
Pick Heaters for Chemical Processing Industry

We're Heating Up the Chemical Industry

Learn more about the applications that Pick Heaters provides solutions to in the Chemical Industry.

Industry
  • Chemical
Pick Heaters for Food Industry

We're Heating Up the Food Industry

Learn more about the applications that Pick Heaters provides solutions to in the Food Industry.

Industry
  • Food & Beverage
Product Type
  • Constant Demand DSI Water Heater
  • Nitrogen Injector
  • Sanitary DSI Jet Cooker
  • Variable Demand DSI Water Heater
Pick Heaters for the Pulp and Paper Industry

We're Heating Up the Paper Industry

Learn more about the applications that Pick Heaters provides solutions to in the Pulp and Paper Industry.

Industry
  • Pulp & Paper
Product Type
  • Constant Demand DSI Water Heater
  • Slurry Heater
  • Variable Demand DSI Water Heater
Pick Heaters for Power Industry

We're Heating Up the Power Industry

Learn more about the applications that Pick Heaters provides solutions to in the Power Industry.

Industry
  • Energy & Power
Product Type
  • Constant Demand DSI Water Heater
  • Desuperheater
  • Packaged System
  • Variable Demand DSI Water Heater
Heat/Cool System for Jacketed Reactor Vessel

Heat/Cool System for Jacketed Reactor Vessel

A company producing photographic chemicals for the printing industry wanted better temperature control for heating and cooling a gelatin-based emulsion in 480 gallon jacketed vessels.

Industry
  • Chemical
Product Type
  • Constant Demand DSI Water Heater
  • Packaged System
CIP System for Tank Cleaning

CIP System for Tank Cleaning

A pharmaceutical company requested a complete CIP system for storage tanks.

Industry
  • Pharmaceutical
Product Type
  • Constant Demand DSI Water Heater
  • Packaged System
Bio-Inactivation System

Bio-Inactivation System

Large pharmaceutical facility wanted to convert their batch processing method for bio-waste treatment to a continuous flow system.

Industry
  • Pharmaceutical
Product Type
  • Sanitary DSI Jet Cooker
Pick Replaces Competitor’s Unit on Four Reactor Vessels

Pick Replaces Competitor’s Unit on Four Reactor Vessels

A producer of PVC resin was experiencing serious steam hammer and vibration using a competitors heater that featured a “co-axial” mixing design.

Industry
  • Chemical
Pre-Packaged Steam Injection Heating System

Pre-Packaged Steam Injection Heating System

Heat & Cool 4,000 gallon Pfaudler® glass lined jacketed vessel.

Industry
  • Chemical
Product Type
  • Constant Demand DSI Water Heater
  • Packaged System
Closed Loop Jacketed Blender

Closed Loop Jacketed Blender

Chemical company uses hot water, rather than steam, to heat their 10,000 pound capacity jacketed blender.

Industry
  • Chemical
Product Type
  • Packaged System
Waste Inactivation System

Waste Inactivation System

A major pharmaceutical company required a waste stream inactivation system to heat waste from multiple reactors.

Industry
  • Pharmaceutical
Product Type
  • Packaged System
  • Slurry Heater
Packaged Heat and Cool System

Packaged Heat and Cool System

A major pharmaceutical company needed to heat product in a 300 gallon jacketed dryer through a closed loop hot water process.

Industry
  • Pharmaceutical
Product Type
  • Packaged System
Caustic Water Heater Application Bulletin

Caustic Water Heater Requires Special Considerations

A PVC manufacturer needed to heat a caustic and water mix as part of their chloral conversion process.

Industry
  • Chemical
Product Type
  • Constant Demand DSI Water Heater
  • Specialty DSI Heater
Portable Heating System For Jacketed Kettles

Portable Heating System For Jacketed Kettles

The customer required a small, compact heating system to supply water to various jacketed kettles.

Industry
  • Food & Beverage
Product Type
  • Packaged System
  • Variable Demand DSI Water Heater
Pet Food Application

Pet Food Application

Pet food processing company with numerous locations throughout the United States required a method for heating ground frozen chicken meat slurry.

Industry
  • Food & Beverage
Product Type
  • Sanitary DSI Jet Cooker
Defrost Belt Freezers

Defrost Belt Freezers

Frozen vegetable processor required a method to remove ice build-up on multiple belt freezers.

Industry
  • Food & Beverage
Product Type
  • Variable Demand DSI Water Heater
Plant Hose Station Service

Plant Hose Station Service

Large Cheese Processor wanted a central hot water system capable of supplying all the hose stations located on three floors of his plant.

Industry
  • Food & Beverage
Product Type
  • Packaged System
  • Variable Demand DSI Water Heater
Nitrogen Injection Into Mayonnaise

Nitrogen Injection Into Mayonnaise

A producer of salad dressing wanted to increase product volume and provide a smoother texture of their mayonnaise product.

Industry
  • Food & Beverage
Product Type
  • Nitrogen Injector
  • Sanitary DSI Jet Cooker
Pasteurization of Liquid Cheese

Pasteurization of Liquid Cheese

Dairy customer wanted an improved method for pasteurization of liquid cheese prior to a spray drying process.

Industry
  • Food & Beverage
Product Type
  • Sanitary DSI Jet Cooker
Make-Up Water For Belt Pasteurizer

Make-Up Water For Belt Pasteurizer

A seafood processor required hot water supply for aseptic pasteurization of artificial crab product.

Industry
  • Food & Beverage
Product Type
  • Constant Demand DSI Water Heater
Hose Station Service

Hose Station Service

Midwestern meat processing plant struggled to maintain hot water supply for hose station service using a shell-and-tube heat exchanger.

Industry
  • Food & Beverage
Product Type
  • Packaged System
  • Variable Demand DSI Water Heater
Hose Stations for Sanitation

Hose Stations for Sanitation

A large meat packing plant repeatedly ran out of hot water.

Industry
  • Food & Beverage
Product Type
  • Variable Demand DSI Water Heater
Clean In Place

Clean In Place

A dairy plant experienced frequent and costly failure of the shell-and-tube heat exchangers on their clean-in-place (CIP) systems.

Industry
  • Food & Beverage
Product Type
  • Sanitary DSI Jet Cooker
Nitrogen Injection System

Nitrogen Injection System

Mayonnaise producer wanted a complete system to inject nitrogen into product, resulting in smoother product texture, increased product volume and extended shelf-life.

Industry
  • Food & Beverage
Product Type
  • Nitrogen Injector
  • Sanitary DSI Jet Cooker
Tallow Heating Prior To Separation

Tallow Heating Prior To Separation

Customer called for a smooth and efficient method of heating edible beef tallow prior to separator.

Industry
  • Food & Beverage
Product Type
  • Slurry Heater
Pickle Pasteurizer

Pickle Pasteurizer

Manufacturer of tunnel conveyor pasteurizer required several efficient and responsive instantaneous heaters for their 9-zone conveyor to pasteurize pickles.

Industry
  • Food & Beverage
Pasteurization of Soy Milk and Clean In Place

Pasteurization of Soy Milk and Clean In Place

Dairy operation wanted to use steam injection for in-line pasteurization of soy milk.

Industry
  • Food & Beverage
Product Type
  • Sanitary DSI Jet Cooker
Atmospheric Retort

Atmospheric Retort

A major fruit and vegetable processor was experiencing problems with cooking uniformity of pears in a continuous atmospheric retort, resulting in unacceptable product quality.

Industry
  • Food & Beverage
Product Type
  • Constant Demand DSI Water Heater
Meat and Poultry Scalder

Meat and Poultry Scalder

One of the top poultry producers in the country was looking for a method for heating water to their scalders.

Industry
  • Food & Beverage
Product Type
  • Constant Demand DSI Water Heater
Corn Grain Cooking

Corn Grain Cooking

Tortilla chip manufacturer was looking for a method to speed up their batch alkali cooking process.

Industry
  • Food & Beverage
Product Type
  • Constant Demand DSI Water Heater
  • Packaged System
Bakery Pan Cleaning

Bakery Pan Cleaning

A bakery looked to speed up their pan cleaning tank operation.

Industry
  • Food & Beverage
Product Type
  • Constant Demand DSI Water Heater
Pasteurizing with Direct Steam Injection

Pasteurizing with Direct Steam Injection

Plate and frame heat exchangers used in pasteurizing operations are better heated by hot water sets using direct steam injection.

Industry
  • Food & Beverage
Product Type
  • Packaged System
Starch Slurry Jet Cooker

Starch Slurry Jet Cooker

Customer had been using an indirect static coil to heat their slurry, and found that it could not meet new production demands.

Industry
  • Food & Beverage
Product Type
  • Sanitary DSI Jet Cooker
Starch Based Confection Cooking

Starch Based Confection Cooking

Customer had been producing starch based confections using another manufacturer’s direct steam injection heater with mixed results.

Industry
  • Food & Beverage
Product Type
  • Sanitary DSI Jet Cooker
Gelatin & Starch Based Candy Cooking

Gelatin & Starch Based Candy Cooking

A new customer wanted to enter the jelly candy business and contacted Pick Heaters to help formulate new products with gelatin and starch bases.

Industry
  • Food & Beverage
Product Type
  • Packaged System
  • Sanitary DSI Jet Cooker
High-Pressure Hot Water System

High-Pressure Hot Water System

Poultry processing plant required a high-pressure hot water supply for their night time clean up.

Industry
  • Food & Beverage
Product Type
  • Constant Demand DSI Water Heater
  • Packaged System
Whey Permeate and Lactose Slurry Heating application bulletin

Whey Permeate and Lactose Slurry Heating

A US dairy and protein producer was using (2) indirect heat exchangers to apply heat to whey permeate and lactose slurry, but the inefficiency and maintenance issues with the heat exchangers created a bottleneck in the heating process. Pick Heaters provided a solution.

Industry
  • Food & Beverage
Product Type
  • Sanitary DSI Jet Cooker
Hose Station Service Application Story

Hose Station Service

A bacon and sausage production facility needed a reliable system that could provide them with the hot water needed to operate hose stations for plant clean-up and during production.

Industry
  • Food & Beverage
Product Type
  • Variable Demand DSI Water Heater
Poultry Plant Paw Picker Application Bulletin

Poultry Plant Paw Picker

Normally a discarded part of the chicken, the paw represents 100% profit to the customer. Lost product due to inefficient scalder operation means 100% loss of profit. Pick Heaters provide the perfect solution with precise hot water temperature control.

Industry
  • Food & Beverage
Product Type
  • Constant Demand DSI Water Heater
Nacho Cheese Cooking Application Bulletin

Cooking Nacho Cheese Sauce

A private label manufacturer had a retail customer reject their nacho cheese sauce due to unacceptable damage to pepper chunks in the product caused by their existing cooker.

Industry
  • Food & Beverage
Product Type
  • Sanitary DSI Jet Cooker
Soybean Mash Molasses Heating Case Study

Soybean Mash Molasses Heating

A customer needed to heat soybean molasses making it easier to pump to nearby holding tanks to be used in the production of animal feed.

Industry
  • Food & Beverage
Product Type
  • Sanitary DSI Jet Cooker
Felt Showers

Felt Showers

Paper mill required source of precisely controlled hot water for machine felt showers.

Industry
  • Pulp & Paper
Product Type
  • Constant Demand DSI Water Heater
Lime Mud Pre-Coat Filter Showers

Lime Mud Pre-Coat Filter Showers

A pulp mill located in Southern Georgia required 140°F wash water for the lime mud pre-coat filter.

Industry
  • Pulp & Paper
Product Type
  • Constant Demand DSI Water Heater
Starch Cooking

Starch Cooking

A converting mill producing a range of specialty coated printing and copier papers, required a steam injection heater for cooking cationic starch slurry, up to 35% solids.

Industry
  • Pulp & Paper
Product Type
  • Slurry Heater
Mill Water- Pick Replaces Ineffective Competitor

Mill Water- Pick Replaces Ineffective Competitor

Paper mill was having problems with two venturi type direct steam injection heaters on a simple mill water application.

Industry
  • Pulp & Paper
Product Type
  • Constant Demand DSI Water Heater
Backwashing Starch Filters

Backwashing Starch Filters

Customer required a hot water supply for backwashing of Ronningen-Petter tubular filters in the starch preparation area.

Industry
  • Pulp & Paper
Product Type
  • Constant Demand DSI Water Heater
Hydrapulper Filling and De-Inking

Hydrapulper Filling and De-Inking

For recycled fiber, waste paper or secondary fiber is “re-pulped” in hydrapulpers to de-fiber into a 5-7% stock slurry.

Industry
  • Pulp & Paper
Product Type
  • Constant Demand DSI Water Heater
Brown Stock Washing

Brown Stock Washing

In the chemical pulping process, cooked pulp, referred to as brown stock discharges from the digester.

Industry
  • Pulp & Paper
Product Type
  • Constant Demand DSI Water Heater
Breast Roll and Fourdrinier Wire Showers

Breast Roll and Fourdrinier Wire Showers

Accurately controlled water temperature is crucial to this application.

Industry
  • Pulp & Paper
Product Type
  • Constant Demand DSI Water Heater
Paper Machine System Boil-out

Paper Machine System Boil-out

A Pick Direct Steam Injection Heater is an excellent choice for this application.

Industry
  • Pulp & Paper
Green Liquor Heating

Green Liquor Heating

The Pick Heater can automatically adapt to changes of incoming liquor temperature. This helps prevent overheating of green liquor which does not improve causticizing reaction efficiency and presents the risk of boil over.

Industry
  • Pulp & Paper
Product Type
  • Constant Demand DSI Water Heater
Headbox Showers

Headbox Showers

Temperature control is critical and must match the temperature of the return whitewater to prevent thermal distortion of the headbox.

Industry
  • Pulp & Paper
Product Type
  • Constant Demand DSI Water Heater
Pre-heat Boiler Feed Water

Pre-heat Boiler Feed Water

A power plant generates steam for a neighboring paper recycling mill. Condensate could not be returned from the mill.

Industry
  • Energy & Power
Product Type
  • Variable Demand DSI Water Heater
Tank Car Cleaning System

Tank Car Cleaning System

National provider of railcar service and repair came to Pick Heaters, Inc. to design a tank car cleaning system.

Industry
  • Other
Product Type
  • Constant Demand DSI Water Heater
  • Packaged System
Reverse Osmosis System Supply Water Heating

Reverse Osmosis System Supply Water Heating

Regional power plant installed two new reverse osmosis (R/O) systems to reduce the amount of conventional chemical treatment for boiler feed water.

Industry
  • Energy & Power
Product Type
  • Constant Demand DSI Water Heater
Parts Washer

Parts Washer

An automotive manufacturer was using a plate heat exchanger for a final phase spray wash to remove honey oil from transmission parts.

Industry
  • Other
Product Type
  • Constant Demand DSI Water Heater
Condensate Mixing

Condensate Mixing

A west coast refinery was working on a project to eliminate hammer on condensate return lines off of three sour water strippers.

Industry
  • Other
Product Type
  • Specialty DSI Heater
Acid Pickling

Acid Pickling

In the finishing process, cold-rolled steel is cleaned to remove impurities through a continuous acid pickling process.

Industry
  • Other
Product Type
  • Variable Demand DSI Water Heater
Anaerobic Treatment of Organic Waste

Anaerobic Treatment of Organic Waste

A large dietary supplement manufacturer sought a process for treating industrial waste in a circulation loop scenario.

Industry
  • Other
Product Type
  • Constant Demand DSI Water Heater
Steam Injection Heaters Used for Swine Manure

Steam Injection Heaters Used for Swine Manure

When a major meat processing company committed to building a waste to energy facility, it selected Pick Steam Injection Heaters.

Industry
  • Other
Product Type
  • Constant Demand DSI Water Heater
Industrial Laundry Wash Machines

Industrial Laundry Wash Machines

An industrial uniform and apparel rental service was looking to replace a shell-and-tube heat exchanger for supplying hot water to their laundry washing machines.

Industry
  • Other
Product Type
  • Constant Demand DSI Water Heater
Limestone Slurry for Flue Gas Desulphurization (FGD)

Limestone Slurry for Flue Gas Desulphurization (FGD)

Environmental regulations require power plants to employ flue gas desulphurization (FGD) to control sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions.

Industry
  • Energy & Power
Product Type
  • Constant Demand DSI Water Heater
Ethanol Plant Process Water Heating

Ethanol Plant Process Water Heating

Major designer/operator of bioethanol plants uses Pick Direct Steam Injection Water Heaters to quickly bring plants on-line for production.

Industry
  • Ethanol & BioFuel
Resin Bed Regeneration

Resin Bed Regeneration

Power generation plants use cation and anion resin bed exchangers to treat boiler feed water.

Industry
  • Energy & Power
Product Type
  • Constant Demand DSI Water Heater
Trap Grease Processing

Trap Grease Processing

Waste trap grease, also known as brown grease accumulates in restaurants and food service facilities and must be disposed of.

Industry
  • Other
Tank Car Cleaning

Tank Car Cleaning

Customer was looking for a reliable method of providing hot water for washing residual sodium bisulfate from tank cars.

Industry
  • Other
Product Type
  • Constant Demand DSI Water Heater
Tempered Water Heater for Hydrostatic Testing of Shell and Tube Exchangers

Tempered Water Heater for Hydrostatic Testing of Shell and Tube Exchangers

Pick provided a simple solution to a refinery which required instant hot water to adhere to ASME VIII specifications for hydrostatic testing of shell and tube heat exchangers.

Industry
  • Other
Corn Oil Extraction Bulletin

Corn Oil Extraction

A corn-to-ethanol and biodiesel production facility located in the Midwest needed to heat a solution of distillers grain after it has been diluted and passed through several screens. A Pick Model 6X25-3BX Steam Injection Heater was the solution.

Industry
  • Ethanol & BioFuel
Product Type
  • Slurry Heater
Brackish Water Heating Bulletin

Brackish Water Heating

A Pick Model 6X500-1FAB fabricated heater is used for de-oiled wastewater and raw brackish water heating prior to a lime softener, for ultimate re-use.

Industry
  • Oil & Gas
  • Other
Product Type
  • Specialty DSI Heater
Heat/Cool Pilot Lab System

Heat/Cool Pilot Lab System

A pharmaceutical company required a system to provide process heating or cooling in the pilot lab.

Industry
  • Pharmaceutical
Product Type
  • Packaged System
Packaged Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchanger

Packaged Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchanger

The customer required a simple but effective method of obtaining 120ºF water to mix with food ingredients.

Industry
  • Food & Beverage
Product Type
  • Packaged System
Heat/Cool System

Heat/Cool System

A chemical processor required a heat/cool system for a 3000 gallon jacketed reactor.

Industry
  • Chemical
Product Type
  • Packaged System
Plate and Frame Package for Plant Sanitation

Plate and Frame Package for Plant Sanitation

A beef processing plant specified the use of plate-and-frame heat exchangers for supplying 160°F water for plant sanitation.

Industry
  • Food & Beverage
Product Type
  • Packaged System