Warehouse Heaters UK

Warehouse heaters / heating from Flexiheat UK

Warehouse heaters – It’s essential that when you’re working in a warehouse, it is heated in a sufficient way in order for your business to run correctly and smoothly. Without the correct heating to provide heat, your warehouse or distribution centre wouldn’t be a suitable place for your employees to be working in, or for your customers to browse in an adequate temperature. A warm air heating system tends to be the most popular heating system for warehouse heating, as heated air is the perfect solution or ideal solution for large volumes that you get with warehouse space.

It’s important to use heaters with high energy efficiency that provide good heat distribution and airflows, and a consistent indoor air temperature – All of our industrial heaters are ErP 2021 compliant – which ensures the warmed air is produced with high energy efficiency. These units are a great space heating solution, and provide consistent temperatures, with lower running costs for your HVAC system.

The Warehouse Itself

Deciding on the right space heating system will depend on several factors, such as the layout of the warehouse. Having big doors constantly opening and closing makes it difficult to control the temperature and, consequently, makes it more difficult to keep it at adequate levels. If your warehouse is very big, your heating needs will vary, compared to a smaller warehouse. You might just need heating in specific areas, so it’s important to make sure you’re getting the right heating solution for your warehouse.

Warehouse heaters – their applications

It’s important to ensure that your warehouse is well heated throughout the winter to make sure your employees have a suitable working area.  As the colder days and nights begin to come in, your warehouse will probably require to be warmed up. Some warehouses will need the whole place warming up, whereas others will just require a particular area warming up.

There’s a number of different ways you can heat your warehouse.

Air heating systems as warehouse heaters

The next step in heating your warehouse is choosing a heating system. You need to find the solution that works best for you, so it’s important to note the differences between types of heating, so that you know what you have to work with. Please note direct fired units as not recommended, as they introduce products of combustion, which are poisonous will harm humans in a confined space. Also many insurance companies will not ensure a warehouse or  distribution centre that has direct fired heaters, because of this and also the fire hazard.

Indirect fired air heating systems options include:

Floor standing cabinet heaters

If you prefer, or if your space isn’t at a premium, you might want to check out floor standing indirect fired industrial space heaters, which are available in a number of possible installations: vertically, horizontally or even on the exterior of your warehouse – this is because these heaters have several heat outputs and burners, so their versatility makes them incredibly useful in the workplace. Floor standing heaters can be equipped with various fuel burners –  either oil, natural gas / LPG gas or in some case Multi / Waste Oil burners depending on the type of fuel source is preferred and come with the option of an adjustable thermostat.

Floor standing warehouse heaters are the easiest of all to maintain, as access is granted at any time, without the need of scissor lifts or any scaffolding etc, that you may need when having ceiling suspended heaters to service. Flexiheat have a wide range of high heat outputs floor standing cabinet heaters to suit any warm air heating application. Also ongoing maintenance is easier, as the heaters mounted on the floor space, thus it’s easy to get to the heat exchanger and burner for example.

Industrial heaters – Gas, Oil or Multi Oil Fired which have a ventilation mode or fan only mode for air circulation

For more information on the heating solutions available to you , please see our products page here

Suspended Unit Heaters

Perfect if you don’t have a lot of space, as they are out of the way of daily traffic. With plenty to choose from in terms of design, suspended warm air unit heaters are also easy to install and maintain. Suspended heaters come in all different shapes and sizes and can run off either gas, oil or with a wet heating system, whereby a boiler sends heated water to hydronic (or water fed ) unit heaters , which are basically industrial radiators with a axial fan behind them , that blows out the warm air. These unit heaters can also be supplied to work on low pressure steam as well as hot water, should you have steam as a resource available as a heating medium or be fed by heat pumps ( either air source or geothermal) which can be powered by sustainable energy or green energy and produce high energy savings.

They free up valuable floor space and can be wall mounted or mounted in high roofs, blowing the warmed air to the floor level.

Warehouse industrial heaters – Gas heaters – Suspended – natural gas or LPG

For more information on the gas unit heaters available to you , please see our dedicated web page – gas unit heaters 

Warehouse industrial heaters  – Hydronic or Water Fed Unit Heaters

For more information on the hydronic unit heaters available to you , please see our product pages – Click here for our EPP plastic low temperature water fed fan coil heaters or or our steel cased that will do LTHW, MTHH or HTHW  water fed applications – then please click here – Unit Heaters or should you require steam powered units click here – steam unit heaters 

Ventilation

Air-to-air heat exchanger which offer low energy solutions for commercial buildings

Some form of ventilation should be installed in the warehouse to ensure good indoor air quality, we recommend using our commercial mechanical ventilation with heat recovery units – see this webpage – Commercial MVHR – to ventilate with heat recovery for indoor air quality.

Spot heating in a warehouse

There are occasions when only a single spot or work area within a large warehouse or factory needs to be heated. For example:  an admin desk, a person on a production line or a lunch break area. Probably the most common type of spot heating is from an electric infrared radiation / radiant heater, which are portable or mobile , and can used in various locations as and when the heat is required to heat people directly. These radiant infrared heaters use an electric element or a number of these to produce radiant heat directly. Infrared heating or radiant heating is very much suited to heating specific objects or people that are stationary, and take up little floor space. Below is a picture of infrared heaters in use. For more information on this range please see our dedicated webpage portable infrared heaters

Spot Heating with infrared space heaters – this infrared heater range are single phase powered 240Volt or even 110 Volt powered

Should you require anymore assistance or information on our cost effective warehouse heaters , please don’t hesitate to contact our sales team on 01202 822221 or click here for our email contact form.

Industrial heaters –Warm air industrial heating options

Warm air industrial heaters are frequently used in almost all industrial buildings today from warehousing, manufacturing , to food processing or even building sites to provide warm air supplementary heating, emergency heating or even frost protection. There is a variety of industrial heaters that serve different purposes, but these days thanks to the ErP regulations they are all highly energy efficient, and with variable heat output (normally via an adjustable thermostat) that allow the industrial heater to match the heat requirement of the industrial buildings.

Being an unavoidable necessity, it is very important for business owners to provide heat via a warm air industrial heater in their factory premises to serve their purpose.

Install an industrial heating system to deliver warm air with an industrial heater can be easy task as we can provide a large range of models from industrial electric fan heaters or industrial electric heaters that can either be mobile heaters, that are manufactured to cope with regular site use with adjustable thermostatic control and variable heat output (ideal for temperature protection of a large space – i.e., frost protection) or fixed electric fan heaters to deliver warm air for a more permanent solution for your industrial heating requirements.

We also do our industrial heater range powered by other fuels such as gas or oil (red diesel) to ensure you can have the industrial heating power/heat output to suit your fuel type.

Please go through the following points if you want to get the most out of your industrial heater requirements-

The following are the most common types of heaters on the market based on fuel types

Industrial Gas Heaters – Natural and Propane(LPG) Warm Air Heaters

Gas heaters and propane heaters burn natural gas, propane, liquefied natural gas (LNG) or other gaseous fuels to generate heat. The first gas heaters were similar to the Bunsen burner in that both they used a flame to heat air locally. This heated air was spread by convection to warm an entire area. Later, the burner’s flame was used to heat a structure made of asbestos, a strong and incombustible fibre. Although asbestos structures have been replaced by fire clay and other refractory materials, modern gas heaters still operate according to this principle. Gas heaters and propane heaters often use similar designs.

Performance Specifications

Specifications for natural gas heaters and propane (LPG) heaters include maximum temperature, heating capacity and maximum air flow. There are two parameters for maximum temperature, maximum air temperature and maximum operating temperature.

The maximum operating temperature for gas heaters is the highest temperature that the heater’s coating or protective cover may reach.

The maximum air temperature, as its words suggest, is the maximum temperature of the air exiting from the heater.

Heating capacity is the wattage that gas heaters and propane (LPG) heaters can deliver.

Fan Options

You can have either an axial fan for free blowing applications or a centrifugal fan for use of the industrial heater in a ducted warm air heating system

Industrial Heaters – Applications

The variety of different applications for gas and propane heaters include annealing and heat treating, drying, curing and tempering, melting, and the heating of gases and vapours. Gas heaters and propane heaters are also used to heat clean water, high purity waters and process waters, lightweight oils and degreasing solutions; heavy and medium weight oils, caustic solutions and mild and severe corrosive solutions.

Industrial Heaters – Features

There are many optional features for gas heaters. Some products are indirect-fired, corrosion resistant, finned, and explosion-proof or can be controlled by a microprocessor. Gas heaters can also be fitted with an internal temperature detector, a grounding wire, and multiple / independent timing controls.

Other additional features may also include overheat protection, adjustable thermostat control; portability

For more information of our range of gas heaters, please click here

 Oil Industrial Heater

Oil, normally red diesel is burnt to generate heat output, the are a good heating solution for large space, when mains gas is not available. They consist of metal columns with cavities and a heating element. Inside these cavities, oil or kerosene flows freely around a heating element. This element, which is located at the bottom of the heater, transfers heat through the fluid in a process called convection. The oil or kerosene acts as a heat buffer or reservoir and provides both a relatively high specific-heat capacity and a high boiling point. Because of its high specific-heat capacity, the oil or kerosene accumulates a large amount of thermal energy in a small volume. This high boiling point allows the fuel source to remain in the liquid phase, and means that oil heaters and kerosene heaters do not have to be high-pressure vessels.

Heaters -Types

There are many different types of oil and kerosene heaters. The variety include air, band, coil, and cable heaters; drum, duct, and enclosure heaters; and flexible, forced-air, immersion, and induction heaters. Cartridge, cast-in, ceramic fibre, and circulation heaters; Heat torches are forced-process air heaters that may burn oil or kerosene. Oil and kerosene heaters also include over-the-side, radiant flat panel, infrared (IR) and radiant reflective process heaters. . Other types of oil and kerosene heaters include room or space heaters.

Operation

Oil and kerosene heaters transfer heat to a room at a slower rate and over a longer period of time. Using the liquid petroleum as a heat reservoir, they transfer heat via conduction and radiation. Typically, the columns of oil and kerosene heaters are made of metal and constructed as thin fins.

Specifications

Specifications for the heating element include length or height, depth or thickness and width or diameter, some oil and kerosene heaters use single-phase or three-phase power. Others require AC voltage. Typically, an industrial heater use AC voltage instead of DC voltage.

Applications

There are a variety of different applications for an oil industrial heater, but the largest requirement is for space heating

Oil and kerosene heaters are also used to heat process and high-purity waters, lightweight oils & degreasing solutions, heavy &  medium weight oils, mild & severe corrosive solutions, caustic solutions, and liquid paraffin. Depending on the application, insulation options are also important to consider when selecting an oil or kerosene heater.

For more information of our range of oil heaters, please click here

Industrial Electric Heaters

An electric fan heater generates heat by passing an electric current through a high-resistance material know as a heating element. When an electric current passes through it, it glows red hot and converts electrical energy into heat. An electric fan heater can be ideal for providing supplementary heating or emergency heating applications.

Electric fan heaters are available with various heating power outputs, and the best ones have adjustable thermostatic control, and both high and low heat settings.

They can provide a robust and economical great heater solution to deliver warm air rapidly in any commercial or industrial building

Electric fan heaters radiate heat with the use of a tubular element, flexible heater element or other type of heating element. A heating element is usually made up of a coil, ribbon (corrugated or straight), or strip of wire that gives off heat similar to a lamp filament when used in a infrared heating unit.

Types

Heating elements are mostly either iron-based or nickel-based.  Nickel-based heating elements are typically made of nichrome, an alloy that consists of about 80% nickel and 20% chromium. Nichrome is a popular and common material for heating elements because of its high melting point of 2,550°F (1,400°C)

It also will not oxidize at high temperatures and does not expand much when it heats up. It also retains a consistent resistance of about 10% between ambient temperature and maximum operating temperature.

Features

Some key features of our industrial electric heaters are portability, precision temperature monitoring & control and temperature protection.

Industrial Electric Fan Heaters – Applications

Electric heaters are commonly used throughout industrial and consumer products to heat all types of liquids, gases, vapours, and solids. In consumer products, electric heaters are commonly used for heating water, air and even flooring. Industrial applications can utilize much higher wattages and industrial electrical heaters can be used for applications such as heat treating, annealing, melting, and the heating of all types of process fluids.

For more information of our range of industrial electric heaters, please click here

Industrial Heater – How to calculate how much heat you require

Once you have determined the type of industrial heater for you building you then need to work out which size you require. This can be achieved in the form of a simple heat loss calculation. The most important factors to consider are the dimensions of the building, the length, width and average height. There are a number of online calculators that you can use to work out the heat requirements. Below you can download our heat loss calculation sheet which shows you how simple it is

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Garages aren’t known for being warm, comfortable spaces to work, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be. With the help of a garage heater, your commercial or industrial environment can become a warm, dry place to work.

Garages can often feel quite cold and damp, especially during cold weather but it needn’t be that way. As they are quite confined spaces, often lined wall to wall with spare parts and tools.

However, it is essential that your garage interior is kept warm and dry to protect all those parts, tools and vehicles that you may have stored in there, let alone your staff . That’s where investing in a heater that’s specific to the environment can come in handy. Providing reliable warmth and helping to keep the air within your garage dry and moisture free, our range of heating systems is perfect for all types of garages or workshops.

No matter whether you own a small one-vehicle garage or a larger, warehouse-like commercial car garage, we have a selection of gas and oil heaters for you to choose from which suit a variety of needs and requirements.

We know that many businesses and individual customers are working to a tight budget, which is why we aim to provide a selection of products that covers a wide range of budgets. No matter how big or small your budget is, we are sure that we will have a product to suit both your budget and your needs.

There are four main types of garage heaters available: electric, natural gas or propane gas and oil. Electric heaters are easy to install, efficient, and require little maintenance. You simply plug them in when needed, adjust the thermostat to the desired temperature, and unplug when you’re done, but the larger outputs output units require 3 phases /400Volt supply.

Gas heaters and oil heaters are often the most inexpensive option, but they require access to a natural gas supply. Propane heaters need a propane tank, and oil require an oil tank

                                                           Suspended  Warm Air Heater  – Gas or Oil Fired                                                                                                     

                                                        Stationary Warm Air Heater – Oil or Gas Fired

                                                      Industrial Electric Heaters                                                                                                                                                

                                                  Larger Industrial Electric Heaters  

Or you can utilise one of our waste oil heaters, either manual fired, or fully automatic operation, and use your waste oil!

Benefits of Installing a Garage Heater

When you choose the right type of heater for your garage, it’s relatively inexpensive to run and much cheaper than insulating the whole space.

For garages that house workshops, a heater is essential. It’s hard to get anything done if you have to bundle up in winter gear just to stay warm. Instead of shivering your way through every project, you can turn on the garage heater and work in comfort.

Finding the most suitable heating solution for a garage or outhouse may seem like a difficult task, but with the help of the experts that we have working with us here at Flexiheat UK, it’s much easier than you think! You’ll be feeling the benefits of your brand new gas or oil heater in no time!