Pipe Freeze Protection

2 XL-Trace Systems Pipe Freeze Protection and Flow Maintenance

3 System Overview

4 Applications Above or Underground Freeze Protection – General Water Piping – Sprinkler Piping Flow Maintenance – Grease Disposal Lines – Fuel Lines

5 Consequences of system failure Frozen or clogged pipes Environmental hazard from spills Equipment damage Loss of production Life-safety issues

6 Determine Design Conditions

7 Select Heating Cable Output

8 Remember: Heating cable only maintains the temperature of stagnant fluid by replacing the heat lost through the thermal insulation Pipe Heat Tracing Heating cable power output Insulation thickness Pipe size (D) Heat Loss Ambient temperature

9 Determine Voltage & Jacket Select Heating Cable Voltage Select Outer Jacket

10 Determine Heating Cable Length

11 Determine Heating Cable Length

12 Select Temperature Controls Manual control Ambient thermostat Line sensing thermostat Solid-state Controller Tie into BMS

13 Controls AMC-1B Line sensing Thermostat AMC-1A Ambient sensing Thermostat AMC-F5 Fixed 40°F setpoint Thermostat DigiTrace 910 Solid-state Temperature Controller with Ground Fault Protection

14 Determine Number of Circuits Use the heating cable number to determine the maximum circuit length

15 Calculate Transformer Load 16 Use the total amount of heating cable and the maximum A/ft from table 7 to calculate the total transformer load.

16 RayClic Components

17 Product line - 6 connections RayClic-PC Power Connection RayClic-TTee RayClic-SSplice RayClic-XCross RayClic-PSPowered Splice RayClic-PTPowered Tee

18 Accessories GT-66Glass tape AT-180Aluminum tape ETLWarning labels (every 10’)