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Field Heat Treating
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Team's Heat Treating Capabilities
Induction Heat Treating
Team's Heat Treating Services
Team's Heat Treating Equipment, Products and Parts Catalog
Range of Team's Heat Treating Capabilities
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| Team deploys exactly the right technology for your application and budget by utilizing the finest, most experienced heat-treating technicians and engineers available, unequalled service, and state-of-the-art equipment. |
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Team Industrial Services offers:
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 | More than 90 million watts of heat treating resources. Team's complete heat treating toolbox includes low- and high-voltage resistance heating with PLC or wireless remote-control systems, mobile self-contained rigs, high-velocity combustion heating, induction heating, space heating plus much more. |
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| | In-house engineering, no guesswork. With the only full-time, in-house engineering staff in the industry, Team ensures your job is completed professionally, up to code, fully documented, and in the shortest possible time. Team engineers analyze structural integrity and heat transfer to develop the most appropriate and cost-effective thermal processes. They also design and manufacture custom equipment, including temporary on-site furnaces that can treat an entire process assembly. | 
Stress relief underway on a turbine rotor in Guatemala. |
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| | Technician expertise. Did you know that there are no standard training requirements for field heat-treating technicians? Team fills this gap with the industry's most advanced field heat-treating training and safety program. Technicians who carry out your job will have not only all the training to handle any situation that might arise, but also an average of 8.4 years of field experience. Overall, Team has more than 3000 man-years of heat-treating experience. |
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| | Quality and safety - the nuclear standard. Team is a NUPIC-approved 10CFR 50 Appendix B supplier and a member of the Nuclear Industries Assessment Committee (NIAC). The company "thinks nuclear" and routinely completes jobs to the exacting nuclear industry standards of quality and safety - your assurance of getting the job done right, completely documented, and accident-free. | 
A custom-built permanent warming system. |
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| | Contract services, sales and rentals: If you need heat, Team can deliver it to you in the form you need it - equipment sales, rentals, calibration, maintenance, contract services. |
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| | Quick response: With 60 offices in North America, Team can be on site solving your heat treating problems within 24 hours, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. |
Utilizing the company's low to high temperature control equipment, here are the services Team offers: |
| | Welding preheat: Advanced automated systems control and document welding preheat to reduce thermal stress in many ways. First, it drives off moisture that would release hydrogen that could penetrate the steel and cause porosity and subsequent cracking. Second, it reduces heat loss to the surrounding metal, minimizing the rate of weld hardening and allowing hydrogen that is present to escape. And finally, it improves the microstructure and durability of the heat affected zone. |
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| | Post-weld heat treatment: Carefully controlled post-weld heat treating (PWHT) is crucial to ensuring a long campaign life for your process equipment. PWHT tempers the metal and reduces tensile stresses, minimizing the risk of brittle fracture, stress and corrosion cracking and metal fatigue. This is especially important for equipment in a harsh service environment. Team engineers ensure the structural integrity of the vessel or unit during treatment, and the company's advanced PLC and wireless control technology achieve the precise control needed to get the maximum benefit from the treatment. | 
Technician sets up a low voltage heater for a vessel-to-pipe preheat |
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| | Refractory dryout: Here is the secret to long refractory life - a professional Team dryout using the company's high-velocity combustion systems to ensure that every nook of your refractory is heated under control as tight as 1°/hour. Team's dryouts are (1) designed to completely remove both free and chemically held water to minimize spalling and cracking, (2) prevent formation of thermal stresses that could weaken the refractory (3) the potential for slip plane is minimized, and (4) assure cross-sectional ceramic bonding for exceptional refractory campaign life. Team also performs controlled heat-ups and shutdowns that can further extend refractory life. |
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| | Space heating: Team's Turbo Hot Air Blower systems improve the quality and wear of coatings and linings by controlling the temperature at the surface during all phases of preparation, application and curing. Clean electric heat leaves no residues. |
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| | Line thawing and melt-out: Team electrical resistance heating gets frozen lines flowing again quickly, and keeps them flowing until your plant's steam tracing system is working again. For foundries that lose a heat source, Team's combustion services can melt out anything from zinc to steel, 800° to 3000° F. |
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| | Coating and lining cures: Forced curings quickly and thoroughly dry coatings and linings of baked phenolics and epoxies to improve quality and wear - and minimize the need for reapplication. The controlled and uniform heat distribution of a Team high-velocity combustion cure eliminates hot spots and ensures conformance to the manufacturer's recommended heat schedule. Plus, you get online fast because forced curing does in hours what nature takes days to do. | 
Low voltage ceramic equipment in use during a field heat treating job |
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| | Heat shrink and expansion: Because Team's induction systems produce heat so quickly, they are perfect for fitting or removing retaining rings, bearing and sleeves, journals and shafts and other tight-tolerance parts. You get the results you want without the risk of damaging components. |
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| | Turbine warming systems: For turbines that cycle on and off, Team's permanent warming systems help protect casings and steam chests by maintaining optimal temperatures during shutdowns. This prolongs the life of the equipment by preventing cracking due to embrittlement, thermal fatigue, and uneven expansion and contraction common during cold cycling. Additionally, it reduces start-up time. | 
Preheat for a pipe repair. |
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| | Hydrogen removal: Team can improve the integrity of welded components and minimize the risk of fabrication-related cracking. Used prior to cutting or welding older process equipment, Team's hydrogen removal technology can help protect equipment during the cutting and welding and improve the quality of the finished work. |
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| | Heat treatment (normalizing and annealing): Team offers a range of services for annealing and normalizing to alter the properties of metals that may or may not contain welds. |
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| | Process startup: It's well known that process heaters are designed for a small range of temperatures close to operating temperatures - not ideal during a start-up. Team's high-velocity combustion systems feature exceptional turndown ratios (100:1), so they can be programmed to increase from candle-heat to process heat in tightly controlled increments. It's the best way to minimize thermal stress and ensure long run-times in cyclone boilers, CFBs, steel mills, glass plants and other process applications. | 
Special furnace for large ship propellar |
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| | Decontamination: Electrical resistant heating has been successfully utilized to decontaminate huge storage tanks that once held toxic agents. The heating process drives residual chemical agents off the tank walls so they can be collected, and the tanks can be dismantled. |
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With a huge toolbox to choose from, Team engineers can devise the most appropriate and cost-effective solution for your project.
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| | Traditional low-voltage electrical resistance: Ceramic blankets stepped down to 80 volts provide a quick and convenient approach to many jobs, particularly preheat and PWHT. | 
A Team technician sets the parameters for a heat treatment cycle. |
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| | PLC and wireless laptop low-voltage electrical resistance: For large jobs, TEAM capitalizes on advanced automation to provide both control and safety. The company doesn't promote wireless systems indiscriminately because there are important safety considerations that sometimes warrant having a technician monitor control points at the site. But for many projects, wireless technology can offer personnel savings by controlling up to 36 points using Team's SCADA software. |
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| | Mobile self-contained rigs: These trucks have their own diesel generators (so Team doesn't need your plant power) and enough fuel to provide heat for 24 hours. They also contain a fully enclosed control center and all of the cabling, control and power equipment to control 18 or 24 points of electrical resistance control. Urgent heating need? Team's mobile rigs are your answer! |
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| | High-voltage electrical resistance: Team is one of the few companies in the world with resistance heating equipment that uses direct 480-volt power. This equipment has the advantage that 20 large ceramic pads will do the same job as 100 small pads used by a low-voltage system. This saves on setup time, and the greater power is especially important for large vessels and thicker sections. |
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| | High-velocity combustion: Team has burners specifically designed to deliver the amount of heat required, commonly from 1 to 10 million BTUs (nozzle size from 2 to 8 inches) Team also has burners that will deliver an astonishing 100 million BTUs. In addition to multiple safety interlocks and redundancies, these systems feature a turndown ratio of 100:1, which allows Team to vary heat output from candle intensity to full blast in increments as small as 1°F/hour. Output from the company's 20HP blowers varies from 500 CFH to 168,000 CFH to ensure that heat is distributed evenly regardless of a vessel's geometry. |
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| | Induction heating: Team's induction heating systems use a coil wrapped around the object to create an electromagnetic field that generates heat within the object. These systems provide quicker heating, faster set-up and tear-down, the safety of cool coils, efficient power consumption and narrowly focused heat. They are ideal for expansion/ shrink fitting, line thaws, and preheat and PWHT for single large components. |
Remember: Call Team when you need heat treating services for:
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| | Routine maintenance | 
Field heating preparation for large cylinder |
| | New construction |
| | Turnarounds |
| | Shutdowns |
| | Outages |
| | Refractory dryouts |
| | Hold heat |
| | Capital projects |
| | Phenolic/epoxy paint cures |
| | Heat shrink and expansion |
| | Heat treatment |
| | Turbine warming systems |
| | Process startup |
| | Repower projects |
| | Line thaws and melt-outs |
| | Call outs |
| | 24/7 service |
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Team Industrial Services
P.O. Box 123
Alvin, TX 77512
1-800-662-8326
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