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Oven Built for Electrostatic Painting

I'm building an oven and I want to know if I use electric elements of 5000 watts each and the size of the oven is 2 mts x 2 mts x 3 mts. How many elements am I going to need, if I use a blower and I want to heat up to 190 C?

Gonzalo Aranibar
- La Paz, Bolivia
2001

2001

The calculations for an oven requires more information than you supplied. If you could please provide the following:

conveyor steel and chain weight,
conveyor speed(if applicable) % product light metal,
% product heavy metal total weight of product,
air infiltration,
water vapor load,
solvent load, etc.

John Fink
Northern Engineering and Management - Sterling, MI, USA

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