Large Powder Coating Curing Oven

Electric, Gas, or Diesel Powder Coating Oven, Which do you choose?

Basically the selection is depended on the size of the powder coating oven referring to the initial cost and potential cost.

Powder Coating Oven Initial Cost

For the investment of equipment itself, when requires small dimension powder coating oven, electric heating is more cost-saving since it has easier structure and configurations while gas/diesel ovens combine a heating room, stainless steel heat exchanger, a high performance burner, etc.

For large dimension, such as oven length is 5 meter, 6 meter or more, especially curing tunnel, electric curing oven will not be cheaper than gas/diesel oven as it requries to install a big quantities of electric tube to warm the large space. Thus gas/diesel powder coating oven is more recommended. Moreover, gas/diesel ovens enjoys longer life and higher efficiency.

Powder Coating Oven Potential Cost

As these ovens are powerd by energy, we must take energy expense into the production cost.

On the small ovens, many people tend to use electric powder coating cure ovens because of the ease in getting electricity in their small workshop, which is most commonly to be founded.

For large size powder coating ovens, gas or diesel fuels generates much lower cost.  Building gas station though is not a small project, but in the long term it is more cost-saving as the large amounts of wattage for electric ovens is expensive for many countries. For diesel heating application, it seems cost is less than LPG or natural gas, but it may create pollution to cured parts, thus gas powder coating oves are more recommended.