Duratherm Keeps Atwood Cooking Insurance companies, fire marshals and other regulators have recently begun mandating that heat transfer fluids be used below their flashpoints. While this certainly can add a measure of safety to a heat transfer system, it has often left manufacturers in a bind, forcing them to lower their operating temperatures, find a higher flashpoint fluid or cease operation altogether. Atwood Pet Foods, one of Canada’s largest deadstock rendering operations, felt the effects of this firsthand in 2006. Ontario’s Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA) mandated that their imported rendering batch cookers use fluid a full 50°F below its flash point. This meant the fluid needed a flashpoint above 500°F (260°C). Facing costly equipment retrofitting or replacement, At

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