Top hat industrial furnace for high-temperature applications
Achieve precise high-temperature processing with this advanced solution, designed for critical tasks like annealing and sintering. Its automated operation ensures efficient handling of ceramics, metals, and powders with consistent results, boosting productivity and quality in your material processing workflows.
Conducts Precise Heat Treatment and Processing
The Top Hat Furnace HB from Carbolite Gero offers a customizable solution for high-temperature heat treatment across industries such as ceramics, metallurgy, and materials science. Its unique design features an automated, vertically moving hood, allowing access from three sides and facilitating efficient loading and unloading. This equipment is capable of reaching temperatures up to 1800°C using high-quality molybdenum disilicide heating elements, ensuring optimal performance for processes like annealing, debinding, and sintering. Available in volumes ranging from 80 to 560 liters, it integrates seamlessly into industrial production lines with options for programmable control and Ethernet communication. Energy efficiency is enhanced by low thermal mass insulation, while safety is prioritized with over-temperature protection. Customization options include reinforced base plates for heavier loads and advanced gas control for modified atmospheres, catering to the diverse needs of ceramics manufacturers, metal heat treatment facilities, and industrial R&D departments.
Benefits
- Enhances process precision with programmable temperature control systems.
- Increases operational flexibility with interchangeable heating elements for different temperature needs.
- Minimizes energy use through efficient low thermal mass insulation.
- Improves safety with over-temperature protection mechanisms.
- Facilitates quick loading and unloading with automated hood movement.
- Applications
- Ceramics,Metal powders,Heat treatment products,Technical ceramics,Catalysts
- End products
- Silicon nitride components,Automotive catalytic converters,Hardened steel components,Tungsten carbide powders,Ceramic tiles
- Steps before
- Preparation,Material Handling
- Steps after
- Cooling,Packing
- Input ingredients
- technical ceramics,binder gases,samples,ceramic injection moulding materials,materials for annealing,materials for debinding,materials for degassing,materials for drying,materials for sintering,materials for sublimation,materials for synthesis,materials for tempering
- Output ingredients
- debinder gases,annealed materials,debonded materials,outgassed materials,dried materials,sintered materials,sublimated materials,synthesized materials,tempered materials
- Market info
- Carbolite Gero is renowned for designing and manufacturing high-temperature laboratory and industrial furnaces and ovens, offering expertise in heat treatment solutions, with a reputation for quality, reliability, and precise thermal processing across various industries.
- Maximum Operating Temperature
- 1300 °C,1600 °C,1700 °C,1800 °C
- Capacity
- 80 to 560 litres
- Heating Element Type
- FeCrAl for 1300 °C,MoSi2 for higher temperatures
- Over-temperature Protection
- Yes
- Programmability
- EPC3016P1 controller
- Insulation Type
- Low thermal mass
- Cooling Option
- Fast cooling options available
- Ethernet Communications
- Yes
- Hood Movement
- Automatic
- Heating element type
- FeCrAl / MoSi2
- Maximum operating temperature
- 1300°C / 1600°C / 1700°C / 1800°C
- Control system
- Programmable EPC3016P1 controller
- Operation type
- Batch
- Hood operation
- Vertically moving hood / Steady hood with moving hearth
- Atmosphere control
- Gas inlet for modified atmosphere
- Debinding options
- Active propane gas after burner / Catalytic oxidiser
- Cooling option
- Preheated air blower
- Capacity range
- 80 to 560 litres
- Automation level
- Manual / Programmable
- Energy efficiency
- Low thermal mass insulation
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Application Examples
- Annealing,Debinding,Sintering
- Footprint
- Not specified
- Shape
- Top hat (movable hood)
- Shape
- Bottom loading (movable hearth)
- Usable Volume
- 80 to 560 litres
- Temperature Range
- 1300 °C to 1800 °C
- Heating Elements
- CrFeAl / MoSi2
- Over-temperature Protection
- Yes
- Ethernet Communications
- Available
- Insulation
- Low thermal mass
- Control Panel Type
- PLC / 19 inch touchscreen
- Discharge Method
- Automated hood/hearth
- Control panel type
- Programmable EPC3016P1 controller
- Integration possibilities
- Ethernet communications
- Gas inlet for operation under modified atmosphere
- Yes
- Preheated air blower
- Up to 650°C
- Propane gas after burner
- Optional
- Catalytic oxidiser
- Optional
- Reinforced base plate
- 500 kg/m²
- Bottom heater
- Improved temperature uniformity
- Cooling options
- Fast cooling options available
- PLC and 19 inch touchscreen control
- Optional