Year: 2019

Industrial furnace manufacturers are tasked with developing heat treatment solutions that meet both broad and extremely specialized operating criteria. These may include wide temperature ranges with safety controls for extreme peak thermal conditions, unique considerations for future expansion, and specialist furnace geometries for processing difficult components. Humidity is an almost unavoidable factor in industrial and laboratory heat treatment processes. It is produced when the internal temperature of samples is heated to the extent that moisture trapped within the material desorbs and enters the heat treatment chamber as a vapor. Dehydrating samples is a critical process for drying and curing ovens.…

Standard thermal processing equipment can be limiting in terms of device architecture and geometry. Specialist equipment manufacturers typically require a bespoke solution to guarantee optimal processing conditions for products and components that are chemically-sensitive or of a difficult scale. Custom industrial furnaces enable original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to tailor production lines to their unique thermal processing requirements. Improved automation, controlled environments, and unique accessibility features are just a few challenges that Thermcraft has resolved with our custom industrial furnaces. In a previous blog post, we explored 4 Custom Industrial Furnace Types from Thermcraft. This week, we are exploring two more…

Natural gas furnaces, or gas-fired ovens, use naturally-occurring gaseous mixtures of hydrogen (H) and carbon (C) as the primary source of fuel. These hydrocarbons can be extracted from oil wells where they exist as off-gas, or they may be found in isolated natural gas fields and extracted using specialized drilling rigs. It is a fossil energy source that has more closely aligned with renewables compared to petroleum and coal, owing to its significantly reduced carbon emissions following combustion. As such, natural gas is dispensed to millions of homes around the world where it is used to fuel ovens and central…