Members of Ipsen’s Service, Engineering and Management teams completed an advanced pyrometry training. The 13 members who attended learned how key changes made in the latest revision (F) of the AMS 2750 specifications affect pryometric testing.

Convection ovens are used for many industrial heating processes performed on a variety of substrates. Regardless of what they are used for, industrial ovens typically are evaluated for functionality and performance based a on few criteria: temperature uniformity, operating efficiency and heat transfer rates. This article will explore these criteria and their importance on performance.

An affectionate, time-worn habit among my friends and family is to tease me about how temperature sensitive I am. Perhaps it is the effect of covering thermal processing for more than 20 years (though I doubt it), but I can sense even a degree or two difference in the ambient temperature.

In a furnace, the hot zone is crucial for the temperature distribution, the cleanliness of operations and the energy consumption of high temperature processes.

Smart temperature management and control are important in applications ranging from hot runner injection molding in the plastics industry to form, fill and seal systems for packaging, to rubber molding and to food production.

Whether starting up a new oven for the first time or trying to determine what your real operating conditions are, it is important to understand oven performance. 

Initial data from testing on a nearly 10' wide (3 m) production-scale oxidation oven designed for carbon fiber manufacturing shows good temperature and air velocity uniformity.

A customer was considering using an LAC2-18 benchtop oven from Despatch Industries to cure an adhesive used to mount a high-mass structure to a thick-gauge aluminum plate.

Oven and furnace controls have progressed rapidly in the last five years in an effort to provide tighter temperature uniformity, enhanced data-acquisition and storage capability, scalable architecture, improvements in the user interface and communication, and data security.

The company’s dryer and oven engineering is completed using Fluent computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis software to model airflow and temperature uniformity prior to manufacturing.