Materials technology

Materials:     

• green bodies / pellets, solids, powders

Applications:

• sintering of powder-metallurgical pellets or ceramic green bodies
• heat treatments of various materials
  • coarse-grain annealing
  • soft annealing
  • recrystallization annealing
  • stress relief heat treatment
  • diffusion annealing
  • hardening
  • quenching and tempering, i. a.

Technical equipment:

• furnace total length: 600 mm
• heated length: 450 mm
• 3 independent heating zones
• homogeneous temperature in 300 mm (±5 °C)
• changeable quartz tube with Ø 30 and 60 mm
• changeable atmosphere:
  • inert gas (argon, nitrogen)
  • vacuum: max. 2x10^-7 mbar
• maximum temperature: 1200 °C
• variable heat-up rates: max. 22 K/min
• variable cooling rates in:
  • gas flow
  • liquid quenchant (also under vacuum)