Tube Furnace
The Almor Wild Barfield Tube Furnace has established a reputation for the supply of robust installations to meet a wide variety of hardening, tempering and annealing needs for continuous or batch production.
Design Features:-
- Single or multiple tubes for processing strip or wire
- Hardening and tempering or annealing
- Nitrogen or Nitrogen / Hydrogen atmosphere
- Maximum temperatures up to 1300°C for Hardening
- Maximum temperatures up to 500°C for Tempering
- Multiple zones for close temperature control
- Hinged lid to facilitate maintenance
- Low thermal mass insulation
CASE STUDY 1 – Industry: Steel strip
- Application: Hardening and Tempering
- Maximum temperature: 1000°C and 450°C
- Equipment: 4 tube Hardening Furnace (3 zones)
- 4 tube Tempering Furnace (4 zones)
- Charge space: 50 mm wide x 12.5 mm high tube
- Atmosphere: Nitrogen and Hydrogen
CASE STUDY 2 – Industry: Steel strip
- Application: Hardening
- Maximum temperature: 1300°C
- Equipment: Single tube Hardening Furnace (6 zones)
- Charge space: 200 mm Diameter?
- Atmosphere: Nitrogen and Hydrogen
CASE STUDY 3- Industry: Wire
- Application: Annealing
- Maximum temperature: 1100°C
- Equipment: Eight tube Annealing Furnace (6 zones) with cooling section
- Charge space: 25 mm Diameter
- Atmosphere: Hydrogen