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Horizontal High Temperature Graphite Vacuum Graphitization Furnace

Graphitization furnace

Horizontal High Temperature Graphite Vacuum Graphitization Furnace

Item Number : GF-01

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Volume(L)
192 / 350 / 484
Rated temperature(℃)
2800
Limit temperature(℃)
3100
Effective heating area (mm)
400*400*1200 / 500*500*1400 / 550*550*1600
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Introduction

A graphitization furnace is a key piece of equipment used in the production of carbon products and materials. It is employed for graphitization experiments and the production of various carbon materials at temperatures up to 3100°C. The furnace excels in graphitization of carbon materials and stereotyped graphitization of carbon fiber filaments. It can be configured with multiple electric furnaces to accommodate different sintering process times, allowing for continuous operation through alternating power supply and cooling.

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Applications

The graphitization furnace is widely used in various industries for high-temperature treatment and graphitization processes. Here are some of its main application areas:

  • Metallurgy: In the metallurgy industry, graphitization furnaces are employed for the production of graphite electrodes, which are essential components in electric arc furnaces used for steelmaking. The high temperatures achieved in the furnace enable the conversion of carbonaceous materials into high-purity graphite, ensuring the desired electrical conductivity and thermal stability required for electrode applications.

  • Electronics: In the electronics industry, graphitization furnaces are crucial for the production of graphite crucibles, which are widely used in the manufacturing of semiconductors and other electronic components. The high-temperature environment within the furnace allows for the formation of pure and dense graphite crucibles with excellent thermal properties, chemical resistance, and high-temperature stability, making them ideal for handling molten materials and performing various high-temperature processes.

  • Aerospace: In the aerospace industry, graphitization furnaces are utilized for the production of graphite composites, which are lightweight and possess exceptional strength and thermal resistance. These composites find applications in the construction of aircraft and spacecraft components, such as rocket nozzles, heat shields, and leading edges, where they can withstand extreme temperatures and harsh environments encountered during high-speed flight.

  • Other Industries: In addition to the aforementioned industries, graphitization furnaces are also employed in a variety of other sectors, including:

    • Chemical Industry: Production of carbon black, activated carbon, and other carbon-based chemicals.
    • Energy Industry: Manufacturing of carbon fibers for use in batteries, fuel cells, and other energy storage devices.
    • Nuclear Industry: Treatment of nuclear waste and production of nuclear-grade graphite materials.
    • Research and Development: Study of high-temperature materials and processes in various fields.

Features

The horizontal graphitization furnace offers numerous advantages that cater to various graphitization needs and provide exceptional performance:

  1. Enhanced Temperature Uniformity: Utilizes medium-frequency induction heating for rapid temperature rise and high efficiency. The unique furnace design ensures remarkable temperature uniformity throughout the furnace chamber.

  2. Innovative Induction Coil Design: The induction coil's arched structure effectively addresses insulation and load-bearing concerns commonly encountered in horizontal induction furnaces.

  3. Exceptional Stability and Energy Efficiency: Double-layer alumina brick insulation material prevents short circuits between carbon felt and coils, ensuring excellent heat insulation and fire resistance. This design minimizes heat loss and contributes to the equipment's stability.

  4. Continuous Operation Capability: The system allows for the configuration of multiple electric furnaces with a single power supply. This enables the sequential heating and cooling of individual furnaces, facilitating continuous operation and optimizing production efficiency.

  5. Advanced Monitoring and Control System: The furnace incorporates a digital flow monitoring system with individual channel monitoring and protection in the power cabinet. It employs high-performance medium-frequency contactors and a comprehensive PLC water, electricity, gas automatic control, and protection system for enhanced safety and reliability.

Principle

The Graphitization furnace employs the principle of medium frequency induction heating to rapidly raise the temperature, ensuring high efficiency. Its unique furnace design considerably enhances the temperature uniformity within the furnace body.

Advantages

  • Rapid heating and high efficiency: Utilizes medium frequency induction heating for quick temperature rise and enhanced efficiency.
  • Uniform furnace temperature: Unique furnace design ensures excellent temperature uniformity throughout the furnace chamber.
  • Durable and reliable: Double-layer alumina brick insulation prevents short circuits, offering good heat insulation and fire resistance, resulting in minimal heat loss and stable equipment performance.
  • Flexible operation: Supports multiple electric furnaces with a single power supply, allowing continuous operation by powering on and heating or powering off and cooling individual furnaces as needed.
  • Comprehensive monitoring and control: Features a digital flow monitoring system with water flow monitoring and protection, high-performance medium frequency contactor, and a PLC-based automatic control and protection system for water, electricity, and gas.
  • Versatile applications: Suitable for various high-temperature treatment and graphitization processes, including graphitization experiments, production of carbon materials at temperatures up to 3100°C, and stereotyped graphitization of carbon fiber filaments.

Technical specifications

Product model specifications GF-01-40×40×120 GF-01-50×50×140 GF-01-55×55×160
Volume(L) 192 350 484
Rated temperature(℃) 2800 2800 2800
Limit temperature(℃) 3100 3100 3100
Effective heating area (mm) 400×400×1200 500×500×1400 550×550×1600
Power(KW) 200 350 450
Frequency(HZ) 1500 1000 1000
Temperature control method Adopt Japanese Shima Electric thermostat
Heating method Induction heating
Vacuum system Rotary vane vacuum pump (for high vacuum requirements, Roots vacuum pump and oil diffusion pump are required)
Sintering atmosphere N2, Ar and other gases
Rated power supply voltage (V) 380
Rated heating voltage (V) 750
Vacuum limit (Pa) 100 (vacuum cold state)

FAQ

What Is A Graphitization Furnace?

A graphitization furnace is a specialized piece of equipment used to convert carbonaceous materials, such as petroleum coke or coal tar pitch, into graphite through high-temperature processing in an inert atmosphere. This process typically involves temperatures ranging from 2500 to 3000 degrees Celsius.

What Is A Graphite Vacuum Furnace Used For?

A graphite vacuum furnace is primarily used for high-temperature treatment of materials in a vacuum or protective atmosphere environment. It is ideal for processes such as vacuum sintering, graphitization, and sintering of carbon materials, carbon fiber materials, and other composite materials. Applications include metallurgy, electronics, aerospace, and battery production.

What Is A Vacuum Furnace Used For?

A vacuum furnace is used for high-temperature processing of materials in a controlled environment without any contamination. It operates by surrounding the product with a vacuum, which prevents oxidation and heat loss from the product through convection. This furnace is commonly used for heat treatment of steel alloys at temperatures below 1200 °C. High-temperature vacuum furnaces can reach temperatures up to 3000°C and are used for industrial processes such as sintering, brazing, annealing, and heat treatment with high consistency and low contamination. The ability to achieve uniform heating across the entire workpiece is a key benefit of using a high-temperature vacuum furnace.

What Is A Graphitization Furnace Used For?

A graphitization furnace is primarily utilized for graphitization experiments and the production of diverse carbon materials at temperatures reaching 3100°C. It is commonly employed for graphitization of carbon materials, stereotyped graphitization of carbon fiber filaments, and other materials suitable for sintering in a carbon environment.

What Are The Main Applications Of Graphitization Furnaces?

Graphitization furnaces are crucial in industries such as metallurgy, electronics, and aerospace. They produce high-quality graphite products like electrodes, crucibles, and structural components, which are essential for various high-temperature applications.

What Are The Main Types Of Graphite Vacuum Furnaces?

The main types of graphite vacuum furnaces include horizontal graphite vacuum furnaces, vertical high-temperature graphitization furnaces, ultra-high temperature graphitization furnaces, continuous graphitization furnaces, and bottom discharge graphitization furnaces. Each type is designed for specific applications, such as large sample handling, uniform heating, or high-temperature graphitization up to 3100°C.

What Is The Process Of A Vacuum Furnace?

The process of a vacuum furnace involves loading the parts into the chamber and creating a vacuum inside it by utilizing a vacuum pump. The next step is to heat the parts using temperature controls, which can reach between 1,500 and 5,400 degrees Fahrenheit. This process eliminates the possibility of oxidation and contamination, resulting in a higher purity end product. After heating, the parts are cooled and finished before being removed from the vacuum furnace. The furnace consists of various components, including the vacuum system, furnace shell, electric heating element, temperature controls, power supply system, and transport apparatus.

What Are The Two Different Types Of Graphitization Furnaces?

Horizontal Graphitization Furnace: Designed for horizontal placement of the material to be graphitized. It offers advantages such as uniform heating, high efficiency, and easy operation. Vertical Graphitization Furnace: Employs a vertical arrangement of the material for graphitization. It is commonly used for continuous production processes and can accommodate larger quantities of material compared to horizontal furnaces.

What Are The Different Types Of Graphitization Furnaces?

There are several types of graphitization furnaces, including Horizontal High Temperature Graphitization Furnaces, Large Vertical Graphitization Furnaces, Continuous Graphitization Furnaces, Negative Material Graphitization Furnaces, Vertical High Temperature Graphitization Furnaces, Ultra-high Temperature Graphitization Furnaces, IGBT Experimental Graphitization Furnaces, High Thermal Conductivity Film Graphitization Furnaces, Bottom Discharge Graphitization Furnaces for Carbon Materials, and 2200°C Graphite Vacuum Furnaces.

How Does A Graphite Vacuum Furnace Work?

A graphite vacuum furnace operates by using graphite heating elements to generate high temperatures in a vacuum or inert gas environment. The furnace chamber is designed to create ideal black body conditions, ensuring uniform heating. Advanced temperature control systems, such as W-Re thermocouples and infrared thermometers, are used to maintain precise temperature regulation. The furnace is suitable for high-temperature treatments like graphitization and sintering.

What Gas Is Used In A Vacuum Furnace?

Different gases can be used in a vacuum furnace depending on the application. In general, vacuum furnaces can work with gases or mixtures such as Argon, Nitrogen, Hydrogen, Carbon Monoxide, Helium, among others. The use of these gases allows for heat treatment in a defined, mostly non-oxidizing atmosphere, which is required for various applications such as vacuum soldering and brazing, vacuum annealing, and sintering. Additionally, it is possible to work with a defined oxygen concentration that is different from the air composition.

How Does A Graphitization Furnace Work?

A graphitization furnace works by subjecting carbonaceous materials to extremely high temperatures, typically between 2500 to 3000 degrees Celsius, in an inert atmosphere. This process rearranges the carbon atoms in the material, converting it into graphite, which has unique properties such as high thermal conductivity, low thermal expansion, and chemical inertness.

What Are The Advantages Of Using A Graphite Vacuum Furnace?

The advantages of using a graphite vacuum furnace include: 1. High compressive strength, making it durable and lightweight. 2. Increased furnace productivity due to its compatibility with high temperatures and non-reactivity with process gases like nitrogen and argon. 3. Longer service life, as graphite does not distort under extreme heat. 4. Energy efficiency, with reduced heating and cooling times and lower energy demand compared to other materials. 5. Uniform heating and precise temperature control, ensuring high-quality results in material processing.

What Is The Heating Element Used In A Vacuum Furnace?

The heating element in a vacuum furnace is critical to its proper functioning, and is dependent on factors such as maximum operating temperature, power load, partial pressure and quench gases, and life expectancy. Vacuum furnaces are heated by electric resistance elements made from a variety of materials, including high-temperature metallic alloys such as stainless steel, nickel-chromium, molybdenum, tungsten, tantalum, or of non-metallic materials such as graphite and silicon carbide. The choice of material for the heating element is important in maximizing its longevity, reliability, efficiency, and ultimately the process results.

What Are The Advantages Of Using A Graphitization Furnace?

The advantages of using a graphitization furnace include the production of high-quality graphite with excellent thermal conductivity, low thermal expansion, and chemical inertness. These properties make graphite ideal for a wide range of high-temperature applications in industries like metallurgy, electronics, and aerospace.

What Temperature Range Can A Graphite Vacuum Furnace Achieve?

Graphite vacuum furnaces can achieve extremely high temperatures, typically ranging up to 2200°C for standard models and up to 3100°C for ultra-high temperature graphitization furnaces. This makes them suitable for advanced applications such as graphitization of carbon materials and high-temperature sintering.

What Industries Benefit From Graphite Vacuum Furnaces?

Industries that benefit from graphite vacuum furnaces include metallurgy, electronics, aerospace, and battery production. These furnaces are used for producing high-quality graphite products like electrodes, crucibles, and carbon fiber materials, as well as for advanced material processing and graphitization treatments.
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