Thermic Edge supplies custom vacuum furnace options for customers with specific hot zone, chamber, pumping, and gas supply requirements. These options allow vacuum furnace systems to be adapted around sample size, process needs, chamber access, vacuum level, gas handling, and data analysis requirements.
These custom options are relevant to Thermic Edge vacuum furnaces, including laboratory vacuum furnace systems and benchtop furnaces.
All Thermic Edge vacuum furnaces are customisable, allowing systems to be adapted to customer requirements. Hot zones can be adjusted from standard sizes, configured as dual hot zones, or designed to hold a specific sample size.
Thermic Edge can also customise the water cooled chamber by adding ports for additional data analysis and monitoring options. These may include extra hot zone thermocouples, internal crucible thermocouples, residual gas analysers, pyrometers, and other process monitoring requirements.
For related systems, see Thermic Edge graphite furnaces and wider vacuum furnace systems.
The standard laboratory vacuum furnace is fitted with an Edwards RV8 vacuum pump, allowing the system to pump down to a rough vacuum of 5×10⁻² mBar on a well conditioned system.
For systems that require higher vacuum, Thermic Edge offers the following options.
The standard laboratory vacuum furnace offers two gas supplies into the chamber. This allows the use of a vent gas into the top of the chamber and a process gas feeding directly into the hot zone. Both gas flows are manually controlled with flow meters mounted on the front of the chamber.
Typically, Argon is used for the pump down procedure and venting, while other gases can be used for processing.
The Thermic Edge benchtop furnace uses a single gas input into the hot zone, acting as both vent gas and process gas, with the flow also manually controlled.
To allow a variety of gases to be fed into the process gas line of the laboratory vacuum furnace, or into the single supply on the benchtop furnace, Thermic Edge offers a Gas Supply Box. This allows multiple gases to be connected, with only a single gas supplied into the rear of the furnace.
Using the manual flow control on each furnace, the Gas Supply Box allows the user to switch between different process gases during the heating process, controlled by the HMI touchscreen.
Yes. Thermic Edge can customise vacuum furnace hot zones by adjusting standard hot zone sizes, providing dual hot zones, or configuring the hot zone to hold a specific sample size.
Yes. Thermic Edge can customise the water cooled chamber by adding ports for additional data analysis and monitoring. Examples include extra hot zone thermocouples, internal crucible thermocouples, residual gas analysers, pyrometers, and other process monitoring needs.
The standard laboratory vacuum furnace is fitted with an Edwards RV8 vacuum pump. On a well conditioned system, this allows the furnace to pump down to a rough vacuum of 5×10⁻² mBar.
For systems that require higher vacuum, Thermic Edge offers oil diffusion and turbo pump options. The oil diffusion option is listed with an ultimate pressure of 5×10⁻⁷ mBar, while the turbo pump option is listed with an ultimate pressure of 5×10⁻⁸ mBar.
The standard laboratory vacuum furnace offers two gas supplies into the chamber, with one vent gas supply into the top of the chamber and one process gas supply feeding directly into the hot zone. Both gas flows are manually controlled with flow meters mounted on the front of the chamber.
The Gas Supply Box allows multiple gases to be connected while supplying a single gas into the rear of the furnace. Using the manual flow control on each furnace, the Gas Supply Box allows the user to switch between different process gases during the heating process, controlled by the HMI touchscreen.
Useful details may include the required hot zone size, sample size, whether dual hot zones are needed, chamber port requirements, vacuum level, pumping option, gas supply requirements, and whether a Gas Supply Box is required. You can discuss your requirements through the Thermic Edge contact page or email sales@thermic-edge.com.
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All our vacuum furnaces are customizable allowing us to cater to the needs of our customers and their exact requirements. We can do this by adjusting the hot zones from our standard sizes to include dual hot zones or cater to hold a specific size sample. We can also customize the water-cooled chamber by adding ports to allow for extra data analysis in the form of extra hot zone thermocouples, internal crucible thermocouples, residual gas analyzers (RGA’s), pyrometers, and more.
The standard laboratory vacuum furnace is fitted with an Edwards RV8 vacuum pump allowing the system pump down to a rough vacuum of 5×10 ̄²mBar on a well condition system.
For systems that require higher vacuum we have two of the following options:
Oil Diffusion
Turbo pump
Our standard labratory vacuum furnace offers two gas supplies into the chamber allowing the use of a vent gas, into the top of the chamber, and also a process gas feeding directly into the hot zone. Both gas flows are manually controlled with flow meters mounted on the front of the chamber and typically Argon is used for the pump down proceedure and venting whilst other gases can be used for processing. Our Benchtop furnace uses a single gas input into the hot zone acting as both vent gas and process gas with the flow also manually controlled.
To offer a variety of gasses to be fed into the ‘process gas’ line of the laboratory vacuum furnace and the single supply on the benchtop furnace we offer a Gas Supply Box which allows for multiple gasses to be connected and only a single gas supplied into the rear of the furnace. Still using the manual flow control on each furnace, the Gas Supply Box allows the user to switch between different process gasses during their heating process all controlled by the HMI touchscreen.
