What are the advantages of Hybrid Furnace?

The Hybrid Furnace, which integrates tube furnace and box furnace, combines the advantages of two types of furnaces. Through modular design and intelligent control, it exhibits significant advantages in material handling, process flexibility, energy efficiency, and other aspects. The following is a detailed analysis of its core advantages:

1. Process flexibility: Adapt to diverse needs
Tube furnace module:
Atmosphere control: Supports vacuum, inert gas (such as nitrogen, argon) or reducing gas (such as hydrogen) environments, suitable for the synthesis and heat treatment of oxidation sensitive materials (such as metal powders, nanoparticles).
Continuous processing: The furnace tube design allows samples or workpieces to pass continuously, suitable for mass production or process oriented processes such as catalyst activation and thin film deposition.
Rapid heating: Quartz or corundum furnace tubes have good heat permeability, fast heating rate, and shortened experimental period.
Box furnace module:
Static heating: The furnace space is large, suitable for processing large workpieces (such as gears, ceramic components) or processes that require long-term insulation (such as annealing, quenching).
Temperature uniformity: The double-layer furnace sleeve and hot air circulation system ensure that the temperature difference inside the furnace is ≤ 3 ℃, reducing the risk of cracking caused by material stress.
Multi station operation: Multiple samples can be placed simultaneously to improve experimental efficiency.
Joint mode:
Process connection: Through valve switching, continuous operation of tube furnace vacuum treatment and box furnace high-temperature annealing (such as core toughness treatment after surface hardening of metal workpieces) can be achieved.
Gradient temperature control: The tube furnace rapidly heats up to the target temperature, while the box furnace maintains stability and adapts to temperature sensitive materials such as polymer composite materials.

2. Energy Efficiency: Optimizing Energy Consumption and Costs
Modular power allocation:
Dynamically adjust the power output of tube furnaces and box furnaces according to process requirements to avoid energy waste caused by a single furnace operating at full load.
For example, during the low-temperature stage, only the tube furnace is started, while during the high-temperature stage, the box furnace is switched, resulting in a reduction in comprehensive energy consumption.
Heat recovery design:
The box furnace adopts a double-layer furnace sleeve and an air-cooled cooling system to reduce heat loss. The shell temperature is ≤ 50 ℃, which reduces the environmental load in the workshop.
Tube furnace tube sealing design reduces atmosphere leakage and lowers gas consumption costs.
Intelligent temperature control system:
Support 2 sets of 16 segment program programming, with adjustable parameters during operation to avoid repeated heating caused by temperature fluctuations.
Microcomputer PID control, temperature fluctuation range ± 1 ℃, reducing energy waste.

3. Convenient operation: Improve experimental and production efficiency
Integrated design:
Shared power supply, control system, vacuum pump and other components reduce equipment footprint and initial investment.
Unified operation of touch screen interface simplifies the complexity of multi furnace collaborative work.
Safety and reliability:
The multi-point locking mechanism of the furnace door, over temperature alarm, leakage protection and other functions ensure safe operation.
The refractory fiber module splicing furnace has strong resistance to rapid cooling and heating, extending the service life of the equipment.
Data recording and analysis:
Built in data acquisition system, real-time recording of temperature, atmosphere pressure and other parameters, supporting process optimization and quality traceability.
Can export CSV format data, compatible with analysis software such as MATLAB.

4. Application scenario extension: covering cross industry requirements
Materials Science:
Ceramic sintering: synthesis of nano powder in tube furnace, sintering of large parts in box furnace, improving material density.
Metal heat treatment: Hydrogen gas is introduced into the tube furnace to reduce the oxide film, and the box furnace is used for quenching to optimize the performance of the parts.
Chemical and New Energy:
Catalyst preparation: Tube furnace reduction of supported catalyst, box furnace modification of molecular sieve to enhance activity and selectivity.
Lithium battery materials: The positive electrode material is calcined in a tube furnace, and the negative electrode material is processed in a box furnace to improve the battery cycle life.
Semiconductors and Electronics:
Crystal growth: Thin films are deposited by tube furnace CVD method, and wafers are annealed in box furnace to reduce defects.
Packaging testing: Vacuum packaging chips in tube furnaces and aging testing in box furnaces to ensure reliability.

5. Cost effectiveness: High long-term investment return rate
Initial investment:
Compared to purchasing tube furnaces and box furnaces separately, the integrated design saves procurement costs.
Shared components such as power supplies and control systems reduce maintenance costs.
Operating costs:
Improving energy efficiency reduces electricity bills, reducing gas consumption and lowering material costs.
Modular design facilitates local maintenance and reduces downtime.
Production efficiency:
Combining continuous processing with static heating can shorten the process cycle and increase the yield per unit time.
Intelligent temperature control reduces waste rate and improves product qualification rate.