Fluidized Bed Heat Treatmen

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For several years Fluid Bed ovens have been used successfully in many heat treatment fields. Considerable

advantages are flexibility, universal usability, short batch times and elimination of environmental problems.

The Fluid Bed oven is a retort oven filled with fine particle aluminium oxide (Al203). Fluid gas enters through the

bottom plate and creates the Fluid Bed. Because it almost behaves like a liquid the heat transfer properties are

very similar to the ones of a liquid and thus the Fluid Bed guarantees fast heat up of the parts and temperature

uniformity.

By selection of temperature and gas or gas mixture different processes can be run.

Typical processes are:

Fluid Bed Heat Treatment

Reasonable Standard Furnace for:

	Hardening
	Annealing
	Tempering
	Nitriding
	Nitrocarburising
	Precipitation Hardening