Oven Laboratory

Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Hinnerk Bormann

Minimizing the use of fossil fuels and the transition to an electricity-based society will be a social challenge in the coming years. This affects, among others, companies that manufacture and process materials. The use of electricity will enable new processes for generating heat through induction or microwaves. In contrast to combustion-based processes, heat is no longer transported from the outside to the inside, but by using dielectric and/or electrical material properties within the materials. This means that hots spots in the samples/semi-finished products/components are possible with mixtures on the one hand, and very rapid heating on the other. Furthermore, temperatures above 1,000 °C are easier to achieve in terms of process technology.

An investment project financed by the state of Lower Saxony allowed CUTEC to set up a furnace laboratory in 2023, where research and development work on high-temperature technology up to 2,100 °C can be carried out on a laboratory scale using microwave and induction furnaces. The following should be highlighted in detail:

1. Resistance-heated tube furnace
2. Hybrid heating microwave / electric
3. Induction furnace

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