CHAMBER FURNACE FOR SIMULATION OF CARBON MATERIALS HEAT TREATMENT IN ELECTROTHERMAL FLUIDIZED BED

Abstract

Existing laboratory furnaces for high-temperature heat treatment of materials at around 3000°C, which have graphite heaters, allow samples to be heated at a rate two orders of magnitude lower than in electrothermal fluidized bed furnaces. This makes it impossible to use them in the research into the heat treatment of carbon materials because they do not meet the conditions of shock heating and do not allow to keep accurate residence time. The paper presents the research into the use of low-density composite carbon materials as heaters. Based on the results obtained, a high-temperature chamber furnace was designed, studied, and the temperature field in the heater was simulated. As a result, a high-temperature laboratory furnace was created with a sample heating rate of 20 °C/s - 100 °C/s, which made it possible to use it to simulate the heating process in the electrothermal fluidized bed furnace. Comparison of energy consumption in the furnace with a traditional graphite heater and a low-density carbon composite heater showed that heat loss in the furnace is reduced by 1.7 to 1.8 times.