Abstract
A model is presented for calculation of the dynamic wall and gas temperature distribution of a heated graphite furnace used for analytical atomic absorption measurements. Numerical iterative procedures were used to obtain data for a furnace of specific dimensions (28 × 6 mm), as well as “shaped” variants of this bask design. Instrumental parameters such as the voltage applied and the resistivity of the graphite were measured accurately and the values used in the model so that the real situation on a commercial instrument was resembled well Results of absorbance-time measurements enabled the temperature distribution to be known at all stages of the evolution of the analyte absorbance pulse. It is shown that for shaped furnaces, the gas temperature at the centre of the furnace can be lower than that at some intermediate positions, as well as higher than the furnace wall temperature at the centre. Results for the gas temperature at tube centre agree reasonably well with that of another model put forward recently. Due to problems associated with experimental measurement of gas temperatures, such values do not compare well with the theoretically calculated ones.
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