How to Choose the Best Muffle Furnace for Your Lab

Mar. 18, 22

The term "muffle furnace" is still used today; this is not the case at the beginning of the 20th century. During that time, coal and wood were mainly used to heat furnaces. Over time, its meaning and significance has changed, and today it has a unique heating chamber and combustion.


Overview of Muffle Furnaces 

The muffle furnace is also known as a muffle furnace, or front-loading oven kiln. It is designed for high temperature applications such as manufacturing enamel coatings, melting glass, technical ceramic or copper soldering, and welding. They are also used in many research facilities for different purposes. For example, chemists use it to determine the total percentage of non-combustible and non-volatile samples.

This laboratory instrument allows samples to be heat treated at high temperatures (above 1000°C), thus reducing the risk of cross-contamination. This is mainly due to the presence of a mechanical arrangement of the furnace bed heated with high purity metal elements. These components are manufactured with the help of electrically conductive metals, which have high mechanical stability at high temperatures.


How to Choose the Best Muffle Furnace for Your Lab

Applications of muffle furnaces

The muffle furnace is a ruggedly constructed unit used primarily for changing the physical properties of samples at temperatures ranging from 800°C to 1800°C. It can be used in the molding industry, in the glass industry, and in the production of enamel coatings. It can be used in the molding industry, glass industry, rubber industry, ceramics industry, biomedical industry, paint industry, and plastics industry.

Muffle furnaces are used in rice laboratories, scientific experiments in physics laboratories, biotechnology companies, paint and steel industries, and small-scale production industries. It has important applications in annealing, coal analysis, general laboratory testing, lime calcination, and leaf carbonization.

In addition, it is ideal for isolating materials from combustion contaminants. All this makes the equipment suitable for heat treatment applications, ashing samples and materials research. In addition, it is widely used for melting glass, technical ceramics, brazing and manufacturing enamel coatings.


How to Choose the Best Muffle Furnace for Your Lab


Considerations 

There are many muffle furnaces on the market. How do you choose?


1 Applications

Whether you want to test polymers, rubber or food samples, it is important to know the exact temperature at which the sample begins to convert to smoke. If you don't know anything about it, don't miss checking the test standard that best fits it.


2 Space requirements

Your small lab may not have enough space to store the bulky box. Then, measure the size of the machine in this case. 


How to Choose the Best Muffle Furnace for Your Lab

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3 Temperature control 

For those who don't know it is important to know that the muffle furnace is about burning the sample in a specified chamber. Check whether the chamber has a temperature control device?


4 Safety features 

When choosing it, it is important to have the proper safety features. Keeping this fact in mind, always look for an automatic cut-off sensor responsible for controlling the combustion and overheating of the heating coil.



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