Cooling the Vacuum Furnace: 5 Tips for Prevention, Maintenance

 

 

Source: TAV: The Vacuum Furnaces Blog

 

Andrew Alborghetti of TAV Vacuum Furnaces

It’s frustrating enough for furnace operators to encounter downtime due to failure or faulty equipment, but more so when it can be avoided adhering to basic maintenance procedures and adopting habits of diligence and quick thinking.

Andrew Alborghetti of TAV Vacuum Furnaces offers “5 tips for preventing faults caused by the process water in the cooling system [of a vacuum furnace or by] the use of unsuitable equipment.” In addition, he suggests steps to take when an emergency develops.

In a nutshell,

  1. Maintain specific purity standards of the process water.
  2. Prevent dangerous enrichment by maintaining valves.
  3. Keep an eye on your process water temperature.
  4. Avoid damage from external cold temperatures.
  5. Consider investing in a  closed circuit adiabatic water cooling system.

An excerpt:

“For the vacuum furnace to meet the considerable need for water it must have sufficient capacity (tub or tank) to quickly transfer heat from the furnace and from the load. The capacity of the tank determines the size of the system for cooling the water contained in it. Of course, the bigger the tank, the smaller the water cooling system it contains. When there are numerous furnaces, the size of the tank is calculated based on averaged values for behavior in the respective heat cycles.” ~ TAV Vacuum Furnaces

Click below for more on the 5 tips as well as steps you can take should your shop face an emergency such as a power outage that affects the water cooling system

 

Read more: “The Furnace Cooling System: 5 Tips to Avoid Damage”

 

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