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Title: Modernizing the automatic temperature-regulating systems for electric resistor furnaces

Journal Article · · Sov. Energy Tech.; (United States)
OSTI ID:6095548

An analysis of the technical level of heat-treating equipment at the sector's plants showed that automation was either insufficient or completely lacking. Modern heat-treating technology makes stringent demands on heat-treating equipment, including electric resistor furnaces. Therefore, it became necessary to modernize these furnaces and equip them with modern automatic temperature control systems (ATCSs). This is most urgent for furnaces which handle nuclear-power-station parts, which must not only be held at a certain temperature for a definite time, but which also require a complex process with established heating rates in each time period. The heat-treatment data are recorded in the part's passport certificate, and the temperatures of both the heatingzone atmosphere and the heat-treated part are monitored.

OSTI ID:
6095548
Journal Information:
Sov. Energy Tech.; (United States), Vol. 1
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English