Thermal Profiling in High Temperature Heat Treatment

In the high temperature metal and glass heat treatment industries, getting the exact temperature of the product and its environment is critical to the quality of the finished product. Temperature profiling can also help eliminate costly rework or rejects, and maximize product throughput while minimizing costs.

To meet very specific application requirements, the Furnace Tracker® System can be assembled from a selection of data loggers, protective thermal barriers and thermocouples, and completed with Insight™ profiling software for data storage and analysis. Combined with the TM21 Radio Telemetry System, Datapaq® offers a complete thermal profiling system for real-time data analysis. Using the Furnace Tracker systems you can carry out surveys and generate reports to satisfy regulatory requirements, such as AMS 2750 and NADCAP.

Datapaq is the industry leader in the design and manufacture of temperature profiling systems renowned for reliability, accuracy and rugged design to withstand the harshest environments found in hostile heat treatment processes.

• Aluminium Pocessing
• Steel Manufacturing
• Glass Manufacturing
• Foundry
• Aerospace
• Autocalve Applications

Aluminium Processing

Using a Datapaq temperature profiling system in aluminum brazing applications will help ensure the correct temperature is achieved and not exceeded.

• Aluminium Brazing – Controlled Atmosphere Furnace and Vacuum Furnace
• Aluminium Solution Heat Treatment
• Aluminium Log Homogenizing
• Aluminium Ingot Reheating

Steel Manufacturing

Built for the steel industry, the Datapaq Furnace Tracker System provides a range of unique solutions to satisfy both primary and secondary steel heat treatment applications. Datapaq designed a ‘phased evaporation’ insulation system to keep the data logger at a stable operating temperature, during furnace temperatures in excess of 1300°C/2372°F. Most frequent uses for Datapaq profiling systems include:

• Steel Spring Hardening and Tempering
• Reheat: Steel, Slab and Billet
• Annealing: Steel Plates, Steel Tubes, Steel Lamination, Steel Gear Blanks, Bright Annealing
• Vitrious Enameling
• Steel Pipe Homogenizing
• Vacuum Carburizing
• Furnace Surveying

Glass Manufacturing

Temperature uniformity is crucial across a lehr belt during annealing and decorating glass containers and crystal tableware in glass manufacturing. Analysis with a Datapaq system ensures that both the time at annealing point and rate of cooling meets the required specifications in the following applications:

• Glass Containers and Crystal Glasswear Annealing
• Automotive Glass Forming
• TV Tube Frit Sealing
• TV Tube Shadow Mask Annealing and Blackening
• Headlamp nad Spotlamp Bulb Annealing
• Autoclave and PVD Glass Processing

Foundry

• Ductile Iron Pipes Homogenizing
• Industrial Castings Heat Treatment
• Investment Casting
• Rubber Vulcanization

Autocalve Applications

Datapaq has a pressure resistant monitoring system that has been designed to allow regular profiling or surveying in autoclaves for the following applications:

• Composite Manufacturing
• Windscreen Manufacuring
• Investment Casting
• Rubber Vulcanization

Aerospace

• TUS Furnace Surveying – In Process and External
• Batch and Vacuum Furnace Heat Treatment