We have recently published a new page that covers all of the various lab oven, vacuum oven, and high performance ovens available from Sheldon Manufacturing. If you are having trouble identifying the right oven we hope this will help clarify the differences between various models and drying, curing or bake-out applications.
Selecting the Appropriate SHEL LAB Oven for your drying, curing or bakeout application.
EPS Ovens has recently began offering complete custom vacuum oven solutions that include pumps and plumbing for simple installation once it reaches your facility. If you are looking for a vacuum oven to perform drying, curing or out-gassing applications please contact us to discuss your application. EPS offers small vacuum ovens starting at 0.6 cubic feet, up to our large 9 cu.ft vacuum oven.
EPS also represents the entire SHEL LAB line of benchtop drying ovens, which can also be customized to include access ports, chart recorders, and altered to accomodate automation processes.
When Leading Edge, of Decatur, IL, a state of the art design firm with manufacturing capability, was asked by its major railway customers to consider providing manganese steel rails, they came to Engineered Production Systems (EPS) for a heat processing solution. View an image of the Tip-up Furnace
Leading Edge proposed to load 20 tons of cast rails in a furnace with a manipulator, and take them to a temperature of 1900 deg. F through programmed steps. Once the required soak time at 1900 was complete, they needed to withdraw the rails and transfer them into a quench bath in under 2 minutes. With their manipulator, and the EPS furnace design, they expect to accomplish this transfer in under 1 minute. These steps give the rails the needed strength and ductility.
EPS proposed a system of replaceable castable pillars on the floor of the furnace chamber to support the load, and provided a total of 24 Eclipse TA025 burners, with 12 firing high on one side and 12 firing low on the other, to create the needed circulation and uniformity. The furnace body was designed to tip up in clamshell fashion, allowing the customers manipulator to bring the rails in from the side, and then unload them from the same side at the completion of the heat cycle for transfer to the quench tank. All aspects of the furnace design, and interfacing with the customer’s manipulator, were handled through a Honeywell HC900 hybrid programming controller with internal PLC.
For more information visit our industrial furnace product pages
About Engineered Production Systems
EPS, together with its fabricating partner, Pyro Industrial Systems, is a high quality manufacturer of custom industrial ovens and furnaces. Since 1978 EPS has been offering its own line of batch and continuous ovens for industrial applications such as composite curing, annealing, and drying. EPS also sells and supports a world-class assortment of laboratory ovens, heat treat furnaces, vacuum ovens, pharmaceutical ovens and granulation dryers. For a free appraisal of your application, and a proposal, please contact EPS Ovens.
