What is an externally heated salt pot furnace?
Upton's externally heated salt pot furnaces are steel-lined salt bath furnaces, with carbon-steel or stainless-steel pot liners selected for operating conditions. Heating is by electric resistance heaters or by gas firing with Upton's Hurricane burner arrangement, whose tangential burners are designed to minimize flame impingement on the salt pot. Drawings are published for round and square pots. Applications include tempering, case hardening, caustic bath cleaning, paint stripping, solution treating of aluminum and vinyl or plastic curing, and the furnace is suited to intermittent service.
Upton Externally Heated Steel-Lined Salt Bath Furnaces
Enlarge photoUpton builds externally heated salt bath furnaces with carbon-steel or stainless-steel pot liners, selected for operating conditions.
Externally Heating Method
These furnaces use electric resistance heaters or gas firing with Upton’s Hurricane burner arrangement. The tangential burners are designed to minimize flame impingement on the salt pot.
Upton Externally Heated Salt Bath Furnace Applications
Applications include tempering, case hardening, caustic bath cleaning, paint stripping, solution treating of aluminum, and vinyl or plastic curing. Externally heated furnace operation is suited to intermittent service.
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Watch Furnace Roller Cover Open on YouTubeReel 01 Furnace Roller Cover Open
A furnace roller cover, a long white roller assembly along the top edge of a brick-lined furnace front, shifts sideways to open.
Watch Furnace Roller Cover Close on YouTubeReel 02 Furnace Roller Cover Close
A roller cover assembly with yellow end blocks slides along rails over an open furnace top, with fixtures resting on the rails.