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Thermodynamics
The Thermodynamic Laboratory is equipped with high temperature furnaces and a gas supply system for high temperature experiments. The thermodynamic software FactSage and MTDATA are used for thermodynamic assessments of multi-component and multi-phase systems. The furnaces can work up to 1700°C under controlled atmosphere. The scale of the high temperature experiments can be 5g to 3000g of metal and 5g to 1000g slag. An induction levitation heating system enables contactless high temperature experiments to be carried out.
Key equipment:
- Carbolite Tube Furnace
- Maximum working temperature 1700 °C
- Controlled atmosphere
- Capable of 500g metal or 100g slag experiment
- Carbolite Chamber Furnace
- Maximum working temperature 1100°C
- 23 litre chamber volume
- Heating in air
- ISOHEAT Tube Furnace
- Maximum working temperature 1650°C
- Controlled atmosphere
- Capable of 500g metal or 100g slag experiment
- With fast cooling chamber
- EKOHEAT Induction Furnace
- Maximum working temperature 1700°C
- Controlled atmosphere
- Capable of 3kg metal or 1kg slag experiment
- EKOHEAT Induction Levitation Heating Facility
- Maximum working temperature 1700 °C
- Controlled atmosphere
- Contactless heating metal samples up to 10 grams
- Fast cooling
- FactSage Thermodynamic Software, it can be used for:
- Alloy design
- Optimising process route
- Interaction of metal-slag-gas-refractory
- Equilibrium of multi-component and multi phases
- Thermochemical properties of species or chemical reactions
- Isothermal metal predominance area diagrams
- Phase diagrams of multi-component metals and slags
- Slag viscosities
- MTDATA Thermodynamic Software, it can be used for:
- Alloy development
- Materials processing
- Extraction and recycling in zinc, copper, nickel, steel and precious metals
- Equilibrium of multi-components and multi-phases
- Phase diagrams of multi-component metals and slags
- Liquidus and solidus of multi-component slags and alloys
