Continuous Roller Hearth Furnace by Smelter
Roller hearth furnaces are designed for continuous production and easy maintenance to handle large size and weights. Continuous Roller hearth furnace is used for the heat treatment of forging parts, bearing and semi-finished products.
Depending on the heat treatment required, the process can be under controlled atmosphere, for example, annealing of ball bearings should be carried out under controlled atmosphere to avoid adverse effects on the material.
Controlled atmosphere roller hearth furnace can be electrically heated or indirectly heated with a gas-fired radiant tube heater. The furnace is installed with entry lock, heated furnace chamber, holding and slow cooling zones, rapid cooling zones and if needed exit lock together with infeed and discharge conveyor rollers.
Electrically heated or gas-fired furnaces are available from temperatures ranging from 600°C to 1200°C. Can be air-cooled with atmosphere circulation post heating, cooling via water circulation or fast cooling by atmospheric gas recirculation (convective cooling) is possible.
Quench rates are rapid and uniformity is highly maintained to ensure minimal distortion. Process – hardening, carburizing, carbonitriding, annealing, normalizing, stress relieving, tempering, ageing. Best suited for the heat treatment of piping, automotive, aerospace, Tubing, Castings, Forging, Precision components, bearings, gear parts.
More about Roller Hearth Furnace:
Roller hearth furnaces are used for soft annealing of high-speed steels, high alloy steels, cold heating and bearing steels. The design is engineered in such a way that it minimizes atmosphere consumption to improve the economy. The control systems are used to calculate the process atmosphere. Various applications like annealing, hardening, preheating, normalizing and stress relieving are carried out in roller hearth furnace.
Due to the versatile and efficient configuration, the smaller products are sent using a tray or basket and the larger products are directly sent on the furnace hearth for processing. The hearth is made of steel or ceramic rolls supported and driven externally from the furnace chamber. Continuous roller hearth furnaces come with electrically heated or gas-fired configurations based on customer requirement.
Roller hearth furnaces are used in the heat treatment of bearing parts as well other semi-finished goods like automotive & aerospace components, tubing, castings, bar stock, forgings, railroad components, precision machined components, gear parts etc. These furnaces can handle heavy loads in high volumes dues to its smooth movement of rolls.
Roller hearth furnaces move the workpiece through the hot zone with powered shaft-mounted rollers that contact the workpieces or trays. Hence this type of furnace is used in the heating of long slabs wish is not possible through pusher type and walking beam furnace. These furnaces are used as single units for zone heating or cooling in a line of furnaces.
- Roller hearth furnaces are used in applications like Annealing, Stress Relieving, Hardening, Tempering, Normalizing, Brazing, Carburizing, Sintering.
- Our furnaces are designed to reduce roll pickup and produce high quality material with uniformity.
Features & Specifications
| Title | Description |
| Temperature Range | Up to 1150°C |
| Insulation | Vacuum Formed Ceramic Fibre Boards / Ceramic Fibre Blanket & Module / Refractory Brick Lining |
| Heating Media Options | Electric / Gas Fired |
| Heating Elements | Nichrome Wire / Special Alloy Resistance Heating Wire / Silicon Carbide Rod Type |
| Furnace Classification | Class 2 / Class 3 |
| Instrumentation options | Thyristor, Programmable Temperature Controller, Temperature Recorder, PLC, SCADA, HMI |
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Applications
Heat Treatment Application
- Hardening
- Annealing
- Stress Relieving
- Normalizing
- Case Hardening
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More about Roller Hearth Furnace
Types
- Electrically heated
- Gas Fired
Advantages
- Stress relief annealing of castings or forgings
- Low operating costs and long component life
- Easy and safe operation and process repeatability
- Convenient access to controls and maintenance items
- Improve the wear resistance and prevent deformation under impact on gears, crank shafts, camshafts, etc.
- Ideal for full anneal of steel casings to improve machinability.
FAQs
What is a roller hearth furnace?
Roller Hearth Furnaces are a very versatile, efficient configuration, mostly used for index moving of workload baskets. They can also be set up in an oscillating configuration for long heating cycles on very long stock such as pipe, tubing, strip, and slabs.