Air Products helps customers optimize their heat-treating processes by providing controlled atmosphere solutions and enabling equipment, as well as process optimization and troubleshooting.

Industrial Heating is hosting a free webinar Wednesday, September 22 at 2:00 p.m. (EDT). This webinar reviews years of collective field experience with nitrogen/hydrogen-based and generated atmospheres. Tips and techniques are discussed to help furnace operators optimize and stabilize the furnace atmosphere. Also presented during this webinar are troubleshooting guides to help heat treaters identify and solve common problems and take the appropriate corrective action.

Whether you are specifying permanent furnace components like a cast belt, roller tracks and fans or heat-treatment accessories like baskets, fixtures and trays, picking the right alloy and the optimal design is the best way to deliver maximum performance and lifetime at minimum cost.

How can one ever forget the smell of burning shoe leather? In the early 1970s, The Doctor, with the soles of his shoes literally melting away, was working atop a pusher carburizer to change one of those newfangled oxygen-probe sensors.

Since the development of commercial electric heating elements at the beginning of the 20th century, oxidation and corrosion resistance have been primary goals in the creation of new high-temperature resistance and construction alloys and ceramic materials.

The process of heat treating is often the most overlooked step in producing quality metal components for automotive applications, but it is usually the first process suspected if there are any deficiencies in quality or final product performance.

There is a group of recurring questions asked of The Doctor, all of which are centered around: “How much surface oxidation is allowable on a steel part?”

Hydrogen and hydrogen-bearing atmospheres are arguably the most versatile furnace atmospheres employed in the heat-treatment industry.