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[[File:Horno tubular.jpg|thumb|Tube furnace being used during the synthesis of [[aluminium chloride]].]] |
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A '''tube furnace''' is an [[electric heating]] device used to conduct syntheses and purifications of [[inorganic compound]]s and occasionally in [[organic synthesis]]. One possible design consists of a cylindrical cavity surrounded by [[Heating element|heating coils]] that are embedded in a thermally insulating matrix. Temperature can be controlled via [[feedback]] from a [[thermocouple]]. More elaborate tube furnaces have two (or more) heating zones useful for [[Chemical transport reaction|transport experiments]]. Some digital temperature controllers provide an [[RS-232]] interface, and permit the operator to program segments for uses like ramping, soaking, sintering, and more. Advanced materials in the heating elements, such as molybdenum disilicide offered in certain models can now produce working temperatures up to 1800 °C. This facilitates more sophisticated applications.<ref>J. D. Corbett "Synthesis of Solid-State Materials" in Solid State Chemistry: Techniques, A. K. Cheetham and P. Day, Eds. Clarendon, Oxford, 1987. {{ISBN|0-19-855165-7}}.</ref> Common material for the reaction tubes include [[alumina]], [[Pyrex]], and [[fused quartz]]. |
A '''tube furnace''' is an [[electric heating]] device used to conduct syntheses and purifications of [[inorganic compound]]s and occasionally in [[organic synthesis]]. One possible design consists of a cylindrical cavity surrounded by [[Heating element|heating coils]] that are embedded in a thermally insulating matrix. Temperature can be controlled via [[feedback]] from a [[thermocouple]]. More elaborate tube furnaces have two (or more) heating zones useful for [[Chemical transport reaction|transport experiments]]. Some digital temperature controllers provide an [[RS-232]] interface, and permit the operator to program segments for uses like ramping, soaking, sintering, and more. Advanced materials in the heating elements, such as molybdenum disilicide offered in certain models can now produce working temperatures up to 1800 °C. This facilitates more sophisticated applications.<ref>J. D. Corbett "Synthesis of Solid-State Materials" in Solid State Chemistry: Techniques, A. K. Cheetham and P. Day, Eds. Clarendon, Oxford, 1987. {{ISBN|0-19-855165-7}}.</ref> Common material for the reaction tubes include [[alumina]], [[Pyrex]], and [[fused quartz]], or in the case of corrosive materials [[molybdenum]] or [[tungsten]] tubes can be used. |
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The tube furnace was invented in the first decade of the 20th century and was originally used to manufacture [[ceramic]] [[Incandescent light bulb|filaments]] for [[Nernst lamp]]s and [[Nernst glower|glowers]].<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O_UAAAAAYAAJ |first=J. A. |last=Harker |title=On a New Type of Electric Furnace, with a Redetermination of the Melting-Point of Platinum |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society A |volume=76 |issue=507 |date=December 1905 |pages=235–249 |doi=10.1098/rspa.1905.0023|bibcode = 1905RSPSA..76..235H |doi-access=free }}</ref> |
The tube furnace was invented in the first decade of the 20th century and was originally used to manufacture [[ceramic]] [[Incandescent light bulb|filaments]] for [[Nernst lamp]]s and [[Nernst glower|glowers]].<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O_UAAAAAYAAJ |first=J. A. |last=Harker |title=On a New Type of Electric Furnace, with a Redetermination of the Melting-Point of Platinum |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society A |volume=76 |issue=507 |date=December 1905 |pages=235–249 |doi=10.1098/rspa.1905.0023|bibcode = 1905RSPSA..76..235H |doi-access=free }}</ref> |
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Revision as of 06:14, 15 October 2020
A tube furnace is an electric heating device used to conduct syntheses and purifications of inorganic compounds and occasionally in organic synthesis. One possible design consists of a cylindrical cavity surrounded by heating coils that are embedded in a thermally insulating matrix. Temperature can be controlled via feedback from a thermocouple. More elaborate tube furnaces have two (or more) heating zones useful for transport experiments. Some digital temperature controllers provide an RS-232 interface, and permit the operator to program segments for uses like ramping, soaking, sintering, and more. Advanced materials in the heating elements, such as molybdenum disilicide offered in certain models can now produce working temperatures up to 1800 °C. This facilitates more sophisticated applications.[1] Common material for the reaction tubes include alumina, Pyrex, and fused quartz, or in the case of corrosive materials molybdenum or tungsten tubes can be used.
The tube furnace was invented in the first decade of the 20th century and was originally used to manufacture ceramic filaments for Nernst lamps and glowers.[2]
Illustrative applications
An example of a material prepared using a tube furnace is the superconductor YBa2Cu3O7. A mixture of finely powdered CuO, BaO, and Y2O3, in the appropriate molar ratio, contained in a platinum or alumina "boat," is heated in a tube furnace at several hundred degrees under flowing oxygen. Similarly tantalum disulfide is prepared in a tube furnace followed by purification, also in a tube furnace using the technique of chemical vapor transport.[3] Because of the availability of tube furnaces, chemical vapor transport has become a popular technique not only in industry (see van Arkel process) but also in the research laboratory.
Tube furnaces can also be used for thermolysis reactions, involving either organic or inorganic reactants. One such example is the preparation of ketenes which may employ a tube furnace in the 'ketene lamp'. Flash vacuum pyrolyses often utilize a fused quartz tube, usually packed with quartz or ceramic beads, which is heated at high temperatures.
References
- ^ J. D. Corbett "Synthesis of Solid-State Materials" in Solid State Chemistry: Techniques, A. K. Cheetham and P. Day, Eds. Clarendon, Oxford, 1987. ISBN 0-19-855165-7.
- ^ Harker, J. A. (December 1905). "On a New Type of Electric Furnace, with a Redetermination of the Melting-Point of Platinum". Proceedings of the Royal Society A. 76 (507): 235–249. Bibcode:1905RSPSA..76..235H. doi:10.1098/rspa.1905.0023.
- ^ J. F. Revelli, "Tantalum Disulfide (TaS2) and Its Intercalation Compounds" Inorganic Syntheses 1995, volume 30, pp. 155. doi:10.1002/9780470132616.ch32