If you are ever in the market for an oven for your laboratory, you will likely come across standard lab ovens and drying ovens. It can be a common misconception that both these types of ovens are the same but they are actually two different pieces of lab equipment.
Drying Oven
A drying oven is designed to remove moisture from the oven chamber so to dry the samples as quickly as possible. The drying oven process introduces fresh dry air to the chamber and expels the warm moist air simultaneously allowing to rapidly dry the samples. A drying oven provides high-performance drying and heating. You will notice that drying ovens will be more expensive than a standard laboratory oven mainly due to the oven having the drying capability that is lacking in a laboratory oven. A drying oven requires an airflow system that can extract moisture from the air and depending on your requirements, may or may not be required.
Laboratory Oven
A laboratory oven, on the other hand, is designed to heat samples only. Unlike a drying oven, a lab oven will recirculate the same air around in the chamber. As a result, a lab oven will provide heating only. Laboratory ovens are a more cost-effective option over a drying oven and will be a suitable option if you are only requiring heating functionality. You will likely notice that a lab oven will have a higher temperature range than a drying oven so be sure that the oven you choose is capable of reaching your required temperatures.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FURNACES AND DRYING OVENS?
Drying ovens
Drying ovens suitable for up to 300 degrees. Its purpose is to heat, dry, harden, sterilize materials and parts.In the process of drying materials, fresh air enters through the heating elements and moist air exits.The blower produces temperature uniformity inside the oven by dissipating the hot air.
Drying ovens are designed for:
-Drying materials.
Extraction of large amounts of water: expensive drying, egg, etc.
-Drying and hardening in coating and casting processes.
-Drying and sterilization of dishes
-Heating and relaxation of parts in assembly processes.
– Sterilization of tools and parts.
-Flashing processes for parts.
-Heating test of electronic or medical products pitcher test them under the influence of heat.
– The difficulty
Furnaces
Laboratory Furnaces can reach up to 1800 degrees. The Furnace heat transfer is in radiation. Therefore Furnace is not suitable for work at low temperatures up to 300-400 Celsius, at these temperatures the heating element is not yet radiant.
Various uses of Furnace can be found in the industry. It provides continuous heating for processing samples and materials. When choosing LaboratoryFurnaces, take into account: process temperatures and whether a programmer is needed to create a temperature profile.
Laboratory Furnaces are designed for:
-Treatments in metals, ceramics, glass
– Thermal treatments- Burning of organic and plastic materials.
