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FURNACES
AIR FURNACES
Clemson University, Clemson, SC - Air Quench Furnace - Quickly drops a vertically suspended sample heated to 1200oC in a tube furnace, down into a flowing air quench zone.
Clemson University,
HIGH TEMPERATURE FURNACE
JSC "Svetlana-Optoelectronica" Saint-Petersburg, Russia - Tungsten coil furnace.
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL - Inert Gas High Temperature Furnace. Tungsten coil furnace with tungsten heat shields for high temperature temperature calibration experiments.
FAST FURNACE
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Physics of Materials, Brno, Czech Republic
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
VACUUM FURNACES
II-VI Inc., Saxonburg, PA, - Getter Furnace - Vacuum Furnace that eliminates specific gases from an ultra high vacuum environment through a heated gettering material.
Clemson University, Clemson, SC - Oil Quench High Temperature Furnace - Dops a vertically suspended sample heated up to 1800oC in a tube furnace, down into an oil quench bath.
INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico, Catania, Italy - 1500oC Vacuum Pedestal Furnace
National Institute for Lasers, Plasma and Radiation Physics, Laboratory of Laser Photochemistry, Bucharest, Romania - High Vacuum, 1200oC Furnace System.
VACUUM/ANY GAS FURNACE
Detector Electronics Corporation, Bloomington, MN - 2-zone, 1000oC alumina Tube Furnace operating under vacuum or any gas with an insulated Trolley to move parts into the furnace and between zones.
Coolescence, LLC, Boulder, CO - Basic 1200oC Vacuum Tube Furnace fitted to KF50 standard vacuum flanges.
International Atomic Energy Agency, Culham, England - Double walled 1200oC Vacuum/Gas Furnace to treat radioactive gases.
Walter Schottky Institut, Garching, Germany - Vacuum/Gas Furnace with air lock for heat treating materials in toxic gases.
HIGH TEMPERATURE VACUUM/INERT GAS FURNACES
CINVESTAV-IPN, Col.San Pedro Zacatenco, Mexico DF - 1200oC Vacuum/Gas Furnace fitted to conflat flanges, designed for high vacuum operation.
Clemson University, Clemson, SC - Oil Quench Furnace - Quickly drops a vertically suspended sample heated to up to 1800oC in a tube furnace, down into a oil quench bath.
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada - High Temperature Inert Gas Imaging Furnace - Provides imaging access to an inert gas environment up to 1450oC through a sapphire tube. The furnace gas isolation tube is made from a alumina/sapphire tube sandwich. Also shown is the sample holder tube and airlock apparatus at the top.
DOE/NETL, Morgantown, WV
Blue Square Energy, North East, MD 21901 - 2-Zone Silicon Refining Furnace operating at 1500oC.
Syracuse Orthopedic, Syracuse, NY - Used Metal Hot Zone Furnace operating to 2000oC. The unique aspect of this apparatus is its self contained cooling system - no external cooling water required!
JSC "Svetlana-Optoelectronica" Saint-Petersburg, Russia - High Temperature Tube Furnace for treating materials under special gas atmospheres.
HIGH TEMPERATURE MINIFURNACE
Apel Laser s.r.l., Bucharest, Romania
Bandung Polytechnic for Manufacturing, Bandung, Indonesia
TIAX Inc., Cambridge, MA - Low cost, 1800oC Vacuum Minifurnace, complete operating apparatus shown; the minifurnace is contained within a 6" long conflat tube.
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
HIGH PRESSURE FURNACES
HIGH PRESSURE HIGH TEMPERATURE FURNACE
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada - High Pressure, High Temperature Furnace - Furnace system for materials studies up to 1800oC and 2300 psig/150 atm.
SPECIALTY FURNACES (alphabetically)
FAST FURNACES
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Physics of Materials, Brno, Czech Republic - Any gas Vacuum/Gas Furnace where the heated sample can be rapidly inserted into or withdrawn from a 1200oC maximum environment.
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM - Fast Furnace with sample temperature monitoring.
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
FULLY TRANSPARENT FURNACE
DANA Canada Corp., Oakville, Ontario, Canada - 700oC Fully Transparent Furnace during test operation.
DOE/NETL, Morgantown, WV - 1000oC Fully Transparent Furnace operating.
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM - Multizone Fully Transparent Furnace setup.
TFDesign (Pty) Ltd, Matieland, Republic of South Africa - Fully Transparent Furnace, to 700oC.
GETTER FURNACE
II-VI Inc., Saxonburg, PA, - Getter Furnace - Vacuum Furnace that eliminates specific gases from an ultra high vacuum environment through a heated gettering material.
IMAGING FURNACE
Clemson University,
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada - High Temperature Inert Gas Imaging Furnace - Provides imaging access to an inert gas environment up to 1450oC through a sapphire tube.
MIRROR FURNACE
Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Buenos Aires, Argentina - Controlled, High Heating Rate Furnace using mirror radiant heat focusing of high power lamps and a special, ultra-fast temperature controller to achieve > 30oC per second linear heating rates.
QUENCH FURNACES
Clemson University, Clemson, SC - Air Quench Furnace - Quickly drops a vertically suspended sample heated to 1200oC in a tube furnace, down into a flowing air quench zone.
Clemson University, Clemson, SC - Oil Quench Furnace - Quickly drops a vertically suspended sample heated to up to 1800oC in a tube furnace, down into a oil quench bath.
SHAKER FURNACE
Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson AFB, OH - Vibration Test Furnace System (image shows the vacuum chamber/furnace enclosure - large shaker unit placed below this) to test electronics at 1000oC in a variety of environmental conditions, including vacuum.
MULTIZONE TRANSPARENT FURNACE 1200oC
General Electric China, Shanghai, China - Vertical, 3-zone gold coated tube 1200oC Transparent Furnace.
Hewlett Packard Corporation, Palo Alto, CA
Kyungpook
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan - 3 zone, gold coated tubeoperating 1200oC Transparent Furnace.
FURNACE PARTS
STI, Sterling VA
VIEWPORTS, OPTICAL CELLS, SAPPHIRE SYSTEMS
SAPPHIRE VIEWPORTS
Alberta Research Council, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL - High Vacuum 450oC Viewport.
CardioMEMS, Inc. Atlanta, GA
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
Core Laboratories, Houston, TX
Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo, Mexico City, Mexico
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH - High temperature, elevated pressure Combustor Test Viewport.
PTC, Princeton, NJ - - High pressure Sapphire Viewport with explosion shield.
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX - TvU record setting High Pressure Viewport - Tested at 265,000 psi (18,000 atm)! Testing Fixture.
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
University of California Davis, Davis, CA
University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
ENDOSCOPE PROTECTOR
EnvirOptics, Lansdale, PA. Gas Cooled Endoscope shell with sapphire window, rated 1000oC.
HIGH PRESSURE MODERATE TEMPERATURE OPTICAL CELL
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada - Inexpensive High Pressure Moderate Temperature Optical Cell.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA
SAPPHIRE SYSTEMS
NASA Glenn Sapphire Windows, OH
OTHER PRODUCTS & SERVICES (alphabetically)
GOLD COATING
D-Star Engineering, Shelton, CT - Specialty gold coated IR Reflecting Nozzle.
Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA
Synrad, Inc., Mukilteo, WA
Yale University, New Haven, CT
HEAT TREATING SERVICES
Xtent Inc., Menlo Park, CA
Advanced Fuel Research, East Hartford, CT
HIGH TEMPERATURE EQUIPMENT
ICRC, Alexandria, VA
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL
OPTICAL EQUIPMENT
NASA Ames Research Center, Cleveland, OH - Low Pressure Camera Modification for the Space Shuttle back to flight program.
FURNACE PARTS
STI, Sterling, VA 20164
VACUUM SYSTEM
Radyne Corp., Milwaukee, WI - Gold coated Visualization Vacuum Chamber for induction heating tests.
VACUUM STATION
Stabro Laboratories, Hill AFB, UT - General purpose diffusion pumped Vacuum Station.
Lohnstar Optics Inc., Escondido, CA
VACUUM Equipment
SUNY-Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT
Micromaterials, Tampa, FL – Fiber Optic Chemical Sensor
CONSULTING
Ecliptic Enterprises Corporation, Pasadena, CA - Optics Consulting
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA - Optics Consulting
Hydrogen Source, South Windsor, CT - Specialty Equipment Repair
RESEARCH
3-E Laboratories, Lansdale, PA - Proprietary
Advanced Fuel Research, East Hartford, CT - Proprietary
Advanced Materials Laboratory, Inc., Concord, MA - Materials Consulting Services
Aerodyne, Billerica, MA - Endoscope Design
Air Force, AFOSR - Solid Hydrogen Propulsion, Sapphire Fiber Cladding
Astrium GmbH, Space Infrastructure Division, Friedrichshafen, Germany - Sapphire Fiber Research
Baker Atlas, Houston, TX - High Pressure Apparatus Design.
Consarc, Rancocas, NJ - Proprietary
Department of Energy, Washington, DC - Sapphire Microwave Windows
Department of Transportation/Federal Aviation Administration, Washington, DC - High Intensity Runway Inset Flasher
DENSPLY Ceramco, Burlington, NJ - Proprietary
EnvirOptics, Inc., Montgomeryville, PA - Proprietary
Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL - Oxygen Electrolysis Apparatus - Lunar ISRU
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA - Optical R&D Services
Harry Miller Company, Boston, MA - Proprietary
Luxim Corp, Venice, CA - Proprietary
Innovative Energy, St. Charles, MO - Proprietary
National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., Titanium MIM Binder, Acoustically Enhanced Droplet Heat Exchangers
NASA
.......Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA - High Altitude UAV Droplet Heat Exchanger
.......Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH - 1200oC Transparent Furnace
High Temperature Fiber Optic Imaging Apparatus
.......Langley Researh Center, Norfolk, VA - High Temperature Imaging Systems
.......Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL - Solid Hydrogen Fueled Scramjets
Controlled Crystal Growth Using Auxiliary Optical Heating and Optical Diagnostics
Low Mass, Low Power, Low Cost Space Furnace
High Efficiency Solar Furnace Core
Lunar Rock Processing for Oxygen
Oak Ridge National Laboratories, Oak Ridge, TN - Microwave Energy in Internal Combustion Engines
StratXX Holding AG, Walchwil, Switzerland - Balloon design.
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL - Fiber research.
Yale University, New Haven, CT - Ceramic Bonding
Wyle Laboratories, Hampton, VA - Proprietary
Alphabetical Customer List by Organization:
II-VI Inc., Saxonburg, PA,
3-E Laboratories, Lansdale, PA now EnvirOptics Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Physics of Materials, Brno, Czech Republic Advanced Fuel Research, East Hartford, CT Advanced Materials Laboratory, Inc., Concord, MA Aerodyne
Inc., Billerica, MA Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson
AFB, OH Alberta Research Council, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Apel Laser s.r.l., Bucharest, Romania Argonne National Laboratory,
Argonne, IL Astrium GmbH, Space Infrastructure Division,
Friedrichshafen, Germany
Bionetics Corp., Clearfield, UT - Vacuum Station
Bandung Polytechnic for Manufacturing, Bandung, Indonesia
Blue Square Energy, North East, MD CardioMEMS,
Inc. Atlanta, GA
CINVESTAV-IPN, Col.San Pedro Zacatenco, Mexico DF Clemson
University,
Concordia
University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
Coolescence, LLC, Boulder, CO
Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Buenos Aires, Argentina CONSARC Corporation,
Rancocas, NJ Core Laboratories, Houston, TX D-Star Engineering, Shelton, CT DANA Canada Corp.,
Oakville, Ontario, Canada Detector Electronics Corporation, Bloomington, MN DOE/NETL,
Morgantown, WV Ecliptic Enterprises Corporation, Pasadena, CA EnvirOptics,
Inc., Montgomeryville, PA Florida
Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL General Electric China, Shanghai, China Georgia
Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA Hewlett Packard Corporation, Palo Alto,
CA Hydrogen Source, South Windsor, CT ICRC, Alexandria, VA Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo, Mexico City, Mexico
INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico, Catania, Italy
International Atomic Energy Agency, Culham, England JSC
"Svetlana-Optoelectronica" Saint-Petersburg, Russia Kyungpook
Lohnstar Optics, Escondido, CA
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Meller Optics, Providence, RI Micromaterials,
Tampa, FL
Mott Corp, Farmington, CT
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH NASA
Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL National
Commission of Atomic Energy, Buenos Aires, Argentina National
Energy Technology Laboratory, US Dept. of Energy, Morgantown, West Virginia National
Institute for Lasers, Plasma and Radiation Physics, Laboratory of Laser
Photochemistry, Bucharest, Romania National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan Oak Ridge National Laboratories, Oak Ridge, TN Purdue
University, West Lafayette, IN Radyne Corp.,
Milwaukee, WI Sandia National
Laboratories - Albuquerque, NM Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA Southwest
Research Institute, San Antonio, TX Stabro Laboratories, Hill AFB, UT Stockholm
University, Stockholm, Sweden STI,
Sterling, VA StratXX
Holding AG, Walchwil, Switzerland SUNY-Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY Synrad,
Inc., Mukilteo, WA Syracuse
University, Syracuse, NY Texas A&M University, College Station, TX TFDesign (Pty) Ltd, Matieland, Republic of South Africa TIAX
Inc., Cambridge, MA University
of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA University of California
Davis, Davis, CA University of South Florida, Tampa, FL University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Walter
Schottky Institut, Garching, Germany Washington University, St. Louis, MO Worcester
Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA Wyle Laboratories, Hampton, VA
Xtent Inc., Menlo Park, CA Yale University, New Haven, CT
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