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40 Nutmeg Lane
Glastonbury, CT 06033
Tel: (860) 657-9014
Fax: (860) 657-2666
Email: thought@tvu.com
Customer Listing by Product: (Click on Furnace for photo) - Alphabetic Customer List at End
Clemson University, Clemson, SC - Air Quench Furnace - Quickly drops a vertically suspended sample heated to 1200°C in a tube furnace, down into a flowing air quench zone.
Clemson University, Clemson, SC - Microscopic droplet air Imaging Furnace, with Sample Image of a 4 mm diameter screw head at 600°C with optical filtering.
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.
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
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 1800°C in a tube furnace, down into an oil quench bath.
INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico, Catania, Italy - 1500°C Vacuum Pedestal Furnace
National Institute for Lasers, Plasma and Radiation Physics, Laboratory of Laser Photochemistry, Bucharest, Romania - High Vacuum, 1200°C Furnace System.
Detector Electronics Corporation, Bloomington, MN - 2-zone, 1000°C 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 1200°C Vacuum Tube Furnace fitted to KF50 standard vacuum flanges.
International Atomic Energy Agency, Culham, England - Double walled 1200°C Vacuum/Gas Furnace to treat radioactive gases.
Walter Schottky Institute, Garching, Germany - Vacuum/Gas Furnace with air lock for heat treating materials in toxic gases.
Blue Square Energy, North East, MD - 2-Zone Silicon Refining Furnace operating at 1500°C.
CINVESTAV-IPN, Col.San Pedro Zacatenco, Mexico DF - 1200°C 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 1800°C 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 1450°C 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
JSC "Svetlana-Optoelectronica," Saint-Petersburg, Russia - High Temperature Tube Furnace for treating materials under special gas atmospheres.
NASA Kennedy Space Center, Orlando, FL - 1500°C Vacuum/Inert Gas Furnace.
Syracuse Orthopedic, Syracuse, NY - Used Metal Hot Zone Furnace operating to 2000°C. The unique aspect of this apparatus is its self contained cooling system - no external cooling water required!
Apel Laser s.r.l., Bucharest, Romania
Bandung Polytechnic for Manufacturing, Bandung, Indonesia
TIAX Inc., Cambridge, MA - Low cost, 1800°C 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
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada - High Pressure, High Temperature Furnace - Furnace system for materials studies up to 1800°C and 2300 psig/150 atm.
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 1200°C maximum environment.
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM - Fast Furnace with sample temperature monitoring.
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
DANA Canada Corp., Oakville, Ontario, Canada - 700°C Fully Transparent Furnace during test operation.
DOE/NETL, Morgantown, WV - 1000°C 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 700°C.
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, SC - Microscopic droplet air Imaging Furnace, with Sample Image of a 4 mm diameter screw head at 600°C with optical filtering.
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada - High Temperature Inert Gas Imaging Furnace - Provides imaging access to an inert gas environment up to 1450°C through a sapphire tube.
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 >30°C per second linear heating rates.
NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, 1100°C Transparent Furnace for reduction of lunar stimulant powder.
Clemson University, Clemson, SC - Air Quench Furnace - Quickly drops a vertically suspended sample heated to 1200°C 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 1800°C in a tube furnace, down into a oil quench bath.
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 1000°C in a variety of environmental conditions, including vacuum.
General Electric China, Shanghai, China - Vertical, 3-zone gold coated tube 1200°C Transparent Furnace.
Hewlett Packard Corporation, Palo Alto, CA
Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea 3-zone gold coated tube 1200°C Transparent Furnace with crystal growth very low speed Traverser.
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan - 3 zone, gold coated tubeoperating 1200°C Transparent Furnace.
STI, Sterling VA
Alberta Research Council, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL - High Vacuum 450°C Viewport.
CardioMEMS Inc., Atlanta, GA
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
Core Laboratories, Houston, TX
Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo, Mexico City, Mexico
ITT, Roanoke, Va
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 62,500 psi (4,250 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
EnvirOptics, Lansdale, PA. Gas Cooled Endoscope shell with sapphire window, rated 1000°C.
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada - Inexpensive High Pressure Moderate Temperature Optical Cell
University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA
NASA Glenn Sapphire Windows, OH
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
Xtent Inc., Menlo Park, CA
Advanced Fuel Research, East Hartford, CT
ICRC, Alexandria, VA
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL
NASA Ames Research Center, Cleveland, OH - Low Pressure Camera Modification for the Space Shuttle back to flight program.
STI, Sterling, VA 20164
Radyne Corp., Milwaukee, WI - Gold coated Visualization Vacuum Chamber for induction heating tests.
Stabro Laboratories, Hill AFB, UT - General purpose diffusion pumped Vacuum Station.
Lohnstar Optics Inc., Escondido, CA
SUNY-Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
Micromaterials, Tampa, FL - Fiber Optic Chemical Sensor
Ecliptic Enterprises Corporation, Pasadena, CA - Optics Consulting
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA - Optics Consulting
Hydrogen Source, South Windsor, CT - Specialty Equipment Repair
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 - 1200°C 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
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ High Temperature (1400°C) Sapphire to Alumina Seal
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
II-VI Inc., Saxonburg, PA,
3-E Laboratories, Lansdale, PA now EnvirOptics (Montgomeryville, PA)
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
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, Clemson, SC
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
ITT, Roanoke, Va
JSC Svetlana-Optoelectronica, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Kyungpook University, Daegu, Korea
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 Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA
NASA Kennedy Space Center, Orlando, FL
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
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
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 Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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
Please e-mail Steve Bates at thought@tvu.com to discuss your interest in these technologies.
Last updated: June 2010
