Video description Solar panels are built to last decades, thanks to NREL scientists like Tim Silverman, whose job is to break them. Learn about his team’s latest contraption for accelerated testing to help the industry put higher-quality, more reliable solar panels on the market.
One Minute Mentor: Fluidized-Bed Furnace
A fluid bed results when a gas is passed upward through a bed of small solid particles at a rate fast enough to lift these particles and to create turbulence. This motion of particles, which are usually made of aluminum oxide or silica oxide, is similar to that of a fluid.
Lindberg/MPH ships gas fired cyclone box furnace to the manufacturing industry
Lindberg/MPH is pleased to announce the shipment of a gas fired cyclone box furnace to the manufacturing industry. This heat treat furnace has a maximum temperature rating of 1250°F and a load capacity of 6000 lbs.
Bodycote to offer new services in the Middle East
Bodycote, the world’s largest provider of heat treatment and specialist thermal processing services, is expanding its thermal spray coatings capability in the Middle East. Bodycote has entered into a partnership with Mathevon Group to develop the market in the region and, in particular, Saudi Arabia
Solar Atmospheres vacuum heat treats titanium manifold for Artemis 1 mission
Solar Atmospheres of Wstern Pennsylvania, Hermitage, has had a hand in heat treating several critical parts for NASA’s unmanned Orion spacecraft that launched successfully from Cape Canaveral for a six-week test flight around the moon and back.