Infra-red heating system
Published: 28 April, 2016
A fast response medium wave (FRMW) infra-red heating system from HERAEUS NOBLELIGHT is reported to be helping Dura Automotive Systems of Castle Bromwich to ensure the reliable and precise adhesion of molded thermoplastic sealings to custom-designed, automotive glass windows. The system is located in a robotic cell and integrates exactly with the robot cycle.
Unlike a warm air oven, an infra-red system takes up very little space, can be precisely controlled to synchronise with the robot operations and can be very energy-efficient. Tests were carried out at Heraeus Noblelight’s applications centre in Neston, Wirral, and these proved so successful that a 24 kW Carbon medium infra red (CIR) system was installed in the robot manufacturing cell.
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HERAEUS NOBLELIGHT, a specialist in the production and application of high quality energy sources covering the electro-magnetic spectrum from ultraviolet to infrared, offers products and systems to provide efficient solutions to drying, heating and curing problems and has announced it will be showing examples of its expertise at Advanced Engineering, 2nd-3rd November, NEC Birmingham, Stand L100.
A purpose-built carbon infra-red oven has reportedly been instrumental in allowing Duerr’s of Manchester to change from a hot water rinse system to a cold air rinse system at its Wythenshawe jam-making site. As a result, water-usage and water-heating bills have been significantly reduced and more effective control has been established over the total jar heating and rinsing process.
A custom-built, fast response medium wave (FRMW) infra-red heating system from HERAEUS NOBLELIGHT is helping in the production line fitting of sound-deadening pads to the Jaguar F-TYPE at Jaguar Land Rover’s manufacturing site at Castle Bromwich. Following successful tests carried out at Heraeus’s Neston Applications Centre, a compact 12 kW medium wave infra-red oven was installed at the pad fitting location on the production line. This is contained within a 1.6m aluminium framework, which features two heated zones, each equipped with three, 2kW fast response medium wave emitters with integral gold reflectors for maximum efficiency.
