High Temperature-Furnace

The high temperature furnace of the DLR Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics in Oldenburg can be used for of thermal treatment of different materials, e.g., carbons or oxides up to 3000 °C under inter gas atmosphere or up to 1200 °C under reductive hydrogen atmosphere. This offers the possibility of several material modifications and high temperature synthesis.

High Temperature-Furnace
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Research Tasks

  • Graphitization of biomasses for the development of sustainable fuel cell catalysts
  • Synthesis of metal nitrides for the electrochemical nitrogen reduction
  • Synthesis of platinum-free catalysts for fuel cells and CO2-Electrolysis
Oven chamber with graphitic heating elements
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Treated carbon black in glassy carbon crucible
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Operation modes

  • Gases
    - Hydrogen up to 1200 °C
    - Nitrogen up to 2000 °C
    - Argon up to 3000 °C
    - Vacuum up to 2200 °C
    - Mixtures of nitrogen/argon/hydrogen
  • Gas flows between 120 to 1000 L h-1
  • Heating rates
    - up to 2000 °C 1000 K h-1
    - up to 2800 °C 500 K h-1
    - up to 3000 °C 100 K h-1