6. Advantages and limitations of electric resistance ovens

6.1 Benefits

Electric resistance furnaces offer numerous technical, economic and social advantages.

• Technical advantages include :

  • The resistors currently on the market cover virtually the entire range of temperatures used in industry, and advances in materials science are constantly improving their characteristics; they can be designed for a wide variety of furnaces;

  • the heat transmission mode, which is easy to adapt to the requirements of the thermal process requested by the user; moreover, resistance furnaces operate with a wide range of atmospheres: air, vacuum, controlled atmosphere (neutral, reducing, oxidizing); the cleanliness of the furnaces and...