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Car Bottom Style Industrial Furnaces

RIFCO Industrial Heat Treat Furnaces

RIFCO Brand Car Bottom Style Industrial Furnaces can be found in many different plants serving many different industries. They can be found in;

  • Steel Mills for 2,450° F re-heating applications to high temperature heat treating applications.
  • Large Steel Fabricating Plants for weldment pre-heating to stress relieving.
  • Commercial & Captive Heat-Treating Facilities for any direct fired heat-treating process.

Our Car Bottom Industrial Furnaces can accommodate a very diverse range of load types, configurations, and materials. From single large metal ingots for forging or rolling to multiple weldments for stress relieving to pre-cast refractory shapes for bake-out.

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Car Bottom Style Industrial Furnaces - Additional Information

Standard Features
RIFCO Industrial Car Bottom Furnaces
are one of the most versatile furnace designs available:
• Built to suit your specifications!
• Perfect for heating large or odd shaped pieces
• Suitable for multiple configuration batches with integral furnace car
• Moveable hearth allows for easier access when loading and unloading, including the use of overhead cranes
• Powered or Manual furnace cars
• Bulkhead or Guillotine (Swing-Up) style doors available
• Car Bottoms up to 100' long!
• Load sizes up to 100,000 lbs.!

Common Applications
• Tempering
• Forging - Open and Closed Die
• Foundries - Ferrous & Non- Ferrous
• Ceramics
• Heat Treating
• Aluminum aging
• Annealing
• Stress relieving and many more

Insulation
RIFCO Patented 'Mega-Block' ™ full-wall style ceramic fiber lining is featured on all RIFCO Industrial Furnaces in non-impact and non-load bearing areas:
• Suitable for both Plate and Expanded metal casings.
• Utilizes stainless steel hardware.
• Available in any shape or size.
• Allows fiber to be uniformly compressed to compensate for fiber shrinkage at elevated temperatures.

Temperature Range
Operating Temperatures from as low as 400° F to as high as 2,450° F.

Heating Medium / Controls
• Electric, direct gas-fired or indirect gas heating systems available.
• Intuitive cooling cycle burner control.
• Full modulating, On-Ratio, Excess Air and Cascading Impulse type controls.
• Pulse firing combustion control.
• Single or multiple combustion / temperature zones available.
• Custom Controls Many more...

Air Circulation
• High-temperature circulating fans available below 1,600° F.
• In-Wall Style Flues.
• Trim Flues.

Door Features / Options
• Electromechanical, pneumatic or hydraulic door drives.
• Chain-type door closure mechanism.
• Bulkhead door adjustments.
• Adjustable side containment plates.
• Adjustable door stops.
• Twin-axis swing type actuation.

Installation
Modular designs for easy assembly and commissioning on site. Various options.

Options
• Pre-cast refractory shapes.
• Furnace pressure controls.
• Temperature recording.
• Flame safety monitoring systems.
• Many more...
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RIFCO Car Bottom Furnaces Offer Unmatched Flexibility Which Makes Them a Perfect Choice
for Operations That
Require the Heating of Large or Odd Shaped
Pieces, or Multiple Configuration Batches

Car Bottom Furnaces are probably the most versatile furnace designs when considering “direct fired” type furnaces. Consider the Car Bottom design a Box Furnace design with a moveable hearth. The term “Car Bottom” refers to the style of the hearth (bottom) of the furnace where the workload is placed. The hearth in this case is built on a “car” frame fitted with wheels, which ride on tracks allowing it to roll out from the furnace proper into an open space allowing for maximum access to the workload space. Loading and/or unloading the furnace can be more easily be done without considering the constraints of the furnace walls or roof.

Although the Car Bottom design provides the opportunity to consider very deep Industrial Furnaces for very long workload items or many multiples of smaller workload items (RIFCO has built a 75’ long furnace), it sometime makes sense when considering shallower depths as well. This might be the case when the workload is too heavy for a lift truck, but a higher capacity overhead crane can run directly over the furnace car when it is moved out of the furnace.

As noted above, the Car Bottom design could be considered a standard Box Type Furnace with a moveable hearth. However, when designed with a Guillotine style door, the Car Bottom Furnace can be used the same as you would the Box Furnace design. Just raise the door and DON’T pull out the car. Note- a furnace car fitted with a “Bulkhead” style door does not offer this advantage.

  • Operating Temperatures from as low 400° F to as high as 2,450° F
  • Load Sizes from 1,000 lbs. to 100,000+ lbs.
  • Numerous control configurations available to suit your requirements;
    • Full modulating type control
    • On-Ratio type control
    • Excess Air type control
    • Cascading impulse control to modulate from excess air to on-ratio control
    • Pulse Firing
    • Single to Multiple combustion/temperature control zones
    • And more
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Twin Car Bottom Furnaces

  • 2,100° F degree operation.
  • Natural Gas Powered
    • High Velocity Burners fired over & under the workload.
  • Patented Mega Block™ Ceramic Fiber Lining
    • 12” HTZ - 12 PCF on a steel plate casing.
  • Swing-up door design.
  • Powered furnace car.

Car Bottom Heat Treat Furnace

  • 2,100° F degree operation.
  • Natural Gas Powered
    • High Velocity Burners fired over & under the workload
  • Cascading Bled Impulse combustion control.
  • Two (2) temperature control zones.
  • Patented Mega Block™ Ceramic Fiber Lining
    • 12” HTZ - 12 PCF on an expanded metal casing.
  • Bulkhead style door design.
  • Powered furnace car.
  • In-Wall Flues