Heating Microscope with Automatic Image Analysis

Make: Hesse Instruments GmbH, Germany

Models: EM301-M16 & EM301-M17

What does a Heating Microscope do?

A 'Heating Microscope with Automatic Image Analysis' helps its users observe and analyze the properties, characteristics, behaviors, and tendencies of their samples at high temperatures. For example: determining the sintering temperature, sintering potential, softening/deformation temperature, sphere temperature, hemisphere temperature, flow temperature, thermal expansion behavior, thermal shrinkage and expansion percentages, wettability of one material with another one, phase changes, studying the ash fusibility and the entire melting behavior of samples, and many more exciting things. Apart from determining the characteristic temperatures (sintering temp., deformation temp., sphere temp., hemisphere temp., and flow temp.), the software of the instrument also produces numerous useful graphs that reveal various properties of the samples and provide enormous information in detail. The experiments can be performed in inert, oxidizing, and reducing atmospheres as per the user's requirement. It is also possible to compare multiple studies to understand the differences among the samples in terms of their high-temperature behavior. Most interestingly, there is no complicated sample preparation involved! The sample may be in powder form or even a solid monolithic piece, according to the user's requirement or convenience.

Additionally, if the sample is Glass, the instrument can also measure its High-temperature Viscosity, and plot an accurate VFT curve based on the Vogel-Fulcher-Tammann Equation.

The industries that have been using HESSE Heating Microscopes in their R&D and QC laboratories for many decades are:

1.   Iron

2.   Steel

3.   Refractory

4.   Glass

5.   Ceramics

6.   Cement

7.   Minerals and Materials Processing

8.   Abrasives

9.   Mould Flux / Mould Powder

10. Coal and Coke

... etc.

The world knows that when it comes to accuracy, precision, and perfection in the analysis of high-temperature behavior of samples, there is no substitute for a HESSE Heating Microscope. The reports produced by this instrument are unparalleled and undisputed in its class.