Pyrolysis furnace flexibility

Another very flexible solution for numerous applications in pyrolysis, outgassing or thermal extraction experiments is the use of a micro-furnace, which can be resistively heated to temperatures above 1000 C (Roussis and Fedora, 1998). The sample is placed in a small, low, thermal mass cup of 50-80 pL volume, which is dropped into the heated pyrolysis furnace consisting of a vertical quartz tube. The furnace tube size is comparable to a GC inlet liner with 4.5 mm inner diameter and 12 mm length and allows programmable temperature profiles with heating rates of up to 200 C/min (Frontier Laboratories Ltd., Japan). 

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