Constant Temperature Oil Bath

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Specific Features :

• ❖ Robust Construction
• ❖ Low Maintenance
• ❖ Easy Installation
• ❖ Least Energy Consumption

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Constant Temperature Oil Bath

Over the years, our firm has gained immense expertise in supplying and exporting Constant Temperature Oil Baths. It is built at our vendors' facilities with top-notch components and cutting-edge technologies. We have a team of highly experienced quality controllers who check the offered machine on different quality parameters to ensure flawlessness. The provided Constant Temperature Oil Bath has simple controls and is praised by customers.

A constant temperature oil bath is a laboratory apparatus used to maintain a stable and uniform temperature environment for heating samples, often when water baths cannot reach the required temperature or are unsuitable due to evaporation concerns at high temperatures.

Features of Constant Temperature Oil Bath

• ❖ Heating Medium: Uses oil (typically silicone oil or mineral oil) instead of water, allowing for higher temperature ranges (commonly up to 200–300°C).
• ❖ Thermostatic Control: Equipped with a temperature controller and a sensor (usually a thermocouple or RTD) to precisely maintain the set temperature.
• ❖ Stirring Mechanism: Many oil baths include a magnetic stirrer or built-in circulator to ensure even heat distribution.
• ❖ Safety Features: Often includes over-temperature protection and thermal insulation to prevent burns or overheating.

Uses of Constant Temperature Oil Bath

A constant temperature oil bath is commonly used in laboratories for precise temperature control in heating applications. Here are its main uses:

• ❖ Maintaining Stable Temperatures: Provides a uniform and consistent heating environment, crucial for sensitive reactions or processes that require accurate temperature control.
• ❖ Chemical Reactions: Used in organic synthesis and other chemical reactions that require heating to specific, stable temperatures for extended periods.
• ❖ Calibration of Instruments: Acts as a reference environment for calibrating thermometers, thermocouples, or temperature sensors due to its ability to maintain an exact temperature.
• ❖ Melting Point Determination: Allows precise and gradual heating needed to determine the melting points of compounds accurately.
• ❖ Evaporation and Concentration: Used for evaporating solvents in rotary evaporators where the sample flask is immersed in the oil bath.
• ❖ Viscosity Testing: Enables temperature-controlled viscosity measurements of oils, polymers, or other materials.
• ❖ Biological Applications: Maintains samples like enzymes or cultures at specific temperatures for biological reactions or incubation.
• ❖ Thermal Decomposition Studies: Useful for studying the thermal degradation of compounds under controlled conditions.

Oil baths are preferred over water baths when temperatures above 100°C are needed, as oil has a higher boiling point and better heat transfer characteristics.

Applications of Constant Temperature Oil Bath

A Constant Temperature Oil Bath is a laboratory apparatus used to maintain a stable and uniform temperature for heating samples. Its key applications include:

• ❖ Chemical Reactions: Used for reactions requiring precise and uniform heating, especially at higher temperatures than water baths can provide (above 100°C). Ideal for reflux, distillation, and synthesis reactions.
• ❖ Calibration: Thermometers, thermocouples, and other temperature-sensing devices are calibrated using oil baths due to their consistent temperature control.
• ❖ Physical Property Testing: Maintains required temperatures for viscosity, melting point, or boiling point determination of materials, especially oils, polymers, and fats.
• ❖ Biological Applications: In molecular biology, used for enzyme incubations or other procedures that need a stable temperature above typical water bath limits.
• ❖ Material Processing: Heats metals, plastics, or resins for softening, molding, or curing processes.
• ❖ Pharmaceutical and Food Industries: Used for quality control tests where precise thermal stability is essential.
• ❖ Advantages Over Water Baths: Higher temperature range (often up to 300°C or more). Better thermal stability and uniformity at high temperatures.