UV aging test box Coating weather resistance and lightfastness experiment

At this point, many domestic and foreign paint weather and light resistance tests use ultraviolet light aging test chambers. Our company qisnun Precision Electromechanical Technology Co., Ltd. can supply this equipment. Welcome customers who need to inquire. The UV Aging Test is a UV Aging Test Chamber that uses a fluorescent UV lamp to simulate the destructive effect of sunlight on durable materials. Unlike xenon arc lamps, fluorescent UV lamps are electrically similar to ordinary cold fluorescent lamps for illumination, but produce more ultraviolet light than visible or infrared light.

For different exposure applications, there are different types of lamps with different spectra to choose from. The UVA-340 lamp simulates sunlight well in the mainshort wavelength ultraviolet spectral range. The spectral power distribution (SPD) of the UVA-340 lamp is very similar to the spectral map extracted from the solar spectrum at 360 nm. UV-B lamps are also commonly used for accelerated artificial aging testing. It destroys materials faster than UV-A lamps, but its shorter than 360nm wavelength energy output will cause many materials to deviate from actual test results.

Irradiance (light intensity) control is necessary to achieve accurate and repeatable results. Most UV aging testers are equipped with an irradiance monitoring system. These irradiance control systems allow the user to select the irradiance measurement when performing experiments. Through the feedback control system, the irradianthis can be monitored and controlled continuously and automatically. The control system automatically compensates for insufficient illumination caused by lamp aging or other reasons by adjusting the lamp power.

Fluorescent UV lamps simplify irradiance control due to their inherent spectral stability. All light sources fade over time. But fluorescent lamps, unlike other types of lamps, do not change their spectral energy distribution over time. This feature increases the reproducibility of test results and is therefore a major advantage.

Some tests have shown that there is no significant difference in the output power of a lamp that has been used for 2 hours and a lamp that has been used for 5600 hours in an aging test system equipped with an irradiance control. Able to maintain light intensityconstant wear. In addition, their spectral energy distribution does not change, which is very different from xenon arc lamps.

One of the main advantages of using the ultraviolet light aging test is that it can simulate damage to materials in a more realistic humid outdoor environment. When the material is placed outdoors, according to statistics, it frequently suffers from humidity for at least 12 hours a day. Since most of this humidity is in the form of condensation, a special condensation principle is used to simulate outdoor humidity in the accelerated artificial weather test.

During this condensation cycle, the water reservoir at the bottom of the test chamber is heated to generate steam. The hot steam keeps the test chamber environment at a high temperature with 100% relative humidity. The test chamber is designed so that thehe test panel is in fact the side wall of the test chamber. test card like this exposed to ambient air at room temperature. The cooling effect of ambient air cools the surface of the test panel under test several degrees below the temperature of the steam. This temperature difference of a few degrees allows water to continuously fall on the surface under test during the condensation cycle.

The condensate thus produced is pure and stable distilled water. This water improves the reproducibility of experimental results, eliminates problems of water sediment contamination, and simplifies the installation and operation of test equipment. Because the material is typically exposed to moisture outdoors for a long time, a typical cycle condensing system should have a test time of 4 hours. The condensation process is carried out under heating conditions (50°C), whichsignificantly accelerates moisture damage to the material. Condensation cycles performed under prolonged heating conditions are more effective in replicating the phenomenon of material deterioration in humid environments than other methods such as water spray, immersion, and other high humidity environments .

As an enterprise integrating R&D, manufacturing, sales, training and service, Shanghai Fanbiao Textile Testing Technology Co., Ltd. is committed to providing more test instruments to the market, long-term supply of textile, leather, combustion test instruments, automotive interior materials, environmental weather aging, masks and protective clothing, etc., can also accept non-standard customization. Before purchase, we can carry out targeted tests according to customer requirements to ensure thate the instruments purchased are suitable.

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