Product Details

UV Light Accelerated Aging Tester

Brief Introduction

Many polymer materialsare often be damage by naturalenvironmental factors which from Earths surfaceandatmosphere when used outdoor. This affects their useful life. In order toproperlyassess their usefullifein theoutdoors, using the environmental testingequipment tosimulationof each kinds of naturalclimatic conditions , study weather resistance of each kinds of products in the laboratory has become a widely and effective method.

JR 855&JR 856 UV Light Accelerated Aging Tester(hereinafter referred as BUV) adopts fluorescent UV lamp as the light source. Its inner temperature and humidity can be properly controlled to obtain the periodic condensation on the sample forfully evaluating the damaged factor caused by sunlight, moisture and temperature (materials aging phenomenon includes fading, disluster, intensity reduction, cracking, flaking, chalking, and oxidation).

Fluorescent UV light can emulate the effect of sunshine, while condensation and water spray system can emulate the effects of rain and dew. During the test, radiation energy and temperature are controllable. A typical test cycle generally carries out under strong irradiation of UV light or in the dark and wet condensation periodwith 100% relative humidity. These tests generally applied in the fields of paint and coatings, automotive industry, plastic, wood, glue, etc…

Test Methods & Material Standards

ISO 11507 Paints and varnished-Exposure of coatings to artificial weathering- Exposure to fluorescent UV lamps and water

ISO 4892-1 Plastics-Methods of exposure to laboratory light sources-Part 1: General Guidance

ISO 4892-3 Methods of exposure to laboratory light sources-Part 3: Fluorescent UV lamps

ASTM D 4587 Standard Practice for Fluorescent UV-Condensation Exposures of Paint and Related Coatings

ASTM D 4329 Standard Practice S for Fluorescent UV Exposure of Plastic

ASTM G-151 Standard Practice for Exposing Nonmetallic Materials in Accelerated Test Devices that use laboratory light sources

ASTM G-154 Standard Practice for Operating Fluorescent Light Apparatus for UV Exposure of Non-Metallic Materials

BS 2782:Part5, Method 540B (Methods of Exposure to Lab Light Sources)

SAE J2020 Accelerated Exposure of Automotive Exterior Malts Using a Fluorescent UV/Condensation Apparatus

JIS D 0205 Test Method of Weather-ability for Automotive Parts

Feature

Original UVA or UVB lamps from America, ensure the comparability of testing results. With special ballasts, extend lamps life to 6,000hours.
All BUV machines use fluorescent UV lamps produced specially as testing light source, comparing with other type lamps(including Xenon Lamps), UV lamps are more stable. Its spectrum power distribution won’t change as the lamps weathering, even to 5,000 hours. Thus more repeatable testing results can be achieved easily, and decrease changing lamps times and reduce the running cost..

Furthermore, these lamps are produced on the base of more than 40 years’ experience and fluorescent technology. It is designed specially and tested with most serious quality control.
Different types fluorescent UV lamps are used in different fields, for example:

UVA-340 Lamp: UVA-340 Lamp can highly simulate short-wave ultraviolet light of sunlight, the wavelength range is from 365 nm to 295 nm.

UVA 351 Lamp: Simulates UV sunlight which has passed through the windows. It is excellent for testing materials aging process indoor.

UVB 313 Lamp: UVB-313lampemits strongershortwaveultravioletlight compared with the ultraviolet rays on Earth, thus canaccelerate material aging process.

However, this lampmay causesome unrealistic materialdamage. Itis mainly used inquality control,research and development,and the test of the materials with strong weather resistance.

QFS-40 Lamp:Also be called FS-40 or F40UVB,it’s the original QUV lamps. Now, FS-40 lamps are stilled used for some traditional car testing.

Irradiance can be controlled automatically (with the closed-loop system, the value of irradiance is more precise and steady.Only for JR 856)

The superiority of BGD 856 UV Light Accelerated Weathering Tester is that it can be controlled and adjusted automatically during testing process. As it is well known, the energy in testing process is the main factor in polymer materials aging. In order to ensure reproducibility and comparability of testing results, the UV energy is a very important technical indicator. We adopt the principles which similar with Sun- eye automatically monitor the testing process throughout the energy value, when the lamp energy is less than the expected value, the system can automatically monitor the difference and automatically replenish energy immediately.

Irradiance can be calibrated automatically (Only for JR 856)
As any other lamps, UV lamps energy of BUV also decreases as time increase. The control system would compensate it automatically through strengthening the voltage of lamps. But as the using time become longer and longer, the energy of lamps decrease continuously. For some high set point of irradiance, BUV couldn’t keep this irradiance any longer, and now the system of BUV would reminder failure “the error of irradiance is too large” and shut off the machine. Now, the operator should calibrate the BUV by standard calibration radiometer. If machine still can’t get the set point after calibrating, the user should replace the two pcs lamps corresponding to the relative sensor and calibrate again.

BUV is calibrated by BGD Calibration Radiometer which is produced by our company. User can use one radiometer to calibrate some BUV, radiometer can test fluorescent UV lamps. It is not only used to calibrate the UVA lamps , but also to do UVB lamps. For UVB lamps, it has been calibrated well under the wave length 313 nm with W/m²/nm unit before delivery. For UVA lamps, it has been calibrated well under the wave length 340 nm with W/m²/nm unit.

Calibration Radiometer is made up of radiometer and sensor(see picture as below):

The sensor of JR 8118 calibration radiometer is very sensitive to ultraviolet rays, but don’t have any action to visible light, and just have a little response for infrared light even can be ignored. So other rays can’t bring any influence for this radiometer.

Water Spray and Condensation function

Water spray

Forsome applications, the waterspray can simulate end-use environmental conditions better.Water spray can effectively simulate heat shock or mechanical erosion caused by dramatic temperature changes or rain. In some practical application conditions, such asa sudden brash in a sunshine day, can bring heat shock because the temperature of the material changes drastically. This heat shock severely tests the properties of many materials.BUV water spray can simulate this heat shock and /or stress corrosion.

BUV spray system designwith 12 nozzles, each side has 6 piecesin the test chamber. Spray systemcan runa few minutesand then shut down.This transitory water spray can cool the samples quickly, creating heat shock conditions.

Condensation

In many outdoor environments, materials are placed in wet condition for over 12 hours each day. Studies have shown that the main factor of this wet condition outdoor is caused by dew, not rain. BUV simulates the outdoor moisture erosion through the unique condensationcapabilities. In the condensation cycle during the test, water on the bottom of the chamber is heated to obtain superheated steam filling the test chamber. Hot steam makes the chamber maintain 100% relative humidity, and maintain a relatively high temperature. Sample was fixed on the wall of test chamber. Thus the sample surface is exposed to the ambient air of test chamber. The other side of the sample is exposed to the natural environment which has a cooling effect, bringing internal and external surfaces of the sample with temperature difference, and the temperature difference leads to the test surfaces always have drips caused by condensation process.

According with many testing standards. The operator set any testing program

Controlled by touch screen with friendly windows, user can check any parameter during test

Real-time collect and store data, and testing data can be converted EXCEL format automatically and be saved. And all these data can educed by U disk. Achieve the real unattended running

Come with TCP/IPEthernet interface, the user can tele-control BUV through TCP/IP internet.
With this interface, operator only need to set reasonable IP address, then can monitor BUV working status at any place.Even operator is not in his laboratory, he still can run and maintain BUV. Moreover, this function is also convenient for Biuged to help our customers to slove all problems and do some necessary after service. Settle completely users troubles at home.

Control the temperature automatically with high precision Pt 100 temperature sensor of black board.

In each cycle, the temperature can be controlled at a set value. At the same time, the black panel thermometer can monitor the temperature.Temperature increase can accelerate the aging process, and the temperature control for reproducibility of the test is also very important.

Main Technical Parameters

Light Source: UV-A (wave length 340 nm) or UV-B (wave length 313 nm) ; 40W×8 pcs (The normal use-life is 6,000 hours)

The range of Irradiance: 0.1 W/m² ~1.0 W/m²

Temperature Range:Black Panel temperature(BPT):RT+10℃-100℃

Temperature Stability:±2℃

Interior of cabinet:Stainless steel -SUS 304 material

Exterior of cabinet:Powder coating on SUS 304

Insolating Area:5175cm²/828in²

Sample Capacity:24 pieces of standard specimen(75×150mm standard samples)
or 15 pieces of 100×300mm

Overall Size:1400×500×1200mm(L×W×H)

Weight: 140 kg

Total Max. Power:3KW