(1) An oven-like apparatus for use in yarn heatsetting operations Under pressure in a superheated steam atmosphere, yarn is given a "memory" of its twist Autoclave heatsetting is a batch, not a continuous, method (2) An apparatus for making polymer under heat and pressure
A closed vessel for producing an environment of fluid pressure, with or without heat, to an enclosed object which is undergoing a chemical reaction or other operation
An airtight vessel for heating and sometimes agitating its contents under high steam pressure; used for industrial processing, sterilization and cooking with moist or dry heat at high temperatures Silicate glasses can be dissolved in water using this technique
Vessel, usually of steel, able to withstand high temperatures and pressures. The chemical industry uses various types of autoclaves in manufacturing dyes and in other chemical reactions requiring high pressures. In bacteriology and medicine, instruments, equipment, supplies, and culture media are sterilized by superheated steam in an autoclave. In 1679 Denis Papin (1647- 1712) invented a prototype known as a steam digester; still used in cooking, it is now called a pressure cooker
a device for heating substances above their boiling point; used to manufacture chemicals or to sterilize surgical instruments subject to the action of an autoclave