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The well established carrier gas analysis (CGA) method was used to test different hydrogen detectors comprising a thermal conductivity detector (TCD) and a metal oxide semiconducting (MOx) sensor. The MOx sensor provides high hydrogen sensitivity and selectivity, whereas the TCD exhibits a much shorter response time and a linear hydrogen concentration dependency. Therefore, the TCD was used for quantitative hydrogen concentration measurements above 50 µmol/mol. The respective calibration was made using N2/H2 gas mixtures. Furthermore, the hydrogen content and degassing behaviour of titanium hydride (TiH2‐x) was studied. This material turned out to be a potential candidate for a solid sample calibration. Vacuum hot extraction (VHE) coupled with a mass spectrometer (MS) was then calibrated with TiH2‐x as transfer standard. The calibration was applied for the evaluation of the hydrogen content of austenitic steel samples (1.4301) and the comparison of CGA‐TCD and VHE‐MS.

Green compacts of ceramics, glass ceramic composites and sinter glass ceramics contain different amounts of organic materials added as pressing aids or binders. Before sintering, these organics have to burn out completely. In oxidising atmospheres, the debindering process is mostly exothermic and therefore difficult to control. This uncontrolled heat production due to locally enhanced debindering and respective gas release may cause damages in the green compact microstructure. Therefore, debindering is usually operated with very low heating rates (< 3 K/min) which requires long processing times of many hours. In this paper, we will show that it is possible to reduce the processing time for debindering dramatically by using the decomposition rate of the organic binder, detected by the weight loss of the sample, as a control factor of the furnace.