EP1127639A2 - Hochdrucksinterofen - Google Patents
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- EP1127639A2 EP1127639A2 EP01103716A EP01103716A EP1127639A2 EP 1127639 A2 EP1127639 A2 EP 1127639A2 EP 01103716 A EP01103716 A EP 01103716A EP 01103716 A EP01103716 A EP 01103716A EP 1127639 A2 EP1127639 A2 EP 1127639A2
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B22—CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
- B22F—WORKING METALLIC POWDER; MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES FROM METALLIC POWDER; MAKING METALLIC POWDER; APPARATUS OR DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR METALLIC POWDER
- B22F3/00—Manufacture of workpieces or articles from metallic powder characterised by the manner of compacting or sintering; Apparatus specially adapted therefor ; Presses and furnaces
- B22F3/12—Both compacting and sintering
- B22F3/14—Both compacting and sintering simultaneously
- B22F3/15—Hot isostatic pressing
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F27—FURNACES; KILNS; OVENS; RETORTS
- F27B—FURNACES, KILNS, OVENS OR RETORTS IN GENERAL; OPEN SINTERING OR LIKE APPARATUS
- F27B21/00—Open or uncovered sintering apparatus; Other heat-treatment apparatus of like construction
- F27B21/04—Sintering pots or sintering pans
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F27—FURNACES; KILNS; OVENS; RETORTS
- F27D—DETAILS OR ACCESSORIES OF FURNACES, KILNS, OVENS OR RETORTS, IN SO FAR AS THEY ARE OF KINDS OCCURRING IN MORE THAN ONE KIND OF FURNACE
- F27D9/00—Cooling of furnaces or of charges therein
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- the invention relates to a high-pressure sintering furnace according to the preamble of the claim 1.
- overpressure sintering furnaces have a relatively long cooling time. It takes about seven hours to go from 1500 ° C at 50 bar to 80 ° C and 30 bar come. During this time, the stoves cannot be used, and also the busy staff can often do nothing but wait during the time.
- a known furnace for isostatic heat pressing has a pressure chamber in which is an oven room with radiators, between the oven room and a gap between an insulating jacket and the inner wall of the pressure chamber there is a gas connection path with a valve (DE-C-27 22 065). If that Valve is opened, you get a closed flow circuit, with one Self-circulation sets in that the gas in the gap is colder and also heavier than the gas in the furnace room.
- the known furnace is a vertical one erected oven.
- Another known sintering furnace for powder metallurgy is one for cooling of the furnace interior provided with a heat exchanger, the is arranged outside the furnace main body (DE-A-28 13 758).
- This sintering furnace is not suitable for the sinter-HIP technology because the actual furnace space very small and the total boiler volume is many times larger. This means, that the gas consumption during the HIP phase, compared to the batch volume, would be very large. Since the operating costs for argon are high, the known one would be Sintering furnace cannot be used as a HIP furnace for economic reasons.
- Another known method for cooling a sintering furnace uses a cooling gas in a closed circuit through the furnace and over the sintered workpieces and driven by a cooling element located in the furnace (EP-A-0 995 960). Natural convection can serve as a drive here.
- the invention has for its object the last in a high pressure sintering furnace to cause a gas movement with simple means.
- the invention thus relates to a sintering furnace which, after the sintering process has ended can be cooled quickly.
- the cooling is accelerated by the fact that in an inert gas is circulated to the sintering furnace, which heats up gives a heat exchanger.
- the advantage achieved with the invention is in particular that by mere asymmetrical arrangement of the cooling system in the oven a self convection of a inert gas arises, which acts as a forced cooling device because of this self-convection the inert gas is circulated, which transfers its heat to you Gives off heat exchanger.
- Fig. 1a the temperature profiles in a conventional sintering furnace and in shown a sintering furnace according to the invention.
- FIG. 1b shows the pressure profiles that run parallel to this.
- the temperature profile curve I is divided into several sections.
- the one through the Section 1 and 2 defined section represents the heating phase, i. H. the one Phase in which the material to be sintered from 0 ° C to z. B. 1370 ° C is heated. For example, this phase lasts four hours. Then the final temperature reached held at 1370 ° C for about two hours.
- This phase is shown in Fig. la marked by the reference numbers 2 and 3.
- the kink in points 6 and 11 in curves III and IV is one Follow the opening of the sleeve cover.
- FIG. 2 shows a sintering furnace 20 in a perspective view.
- This sintering furnace has a cylindrical shape and rests on a frame 21.
- a door 22 At the front there is a door 22 which is pivotable about a hinge 23.
- FIG. 3 shows the same sintering furnace 20 again in a view from the front, with the door 22 open.
- a batch space 24, in. Can be seen here which is the material to be sintered during the sintering process.
- This batch room 24 is enclosed by a susceptor 25, which is surrounded by a heater 26 is. In a variant of the invention, this susceptor 25 can also be omitted.
- the Heater 26 is in turn surrounded by an insulation cylinder 27. More details the internal structure of the sintering furnace 20 can be seen from FIG. 4.
- the cylindrical sintering furnace 20 rests on the frame 21, which has two supports 30, 31 arranged next to one another.
- the outer shell of the sintering furnace 20 is formed by a steel jacket 32.
- a steel jacket 33 arranged at a short distance from and concentric to this steel jacket 32.
- a cooling medium 34 In the space between the outer Steel jacket 32 and the inner steel jacket 33 is a cooling medium 34, for. B. cooling water.
- an insulating cylinder 27 is arranged concentrically to the outer steel jacket 32, which consists of a laminate of graphite and felt.
- This insulating cylinder 27 is held by three bolts 35, 36, 37, which are used simultaneously for the power supply Heating 26 serve.
- the bolts 35, 36, 37 are through the steel jackets 33, 32 after guided on the outside and provided with cable connections 38, 39, 40.
- two-phase cables 41, 42, 43 are connected, for example designed for an alternating voltage of 50 volts and an alternating current of 3500 A. are.
- the connection points between the cables 41 to 43 and the cable connections 38 to 40 are each surrounded by a protective housing 44, 45, 46.
- temperature sensors 68, 69, 70 are provided for monitoring the temperature of the cooling water between the steel jackets 32, 33.
- control temperature sensors 71, 72 are also provided, which is the temperature in the inner sintering area 24 capture.
- the cooling shirt 65, 66, 67 begins on the right side at an angle ⁇ to the z-axis and ends at an angle of - ⁇ to the z-axis on the left, where ⁇ are in the order of 40 ° and ⁇ in the order of 15 °. It it goes without saying that the cooling shirt can also consist of other materials and ⁇ or ⁇ can also have other amounts.
- the inert gas in the left Part of the sintering furnace 20 cooled more than in the right part.
- the consequence of this is a circulation of the gas in the direction of arrows 80, 81 because that is on the left increasingly cool gas falls down and thus the warmer gas pushes up on the right.
- the angles ⁇ and ⁇ are only exemplary in FIG. 4 specified. It goes without saying that an optimization calculates these angles can be, for example, using the calculation method of the finite elements. In which Finite element method is originally a numerical method using computers to determine stresses and strains on complicated, analytically unpredictable, loaded component, but also on Currents is applicable. Essential for the generation of an increased convection current the inert gas is the asymmetrical arrangement of the cooling area relative to the y axis, d. H. the angle ⁇ on the right side must not yet appear once on the left.
- cooling shirt is always in one piece trained and then must be shifted relative to the y-axis. It would be too possible, the cooling shirt z. B. near the y axis and on the a smaller cooling shirt part on the right and a larger one on the left.
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Description
- Fig. 1a
- den Temperaturverlauf bei einer herkömmlichen Kühlung im Vergleich zur erfindungsgemäßen Kühlung;
- Fig. 1b
- den Druckverlauf bei einer herkömmlichen Kühlung im Vergleich zur erfindungsgemäßen Kühlung;
- Fig. 2
- eine perspektivische Ansicht eines Sinterofens;
- Fig. 3
- die Frontseite des Sinterofens nach Fig. 2 bei geöffneter Tür;
- Fig. 4
- eine detaillierte Darstellung der Innenstruktur eines erfindungsgemäßen Sinterofens.
Claims (12)
- Hochdrucksinterofen, mitdadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Kühleinrichtung (65 bis 67) asymmetrisch zur horizontalen und/oder vertikalen Achse des Hochdrucksinterofens (20) angeordnet ist.1.1 einem äußeren Gehäuse (32),1.2 einem Chargenraum (24),1.3 einer Heizung (26), die den Chargenraum (24) wenigstens teilweise umgibt,1.4 einer Wärmeisolation (27) zwischen der Heizung (26) und dem äußeren Gehäuse (32),1.5 einem mit einem Gas gefüllten Raum (75) zwischen der Wärmeisolation (27) und dem äußeren Gehäuse (32) und1.6 einer Kühleinrichtung (65 bis 67) zwischen der Wärmeisolation (27) und dem äußeren Gehäuse (32),
- Hochdrucksinterofen nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Kühleinrichtung (65 bis 67) nur in einem Teilbereich des Hochdrucksinterofens (20) vorgesehen ist.
- Hochdrucksinterofen nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Kühleinrichtung (65 bis 67) Kupfer und/oder Graphit enthält.
- Hochdrucksinterofen nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das äußere Gehäuse (32) ein zylindrischer Stahlmantel ist.
- Hochdrucksinterofen nach Anspruch 4, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass in einem Abstand von der Innenseite des zylindrischen Stahlmantels ein zylindrisches Blech (33) verläuft.
- Hochdrucksinterofen nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Chargenraum (24) von einem Suszeptor (25) umgeben ist, der seinerseits wenigstens teilweise von der Heizung (26) umgeben ist.
- Hochdrucksinterofen nach Anspruch 6, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Suszeptor (25) von der Wärmeisolation (27) umgeben ist und sich die Heizung (26) zwischen diesem Suszeptor (25) und dieser Isolation (27) befindet.
- Hochdrucksinterofen nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das äußere Gehäuse (32 zylindrisch ausgebildet und mit seiner Längsachse zum Boden aufgestellt ist.
- Hochdrucksinterofen nach Anspruch 8, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das äußere Gehäuse (32) auf einem Gestell (21) ruht und Träger (47, 48) für Sintermetalle (49) vorgesehen sind, die in den Chargenraum (24) hineinragen.
- Hochdrucksinterofen nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Kühleinrichtung (65 bis 67) im oberen Bereich des Gehäuses (32) angeordnet ist.
- Hochdrucksinterofen nach Anspruch 1 und Anspruch 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Kühleinrichtung (65 bis 67), bezogen auf eine z-Achse parallel zur Ebene der Standfläche, auf einer Seite bei einem Winkel α von etwa 40° beginnt und auf der anderen Seite bei einem Winkel β von -15° endet.
- Hochdrucksinterofen nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Kühleinrichtung (65 bis 67) in mehrere Teil-Kühleinrichtungen unterteilt ist.
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| EP1127639A3 (de) | 2003-01-22 |
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