EP1543170A1 - Rapid cooling method for parts by convective and radiative transfer - Google Patents
Rapid cooling method for parts by convective and radiative transferInfo
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- EP1543170A1 EP1543170A1 EP03712227A EP03712227A EP1543170A1 EP 1543170 A1 EP1543170 A1 EP 1543170A1 EP 03712227 A EP03712227 A EP 03712227A EP 03712227 A EP03712227 A EP 03712227A EP 1543170 A1 EP1543170 A1 EP 1543170A1
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- cooling
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- cooling gas
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- C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
- C21—METALLURGY OF IRON
- C21D—MODIFYING THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF FERROUS METALS; GENERAL DEVICES FOR HEAT TREATMENT OF FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS METALS OR ALLOYS; MAKING METAL MALLEABLE, e.g. BY DECARBURISATION OR TEMPERING
- C21D1/00—General methods or devices for heat treatment, e.g. annealing, hardening, quenching or tempering
- C21D1/56—General methods or devices for heat treatment, e.g. annealing, hardening, quenching or tempering characterised by the quenching agents
- C21D1/613—Gases; Liquefied or solidified normally gaseous material
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- C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
- C21—METALLURGY OF IRON
- C21D—MODIFYING THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF FERROUS METALS; GENERAL DEVICES FOR HEAT TREATMENT OF FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS METALS OR ALLOYS; MAKING METAL MALLEABLE, e.g. BY DECARBURISATION OR TEMPERING
- C21D1/00—General methods or devices for heat treatment, e.g. annealing, hardening, quenching or tempering
- C21D1/74—Methods of treatment in inert gas, controlled atmosphere, vacuum or pulverulent material
- C21D1/767—Methods of treatment in inert gas, controlled atmosphere, vacuum or pulverulent material with forced gas circulation; Reheating thereof
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- C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
- C21—METALLURGY OF IRON
- C21D—MODIFYING THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF FERROUS METALS; GENERAL DEVICES FOR HEAT TREATMENT OF FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS METALS OR ALLOYS; MAKING METAL MALLEABLE, e.g. BY DECARBURISATION OR TEMPERING
- C21D2241/00—Treatments in a special environment
- C21D2241/01—Treatments in a special environment under pressure
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- the present invention relates generally to the heat treatment of metals and more particularly to the gaseous quenching operation of steel parts which have previously undergone a heat treatment (such as heating before quenching, annealing, tempering) or thermochemical (such as carburizing, carbonitriding) .
- a heat treatment such as heating before quenching, annealing, tempering
- thermochemical such as carburizing, carbonitriding
- gas quenching is generally carried out by circulating a pressurized gas in a closed circuit between a load and a cooling circuit.
- gas quenching systems generally operate at pressures between four and twenty times atmospheric pressure (4 to 20 bars or 4,000 to 20,000 hectopascals). To designate the pressure, the bar will be used in this description as a unit, it being understood that a bar is equal to 1000 hPa.
- FIG. 1 very schematically shows an example of a gas quenching installation.
- This installation 1 contains a charge 2 to be cooled arranged in a sealed enclosure 3.
- the charge is typically surrounded by deflection plates 4 to guide the circulation of gas.
- a gas inlet 5 makes it possible to introduce a desired gas mixture under pressure, it being understood that the cooling gases can for example be introduced in the form of a pre-formed mixture or that several separate gas inlets can be provided to introduce various cooling gases separately.
- a turbine 6 actuated by a motor 7 makes it possible to ensure the circulation of the gases, for example by passing from a cooling circuit 9 towards the load to be cooled 2.
- the cooling circuit 9 commonly consists of pipes in which a fluid circulates cooling.
- FIG. 1 The installation of FIG. 1 has only been shown as an example of one of many possible and existing structures for ensuring the circulation of a gas of cooling in an enclosure.
- the pressure is of the order of 4 to 20 bars during the cooling phase.
- Many variations are possible, as to the arrangement of the load, the direction of circulation of the gases and the mode of circulation of these gases.
- the most commonly used gas for cooling is nitrogen since it is an inert and inexpensive gas.
- its density is well suited to simple blower or turbine installations and its heat transfer coefficient is sufficiently satisfactory.
- the temperature drop must be as rapid as possible so that the transformation of the steel takes place satisfactorily from the austenitic phase to the martensitic phase without going through pearlitic and / or bainitic phases.
- one of the objects of the present invention is to provide a quenching installation using a thermally more efficient cooling gas than nitrogen but which is inexpensive and simple to use, making it possible to cool the most expensive materials. demanding.
- Another object of the present invention is to provide a cooling process using a gas compatible with existing installations currently operating with nitrogen (and therefore requiring no significant modification of installation).
- the present invention provides, in a process for rapidly cooling metal parts using a cooling gas under pressure, the use of a cooling gas which comprises one or more gases absorbing the radiation. infrared, chosen so as to improve the heat transfer to the part by combining the phenomena of radiative and convective transfers, and so as to improve the convective transfer coefficient compared to traditional nitrogen cooling conditions.
- the cooling gas also comprises an additive gas chosen from helium, hydrogen or their mixtures.
- the cooling gas also comprises an additional gas.
- the composition of the cooling gas is also adjusted so as to obtain an average density of the cooling gas thus formed which is of the same order of magnitude as that of nitrogen.
- the composition of the cooling gas is also adjusted so as to optimize the convective transfer coefficient with respect to the convective transfer coefficients of each of the constituents of the cooling gas taken individually.
- the cooling operation is carried out within an enclosure where the parts to be treated are arranged, provided with a gas stirring system, and the composition of the cooling gas is also adjusted so as to obtain an average density cooling gas thus formed which is adapted to said agitation system of the enclosure, without it being necessary to make significant modifications to it.
- the composition of the cooling gas is also adjusted so that, during the cooling phase of the parts, endothermic chemical reactions between one or more of the absorbent gases and another of the constituents of the cooling gas.
- said gas absorbing infrared radiation is C0 2 .
- Said gas absorbing infrared radiation is chosen from the group formed by saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbons, CO, H 2 0, NH 3 , NO, N 2 0, N0 and their mixtures.
- the content of absorbing gas in the cooling gas is between 5 and 100%, preferably between 20 and 80%.
- the cooling gas is a binary mixture C0 2 - He, whose C0 2 content is between 30 and 80%.
- the cooling gas is a binary mixture C0 2 - H 2 , whose C0 content is between 30 and 60%.
- a cooling gas recycling operation is carried out after use, capable of re-compressing the gas before subsequent use, and if necessary also separating and / or purifying so as to recover all or part of the constituents of the cooling gas.
- the invention also relates to the use in a rapid cooling installation of metal parts using a pressurized cooling gas, installation optimized for operation under nitrogen, of a cooling gas comprising from 20 to 80% of a gas absorbing infrared radiation and 80 to 20% of hydrogen or helium or their mixtures, the composition of the cooling gas being adjusted so that it is not necessary to make significant modifications at installation.
- a cooling gas comprising from 20 to 80% of a gas absorbing infrared radiation and 80 to 20% of hydrogen or helium or their mixtures, the composition of the cooling gas being adjusted so that it is not necessary to make significant modifications at installation.
- FIGS. 2A and 2B show the convective heat transfer coefficient of different mixtures of gases at various pressures, in the case of a fluid flowing parallel between cylinders;
- quenching gas a gas absorbing infrared radiation or a mixture based on such gases absorbing infrared radiation (hereinafter referred to as absorbing gas), such as carbon dioxide. (CO2) and added, if necessary, one or more gases having a good ability to transfer convective heat (hereinafter referred to as additive gas), such as helium or hydrogen.
- absorbing gas such as carbon dioxide. (CO2)
- additive gas one or more gases having a good ability to transfer convective heat
- Such a mixture has the advantage, compared with traditional quenching gases or mixtures of gases using transparent gases with infrared radiation, such as nitrogen, hydrogen, and helium, of absorbing heat at both by convective and radiative phenomena, thereby increasing the overall heat flow extracted from a charge to be cooled.
- complementary gas such as nitrogen
- nitrogen envisaged both as a simple carrier gas and in a more active role allowing, as will be seen below, to optimize the properties of the gas mixture such as density, thermal conductivity, viscosity, etc.
- Optimization should therefore be understood here to mean being at the maximum of the curve considered, or much lower (for example for economic reasons) but in any event so as to have a convective transfer coefficient which is better than each of the convective transfer coefficients of each of the constituents of the cooling gas taken individually.
- a mixture of absorbent gas (and if necessary additive gas), possibly with the addition of complementary gases, under optimized density conditions such as 1 can be carried out in quenching facilities usually provided and optimized to operate in the presence of nitrogen.
- nitrogen for example, carbon dioxide is mixed with helium, taken as an additive gas, so as to combine an optimization of the coefficient of heat transfer by convection and an average density of the mixture which is of the same order of magnitude as that of nitrogen.
- Existing installations can then be used with comparable ventilation speeds and powers, and existing ventilation and gas deflection structures, without having to make significant modifications to the installation.
- FIG. 2A represents, for pressures of 5, 10 and 20 bars, the convective heat transfer coefficient jj of a mixture of ⁇ 2 and helium, for various proportions of ⁇ 2 in the mixture.
- the abscissa gives the relationship between the concentration of CO2, c (C02), and the total concentration of CO2 and He, c (C02 + He).
- the convective heat transfer coefficient has a maximum for CO2 concentration values of between approximately 40 and 70%, in this case approximately 650 W / m ⁇ / K at 20 bars for a concentration of around 60%.
- the mixture not only has the advantage of having a density close to that of nitrogen but in addition of having a higher convective heat transfer coefficient than that of pure CO2.
- Figure 2B shows similar curves for mixtures of carbon dioxide (CO2) and hydrogen (H2).
- CO2 carbon dioxide
- H2 hydrogen
- the convective heat transfer coefficient k jj is better for a mixture of carbon dioxide and hydrogen than for a mixture of C0 2 and helium.
- FIG. 3 illustrates the result of calculations simulating the cooling by convective transfer of a steel cylinder with various cooling gases in the case of the flow of the mixture parallel to the length of the cylinders (cylinders simulating the case of elongated parts).
- Curves have been shown for pure nitrogen (N2) / for a mixture with 60% of CO2 and 40% of helium, for pure hydrogen, and for a mixture with 40% of CO2 and 60% of hydrogen. It is found that it is this latter mixture which gives the best results, that is to say the greatest cooling rate between 850 and 500 ° C.
- the improvement in the quenching rate is of the order of 20% relative to hydrogen alone and of the order of 100% relative to nitrogen alone.
- the present invention is susceptible of various variants and modifications which will appear to those skilled in the art, in particular as regards the choice of gases, the optimization of the proportions of each gas, it being understood that the 'we can if desired use ternary mixtures such C ⁇ 2-H e -U2 and that we can possibly add other gases, called above complementary gases.
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