EP3911905B1 - Four à vide pour la carburization d'éléments - Google Patents

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EP3911905B1
EP3911905B1 EP20708217.3A EP20708217A EP3911905B1 EP 3911905 B1 EP3911905 B1 EP 3911905B1 EP 20708217 A EP20708217 A EP 20708217A EP 3911905 B1 EP3911905 B1 EP 3911905B1
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Wieslaw Fujak
Radoslaw OSINSKI
Lukasz PIECHOWICZ
Józef OLEJNIK
Maciej Korecki
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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
    • F27B5/00—Muffle furnaces; Retort furnaces; Other furnaces in which the charge is held completely isolated
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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
    • F27B5/00—Muffle furnaces; Retort furnaces; Other furnaces in which the charge is held completely isolated
    • F27B5/06—Details, accessories, or equipment peculiar to furnaces of these types
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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
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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
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    • F27D11/02—Ohmic resistance heating

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  • the subject of the invention is a pit-type vacuum furnace for carburization of elements, especially large-size elements.
  • the furnace is designed for carrying out carburization processes of large-size massive and very massive elements, especially gear wheels, gears, power industry equipment and drilling tools used in the extractive industry, where the thickness of the carburized layers is above 2 mm, which involves sufficiently long heating times.
  • Carburization of, for example, gear wheels for wind turbine gearboxes or other gearboxes is usually carried out in pit type retort furnaces normally using the gas carburization method.
  • the carburization of such gearwheels is usually carried out at temperatures of about 900-930°C and with carburization thicknesses ranging from 2 to 5 mm, which requires very long process times and thus a long exposure of charge elements to a high carburization temperature.
  • the workpieces are usually transferred to a quenching tank, after fixing (restraining) them in the tooling to limit quenching deformations.
  • the heating chamber equipment i.e. insulation and heating elements, are usually made of graphite materials and CFC composites.
  • Spatial charge loading means that the charge in the form of densely packed workpieces is loaded into a strictly separated space in the furnace heating chamber, called the usable space of the heating chamber.
  • the usable space of the heating chamber is usually completely filled with workpieces arranged in many layers on special devices (multi-layered charge arrangement).
  • Typical horizontal vacuum furnace for low-pressure carburizing such as disclosed in patent documents US 4 854 860 A , US 8 636 946 B1 and US2003/057615 A1 , has a graphite heating chamber installed in a vacuum-tight water-cooled outer furnace body. High treatment temperatures (up to 1300°C) can be achieved with the use of a graphite heating chamber and graphite heating elements.
  • the carburizing gases that do not react with graphite and do not undergo catalytic decay on its surface are used during the process.
  • the graphite heating chamber does not provide a sufficient barrier for heat transfer, therefore the outer furnace body is equipped with a water jacket through which cooling water flows.
  • the heating chamber In the presence of oxygen, the heating chamber can only be opened when cold due to the fact that it is made of graphite. The presence of even small amounts of oxygen inside the heated furnace chamber may cause damage to the chamber and the heating elements as a result of oxidation.
  • the limitation of such a design is the impossibility of loading and unloading hot charge in the presence of oxygen.
  • LPC low-pressure carburizing
  • the pit type vacuum furnace is dedicated to a completely different type of charge, which until now could be treated mainly in pit type atmospheric furnaces.
  • a design of vacuum carburizing furnaces using liquid organic compounds such as cyclohexanes [C 6 H 12 ] is also known, in which a controllable method of vacuum carburizing is obtained, but the disadvantage of the process is the increased amount of undesirable deposits on the surfaces of insulation and heating elements.
  • the deposits must be regularly removed.
  • the furnace is equipped with a heating chamber with ceramic insulation to enable cyclical, usually weekly, burning of deposits by, for example, controlled aeration.
  • cyclical burning of deposits is necessary, which can only be done in a chamber with ceramic insulation.
  • the use of ceramic insulation involves the need to open the hot chamber in the presence of oxygen.
  • the purpose of the invention is to develop a new design of vacuum carburizing furnace for, especially, large-size massive and very massive elements, whose chamber should make it possible to introduce gas into the furnace and open the furnace after precooling to a quenching temperature or after pearlite transformation, to enable the transfer of the workpiece to the quenching tooling and, after appropriate fixing (restraining), the transfer of the workpiece to oil quenching.
  • a pit type furnace for vacuum carburization of workpieces equipped with a vacuum-tight cylindrical outer furnace body with a sliding cover embedded on it, wherein in the outer furnace body there is a heating chamber equipped with the insulation with a multi-layered structure with at least three layers made of ceramic materials and there are heating elements inside the chamber, characterised in that, the heating chamber insulation is multi-layered and contains at least three different layers made of ceramic materials and an external layer in the form of microporous elements made of pyrogenic silica, a middle layer in the form of a high-temperature fibrous ceramic mat is made of silica (SiO 2 ), calcium oxide (CaO) and magnesium oxide (MgO) and an internal layer in the form of vacuum-moulded fibrous ceramic modules resistant, located on the hot heating chamber side, made of aluminium oxide (Al 2 O 3 ) and silica (SiO 2 ), while the heating elements are made of heat-resistant iron-chromium-aluminium alloys with the following composition: 4-7 wt.
  • the layer of microporous elements (3a) has a thickness of 20mm.
  • the layer of fibrous ceramic mat has a thickness of 155 mm.
  • the layer of vacuum-moulded fibrous ceramic elements has a thickness 125 mm.
  • the furnace according to the invention enables vacuum carburization of massive and very massive workpieces, where the thickness of the carburized layers normally exceeds 2 mm, which involves sufficiently long heating times. Its design makes it possible to use suitably thick layers of thermal insulation, for which in the phase of convection heating and vacuum heating and heat treating prior to the low-pressure carburizing (LPC) process, adequate time is provided for cleaning it from air residues after the previous furnace opening phase, after unloading and loading the charge. Due to the working characteristics of the pit-type vacuum furnace (opening the heating chamber when the furnace is hot), a thermal insulation liner with a relatively large total thickness (approx.
  • the moisture contained in the insulation escapes to the environment as a result of evaporation, which makes it possible to achieve the required vacuum inside the heating chamber.
  • the increased thickness of the heating chamber insulation, as compared to the typical vacuum carburizing designs, and the thermal insulation materials used in the multi-layered insulation of the heating chamber reduce heat loss during the process and make it possible to obtain a sufficiently low heat transfer coefficient. Consequently, an alternative design of the furnace, without the water jacket, can be used.
  • the water jacket is the space between the internal wall and the external wall of the outer furnace body, in which the flowing water absorbs heat, so that the temperature of the external wall of the outer furnace body of a typical vacuum furnace usually does not exceed 40°C.
  • this type of vacuum carburizing naturally allows the use of significantly higher carburizing temperatures (even up to 1050°C) compared to typical gas carburizing carried out in retort furnaces or even retortless furnaces (usually in the range of 900-930°C). Higher temperatures produce significantly higher carbon diffusion coefficients, which results in effective reduction of the carburizing time and the entire heating cycle. Therefore, the furnace is highly efficient.
  • fig.1 shows the vertical cross-section of the furnace with the water jacketed outer furnace body, equipped with a blower, heat exchanger and convective mixer as well as upper and lower hatches, and a schematically shown cooling gas circuit, fig.
  • fig.3 is a view showing the heating chamber built into the vacuum-tight outer furnace body with a convective mixer
  • fig.4 shows the cross-section of the heating chamber with the heating elements in the furnace without water jacket, blower, heat exchanger and hatches, which shows the heating chamber design and the insulation layers
  • fig.5 schematically shows the outer furnace body with a water jacket and the heating chamber wall layers with installed heating elements
  • fig.6 schematically shows the outer furnace body without a water jacket and the heating chamber wall layers with installed heating elements
  • fig.7 is a view showing the furnace closed by means of a vacuum cover and a vacuum pump system connected to the vacuum outer furnace body
  • fig.8 shows a top view of the furnace with an open vacuum cover and a view of the internal part of the heating chamber and insulation structure and metal heating elements
  • fig.9 is a side view of the vacuum furnace in the
  • the pit-type vacuum furnace for vacuum carburization of workpieces, especially large-size workpieces, is equipped with a vacuum-tight cylindrical outer furnace body 1 that is closed or opened with cover 8 during charge loading and unloading, heating chamber 2 located in this outer furnace body 1, equipped with insulation and heating elements 4 installed inside the chamber.
  • the heating chamber in the embodiment is made of metal plate, e.g. 5 mm thick metal plate.
  • the vacuum-tight outer furnace body 1 has a water jacket formed between the outer furnace body wall 1 and the additional external wall 1a of the outer furnace body.
  • the outer furnace body 1 does not have a water jacket and has no additional external wall 1a.
  • the heating chamber insulation 2 is multi-layered and contains the external layer in the form of microporous elements 3a with the extremely low thermal conductivity, the middle layer 3b in the form of a high-temperature fibrous ceramic mat and the internal layer 3c in the form of ceramic modules resistant to high temperatures and oxidation in air, located on the hot heating chamber side.
  • external layer 3a of the heating chamber insulation 2 in the form of microporous plates made on the basis of pyrogenic silica with extremely low thermal conductivity (about 0.025 W/(m ⁇ K)) is 20 mm thick.
  • the middle insulation layer 3b is a 155mm thick high-temperature (1300°) fibrous ceramic mat made on the basis of silica (SiO 2 ), calcium oxide (CaO) and magnesium oxide (MgO).
  • the average thermal conductivity of such a liner at working temperature is about 0.1 W/(m ⁇ K).
  • the internal insulation layer 3c installed on the hot heating chamber side, is in the form of 125 mm thick vacuum-moulded fibrous ceramic modules / elements made on the basis of aluminium oxide (Al 2 O 3 ) and silica (SiO 2 ), resistant to high temperatures (1350°C) and oxidation in air.
  • the average thermal conductivity of such a liner at working temperature is about 0.2 W/(m ⁇ K).
  • the insulation is secured to the heating chamber structure by means of metal bars.
  • the heating elements 4 arranged inside the heating chamber 2 are made of heat-resistant ferritic resistance alloys of the iron-chromium-aluminium type and contain from 4 to 7 % of Al and from 20 to 30 % of Cr, the remaining content is Fe.
  • Ferritic alloys show high resistance in an oxidizing and carburizing environment and are characterized by high resistance to carbon corrosion, which makes it possible, after the heating and heat treating cycle, to carry out the vacuum low-pressure carburizing (LPC) phase, preferably of the impulse type with controlled diffusion phases and, after precooling for direct quenching (or after heating to a quenching temperature after prior pearlite transformation), to introduce nitrogen into the furnace to achieve ambient pressure and, after sliding the door (cover) of the outer furnace body, to quickly transfer the workpiece to a quenching tank, e.g. oil quenching tank or to quench it after prior setting and fixing (restraining) in appropriate tooling.
  • LPC vacuum low-pressure carburizing
  • Ferritic alloys (iron, chromium, aluminium) owe their high heat resistance mainly to the fact that at a sufficiently high temperature (over 800°C), they produce a thin, dense, several microns thick layer of aluminium oxide (Al 2 O 3 ) on the surface in the presence of even a very small amount of oxygen.
  • a sufficiently high temperature over 800°C
  • they produce a thin, dense, several microns thick layer of aluminium oxide (Al 2 O 3 ) on the surface in the presence of even a very small amount of oxygen.
  • Al 2 O 3 aluminium oxide
  • they should be subjected to cyclic oxidation processes to renew the protective Al 2 O 3 layer.
  • each opening of the heating chamber at the quenching temperature causes favourable oxidation of the surface of the heating elements.
  • the oxidation of the heating elements can be carried out in a controlled manner by aerating the heating chamber at a sufficiently high
  • Metal resistance heating elements 4 made of iron-chromium-aluminium alloys, are arranged on the internal insulation walls. They can be made in the form of tapes to ensure low surface load at full power.
  • the heating elements are arranged circumferentially around the internal surface of the heating chamber, divided into heating zones at the height of the heating chamber 2.
  • the terminals of the heating elements are led to the outside of the vacuum outer furnace body 1 and the heating chamber insulation 2 through electrically and vacuum insulated water-cooled terminals 5 in the side wall of the outer furnace body 1.
  • the furnace is equipped with a mixer 9, built into the furnace cover 8 on the heating chamber side 2, to make it possible to carry out convection heating by providing the atmosphere-nitrogen circulation in the phase of convection heating and/or convection precooling for quenching.
  • the cover 8 is slid away for the time of unloading and loading with the use of jacks, e.g. screw jacks 10 and a horizontal sliding drive using a gear-motor 11.
  • the vacuum cover is equipped with a vacuum sealing, preferably with a lip seal 12.
  • the furnace with the water jacket is equipped with a blower 14 with a heat exchanger 13 installed in the upper insulating wall 7 of the heating chamber 2 suspended in the furnace cover 8 and with the gas circulation hatches 6 located in the upper insulating wall 7 of the cover 8 of the heating chamber 2 and in the bottom insulating wall 17 of the heating chamber 2, which makes it possible to carry out accelerated pearlitic precooling to a temperature of about 550-650°C.
  • the hatches 6, driven by pneumatic cylinders, are opened in the phase of precooling to a temperature of pearlite transformation or quenching. Pearlitic precooling of the charge convective precooling system is carried out by nitrogen circulation through the following route: charge - upper hatches 6 - heat exchanger 13 - blower 14 - lower hatches 6 - charge/heating chamber 2.
  • the thermal insulation in this furnace designed for carburizing thick layers, will be built in layers of ceramic mats, ceramic modules and / or ceramic plates with a thickness giving heat loss below 1 kWh/m 2 of insulation at a temperature of 1000°C of vacuum (radiation) heating at a LPC cycle pressure of about 5-15 mbar.
  • Workpieces in the tooling or single large-size workpieces are placed in the heating chamber on the charge supports 16 fixed in the lower wall 17 of the heating chamber 2 and in the bottom of the lower vacuum outer furnace body.
  • a workpiece e.g. a large-size gear wheel
  • the furnace cover 8 is moved over the outer furnace body 1 and is lowered to the closed and vacuum sealed position.
  • the pump system removes air to reach a pressure of approx. 5 ⁇ 10 -2 mbar and after adequate holding and heating the system to a temperature of e.g. 400°C, nitrogen is introduced into the outer furnace body to reach a pressure of 900mbar and further heating is carried out in a convective manner to a temperature of e.g.
  • the convective gas circuit mixer 9 is working.
  • the hatches 6 are closed.
  • the outer furnace body is pumped down to a pressure of approx. 5 ⁇ 10 -2 mbar and further heating to a carburizing temperature is carried out by radiation in a vacuum.
  • the programmatic low-pressure carburizing (LPC) cycle is carried out, e.g. using FineCarb technology.
  • the workpiece temperature is programmatically reduced to a temperature of quenching or pearlite transformation by precooling the system after introducing nitrogen into the outer furnace body to a pressure of approx. 900mbar and starting the blower 14, opening the hatches 6 for cooling gas inflow and outflow from the heating chamber and starting the cooling water inflow to the heat exchanger 13. If a cycle with the pearlite transformation phase is carried out, after the time of holding / temperature equalization, the hatches 6 are closed and the blower 14 and the exchanger 13 are turned off.
  • Convection heating is started to reach the quenching temperature, and, after proper equalization of the workpiece temperature, the heating is stopped, the furnace is filled to reach the ambient pressure and the furnace cover 8 with the equipment is raised and moved away.
  • the workpiece is removed from the furnace by means of an external transport device, e.g. an overhead crane with suitable handles, and transferred to the appropriate restraining tooling and then to a quenching tank, together with the tooling.
  • soot particles and other deposits / carbon deposits are oxidized on the internal surfaces of the thermal insulation liner of the heating chamber 2.
  • soot particles and carbon deposits are oxidized on the surface of the heating elements 4 and an layer of aluminium oxides is formed or added to the surface of these elements.
  • Carbon-based impurities are removed and the protective oxide coating is reconstructed on the heating elements as a result of oxidation during convection heating in air.

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  1. Four à vide pour la carburization d'éléments, équipé d'un corps du four cylindrique externe étanche au vide avec un couvercle coulissant intégré, où dans le corps du four externe se trouve une étuve chauffée disposant d'une isolation à structure multi-couches, dont au moins trois couches sont en matériau céramique et des éléments chauffants se trouvent dans l'étuve , caractérisé en ce que l'isolation de l'étuve chauffée (2) est composée de plusieurs couches et possède au moins trois couches différentes en matériau céramique et une couche extérieure de 20 mm d'épaisseur (3a) sous forme d'éléments microporeux en silice pyrogène, une couche intermédiaire de 155 mm d'épaisseur (3b) sous forme de matelas en céramique fibreuse haute température fabriqué à partir de silice (SiO2), d'oxyde de calcium (CaO) et d'oxyde de magnésium (MgO) et une couche intérieure de 125 mm d'épaisseur (3c) sous forme de modules céramiques fibreux résistants moulés sous vide, placés sur le côté chaud de l'étuve chauffée, fabriqués à partir d'oxyde d'aluminium (Al2O3) et de silice (SiO2), tandis que les éléments chauffants (4) sont fabriqués à partir d'alliages fer-chrome-aluminium résistant à la chaleur et à la composition suivante : 4-7 % en masse d'AI, 20-30 % en masse de Cr et 63-76 % en masse de Fe et sont situés, divisés en zones de chauffage, le long de la hauteur de l'étuve chauffée (2).
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