US3598378A - Furnace for heat-treating objects under high pressure - Google Patents

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US3598378A
US3598378A US855911A US3598378DA US3598378A US 3598378 A US3598378 A US 3598378A US 855911 A US855911 A US 855911A US 3598378D A US3598378D A US 3598378DA US 3598378 A US3598378 A US 3598378A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B30—PRESSES
    • B30B—PRESSES IN GENERAL
    • B30B11/00—Presses specially adapted for forming shaped articles from material in particulate or plastic state, e.g. briquetting presses, tabletting presses
    • B30B11/001—Presses specially adapted for forming shaped articles from material in particulate or plastic state, e.g. briquetting presses, tabletting presses using a flexible element, e.g. diaphragm, urged by fluid pressure; Isostatic presses
    • B30B11/002—Isostatic press chambers; Press stands therefor
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • F27B3/00—Hearth-type furnaces, e.g. of reverberatory type; Electric arc furnaces ; Tank furnaces
    • F27B3/10—Details, accessories or equipment, e.g. dust-collectors, specially adapted for hearth-type furnaces
    • F27B3/12—Working chambers or casings; Supports therefor
    • 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
    • F27B5/04—Muffle furnaces; Retort furnaces; Other furnaces in which the charge is held completely isolated adapted for treating the charge in vacuum or special atmosphere

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  • a furnace for'treatrng material at high pressure "358/69 and high temperature includes a pressure chamber and a cylindrical sheath within and spaced from the pressure chamber.
  • the sheath is formed of three concentric annular walls forming between them substantially closed inner and gggggg tgg OBJECTS outer shells.
  • the interior of the inner shell constitutes the fur- 8 Cm 3 D F nace chamber.
  • the spaces between the walls are filled with insulating material, and the spaces between the walls open into U.S.Cl 263/41 the furnace chamber and the space between the pressure Int. Cl F27b 5/00 chamber and the sheath.
  • the inner annular wall is formed of a Field of Search 263/40. 4
  • the present invention relates to a cylindrical, preferably vertical furnace for simultaneously treating material with high pressure, preferably 500 bar and above, and high temperature, up to 1500".
  • hot, isostatic compression or isostatic pressure sintering of metal powder As an example of the field of use for furnaces of this type may be mentioned hot, isostatic compression or isostatic pressure sintering of metal powder.
  • the powder, or a precompressed powder body is enclosed in a gastight metal casing and sintered under pressure.
  • pressure sintering the sintering can be carried out at a lower temperature than when it is carried out conventionally at atmospheric pressure or under vacuum.
  • the pressure-sintered product will be dense and porefree and has in many cases better mechanical properties, for example fracture strength, than conventional sintered products.
  • the heat-insulating sheath which separates the hot furnace chamber from the walls of the surrounding pressure chamber which must take up the forces from the compressed gas enclosed in the furnace and which must therefore be kept cool, or possibly be cooled.
  • the insulating sheaths previously used normally consisted of two concentric metal tubes or pipes and insulating material in fibrous form packed into the annular space between the pipes.
  • known insulating materials in fibrous form lose a considerable portion of their resilience and do not therefore return to their original shape when the furnace is cooled and the inner sheath pipe shrinks. A gap is thus formed between the inner pipe and the insulating material, and sometimes radial cracks in the insulating layer.
  • the gas usually used, argon which at the highoperating pressure used has extremely high density but at the same time very low viscosity, only 4-5 times that of air at atmospheric pressure, is thus very mobile.
  • the gas convection in the gap formed between the inner sheath pipe and the insulation and in the cracks is thus intensive.
  • the insulating capacity of the sheath may therefore be reduced to such an extent that the insulation between the sheath pipes must be repacked or even entirely replaced every time the furnace is used.
  • the problems connected with furnaces previously used are avoided by insulating the furnace chamber itself from the pressure chamber in such a way that the heat-insulating sheath is constructed of three tubular parts arranged concentrically inside each other, the inner part consisting of a material which has a smaller coefficient of expansion than the material in the surrounding parts.
  • the tubular parts are suitably made of sheet metal and the annular cells formed between the parts are filled with insulating material without closed pores, preferably in fibrous form, of aluminum oxide, silicon oxide or carbon base. Certain other fine-grained insulating materials of aluminum oxide or magnesium oxide base are also possible.
  • the gap between the inner and the central tubular sheath part is chosen so that the absolute expansion of the sheath parts at temperature equality is approximately equal, both when the furnace is cold and when it is hot.
  • the strain on the insulating material between will therefore be minimum.
  • Suitable materials for the inner and central tubular parts are molybdenum and austenitic stainless steel, respectively, but other combinations of material are of course also feasible. It is advisable to choose the gaps between the three tubular parts so that the temperature of the central part does not exceed 700 C.
  • the outer insulating layer is then not subjected to such high temperatures that its resilience is reduced. Any compression of the outer insulating layer is thus without importance since the insulating material expands again when the size of the gap increases.
  • the material in the outer tubular part may thus be chosen arbitrarily.
  • a heating element can be arranged near the central tubular sheath part so that this can be heated so that this and the inner sheath part expand completely uniformly and the gap is therefore held constant.
  • molybdenum used forthe inner sheath part and austenitic stainless steel for the central part, the same expansion is obtained if the insulating layer is chosen so that the central part has a temperature of 450 C. when the inner part has a temperature of l,300 C.
  • the more uniform axial extension of lthe sheath parts also facilitates sealing between the cellsformed i the sheath and the surroundings. This also contributes to decreasing the convection and improving the furnace.
  • the insulating sheath retains its insulating properties for a long time, thusoffering great technical and economic profit.
  • FIG. 3 shows on a larger scale a detail of the upper part of the furnace.
  • the pressure chamber I consists of a thick-walled cylindrical steel tube 2, around which a wound sheath 3 of strong, cold-rolled steel wire has been wound under prestressing.
  • the winding causes considerable stresses in the wall so that the cylinder can withstand an internal overpressure of more than 3,000 bar and can also take up axial forces generated by ,the pressure medium on the bottom and lid.
  • Argon is used as pressure gas.
  • an annular gap 5 for coolant which is led in through the inlet 6 at the bottom of the pressure chamber and out through the outlet 7 at the upper part of the chamber.
  • the ends of the cylinder are closed at the bottom by a plug 8 and at the top by a threaded lid 9.
  • the bottom plug 8 supports the furnace unit 10 enclosed in the pressure chamber and has electrical through bushings II to feed the heating elements for heating the furnace and bushings I2 for thermoelement conductors and also a tube for the pressure gas, not shown.
  • the furnace unit I0 comprises a heating-insulating sheath I3 which surrounds the actual furnace chamber l4.
  • In the furnace chamber are electrical heating elements in the form of three loops l5, l6 and I7, suspended on the inside by a number of fireproof earthenware pipes 18. The loops are connected through the bushings 11 to a current source, not shown.
  • the heat-insulating sheath 13 which surrounds the furnace chamber 14 is constructed of three concentrical metal tubes 20, 21 and 22 which, together with end plates 23 and 24, form two completely separate annular cells 25 and 26 which are filled with fibrous insulating material.
  • the cell 25 communicates with the furnace chamber 14 through the opening 27 in pipe at the upper part of the sheath and the cell 26 with the space between the sheath and the tube 20 through the opening 28 in pipe22 at the lower part of the sheath.
  • the pressure-equalizing openings may consist of annular gaps 29 as illustrated in FIG. 3.
  • the sheath 13 is provided with an insulating bottom 30 and lid 31 in the form of cells provided only with pressure-equalizing openings 32 and 33.
  • the lid and bottom are also filled with insulating material.
  • the furnace chamber 14 communicates with the space outside the insulating sheath 13 through an opening 35 in the lower part of the furnace.
  • the inner tube 20 is made of a material having a lower coefficient of thermal expansion than that of the central tube 21.
  • the tubes may, for example, be made of molybdenum and austenitic stainless steel, respectively.
  • the thickness of the cells is chosen depending on the coefficients of thermal expansion in such a way that the heat current radially out through the sheath gives the central tube such a temperature that the tubes 20 and 2] expand equally and therefore the radial measurement of the cell does not noticeably alter.
  • the insulating material heated to a high temperature in the cell is prevented from being compressed and damaged.
  • the insulating layer thus retains its insulating properties for a long time. In order to achieve exactly uniform expansion of the tubes 20 and 2] even when the furnace chamber 14 is heated extremely rapidly it may be necessary during the heating period to heat the tube 21 with separate heating elements depending on the temperature of the tube 20.
  • the insulating material in the gap 26 will not lose its resilience.
  • varying expansion of the tubes 21 and 22 and consequent compression of the insulating material will therefore not deteriorate the insulating capacity of the sheath to any appreciable extent since the insulating material has not lost its ability to follow the thermal movement of the chamber.
  • the choice of material in the outermost tube 22 is thus in practice irrelevant.
  • Cylindrical furnace for treating material with high temperature in a gaseous atmosphere under high pressure comprising pressure chamber, cylindrical sheath within and spaced from the pressure chamber, the interior of which constitutes a furnace chamber and which is composed of at least three annular walls fonning between them substantially closed inner and outer cells comprising insulating material and provided with a pressure-equalizing opening from at least one of the cells to the outside thereof, in which the inner annular wall consists essentially of a material having a smaller coefficient of expansion than the material in the other annular walls.
  • Furnace according to claim 2 in which the cells formed between the walls are filled with insulating material.
  • the inner and the middle wall and between the middle and the outer wall are spaced apart by such distances that the absolute expansion of the inner and the middle sheath parts is approximately equal in the absolute measurements.
  • Furnace according to claim 2 in which the inner wall is constructed of ferritic steel and the middle wall of austenitic stainless steel.
  • Furnace according to claim 2 in which the inner wall is constructed of molybdenum and the middle wall is constructed of austenitic stainless steel.
  • Furnace according to claim 1 having pressure-equalizing openings between the inner cell and the furnace chamber and between the outer cell and the space outside the sheath.

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US3940245A (en) * 1974-12-18 1976-02-24 Autoclave Engineers, Inc. Convection shield for isostatic bonding apparatus
US4247755A (en) * 1978-01-16 1981-01-27 Autoclave Engineers, Inc. High pressure autoclave
US4850863A (en) * 1988-05-16 1989-07-25 Vacuum Furnaces System Corporation Sealed insulating wall for a furnace
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US3741718A (en) * 1971-10-05 1973-06-26 Battelle Memorial Institute Apparatus for loading a high-pressure furnace
DE2328020A1 (de) * 1972-06-13 1973-12-20 Asea Ab Zylinderfoermiger langgestreckter ofen zur behandlung von material bei hoher temperatur in einer gasatmosphaere unter hohem druck
US3790339A (en) * 1972-06-13 1974-02-05 Asea Ab Cylindrical elongated furnace for treating material at high temperature in a gaseous atmosphere under high pressure
US3940245A (en) * 1974-12-18 1976-02-24 Autoclave Engineers, Inc. Convection shield for isostatic bonding apparatus
US4247755A (en) * 1978-01-16 1981-01-27 Autoclave Engineers, Inc. High pressure autoclave
US4850863A (en) * 1988-05-16 1989-07-25 Vacuum Furnaces System Corporation Sealed insulating wall for a furnace
CN105758170A (zh) * 2016-04-15 2016-07-13 江苏维尔炉业有限公司 一种间歇式锂电材料烧结炉
JP2020122201A (ja) * 2019-01-31 2020-08-13 日本製鉄株式会社 管端蓋及びそれを用いた鋼管の製造方法

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