Abstract:
A plant for the production of slabs from a mixture of agglomerate comprises a station (50) with a mixture distribution unit (52) which pours the mixture onto the inner surface of a slab forming mould (11) present in the station. The mould (11) is provided with a sheet (15) of plastic protective material arranged above the inner surface of the mould and which forms the surface for contact with the mixture which is introduced into the mould by the distribution unit (52). The station comprises air suction means which are coupled/connected to suction ducts (54) which are present in the mould and which emerge with their front end inside the mould in a zone of the mould situated between the inner surface of the mould and the sheet (15), so as to allow the suction of air between the sheet and this inner surface and bring the sheet (15) against this surface by means of a vacuum. A method for the production of slabs is also described.
Abstract:
Embodiments described in this application relate generally to a system, an apparatus and/or methods for manufacturing electrodes by infusion electrolyte into compacted electrode materials. In some embodiments, a working electrode materials can be produced using an infusion mixing and manufacturing process. In some embodiments, a single-sided finished electrode can be produced directly from a dry powder mixture using an infusion mixing and manufacturing process. In some embodiments, a double-sided finished electrode can be produced directly from a dry powder mixture using an infusion mixing and manufacturing process. The electrodes produced by an infusion mixing and manufacturing process generally perform better than those produced by non-infusion processes.
Abstract:
A method for forging, or hot working bulk ceramics, including high temperature superconductors and other sensitive materials, under precisely controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, atmospheric composition, and strain rate. A capsule with massive end plates and with an independent gas supply is located in a modified hot isostatic press (HIP), designed to operate at pressures of up to 200 MPa and at temperatures of up to 1000 C. Essentially uniaxial deformation of a pre-compacted disc with forces of up to 500,000 Newtons (50 tons), and over time scales from seconds to hours can be achieved by separately controlling the pressure in the capsule from that of its surroundings. The separate gas supply to the capsule can also maintain a specified gaseous atmosphere around the disc, up to the operating pressure of the equipment. The apparatus can be designed to tolerate oxygen concentrations of up to 20%.
Abstract:
A process for high efficiency hot isostatic pressing in a hot isostatic pressing treatment for sintering or densifying a ceramic or metallic workpiece in a high temperature and high pressure gas atmosphere, which includes preheating the workpiece outside a high pressure vessel prior to the hot isostatic pressing treatment, transferring the preheated workpiece as surrounded with the gas in a hot state into the high pressure vessel, then treating the workpiece at high temperature and high pressure in a gas atmosphere, thereafter taking out the workpiece from the high pressure vessel together with the gas atmosphere, then cooling the workpiece if necessary, and subsequently taking it out from the gas atmosphere, as well as an apparatus for practicing the above-noted process, wherein a treating chamber for effecting the hot isostatic pressing treatment is covered with a hermetic casing, and at least one valve mechanism capable of providing communication and cut-off between the interior and exterior of the treating chamber is provided in each of upper and lower portions of the treating chamber.
Abstract:
A hot isostatic pressing system including a hot isostatic pressing station having a high pressure container constituted by a vertical pressure-resistant cylinder closed at the top end thereof and a lower lid detachably fitted to the bottom of the pressure resistant cylinder and a treating chamber internally provided with a heater and enclosed by a heat insulating wall, and a mechanism for adjusting an atmospheric gas pressure and temperature of the pressing station into a condition suitable for the hot isostatic pressing of a work item accommodated in the treating chamber; a plurality of auxiliary stations each provided with an opening for receiving from beneath thereof the heat insulating wall of the treating chamber accommodating the internal heater and a work item, a support structure for supporting the heat insulating wall, and a mechanism for cooling the work item and internal heater in an inert gas atmosphere; a carriage for transferring the lower lid and work item or the lower lid, work item, heat insulating wall and internal heater between the hot isostatic pressing station and one of the auxiliary stations; and a lift mechanism for lifting up and down the lower lid and work item or the lower lid, work item, heat insulating wall and heater at the hot isostatic pressing station and each one of the auxiliary stations.
Abstract:
A production process includes providing an envelope and a mould, introducing the material to be moulded in the mould, placing the mould in the envelope, creating a low pressure in the envelope, and deforming the mould.
Abstract:
A production process includes providing an envelope and a mould, introducing the material to be moulded in the mould, placing the mould in the envelope, creating a low pressure in the envelope, and deforming the mould.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for producing a hollow body comprising at least one metallic or ceramic component, wherein a binder is mixed with a ceramic and/or metallic powder and the viscosity is set to a value in excess of 1000 Pa-s and the mixture then formed into a tube by means of one or more dies, wherein the so formed tube is then formed into a green compact by means of a blow molding process and subsequnetly converted into a brown compact by removal of the binder, wherein said brown compact is in turn converted into a finished hollow body through a thermal treatment step.
Abstract:
A method of hot isostatic pressing in which a shaped work immersed in molten glass is subjected to a hot isostatic pressing treatment, the method basically including embedding a shaped item to be worked on in glass powder filled in a crucible; loading the crucible into a movable heating furnace having a heater and a heat insulating structure; charging the furnace into an atmospheric chamber; adjusting the atmosphere in the chamber into a predetermined condition and heating the crucible by the heater to soften and melt the glass in the crucible; transferring the furnace from the atmospheric chamber into a high pressure container while maintaining a high temperature in the furnace; admitting a pressing gas medium into the high pressure container while raising the temperature of the furnace to let the work in the crucible undergo a hot isostatic pressing treatment; and upon completion of the hot isostatic pressing treatment, taking out the furnace from the high pressure container with the work still in loaded state in the heating furnace. In an alternate embodiment of the invention, a plurality of heating furnaces are provided. and more than one atmospheric chamber for a single high pressure container to realize efficient HIP operation with a markedly shortened cycle time.