Nozzles and Cooling Solutions for Continuous Casting of Steel
Cooling Egg - Investment Casting
Transcript of Cooling Egg - Investment Casting
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Part 1
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Part 2
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Benchmark
Complex Nozzle
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Gyroid
Vibrating Horn
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Conformal Cooling Egg
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Swirling Manifold
Straight Turbine
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Impeller
Turbo Housing
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• No tooling
• No wax room labor – benefits
• No wax press or wax costs
• No pattern etching
• No extreme care applying 1st coat
• No extended dry time – deep detail
• No Autoclave
• No wax reclamation cost
• No flash fire or burnout smoke
• Ability of inspect shell integrity and deep cores prior to cast
• Ability to control shell thickness in design stage (chill or insulate)
• Faster dip room throughput
• Lighter shells – no wax weight
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rinted
nvestment
asting
hell
Build Box: 7.68” X 7.56” X 11.81”
Admaflex 300
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Admaflex 300
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Build Setup
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P.I.C.S. Printing
Layer Size is 100µm
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Part CAD
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View of interior vanes
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Assembly of Fuel Nozzle using Conventional
Methods
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P.I.C.S. Design
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Printed Part
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Pattern Cleaning
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Fish Tank Debinding
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Sintering
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Cluster
If the PICS included the sprue, cluster through dewax would not take place.
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1st Dip
If dipped conventionally, it would take several days by highly trained personnel to get the inner passageway. That being said, there still would be no way of knowing the integrity of the inner passageway.
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2nd Dip
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Tie and 3rd Dip
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Seal
Printed Ceramic Trees take 1 day to dip.
Traditional trees take 6 days.
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Dewax
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Casting Stainless Steel
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Knockoff
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Casting Results
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AFS Casting Competition 2020 Award
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OUR GOAL
REVOLUTIONIZE THE CENTURIES OLD INVESTMENT CASTING PROCESS