| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2024 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Measurement and Control of High-temperature Processes
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| Presentation Title |
Challenges and Benefits of ‘Thru-process’ Temperature Profiling in the Heat Treatment Industry
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| Author(s) |
Steve Offley, Mike Handscombe |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Mike Handscombe |
| Abstract Scope |
An overview will be given to the principles of ‘thru-process temperature profiling’ where a data logger, thermally protected in a thermal barrier, is passed safely through the heat treatment process. We examine how systems are engineered to get safely through such diverse processes as heat treatment of gear parts in continuous carburizing furnaces, homogenizing aluminium logs, heat treatment of aluminium engine blocks in automated robotic loaded TS rotary furnaces, and monitoring carburizing furnaces with integrated oil quenches. In all such cases the specific unique designs of the profiling systems will be discussed in detail which allow the accurate collection of accurate product temperature through the entire heat treatment process. Many of these applications have not been previously possible to monitor with existing technology. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
High-Temperature Materials, Process Technology, Pyrometallurgy |