Thermal Hire
At the time of installation this plant has the largest capacity in terms of treatable component length in the UK. This complete turnkey heat treatment line is used by our customer for contract heat treatment. Transfer time for the load from furnace to quench is as low as 48 seconds, with the whole plant being PLC controlled from a single control room with no access to the working area being required by the operators during heat treatment or quenching. The plant layout is designed such that the bespoke pass-over charger does not have to travel laterally to transfer the load from the furnace to the quench therefore significantly reducing the time components are exposed to atmosphere, allowing better quenching and ultimately better metallurgical properties for the components.
Comprising of:
- Two Heat Treatment Furnaces
- Two Water Quench Tanks
- Adiabatic Coolers
- Pass-over Charging Machine,
- Loading & Cooling Tables
Furnace Specifications
- Chamber size :3.7m (W) x 13.0m (L) x 2m(H)
- Capacity:20 tonnes at up to 12.6metres in length
- Temperature Range: 500ºC to 1200ºC
- Temperature Uniformity: ±5ºC in the range 500ºCto 750ºC
- ±10ºC in the range 750ºCto 1200ºC
- Burner Control System:3 zone cross fired high
- velocity burners
Water/Polymer Quench Specifications
- Capacity: 20 tonnes at up to 12.6 metres in length
- Tank size: 12.8m (L) x 3.5m (W) x 4.3m (D)
- Water / Polymer capacity: 180,000 litres
- Hydraulic lifting mechanism
- Multi-jet high velocity pumped agitation with re-circulation
- Adiabatic Cooler
- Capacity: 650 kW
Charging Machine
- Traversing pass-over design allows fast transfer with no lateral movement required. i.e. each furnace has a quench tank in line, directly opposite.
- 20 tonne capacity complete with 4 split forks
- 20 metre lateral travel
- 12 metre hydraulically operated fork travel
