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Heat Treating

The Overlooked Efficiency Opportunity: Intelligent Process Cooling

Gary Burgardt

Serving as an alternative to traditional process-cooling methods, this technology improves operational costs and enhances equipment efficiencies. …

Dosing Furnaces for Foundries

StrikoWestofen

Nine Westomat dosing furnaces from StrikoWestofen underpin die-casting operations at Lenaal’s industrial aluminum and zinc parts manufacturing facility in Radom, Poland. The plant installed its first furnace in 2007. …

Materials Characterization & Testing

Bringing Machine Learning to Nonmetallic Inclusions in Steelmaking

Dr. Ellis Robinson

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU) Center for Iron and Steelmaking Research are bringing computer-vision and machine-learning techniques to the study of inclusions, hoping to increase the efficiency of inclusion …

Vacuum/Surface Treatments

Most-Viewed Vacuum/Surface Treating Articles

Bill Mayer

Just as we’ve done in the past with other topics, Industrial Heating will take a look at the most-viewed Vacuum/Surface Treating articles (in terms of page views) on our website. …

Heat Treating

Optimizing Case-Depth Uniformity

The use of vacuum technology for carburizing has always shown the most potential for improving the manufacturing process by reducing both processing time and the number of manufacturing steps required …

Heat Treating

Segal’s Law of Atmosphere Heat Treatment

Steven Christopher

Many in the thermal-processing industry can recite dew-point conversion tables with closed eyes. …

Combustion & Burners

Direct-Fired Gas Burners for High Temperature Applications

Steven Mickey Martin Schoenfelder Joachim G. Wuenning

This article discusses different types of direct-fired gas burners that can be used for high-temperature applications. …

Refractory Transport System

The Port-A-Trac refractory pallet transport system is designed for increased efficiency and safety during refractory installation applications.

Heat Treating

Inert-Atmosphere Furnace

No. 1039 is a 2000°F (1093°C) inert-atmosphere furnace used for heat treating turbine components.

Classifieds

Blogs

Federal Circuit Finds Appointment of PTAB Judges is Not Constitutional

By Thomas Joseph

The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (the “Federal Circuit”) issued an important ruling regarding the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (the “PTAB”) in Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., __ F.3d __ (Fed. Cir. October 30, 2019). Specifically, the Federal Circuit held that the appointment process for administrative law judges violates the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

Facts about the Elements: Neodymium

By Daniel H. Herring

Trends and Developments in Heat-Treatment Technology

By David Pye

Materials Characterization & Testing

Automated Digital Hardness Tester

Two digital Rockwell/Superficial Rockwell benchtop hardness testers (No. 3823 and No. 3824) with fully automated load/unload procedures are capable of testing in a range of 30 different Rockwell hardness scales for carbon steel, alloy steel, cast iron and nonferrous metals.

Process Control & Instrumentation

Parts Washer

Model TMB 8150 STRETCH automatic top-load parts washer is nearly twice as wide as the standard TMB 8100 model (82.5 vs. 55 inches) for a wider wash zone, and it features dual 5-HP heavy-duty wash-cycle pumps and 170-gallon sump capacity.

Process Control & Instrumentation

Air Gun for Cleaning Small Inside Diameters

The new soft-grip back-blow safety air gun uses the smallest back-blow nozzle available to deliver a blast of air to effectively blow debris and liquids from inside small pipe or hose diameters, channels, bores, holes, internal threads and other internal part features.

Materials Characterization & Testing

Velocity Gauge

The Velocity Gauge enables the gas flow in the batch chamber to be checked during gas quenching.

Industrial Heating

2019 November

Check out the November 2019 issue of Industrial Heating, featuring the Most-Viewed Vacuum/Surface Treating Articles, "Bringing Machine Learning to Nonmetallic Inclusions in Steelmaking", "The Overlooked Efficiency Opportunity: Intelligent Process Cooling", and much more.

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