10,000 lbs. of Titanium Vacuum Heat Treated
Souderton, PA . . .聽 a 10 foot, 10,000 lb, titanium ingot was vacuum heat treated at the 91传媒. 聽A VFS HL84, 2 bar quenching furnace homogenized the titanium alloy, resulting in a chemically uniform structure. 聽The metallurgical specifications required high temperature in high vacuum (2350掳F, 10-3 torr) for 24 hours.
Vacuum heat treating manager, Don Jordan, was very pleased with the furnace operation and cycle. 聽Jordan stated, “it was a 10,000 lb. beast that came out looking beautiful. 聽The pictures clearly show the benefit of vacuum heat treating, with the material so bright that the grain structure is readily revealed. 聽There is no concern with the alpha case (surface contamination) when processing titanium in Solar `s vacuum furnaces.”
There will be at least half a dozen of these ingots that will need to be processed in Solar`s large furnaces, which are 10′, 12′ and 24′ long with load capacity up to 50,000 lbs.