What is the Quenching Process?
Quenching is the process of providing a martensite structure by instant cooling in water, oil or salt baths, depending on the type of homogeneously heated steel up to a set temperature (usually 850-1100 °C).
In MSE quenching furnaces, which are used for rapid cooling of special alloys to room temperature after solution heat treatment, high temperature homogeneity as well as rapid immersion of the parts into the cooling medium after leaving the furnace is essential.
The furnace, which allows the quenching of super alloys, which are used extensively in aerospace applications, in water or oil environment, can be used for many different heat treatment processes.
MSE Quench Furnace Atmosphere Conditions;
• nitrogen (N2)
• Argon (Ar)
• nitrogen hydrogen mixture
These processes can be done with Quench Furnace;
Resolving
Aging
Water, polymer or oil quenching
normalization
Stress relief
Tempering
This furnace is suitable for heat treatment of the following materials:
• Nickel-based superalloys …………………………Inconel 718 ® (UNS N07718 / 2.4668), Nimonic, etc.
• Cobalt-based superalloys …………………………UDIMET® R41 (UNS N07041)
• Iron-based superalloys …………………………NILO® 42 (UNS K94100 / 1.3917)
• Precipitation hardening stainless steels ………..17-4 PH, Maraging250, A-286
• Duplex stainless steels …………………………..1.4507 (X2CrNiMoCuN25-6-3), 1.4655 (X2CrNiCuN23-4)
• Titanium alloys ………………………………………6Al-4V, 6Al-2Sn-4Zr-2Mo ve 13V-11Cr-3Al
• Aluminum alloys ……………………………………6061, 7075, 2014 ve 7050
• Copper alloys …………………………………………….UNC C17200, C17300
• Magnesium alloys …………………………………..AZ80, AZ63