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Citation
(1999), "Solution treatment oven", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 71 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/aeat.1999.12771bad.007
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 1999, MCB UP Limited
Solution treatment oven
Solution treatment oven
Keywords Aerostructures Hamble, Heat treatment, Ovens
Aerostructures Hamble, a designer and manufacturer of aircraft structures and components has installed an EFCO drop bottom rapid quench type solution heat treatment installation at its works at Hamble le Rice.
Supplied as a fully installed turnkey project, the installation comprised a drop bottom electrically heated oven, mobile polymer quench tank with cooling, static water rinse tank, overhead crane, work baskets and micro-processor controlled control system.
The new installation replaced a Salt Bath unit and will be used to heat treat a wide range of airframe and other sections which are manufactured from alloys of aluminium, steel and titanium.
The plant has a work basket size of 5,000mm × 1,000mm × 1,950mm and is designed to perform heat treatments within the range of 150°C to 550°C. The oven conforms to all current aerospace specifications for temperature uniformity and recovery, in addition to quench times better than seven seconds.
For further details contact EFCO Ltd. Tel: +44 (0) 1203 619997.