Heat Treatment Furnace Conversion

Client

Leading UK metal component manufacturer

Product

Heat treatment furnace conversion

Services / Products

• Heat Treatment Furnace
• Combustion and control system

Scope of Service

Our client had an existing heat treatment furnace which was not often used due to unreliability and poor heat treatment performance. In addition it did not comply with modern requirements for safe control of combustion systems.

The customer required that the furnace be made suitable for heat treatment of forged aerospace components, to operate reliably, remove the need for costly retreatments and to comply with current practices for safe control of combustion processes.

The work involved replacing the existing combustion and control system with a pulse-fired high velocity burner based system to meet aerospace requirements for heat treatment.

The process control used was a Eurotherm T2550 rack based system with an Eycon HMI operator interface.

Benefits of our work

• Project fulfilled all objectives including successful testing to the customer’s RPS 953 derived QMS procedures.
• Furnace now used in preference to other furnaces in the plant inventory particularly for post-quench tempering.