Furnace Doors
No matter the configuration, single or multi-chamber vacuum, batch integral quench, continuous, or even pits — an item that all furnaces have in common...
Revisiting the 1:1 Rule for oil quenchants
The rule of thumb “one gallon of oil to one pound of parts and fixtures” has been in the literature for a long time....
27th IFHTSE Congress, European conference on heat treatment in Austria
The 27th IFHTSE Congress will be in Salzburg, Austria, September 5-8, 2022, at the Wyndham Grand Salzburg Conference Center. The conference chairs are Eva...
Performing a Temperature Uniformity Survey
Performing a temperature uniformity survey (TUS) can be somewhat of a daunting process. After all, a TUS carries the weight of not only being...
Q&A with Daniel Reardon
What is Abbott Furnace's mission?
Our mission is to be the market leader in the design, production, and service of continuous process industrial furnaces. And...
Stainless Steels
Kitchen sinks, refrigerator or oven doors, and tableware are what many people think of when they are asked what’s made from stainless steel (SS)....
Q&A with Andrew Bassett
How did ATP get started?
During the early 1990s, the National Aerospace and Defense Contractors Accreditation Program (Nadcap) began embracing all special processes, and we...
Tailoring advanced ceramics to meet niche properties
Ceramics are traditionally described as inorganic, nonmetallic solids that are prepared from powdered raw materials and fabricated into products through the application of heat....
Site Safety
We live and work around fire all day. It’s pretty much taken for granted. We cook with it, and use it to heat our...
Q&A with David Wolff
What’s a typical day like for you at Nel Hydrogen?
I’m in field sales and work with customers to make sure their process needs that...
Carbon: Essential element or too much of a good thing
52100: Simple, yet it embraces carbon’s two-way benefit to steel
Achieving results through cold treatment
Cold treatment is a sub-zero thermal treatment process primarily used to reduce the retained austenite content of alloy and high carbon steels. Cold treatment...
Site Safety
In 35 years, I’ve witnessed many industrial accidents. Even at the start of my career, I was evaluating the combination of events that lead...
Heat treating from the operator’s perspective
Often, a customer visit involves a walk through the facility. Comments are made about how clean it is or how well organized a process...
Understanding the Jominy end quench test
The Jominy end quench test (ASTM A255 ) is an extremely simple and useful test that is applicable to many materials besides steel...
Stocky, Fechte-Heinen elected to IFHTSE Executive Council
Christophe Stocky recently was elected to be a member of the IFHTSE Executive Council in Yokohama at the recent IFHTSE Congress. He is a...
Using water as a quenchant
In this short column, we will discuss quenching with water. As a quenching medium, plain water approaches the maximum cooling rate attainable in a...
Determining the agitation needed in a quench tank
In this column, I will review the basic requirements of agitation, and illustrate a method of determining the right amount of agitation.
Recently, a customer...
Some workpieces are too large and expensive to fit into conventional benchtop hardness testers
Portable Rockwell Hardness Testing of Large Induction Hardened Work Pieces
The previous article identified many factors related to benchtop Rockwell hardness testing practices. This article...
Reasons to consider low biopersistent fiber insulation
When it comes to high-temperature furnace lining applications, most people are used to using traditional ceramic fiber blanket. This is the itchy white stuff...
Estimating required flow through quench tanks
In this month’s column, I will discuss a method of estimating the required flow for a quench tank.
Agitation has a significant effect on...
Learn from the best with educational offerings from IHEA
Process Heating Education Online
IHEA’s Fundamentals of Industrial Process Heating Online Learning Course continues to provide an excellent overview of the essential areas used...
‘Say what you do, do what you say’
In the special process world of the aerospace industry, companies with requirements of aerospace manufacturing must rely on the accreditation of AS9100 and the...
Q&A with Raymond Daniel Noble
Noble is expanding its services. In what way are you expanding?
We’ve been working on a service expansion called Noble 1-Stop. We have begun working...
A letter from IFHTSE’s outgoing president
Dear Colleagues and Friends:
Now 2021 has come to its end, it is time for a look back on the past two years, which were...
Q&A with Neil Owen
What are some of the industries that Stresstech serves, and what compels businesses within those industries to seek you out?
Stresstech, historically, has been successful...
Registration open for IHEA Fundamentals for Industrial Process Heating online course
Registration for IHEA’s Fundamentals of Industrial Process Heating online learning course is now open for fall 2020. Scheduled to begin October 5, the six-week...
Q&A with Andrew Storey
What’s a typical week like for you?
I’m the technical person who works on a specific group of products on the sales side of...
Alessandra Palombi wins Aichelin Young Speaker Award
Alessandra Palombi from the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” was given the Aichelin Young Speaker Award at the...
90-plus authors submit abstracts for European heat treat conference
So far, more than 90 authors from 22 countries have provided abstracts to the 27th IFHTSE Congress and ECHT2022. The contributions cover a wide...
Troubleshooting induction hardening problems – Part III
In previous columns, I have provided some detail on the sources of problems with induction hardening. While I have tried to be inclusive, there...
Fatigue failures in nickel-based austenitic Superalloy 718
Superalloy 718 is widely used for aerospace, nuclear, power generation, metal processing, medical, material processing, and chemical and petrochemical industries due to its excellent...
Quality Counts: Producing Endothermic Gas Efficiently
One of the critical elements in the carburizing process is the ability to create a base atmosphere suitable for the parts placed inside a...
Q&A with Kendall DeVane
Thermal Processing welcomes its newest sales representative to its staff, Kendall DeVane. He has 20 years of experience in sales and promises to bring...
An overview of heat treatment techniques
Editor’s note » This is the second in a five-part series.
In this second segment of my series on heat-treating techniques, I will discuss the...
Q&A with Andrew Bassett
You recently launched your Aerospace Compliance Software. How does it work?
Aerospace Compliance Software is a brainchild of ours. The software eliminates human errors of...
93 years of helping heat treaters worldwide
It’s hard to believe that an industry organization has been around for 93 years, but that’s how long the Industrial Heating Equipment Association has...
Deadline approaching for ECHT2022 conference abstract submissions
Abstract submission deadline is January 31, 2022, for the 27th IFHTSE Congress in Salzburg, Austria, September 5-8, 2022, at the Wyndham Grand Salzburg Conference...
Control of distortion in heat-treated aluminum
In this column, we will discuss controlling the distortion of aluminum heat-treated components.
The heat treatment of aluminum (solution heat treatment, quenching and aging) are...
Lighter Weight and Increased Fatigue Strength with Adi
Have you ever hit a rock or other hard projectile while cutting your lawn? Have you noticed that the blade is dented, not broken...
