Authors:
Dr. Erik J. Cox (1)
1- Gencoa Ltd, United Kingdom
Abstract:
Although time consuming, degassing of HIP canisters is a critical step in the manufacture of powder hot isostatic pressed components. Carried out effectively, this stage of the process enables high quality components to be produced by preventing the retention of atmospheric contaminants such as oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen and argon which are responsible for defects leading to poor material performance. Gencoa Optix is a gas sensing instrument that can be utilised to monitor the level of contaminant gases such as water vapour, nitrogen, oxygen etc. Optix requires no additional pumping or sampling equipment, And can operate throughout the entire degassing process. Use of a pioneering technique developed by Gencoa – Remote plasma optical emission spectroscopy, provides useful data allowing degas end point to be determined.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.59499/EP246281542
