Low Pressure Carburizing Distortion Data Comparing Oil & High Pressure Gas Quenching

As is commonly known, oil quench and gas quench are significantly different in terms of metallurgical results and specific customer requirements. This presentation will review data on parts tested in Low Pressure Carburizing using oil and gas quenching, as well as, load design to optimize each quenching media in function of the type of furnaces available on the market for LPC with ECM Technologies. Metallurgy and distortion results will be presented to show the advantages in function of specific targets that customers want to achieve on their production parts like cycle time, uniformity of treatment, distortion control, and productivity of their heat treat installation.