Superalloy Parts Manufacturing Technology

Superalloy Parts Manufacturing Technology

Neway provides vacuum investment casting, single crystal and directional casting, powder metallurgy, precision forging, 3D printing, and CNC machining. They manufacture turbine blades, discs, combustion chambers, afterburners, nozzle rings, impellers, casings, and gas turbines for aerospace applications.

Superalloy Vacuum Investment Casting

Neway's Superalloy Vacuum Investment Casting technology involves creating high-precision components like turbine blades, discs, and combustion chambers by casting superalloys in a vacuum environment. This process minimizes oxidation, ensuring high-quality surface finishes, superior mechanical properties, and accurate dimensional control. It is ideal for aerospace, energy, and other high-temperature applications demanding strength and heat resistance.
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Single Crystal Casting

Turbine blades, vanes, and other critical rotating parts in jet engines and gas turbines.

Eliminates grain boundaries, reducing creep and fatigue, thus improving durability in extreme high-temperature and stress conditions.

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Equiaxed Crystal casting

Structural components like turbine discs, impellers, and casings in aerospace, power generation, and marine industries.

Simpler casting method, produces uniform grains, and offers excellent strength and toughness for high-temperature applications.

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Superalloy Directional Casting

Turbine blades, nozzles, and guide vanes for engines and turbines.

Aligns crystals in a specific direction, increasing resistance to thermal stress and creep, ideal for components exposed to directional forces in high-temperature environments.

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Manufacturing Technologies of Powder Turbine Discs

The powder turbine disc manufacturing technology involves powder metallurgy, HIP, hot extrusion, isothermal forging, and precision heat treatment. It produces high-strength, large-diameter superalloy discs with complex structures. This technology is essential for advanced gas turbines and aerospace engines, where components must withstand extreme temperatures, high stresses, and corrosive environments, ensuring superior performance and durability.
Manufacturing Technologies of Powder Turbine Discs

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Powder Preparation

The ability to produce high-quality powder superalloys for manufacturing turbine discs.

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Near-net shape pressing of large components, ensuring density and mechanical integrity.

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Hot Extrusion

The extrusion of large-sized bars with a diameter greater than 250 mm is crucial for shaping superalloys into desired geometries.

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Isothermal Forging

A controlled process used to forge large structural discs with diameters greater than 600 mm. This process helps maintain uniform properties across complex geometries.

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Precision Heat Treatment

Fine-tuned heat treatment to control material properties, ensuring the mechanical performance required for high-temperature environments.

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Double Alloy Monolithic Disc Hot Isostatic Pressure Diffusion Connection

The Double Alloy Monolithic Disc, HIP Diffusion Connection technology, uses a sleeve-less HIP diffusion bonding process to create a robust and defect-free connection between a turbine blade disc and blade ring. It ensures excellent metallurgical bonding and mechanical properties, making it ideal for high-stress applications in aerospace and energy turbines, where durability and reliability are critical.
Double Alloy Monolithic Disc Hot Isostatic Pressure Diffusion Connection

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Powder Preparation

A "no sleeve" HIP diffusion bonding process creates a solid-state bond between a blade disc and a blade ring. This process ensures a defect-free joint with excellent metallurgical bonding, providing superior mechanical properties ideal for high-performance turbine discs used in aerospace and energy sectors. The process focuses on achieving solid and reliable connections without gaps, enhancing durability and performance under high-stress conditions.

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Advanced Powder Superalloy Inertial Friction Welding

This method ensures high-quality welds between superalloy materials by mechanically mixing the two metals in the weld zone. The process forms a defect-free, oxide-free bond with no cracks, holes, or porosity. It results in welds with excellent tensile strength, durability, and fatigue resistance at room and high temperatures, meeting stringent technical requirements.
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Friction Welding

Advanced Powder Superalloy Inertial Friction Welding creates defect-free, oxide-free welds by mechanically mixing two superalloys, such as GH4169 and WZ-A3. It ensures excellent tensile strength, durability, and fatigue resistance at room and high temperatures. This technology is crucial for aerospace and energy industries, providing reliable, high-performance components under extreme stress and temperature conditions.

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Whole Process Simulation of Superalloy

The Whole Process Simulation of Superalloy integrates computational tools for simulating alloy design, casting, forging, heat treatment, and testing. It optimizes process parameters, microstructure, and material performance, accelerating development and enhancing material utilization. This technology is vital for aerospace and energy industries, enabling precise manufacturing of high-performance superalloys for extreme environments and ensuring reliability and durability in critical components.
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Master Alloy Design

Defines the composition and properties of the superalloy, ensuring optimal performance for high-temperature and stress environments.

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Powder Preparation

Fine superalloy powders are produced, essential for uniform material distribution and superior mechanical properties in powder-based processes.

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Casting Processes

Shapes superalloys into complex geometries, crucial for producing turbine blades, discs, and high-performance components.

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Isothermal Forging

Ensures uniform microstructure and strength by forging at constant temperatures, improving mechanical properties for critical applications.

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Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP)

Removes porosity and increases material density, enhancing strength and fatigue resistance in superalloy components.

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Heat Treatment

Optimizes microstructure and mechanical properties, adjusting hardness, toughness, and strength for demanding service conditions.

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Post Processing

This includes machining, coating, polishing, and refining the component’s dimensions and surface for optimal performance and durability.

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Ground Testing

Verifies component performance through simulated operational conditions, ensuring reliability and safety in real-world applications.

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CFD Analysis

CFD Analysis employs Fluent, NX, and SolidWorks software to simulate complex fluid dynamics, including hypersonic flow, heat transfer, combustion, and multiphase flow. It optimizes aerospace, energy, and manufacturing designs using unstructured meshes and finite-volume methods. Applications include modeling rotating machinery, chemical reactions, and material processing to enhance system performance, efficiency, and safety under real-world conditions.
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Unstructured Mesh and Finite Volume Method

These create adaptive mesh grids to accurately simulate complex fluid dynamics problems, including hypersonic flow, heat transfer, phase transitions, and chemical reactions.

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Simulation Capabilities

The technology can model complex phenomena such as multiphase flow, rotating machinery, dynamic/deformed meshes, combustion, noise, and material processing.

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