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Designing and constructing a controlled prototype for steel gaseous carburisation using alcohols

Diseño y construcción de un prototipo controlado para carburización gaseosa de aceros utilizando alcoholes

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https://doi.org/10.15446/ing.investig.v26n1.14677

Keywords:

heat treatment equipment with controlled atmosphere, gas carburisation using alcohols, carburised layer characterisation (en)
equipo para tratamientos térmicos con atmósfera controlada, carburización gaseosa utilizando alcoholes, caracterización de capas carburizadas (es)

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  • Johnny F Obando B Universidad Nacional de Colombia
  • Álvaro Castro P Universidad Nacional de Colombia
  • Carlos Alexander Trujillo Universidad Nacional de Colombia

This article deals with designing, constructing and testing a laboratory scale apparatus for heat treatment with controlled atmosphere. The equipment was used for studying steel carburisation with alcohols. The equipment has an area for the controlled production of a gas atmosphere composed by up to 3 gases and 2 volatile liquids, an inert and hermetic isothermal reaction area and a gas analysis area which retains solids and condensable liquids. The equipment was provided with pressure and carbon dioxide concentration sensors. Eight experiments were carried out with methanol, ethanol, n-propanol, isopropanol and tertbutanol as carbon source. The results showed that methanol caused carburisation but layer depth was small and produced a low quantity of soot, ethanol caused decarburisation and formed large quantities of soot, n-propanol, isopropanol and the tertbutanol provided good carbon potential and layers having good depth with good soot and tar production. Soot and tar production followed this order: n-propanol < tertbutanol < isopropanol.

En esta investigación se realizó el diseño, construcción y prueba de un equipo a escala de laboratorio para tratamientos térmicos con atmósfera controlada para el estudio de la carburización gaseosa de aceros con alcoholes. El equipo posee las siguientes características: producción controlada de una atmósfera gaseosa compuesta hasta por tres gases y dos líquidos volátiles, una zona de reacción isotérmica, inerte y hermética, y una zona de análisis de gases que retiene sólidos y líquidos condensables y que cuenta con sensores de presión y de dióxido de carbono. Se hicieron ocho ensayos con el alcohol metílico, etílico, n-propílico, isopropílico y tertbutanol, encontrándose que el alcohol metílico carburiza y produce una baja cantidad de hollín pero profundiza poco en la pieza, el etanol descarburiza y forma  grandes cantidades de hollín, el n-propanol, isopropanol y el tertbutanol proveen buenos potenciales de carbono y profundidades de capa con una gran formación de hollín y alquitrán, siendo en orden ascendente en producción de hollín y alquitrán el n-propanol, el tertbutanol y el isopropanol.

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Obando B, J. F., Castro P, Álvaro and Trujillo, C. A. (2006). Designing and constructing a controlled prototype for steel gaseous carburisation using alcohols. Ingeniería e Investigación, 26(1), 92–100. https://doi.org/10.15446/ing.investig.v26n1.14677

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Obando B, J.F., Castro P, Álvaro and Trujillo, C.A. 2006. Designing and constructing a controlled prototype for steel gaseous carburisation using alcohols. Ingeniería e Investigación. 26, 1 (Jan. 2006), 92–100. DOI:https://doi.org/10.15446/ing.investig.v26n1.14677.

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Obando B, J. F.; Castro P, Álvaro; Trujillo, C. A. Designing and constructing a controlled prototype for steel gaseous carburisation using alcohols. Ing. Inv. 2006, 26, 92-100.

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OBANDO B, J. F.; CASTRO P, Álvaro; TRUJILLO, C. A. Designing and constructing a controlled prototype for steel gaseous carburisation using alcohols. Ingeniería e Investigación, [S. l.], v. 26, n. 1, p. 92–100, 2006. DOI: 10.15446/ing.investig.v26n1.14677. Disponível em: https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/ingeinv/article/view/14677. Acesso em: 26 mar. 2025.

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Obando B, Johnny F, Álvaro Castro P, and Carlos Alexander Trujillo. 2006. “Designing and constructing a controlled prototype for steel gaseous carburisation using alcohols”. Ingeniería E Investigación 26 (1):92-100. https://doi.org/10.15446/ing.investig.v26n1.14677.

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Obando B, J. F., Castro P, Álvaro and Trujillo, C. A. (2006) “Designing and constructing a controlled prototype for steel gaseous carburisation using alcohols”, Ingeniería e Investigación, 26(1), pp. 92–100. doi: 10.15446/ing.investig.v26n1.14677.

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J. F. Obando B, Álvaro Castro P, and C. A. Trujillo, “Designing and constructing a controlled prototype for steel gaseous carburisation using alcohols”, Ing. Inv., vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 92–100, Jan. 2006.

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Obando B, J. F., Álvaro Castro P, and C. A. Trujillo. “Designing and constructing a controlled prototype for steel gaseous carburisation using alcohols”. Ingeniería e Investigación, vol. 26, no. 1, Jan. 2006, pp. 92-100, doi:10.15446/ing.investig.v26n1.14677.

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Obando B, Johnny F, Álvaro Castro P, and Carlos Alexander Trujillo. “Designing and constructing a controlled prototype for steel gaseous carburisation using alcohols”. Ingeniería e Investigación 26, no. 1 (January 1, 2006): 92–100. Accessed March 26, 2025. https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/ingeinv/article/view/14677.

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Obando B JF, Castro P Álvaro, Trujillo CA. Designing and constructing a controlled prototype for steel gaseous carburisation using alcohols. Ing. Inv. [Internet]. 2006 Jan. 1 [cited 2025 Mar. 26];26(1):92-100. Available from: https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/ingeinv/article/view/14677

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