On-line alloy solution treatment device and method

Abstract

The invention discloses an on-line alloy solution treatment device and method, and belongs to the technical field of alloy heat treatment, and the on-line alloy solution treatment device comprises a sensor, a controller, a heater, an ultrasonic actuator and a cooler. The temperature of the thermal deformation alloy product is monitored on line in real time through a sensor, a heating instruction is sent to a heater through a controller, the thermal deformation alloy product is subjected to rapid on-line redissolution treatment through the heater and an ultrasonic actuator, and then the thermal deformation alloy product is subjected to on-line quenching treatment through a cooler. And an ideal supersaturated solid solution is obtained. The device is simple in structure and low in production and maintenance cost, waste heat of thermal deformation of the alloy product can be utilized for online solution treatment, energy consumption is reduced, time is shortened, efficiency is improved, the solution treatment effect is improved, and cost is reduced; and moreover, the problem that the long-size alloy product is difficult to be subjected to solution treatment due to the limitation of the length of the solution treatment furnace is solved, and the online solution treatment furnace is particularly suitable for online solution treatment of small-size or thin-wall structure alloy products.

Description

Technical Field

[0001] The present invention belongs to the technical field of alloy heat treatment, and specifically relates to an alloy online solid solution treatment device and method, which is particularly suitable for online solid solution treatment of small-sized or thin-walled structural alloy products. Background Art

[0002] Solution treatment refers to the heat treatment process of heating alloy products to a high temperature single-phase region and maintaining the temperature, so that the second phase is fully dissolved into the solid solution and then rapidly cooled to obtain a supersaturated solid solution. Solution treatment is an important heat treatment process for alloy products. It is widely used in the production of special steels, high-temperature alloys, special performance alloys and non-ferrous metal alloys, and plays an important role.

[0003] Traditional solution treatment methods are usually carried out offline, and it is difficult to quickly and fully dissolve the second phase in the alloy into the solid solution, and it is impossible to obtain an ideal supersaturated solid solution. Not only does heating alone lead to serious energy waste, but the required solution treatment time is long, the efficiency is low, the solution treatment effect is poor, the cost is high, and there is also the problem that it is difficult to perform solution treatment on long-sized alloy products due to the length limitation of the solution treatment furnace.

[0004] Therefore, it is of great significance to develop a new method of short-time and efficient online solution treatment of alloys to achieve online full solution treatment of hot-deformed alloy products. Summary of the invention

[0005] In view of the above problems, the present invention combines online dissolution, online ultrasonic auxiliary action and online quenching to provide a full-process online alloy online solution treatment device and method, which is particularly suitable for online solution treatment of small-sized or thin-walled structural alloy products. Through the synergistic effect of the online temperature field formed by the sensor, the controller and the heater and the online ultrasonic field formed by the ultrasonic actuator, the second phase in the alloy is quickly and fully dissolved into the solid solution, achieving short-time and efficient dissolution, and the second phase is suppressed from re-precipitating under the rapid cooling effect of the online quenching of the cooler to obtain a supersaturated solid solution. The present invention can not only utilize the residual heat of thermal deformation of alloy products for online solution treatment, reduce energy consumption, shorten time, improve efficiency, enhance the effect of solution treatment, and reduce costs, but also solve the problem that it is difficult to perform solution treatment on long-sized alloy products due to the length limitation of the solution treatment furnace.

[0006] According to a first aspect of the technical solution of the present invention, there is provided an alloy online solution treatment device, which is installed on a production line of a hot-deformed alloy product and arranged at an outlet of a hot-deformed die of the hot-deformed alloy product, and comprises a sensor, a controller, a heater, an ultrasonic actuator and a cooler;

[0007] The sensor is used to monitor and collect temperature data of the hot-deformed alloy product online in real time, and the controller is used to receive the temperature data sent by the sensor and send a heating instruction to the heater;

[0008] The heater, the ultrasonic actuator and the cooler are arranged in series on the production line of the hot-deformed alloy product, and the cooler is arranged at the rear ends of the heater and the ultrasonic actuator.

[0009] Further, the sensor is communicated with the controller, and the controller is communicated with the heater.

[0010] Furthermore, the positions of the heater and the ultrasonic actuator are interchangeable.

[0011] Furthermore, the heater is at least one of an induction heater, a resistance heater, a laser heater or a flame heater.

[0012] Furthermore, the ultrasonic actuator is at least one of a transverse wave ultrasonic actuator or a longitudinal wave ultrasonic actuator.

[0013] Furthermore, the cooler is at least one of a gas cooler and a liquid cooler.

[0014] Furthermore, the heater and the cooler are placed around the hot deformed alloy product or a tooling that is closely fitted to the hot deformed alloy product.

[0015] Furthermore, the heater and the cooler are arranged in a circular ring shape around the hot deformed alloy product or the tooling that is closely fitted to the hot deformed alloy product.

[0016] According to a second aspect of the technical solution of the present invention, an online alloy solution treatment method is provided. The online alloy solution treatment method is operated based on the online alloy solution treatment device according to any of the above aspects, and the specific steps are as follows:

[0017] Step 1: using the sensor to monitor and collect the temperature data of the hot-deformed alloy product online in real time;

[0018] Step 2: receiving the temperature data sent by the sensor through the controller;

[0019] Step 3: Using the controller to issue a heating instruction to the heater according to the temperature data;

[0020] Step 4: using the heater to perform online heating on the hot-deformed alloy product according to the heating instruction, and then using the ultrasonic actuator to perform online auxiliary action to achieve online dissolution treatment of the hot-deformed alloy product;

[0021] Step 5: using the cooler to perform online quenching treatment on the hot-deformed alloy product that has undergone the online dissolution treatment, thereby completing the online solid solution treatment of the hot-deformed alloy product.

[0022] Furthermore, the alloy is one of aluminum alloy, copper alloy, magnesium alloy, titanium alloy, zinc alloy, steel, high temperature alloy, metal layered composite material or metal matrix composite material.

[0023] Furthermore, the thermal deformation is at least one of hot rolling, hot extrusion, hot forging and hot drawing.

[0024] Furthermore, in the step 4, the ultrasonic actuator is used to perform ultrasonic action on the hot deformed alloy product, and then the heater is used to perform online heating on the hot deformed alloy product, so as to perform online dissolution treatment on the hot deformed alloy product.

[0025] Furthermore, the heater, the ultrasonic actuator or the cooler acts directly on the hot deformed alloy product or directly acts on the tooling that is in close contact with the hot deformed alloy product.

[0026] Beneficial effects of the present invention:

[0027] 1. The alloy online solution treatment device of the present invention directly installs the heater and the ultrasonic actuator on the production line of the hot-deformed alloy product, places it at the outlet of the hot-deformed mold of the hot-deformed alloy product, and organically integrates the functions of the heater and the ultrasonic actuator, realizes the synergistic effect of the online temperature field formed by the sensor, the controller and the heater and the online ultrasonic field formed by the ultrasonic actuator, and constitutes a high-efficiency online dissolution mechanism, which has the characteristics of full-process online, and has the advantages of high-temperature heating to dissolve the second phase in the alloy product and promote atomic dissolution and ultrasonic vibration to achieve the temperature rise of the micro-region inside the alloy and accelerate the movement and diffusion of atoms, accelerates the dissolution of the second phase in the alloy product and makes its atoms quickly and fully dissolved into the solid solution, improves the dissolution speed of the second phase in the alloy product, shortens the time required for dissolution, saves energy and reduces carbon, and is combined with an online cooler to improve the solid solution effect of the alloy product, reduce production costs, effectively avoid the shortcomings of traditional solid solution equipment, and reduce equipment investment, reduce site space, simple equipment structure, and low production and maintenance costs.

[0028] 2. The online solution treatment method of the alloy of the present invention combines online dissolution, online ultrasonic assistance and online quenching, which can not only utilize the residual heat of thermal deformation of the alloy product to carry out online dissolution treatment of the second phase to reduce energy consumption, but also accelerate the online dissolution rate of the second phase in the alloy product with the assistance of ultrasound, shorten the online solution treatment time, improve the online solution treatment efficiency, realize short-time and high-efficiency online solution treatment, easily obtain the ideal supersaturated solid solution, improve the online solution treatment effect, reduce the production cost of online solution treatment, and at the same time solve the problem of difficulty in solution treatment of long-sized alloy products due to the length limitation of the solution treatment furnace, which is particularly suitable for online solution treatment of small-sized or thin-walled alloy products. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0029] In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments or the prior art, the drawings required for use in the embodiments or the description of the prior art will be briefly introduced below. Obviously, the drawings described below are only some embodiments of the application. For ordinary technicians in this field, other drawings can be obtained based on these drawings without paying creative work.

[0030] Figure 1 It is a schematic structural diagram of an alloy online solution treatment device according to the technical solution of the present invention.

[0031] Figure 2 The present invention is a flowchart of an online alloy solution treatment method according to the technical solution of the present invention.

[0032] Among them, 1-sensor; 2-controller; 3-heater; 4-ultrasonic actuator; 5-cooler; 6-alloy product or tooling. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0033] The present invention is described in detail below in conjunction with embodiments. It is necessary to point out here that the embodiments are only used to further illustrate the present invention and cannot be understood as limiting the scope of protection of the present invention. Any non-essential improvements and adjustments made to the following embodiments based on the technical essence of the present invention still fall within the scope of protection of the technical solution of the present invention.

[0034] The technical solution of the present invention first provides an alloy online solid solution treatment device, which is installed on the production line of hot-deformed alloy products and arranged at the outlet of the hot-deformed die of the hot-deformed alloy products. Figure 1As shown, it includes a sensor 1, a controller 2, a heater 3, an ultrasonic actuator 4 and a cooler 5, and the rear end of the device is an alloy product or a tooling 6; the sensor 1 is used for online real-time monitoring and collecting temperature data of the hot-deformed alloy product, and the controller 2 is used for receiving the temperature data sent by the sensor 1 and issuing a heating instruction to the heater 3; the heater 3, the ultrasonic actuator 4 and the cooler 5 are arranged in series on the production line, and the cooler 5 is arranged at the rear ends of the heater 3 and the ultrasonic actuator 4.

[0035] In a preferred embodiment, the sensor 1 is in communication with the controller 2 , and the controller 2 is in communication with the heater 3 .

[0036] In a preferred embodiment, the positions of the heater 3 and the ultrasonic actuator 4 are interchangeable.

[0037] In a preferred embodiment, the heater 3 is at least one of an induction heater, a resistance heater, a laser heater or a flame heater.

[0038] In a preferred embodiment, the ultrasonic actuator 4 is at least one of a transverse wave ultrasonic actuator or a longitudinal wave ultrasonic actuator.

[0039] In a preferred embodiment, the cooler 5 is at least one of a gas cooler and a liquid cooler.

[0040] The technical solution of the present invention also provides an online solution treatment method for alloys, such as Figure 2 As shown, the alloy online solution treatment method is based on the operation of the alloy online solution treatment device described above, and the specific steps are as follows:

[0041] Step 1: using the sensor to monitor and collect the temperature data of the hot-deformed alloy product online in real time;

[0042] Step 2: receiving the temperature data sent by the sensor through the controller;

[0043] Step 3: Using the controller to issue a heating instruction to the heater according to the temperature data;

[0044] Step 4: using the heater to perform online heating on the hot-deformed alloy product according to the heating instruction, and then using the ultrasonic actuator to perform online auxiliary action to achieve online dissolution treatment of the hot-deformed alloy product;

[0045] Step 5: using the cooler to perform online quenching treatment on the hot-deformed alloy product that has undergone the online dissolution treatment, thereby completing the online solid solution treatment of the hot-deformed alloy product.

[0046] In a preferred embodiment, the alloy is one of aluminum alloy, copper alloy, magnesium alloy, titanium alloy, zinc alloy, steel, high temperature alloy, metal layered composite material or metal matrix composite material.

[0047] In a preferred embodiment, the thermal deformation is at least one of hot rolling, hot extrusion, hot forging and hot drawing.

[0048] In a preferred embodiment, in step 4, the ultrasonic actuator 4 is used to perform ultrasonic action on the hot deformed alloy product, and then the heater 3 is used to perform online heating on the hot deformed alloy product to achieve online dissolution treatment of the hot deformed alloy product.

[0049] In a preferred embodiment, the heater 3, the ultrasonic actuator 4 or the cooler 5 acts directly on the hot deformed alloy product or directly on a tooling 6 that is in close contact with the hot deformed alloy product.

[0050] In a preferred embodiment, the heater 3 and the cooler 5 are placed around the hot deformed alloy product or the tooling 6 that is in close contact with the hot deformed alloy product.

[0051] In a preferred embodiment, the heater 3 and the cooler 5 are arranged in a circular ring shape around the hot deformed alloy product or the tooling 6 that is closely attached to the hot deformed alloy product.

[0052] Embodiment 1:

[0053] The sensor 1 is used to monitor and collect the temperature data of the hot-extruded aluminum alloy product online in real time; the temperature data sent by the sensor 1 is received by the controller 2; the controller 2 is used to issue a heating instruction to the laser heater; the laser heater is used to directly heat the hot-extruded aluminum alloy product online, and then the shear wave ultrasonic actuator is used to directly perform online auxiliary action on the hot-extruded aluminum alloy product, and the hot-extruded aluminum alloy product is subjected to online dissolution treatment; then the gas cooler is used to directly perform online quenching treatment on the hot-extruded aluminum alloy product, and the hot-extruded aluminum alloy product is completed with a short-time and efficient online full solution treatment.

[0054] Embodiment 2:

[0055] The sensor 1 is used to monitor and collect the temperature data of the hot-extruded magnesium alloy product online in real time; the temperature data sent by the sensor 1 is received by the controller 2; the controller 2 is used to issue a heating instruction to the induction heater; a longitudinal wave ultrasonic actuator is used to perform an online auxiliary action on the hot-extruded magnesium alloy product through a tooling 6 that is tightly fitted to the hot-extruded magnesium alloy product, and then an induction heater is used to directly heat the tooling 6 that is tightly fitted to the hot-extruded magnesium alloy product and the hot-extruded magnesium alloy product online, and the hot-extruded magnesium alloy product is subjected to an online dissolution treatment; then a liquid cooler is used to perform an online quenching treatment on the hot-extruded magnesium alloy product through the tooling 6 that is tightly fitted to the hot-extruded magnesium alloy product, so as to complete a short-time and efficient online full solution treatment of the hot-extruded magnesium alloy product.

[0056] Embodiment 3:

[0057] The sensor 1 is used to monitor and collect the temperature data of the hot-extruded stainless steel product online in real time; the temperature data sent by the sensor 1 is received by the controller 2; the controller 2 is used to issue a heating instruction to the flame heater; the flame heater is used to directly heat the tooling 6 and the hot-extruded stainless steel product that are tightly fitted to the hot-extruded stainless steel product online, and then a longitudinal wave ultrasonic actuator is used to perform an online auxiliary effect on the hot-extruded stainless steel product through the tooling 6 that is tightly fitted to the hot-extruded stainless steel product, and the hot-extruded stainless steel product is subjected to an online dissolution treatment; then a liquid cooler is used to directly perform an online quenching treatment on the hot-extruded stainless steel product, and a short-time and efficient online full solution treatment of the hot-extruded stainless steel product is completed.

[0058] In summary, the technical solution of the present invention uses a sensor to monitor the temperature of the hot-deformed alloy product online in real time, sends a heating instruction to the heater through a controller, uses a heater and an ultrasonic actuator to quickly dissolve the hot-deformed alloy product online, and then uses a cooler to quench the hot-deformed alloy product online to obtain an ideal supersaturated solid solution. The device of the present invention has a simple structure and low production and maintenance costs. It can not only use the waste heat of the thermal deformation of the alloy product to perform online solution treatment in the entire process, reduce energy consumption, shorten time, improve efficiency, enhance the effect of solution treatment, and reduce costs, but also solves the problem of difficulty in performing solution treatment on long-sized alloy products due to the length limitation of the solution treatment furnace, and is particularly suitable for online solution treatment of small-sized or thin-walled structure alloy products.

[0059] The serial numbers of the above embodiments of the present invention are only for description and do not represent the advantages or disadvantages of the embodiments.

[0060] The present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned specific embodiments, which are merely illustrative and not restrictive. Under the guidance of the present invention, ordinary technicians in this field can make many forms without departing from the scope of protection of the present invention and the claims, all of which are protected by the present invention.

Claims

1. An alloy online solution treatment device, characterized in that: The alloy online solution treatment device comprises a sensor, a controller, a heater, an ultrasonic actuator and a cooler; The sensor is used to monitor and collect temperature data of the hot-deformed alloy product online in real time, and the controller is used to receive the temperature data sent by the sensor and send a heating instruction to the heater; The heater, the ultrasonic actuator and the cooler are arranged in series on a production line, and the cooler is arranged at the rear ends of the heater and the ultrasonic actuator.

2. An alloy online solution treatment device according to claim 1, characterized in that: The positions of the heater and the ultrasonic actuator are interchangeable.

3. An online alloy solution treatment device as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that: The heater is at least one of an induction heater, a resistance heater, a laser heater or a flame heater.

4. An online alloy solution treatment device according to claim 1, characterized in that: The ultrasonic actuator is at least one of a transverse wave ultrasonic actuator and a longitudinal wave ultrasonic actuator.

5. The alloy online solution treatment device according to claim 1, characterized in that: The cooler is at least one of a gas cooler and a liquid cooler.

6. An alloy online solution treatment method, characterized in that: The alloy online solid solution treatment method is operated based on the alloy online solid solution treatment device according to any one of claims 1 to 5, and the alloy online solid solution treatment method comprises the following steps: Step 1: using the sensor to monitor and collect the temperature data of the hot-deformed alloy product online in real time; Step 2: receiving the temperature data sent by the sensor through the controller; Step 3: Using the controller to issue a heating instruction to the heater according to the temperature data; Step 4: using the heater to perform online heating on the hot-deformed alloy product according to the heating instruction, and then using the ultrasonic actuator to perform online auxiliary action to achieve online dissolution treatment of the hot-deformed alloy product; Step 5: using the cooler to perform online quenching treatment on the hot-deformed alloy product that has undergone the online dissolution treatment, thereby completing the online solid solution treatment of the hot-deformed alloy product.

7. An online alloy solution treatment method according to claim 6, characterized in that: The alloy is one of aluminum alloy, copper alloy, magnesium alloy, titanium alloy, zinc alloy, steel, high temperature alloy, metal layered composite material or metal matrix composite material.

8. An online alloy solution treatment method as claimed in claim 6, characterized in that: The thermal deformation is at least one of hot rolling, hot extrusion, hot forging and hot drawing.

9. An online alloy solution treatment method according to claim 6, characterized in that: In the step 4, the ultrasonic actuator is used to perform ultrasonic action on the hot deformed alloy product, and then the heater is used to perform online heating on the hot deformed alloy product, so as to perform online dissolution treatment on the hot deformed alloy product.

10. An online alloy solution treatment method according to claim 6, characterized in that: The heater, the ultrasonic actuator or the cooler acts directly on the hot-deformed alloy product or directly acts on a tooling that is in close contact with the hot-deformed alloy product.

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