Casting methods
Abstract
A casting device includes a covered crucible having a top opening and a bottom orifice, a lid covering the top opening, a stopper rod sealing the bottom orifice, and a reusable mold having at least one chamber, a top end of the chamber being open to and positioned below the bottom orifice and a vacuum tap into the chamber being below the top end of the chamber. A casting method includes charging a crucible with a solid material and covering the crucible, heating the crucible, melting the material, evacuating a chamber of a mold to less than 1 atm absolute through a vacuum tap into the chamber, draining the melted material into the evacuated chamber, solidifying the material in the chamber, and removing the solidified material from the chamber without damaging the chamber.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1082351
- Patent Number(s):
- 8333230
- Application Number:
- 12/175,122
- Assignee:
- Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, ID)
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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B - PERFORMING OPERATIONS B22 - CASTING B22D - CASTING OF METALS
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC07-05ID14517
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 42 ENGINEERING
Citation Formats
Marsden, Kenneth C., Meyer, Mitchell K., Grover, Blair K., Fielding, Randall S., and Wolfensberger, Billy W. Casting methods. United States: N. p., 2012.
Web.
Marsden, Kenneth C., Meyer, Mitchell K., Grover, Blair K., Fielding, Randall S., & Wolfensberger, Billy W. Casting methods. United States.
Marsden, Kenneth C., Meyer, Mitchell K., Grover, Blair K., Fielding, Randall S., and Wolfensberger, Billy W. Tue .
"Casting methods". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1082351.
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abstractNote = {A casting device includes a covered crucible having a top opening and a bottom orifice, a lid covering the top opening, a stopper rod sealing the bottom orifice, and a reusable mold having at least one chamber, a top end of the chamber being open to and positioned below the bottom orifice and a vacuum tap into the chamber being below the top end of the chamber. A casting method includes charging a crucible with a solid material and covering the crucible, heating the crucible, melting the material, evacuating a chamber of a mold to less than 1 atm absolute through a vacuum tap into the chamber, draining the melted material into the evacuated chamber, solidifying the material in the chamber, and removing the solidified material from the chamber without damaging the chamber.},
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Works referenced in this record:
Report on Development of Concepts for the Advanced Casting System in Support of the Deployment of a Remotely Operable Research Scale Fuel Fabrication Facility for Metal Fuel
report, March 2007
- Marsden, Ken
An Analysis of the Melt Casting of Metallic Fuel Pins
conference, June 2008
- Wu, Xiaolong; Clarksean, Randy; Chen, Yitung
- ASME 2002 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Heat Transfer, Volume 5