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Quenchants characterization by acoustical noise analysis of cooling properties of aqueous poly (alkylene glycol) polymer quenchants

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OSTI ID:484253
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  1. Engineering Thermophysics Institute of National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv (Ukraine)

A measuring-computing acoustical noise analysis system has been developed for the control of cooling capacity of quenchants. The work frequency range of 0 to 20 kc is divided into 200 channels. The width of each channel is 100 c/s. It has been shown that each heat transfer mode (film and nucleate boiling) has a characteristic frequency. Low frequencies are inherent to film boiling. High frequencies occur at the start of boiling and shock boiling. These experiments permit the determination of the optimum concentration of a poly(alkylene glycol) quenchant where the most intensive and uniform cooling is reached. The determination is necessary when using intensive steel quenching methods.

OSTI ID:
484253
Report Number(s):
CONF-961140--
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English