Major Industry Breakthrough
Major Industry Breakthrough
Major Industry Breakthrough
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MAJOR INDUSTRY BREAKTHROUGH
HVAF/HVOF have been merged into a single system that offers the
highest spray rates in the industry in either mode.
High quality coatings of High Spray rates. Dense, low HVOF / HVAF Spray Guns
metallic alloys, porosity coatings at HVOF / HVAF Auxiliary Equipment
cemented carbides and minimum thickness with
other composite very low Ra roughness.
powders
The coating material in the form of pre-alloyed or composite powder is fed into a HVAF thermal spray system.
The gun combusts compressed air and fuel gas (propane, propylene, natural gas, etc.) generating a high-
velocity jet of combustion products. Being heated and accelerated in the jet, the spray powder impacts a
workpiece (substrate) to form a coating.
The quality and efficiency of the systems family is due to the relatively low combustion temperature of the air-
fuel mixture combined with the axial injection of the feedstock through the long combustion chamber where the
low gas velocity provides sufficient time for the powder particles to gradually heat. The materials acceleration
occurs in the nozzle that has a large diameter. The large diameter of the nozzle is needed to pass through the
volume of nitrogen present in the combustion air. It also assures that the nozzle walls do not interact with the
particles, allowing the use of a nozzle that is as long as is needed for feedstock acceleration, typically from 800
to over 1,000 m/s. The Ceramic Catalytic Insert is used in the combustion chamber to provide a wide range of
stable combustion parameters.
Precise temperature control of the spray material near the melting point and high impact velocities
are the distinguishing characteristics of the HVAF coating deposition process.
HVAF Coating Quality
The combustion temperature in air-fuel mixtures is typically 1,000C lower than in oxygen-fuel combustion. This
lower temperature is ideal for the gradual heating of the feedstock particles of metals and cemented carbides to
or slightly above the metals melting temperature. The initial oxygen content in the combustion gas mixture is 5-
fold lower in the HVAF process compared to any HVOF process. Both factors prevent the oxidation of metals and
the decomposition of carbides and their dissolution into the metal binder. These factors allow the retention of the
original ductility of the powder feedstock material in the applied coating, even when the hardness of the
cemented carbide coating exceeds 1600 HV300.
Multi-purpose HVAF AK versatile systems to spray metal, carbide and alloyed powders coatings all
possible ways: outer and internal diameters, manual, on-site
Convertible HVOF + HVAF - systems to spray superior HVAF or HVOF coatings by choice
Specialized HVAF S highly focused systems to spray particular metals in the most efficient way
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