Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Ni-based superalloy part recycling method
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Application No.: US15932302Application Date: 2016-05-30
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Publication No.: US10689741B2Publication Date: 2020-06-23
- Inventor: Hiroshi Harada , Kyoko Kawagishi , Toshiharu Kobayashi , Tadaharu Yokokawa , Makoto Osawa , Michinari Yuyama , Shinsuke Suzuki , Yuichiro Joh , Satoshi Utada
- Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE
- Applicant Address: JP Ibaraki
- Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE
- Current Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE
- Current Assignee Address: JP Ibaraki
- Agency: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@50f4cd40
- International Application: PCT/JP2016/065901 WO 20160530
- International Announcement: WO2017/029856 WO 20170223
- Main IPC: C22F1/10
- IPC: C22F1/10 ; C22B23/02 ; C22C1/02 ; C22B7/00 ; B09B3/00

Abstract:
A method for recycling a Ni-based single crystal superalloy part or unidirectionally solidified superalloy part provided with a thermal barrier coating containing at least a ceramic on a surface of a Ni-based single crystal superalloy substrate or Ni-based unidirectionally solidified superalloy substrate, in which the method including the steps of: melting and desulfurizing a Ni-based single crystal superalloy part or Ni-based unidirectionally solidified superalloy part at a temperature of the melting point or more of the Ni-based single crystal superalloy or Ni-based unidirectionally solidified superalloy and less than the melting point of the ceramic; heating a casting mold for a recycled Ni-based single crystal superalloy part or casting mold for a recycled Ni-based unidirectionally solidified superalloy part to a temperature of the melting point or more of the Ni-based single crystal superalloy or Ni-based unidirectionally solidified superalloy; pouring the desulfurized melted Ni-based single crystal superalloy or Ni-based unidirectionally solidified superalloy into the casting mold, and producing a melting stock or growing a Ni-based single crystal superalloy or Ni-based unidirectionally solidified superalloy; and removing the melting stock or the recycled Ni-based single crystal superalloy part or recycled Ni-based unidirectionally solidified superalloy part from the casting mold. In this way, a method for recycling a Ni-based superalloy part, by which the recycle cost of a Ni-based superalloy part and the lifetime cost of a highly efficient gas turbine engine using a Ni-based superalloy part can be significantly reduced, and further a Ni-based superalloy part having the same high-temperature strength and oxidation resistance as those of a newly produced Ni-based superalloy part can be obtained, is provided.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190010594A1 NI-BASED SUPERALLOY PART RECYCLING METHOD Public/Granted day:2019-01-10
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