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Production verification of investment castings for ball valves
After determining the optimal process parameter group, reset the process parameters according to the optimized process for numerical simulation. The optimized results of shrinkage porosity and porosity are compared with the results of traditional schemes, as shown in Figure 1. From the figure, it can be seen that the...

Design of Investment Casting System for 304 Stainless Steel Ball Valve
The design of the gating system directly affects the quality of investment castings. The gating system is generally composed of a gate cup, a sprue, a transverse sprue, and an inner sprue. Due to the unique structure of the ball valve, changing the structure and size of the pouring...

Simulation results and defect analysis of investment casting for 304 stainless steel ball valve
For the convenience of analysis, this article only conducts defect analysis on a single investment casting. The pouring system structure of 304 stainless steel ball valve under traditional technology is a stepped pouring system, and the distribution of shrinkage porosity and shrinkage defects is shown in Figure 1. Through...

Orthogonal Experiment on Investment Casting Design of Round Ball Valves
Although the redesigned pouring system significantly reduced the shrinkage and porosity of the ball valve, it did not maximize the reduction of shrinkage and porosity defects. Therefore, it was adjusted and optimized from the perspective of process parameters. Based on the original traditional process parameters (pouring temperature 1550 ℃,...

Process parameter settings for investment casting of 304 stainless steel ball valve
Switch to the cast module, set simulation parameters, edit materials on the user defined page, edit the composition of 304 stainless steel in the table, and select zircon sand as the shell material. The traditional process parameters set the pouring temperature to 1550 ℃ and the preheating temperature of...

Investment Casting Process for a 304 Stainless Steel Ball Valve
With the improvement of the world’s technological level, people’s demand for energy is increasing day by day, and material conservation has become the goal of various countries’ efforts. Traditional casting in the casting industry consumes both manpower and financial resources, while investment casting can better achieve minimal and no...

Casting Technology of Flange Ball Valve
1.Modeling design According to the current casting process technology, it is decided to adopt the precision core assembly molding of cold box with high dimensional accuracy and good surface quality, and the core is made manually without the need for sand box fixation. According to the structure of the...

Numerical Simulation Analysis of Cast AnyCasting of Flange Ball Valve
The casting process design of the flange ball valve was simulated by AnyCasting. The solidification sequence of the flange ball valve casting was obtained through simulation as shown in Figure 1. The solidification sequence of the flange ball valve casting was analyzed as follows: top, runner → middle of...

Casting process of flanged ball valve
With the improvement of the transportation requirements for water, liquefied petroleum gas, natural gas and other media, the performance requirements for ball valves are becoming higher and higher. In order to improve the performance of ball valves, a set of casting process plan with higher performance must be designed....
