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Material Densification

Material densification is a critical process for many manufacturing and materials processing applications. By using high-pressure techniques, materials such as metals, ceramics, and composites can be compressed to higher densities, resulting in increased mechanical properties and performance.

Sheet Metal Forming

Flexform™, also called fluid cell forming, is a low-cost sheet metal forming process designed for both prototyping and lower volume parts production.

Battery Processing Systems

All-solid-state battery (ASSB) technology has been under development for years, offering significant improvements in safety, charging times, and energy density. Quintus has been at the forefront of this innovation, providing advanced isostatic pressing solutions to support all-solid-state battery production from the lab to full-scale manufacturing.

High Pressure Processing

Quintus Technologies’ High Pressure Processing (HPP) is a natural, scientifically validated technology for food preservation. HPP delivers food safety benefits, extends shelf life, and maintains flavor, freshness, and nutrients. It uses ultra-high pressure instead of high temperatures or preservatives to inactivate foodborne pathogens, reduce waste, and deliver natural, nutritious products.

High Pressure Heat Treatment

In recent years Quintus has harnessed the energy generated in the HIP to perform in-process heat treatment of components. We call it High Pressure Heat Treatment.

Heat Treatment inside the HIP, a Quintus speciality

The wire-wound press design developed by Quintus, allows us to remove a tremendous amount of energy from the system during cooling. This not only shortens cycle times, but ensures repeatable production of pore free and specific microstructures time after time.

Steering the HIP cycle

The controllability of Quintus HIP equipment is second to none. We can help you set-up specific heating, densification and cooling regimes to ensure repeatable performance time after time.

It’s all about quality

HPHT™ enables the adjustment of microstructures for free whilst ensuring densification of your products. Repeatable performance with the added benefits of heat treatment under pressure in an inert environment. HPHT™ has been shown to out perform HIP+HT.

Cleanliness is our passion

Best practice in HIP operation, together with special equipment programming and hardware allows you to achieve super clean processing results in our equipment.

A modelling opportunity

Our knowledge of fluid dynamics and our equipment performance allows us to actively predict cooling rates in components based on CAD drawings.

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Advanced Cooling Capabilities in HIP Processing

Quintus Purus® enabling a clean HIP atmosphere

Advanced Cooling Capabilities in HIP Processing

Quintus Purus® enabling a clean HIP atmosphere

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FAQ

HPHTᵀᴹ is short for High Pressure Heat Treatment. It includes capabilities for integrating different heat treatment strategies within the HIP process.The main features include

Latest generation of temperature control and high steered cooling rates of the URC®
Minimum distortion gas quenching feature of the URQ®
Steered Cooling™
Quintus Purus®

The basis for these is the ability to control and steer the high-pressure gas in the vessel and furnace.

Uniform Rapid Cooling, URC®, is a Quintus invention which enables uniform cooling of the payload. Forced convection of high temperature and high pressure gas over a heat sink enables controllable cooling of the gas. URC® is used for metals as well as ceramic materials, to increase productivity and heat treat parts.

Uniform Rapid Quenching, URQ®, is a Quintus invention which enables high speed quenching of the payload, at similar cooling rates to gas quenching. Cold gas in the HIP is exchanged with the hot gas in the furnace at a very high rate, effectively quenching the payload in a uniform way with minimal induced stress.

Quintus Purus is a capability developed to ensure the cleanest possible atmosphere during the HIP cycle. Its purpose is to reduce the risk of oxidation and oxygen uptake in component surfaces. It has proven vital for avoiding, e.g., alpha case on titanium alloys used in medical implants.

The different capabilities of HPHTᵀᴹ are features developed for controlling the high-pressurized gas inside the pressure vessel. Having this capability enables us to steer the temperature and temperature change rate the components are subjected to, making accurate process control and heat treatments strategies possible.HPHTᵀᴹ makes up of different features within Quintus HIP. Its capabilities are to optimize densification, heat treatment, and general processes. It’s done by controlling and steering high-pressure gas.

Most standard heat treatment processes for metals and ceramics, using temperature and temperature change rate, can be performed in the HIP vessel. In addition to the traditional pressureless heat treatments, the MPa pressure of the HIP process can be used both for altering the kinetics of the process and for more precise control of temperature uniformity and temperature change rates.