Objective
Core coatings are used in the foundry industry for three basic reasons :
a. To ensure the quality of the mould (and thus of the casting) ;
b. To improve the heat resistance of the cores ;
c. For surface quality (the coating applied to the core acts like a refractory paint and so can reduce the roughness of the casting). The application of these coatings can also help to reduce the amount of finishing work needed to obtain the surface quality required by customers. Currently, most of these coatings are alcohol-based formulations. For environmental reasons (to reduce emissions of volatile organic compounds with the direct consequence of improving working conditions and cutting pollution), these coatings are destined to be replaced increasingly by water-based formulations. The latter are trickier to use and require sustained development efforts (automotive industry foundries are emerging as the first to show an interest). The innovative character of this programme lies in the following points :
a. Investigation of the use of water-based coatings according to their formulations about which little is known for different applications.
b. Currently, there is manual checkinq only ; but no automatic monitorinq of the process. The innovation lies in the use of sensors to check the rheology of the coat as the different parameters are varied.
c. Creation of a complete system (currently there is none) to be incorporated into production lines. The study will enable SMEs foundries to make use of this new technique in their plants.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences chemical sciences organic chemistry volatile organic compounds
- engineering and technology mechanical engineering vehicle engineering automotive engineering
- engineering and technology materials engineering coating and films
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering sensors
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences environmental sciences pollution
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72302 Sable-sur-Sarthe
France
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