The awareness of the impact of high temperatures on rock properties is essential to the design of deep geotechnical applications. The purpose of this research is to assess the influence of heating and cooling treatments on the physical and mechanical...
Ferrous alloys (steels and cast irons) and their heat treatment have attracted a great amount of basic and applied research due to their decisive importance in modern industrial branches such as the automotive, transport and other industries. Heat tr...
This article presents the potential of heat recovery from wastewater with an example of a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in Mokrawica, which is located in the West Pomeranian region of Poland. A thorough literature review discusses the relevance o...
Although numerous studies reported the effects of heat stress in chickens, it was not investigated in the Transylvanian Naked Neck breed. In our research, Transylvanian Naked Neck chickens, 24 h after hatching, were heat-treated at 38.5 °C for 12 h....
P91 steel has been of interest to many researchers over the past two decades. This interest is because this steel has very interesting characteristics for application in power plants, where it is common to have pipes that need to support steam at tem...
In this work, we intended to study the effect of heat treatments (T5 and flash T6) on blistering, mechanical properties and microstructure for different parts produced by vacuum-assisted HPDC. These parts were produced with primary and secondary alum...
Energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, environmental impact levels, and the availability of materials as well as their sustainable usage are all topics of high current interest. The energy intensive processes of casting production such as heat...
To optimize the bamboo heat treatment process, the corresponding evolution rules under various heat treatment conditions must be determined. When the heat treatment time and temperature remained constant, the effects of different heat treatment press...
To achieve a core strength that meets the requirements during service life, components to be nitrided are subjected to a pre-heat treatment. Since a higher strength prior to nitriding also has a positive effect on the achievable strength in the nitri...
The adoption of the ultrafast heating (UFH) process has gained much attention in the last few years, as the green energy and minimization of CO2 emissions are the main aspects of contemporary metal science and thermal treatment. The effect of ultrafa...
Using TiO2-15MgAl2O4 mixed powder as spray-feed, an electrical-heating coating was successfully fabricated by atmospheric plasma spraying technology. The phase composition, microstructure, and electrical-heating performance of the coating were charac...
Decreasing the weight of heavy-duty vehicles is an ongoing concern. However, the need to deal with high temperatures in components such as manifolds imposes, by itself, some restrictions regarding material selection, being further limited when other...
The non-uniformity of microstructures and mechanical properties across a whole welded joint is a crucial factor leading to its weakening performance and premature failure. Post-weld heat treatment is a primary method for increasing the mechanical pro...
Natural tanzanites usually show strongly trichroic coloration from violet to blue, and brown colors in different directions. However, this characteristic is easily changed to violet-blue dichroism after heat treatment. Moreover, the cause of color mo...
Heat treatment is a widely employed method for modifying solid wood and has also been extended to veneer-type woods. Owing to the thinness and ease of handling of veneers, the regulation of protective media in heat treatment has not been highly regar...
Liquid whole egg (LWE) products have many advantages such as convenient transportation, easy production and are safe. However, LWE has a short shelf life and high thermal sensitivity, so suitable heating treatment is the key to the production of LWE...
Talipot starch, a non-conventional starch source with a high yield (76%) from the stem pith of talipot palm (Corypha umbraculifera L.) was subjected to three different thermal treatments (dry-heat, heat-moisture and autoclave treatments) prior to pho...
Constantly growing requirements concerning the quality of poured machinery components give rise to the need to find new solutions to improve their mechanical and technological properties, considering economic and ecological aspects resulting from ene...
Milk is a food of high nutritional value processed by heat treatment. Heat treatment of milk is a technological process designed to inhibit the growth of microorganisms and extend the shelf life of products. The heating process directly affects the m...
The effect of the post-weld heat treatment on the microstructures and mechanical properties of the dissimilar joint of G115, a novel developed martensite heat resistant steel, and CB2 steel, currently used in an ultra-super-critical power unit, was i...
Energy efficiency is extremely significant for industrial processes and technologies. Rising energy prices, depleting fossil fuels, as well as tightening regulations that impose the need to reduce GHG emissions incentivize companies to look for energ...
Various heat input conditions and post-weld heat treatments were adopted to investigate the microstructure evolution and mechanical properties of tungsten inert gas (TIG) welded joints of AA6082-T6 with porosity defects. The results show that the fra...
The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of the heat treatment time and initial moisture content of bamboo on the corresponding chemical composition, crystallinity, and mechanical properties after saturated steam heat treatment at 180 &de...
The global production of die forgings is an important branch of the motor industry for obvious reasons, resulting from the very good mechanical properties of the forged products. The expectations of the recipients, beside the implementation of the fo...
This paper investigated the flexible job-shop scheduling problem with the heat treatment process. To solve this problem, we built an unified mathematical model of the heat treatment process and machining process. Up to now, this problem has not been...
Achieving a good match between strength and conductivity is a challenge of the development of the high-performance Cu-Cr-Nb alloy for aerospace and fusion energy. The effect of heat treatment on Cr2Nb phase, strength and conductivity of spark plasma...
Rapid electric current heat treatment has been successfully applied to a cold-rolled sheet of commercially pure titanium (CP Ti). The electric current heat treatment was conducted at various temperatures (400, 500, 600 and 700 °C) by altering the cur...
This study aimed to compare the fatigue resistance of files made from different heat treatment methods and surface treatment. Four prototype files were created through heat treatment and titanium coating surface treatment (AT, DT, ER, EN; named arbit...
The purpose of this work is to study the effect of heat treatments on the microstructure of the nickel-based superalloy Inconel 713C. Three different conditions were studied and the results compared: (1) as cast; (2) solid solution treatment (1179 &d...
This study investigated whether heat treatments (raw, 63 °C for 30 min, and 85 °C for 5 min) affect protein hydrolysis by endogenous enzymes in the milk of ruminants (bovine, ovine, and caprine) using a self-digestion model. Self-digestion co...
The heat treatment of oil-contaminated sites is widely carried out for the purposes of remediation. However, heat treatment changes the physical and chemical properties of soil. Before the soil can be reused as a construction material in civil engine...
The influence of the heat treatment regime and the initial temperature on the strength characteristics of the cast heat-resistant superalloy Inconel 718 under shock loading has been studied. For samples of four types: in the as-received state, in the...
Thin-walled Inconel 625 sheet metal was sectioned into tensile specimens, plastically strained, and then heat treated. Specimens were pulled to a targeted strain, unloaded, and then subjected to one of two heat treatments with the goal of restoring t...
Neonicotinoids (NEOs) have become the most widely used insecticides in the world since the mid-1990s. According to Chinese dietary habits, rice and water are usually heated before being consumed, but the information about the alteration through the h...
Today, 7xxx aluminum alloys are widely used in aerospace and other fields due to their excellent properties such as low density, high specific strength, and good processing performance. The heat treatment process of 7xxx aluminum alloy is crucial in...
Wood, a natural material with versatile industrial applications, faces limitations such as low dimensional stability and decay resistance. To address these issues, there has been significant progress in wood modification research. Oil heat treatment...
The scope of the present work was to study the effects of heat treatment (at different mild temperatures) on the physicomechanical properties of pine wood, and to find out if impregnation with nanosilver may have any potential influence on the impact...
Hardness of dissimilar laser clad samples of NiCrBSi alloy on a Cu substrate was investigated, with the aim of optimizing the manufacturing process for high-durability continuous casting molds for steelmaking. The performance of the clads is compared...
Effect of heat treatment on the microstructure and mechanical properties of the AZ31/WE43 bimetal composites was investigated, and the optimized solution treatment and ageing treatment parameters were achieved. After heat treatment, it was found that...
Understanding the interfacial changes of wood during heat treatment can facilitate the improvement of the bonding and coating processes of heat-treated wood. Steam was used as the medium to modify Pinusmassoniana wood through heat treatment at 160, 1...
The objective of this work was to study the influence of palm oil on the VOCs emitted during the heat treatment of Afromosia (Pericopsis Elata Van Meeuwen) and Newtonia (Newtonia paucijuga Harms) wood by comparing to the VOCs emitted during the heat...
The effects of laser heat treatment on the microstructure and properties of alloy 800H were investigated. The fracture morphology, elemental changes, and phase composition of the specimens were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), ene...
The paper presents the effect of heat treatment at 80 °C at different times (3, 5, 7, and 9 min) on the structural and functional properties of Phaseolus vulgaris L. protein (PVP, bean protein powder). Surface and structure properties of PVP after he...
Laboratory heating experiments with a varied holding time of GCr15 bearing steels at 1498 K were performed to study the transformation of inclusions in solid GCr15 bearing steels during high temperature diffusion processes. Heating experiments at 157...
We examined lithic artifacts from the late Neanderthal site Sesselfelsgrotte (Bavaria, Germany) in order to evaluate the possibility of fire use and intentional flint heat treatment performed by late Neanderthals. We analyzed 1113 flint pieces from t...
Internal Quenching is an innovative heat treatment method for difficult to access component sections. Especially, the microstructure, as well as the residual stress state at inner surfaces, of thick-walled tubes can be adjusted with the presented fle...
The effect of pre-weld heat treatment on the microstructure and low-temperature impact toughness of the coarse-grained heat-affected zone (CGHAZ) after simulated welding was systematically investigated through the utilization of scanning electron mic...
Chemical composition influences the calorific power of wood, mainly due to the calorific power of structural compounds and extractives. Heat treatment changes the chemical composition of treated wood. This work studies the relationship between chemic...
Calcites before and after calcination at 1000 °C were evaluated for their potential removal of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) from water. After heat treatment, the PFOA sorption capacity increased by 25%, from 3.2 to 3.9 mg g−1, and the affi...
In this work, the effect of 800 °C and 1100 °C post-heat treatment on the plasma spraying of Ti–Si–C–xMo (x = 1.0, 1.5) composite coatings was investigated. The composite coatings were composed of TiC, Ti3SiC2, Ti5Si3 and Mo...
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