Experimental study of the effect of the concentration of water/polyalkylene glycol solutions on heat transfer in steels subjected to quenching
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Materials Research Express, Volume 11, issue 1
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In this work, the heat transfer coefficients were determined utilizing an experimental study for cooling a 15B35H boron steel, using aqueous solutions of polyalkylene glycol (PAG) as a cooling fluid. A cooling tank was designed and built to allow the fluid recirculation, where the effect of agitation and the PAG content in a concentration range of 2%-6% vol. were analyzed. The thermal histories of cylindrical probes instrumented with K-type thermocouples were obtained, and the heat transfer coefficients associated with the types of refrigeration were calculated, solving the IHCP. The results show the presence of two maximum surface heat flux denominated q1max for the low-temperature range and q2max for the high-temperature range. Getting higher q1max and low q2max is desirable to avoid distortion and cracking. It was found that 4% PAG exhibits a slight variation of heat flux values in both low and high-temperature regions, regardless of the degree of agitation, maintaining values of about 3 MW·m−2 for q1max and 5.5 MW·m−2 for q2max. In this case, q2max is higher than q1max, leading to higher cooling rates in the martensitic transformation zone, increasing the risk of distortion and cracking. In the cases of 2 y 6% PAG, agitation affects q1max ranging from 2.5 to 6 MW·m−2, and for q2max from 4 to 6 MW·m−2, where q1max is always higher than q2max, providing better conditions for quenching.Description
Funding Information: The authors want to acknowledge to the TecNM-ITM, CATEDRAS-CONACyT and CONACyT for their continuous support to Doctoral Scholarship 822397 and SNI for the permanent support to the academic groups. Also to Dr Emmanuel José Gutierrez Castañeda, for allowing us to use the JMatPro software license. Publisher Copyright: © 2024 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd.
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Buenrostro, B F, Bocanegra, C A H, Banderas, J A R, Valdovinos, L E M, López Granados, N M & Vapalahti, S 2024, 'Experimental study of the effect of the concentration of water/polyalkylene glycol solutions on heat transfer in steels subjected to quenching', Materials Research Express, vol. 11, no. 1, 016515. https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1591/ad1e10