Heat treatment for Sedelon Valves

Heat treatment for Sedelon Valves

Heat treatment is a method used to alter the physical, and sometimes chemical properties of a material. The most common application is metallurgical.

It involves the use of heating or chilling, normally to extreme temperatures, to achieve a desired result such as hardening or softening of a material.

It applies only to processes where the heating and cooling are done for the specific purpose of altering properties intentionally

Types of Heat Treatment (Steel):

1) Annealing / Normalizing,

2) Case hardening,

3) Precipitation hardening,

4) Tempering, and Quenching

The purpose of Heat Treatment: