Vacuum Cap (VCAP) Furnaces

Consarc® Vacuum Cap (VCAP) furnaces can be used for both air melting and vacuum degassing by selectively using the removable vacuum cap. VCAP furnaces offer a compelling option for high-quality foundry operations that require an improvement over air melting via vacuum refining but do not require full vacuum processing.

Product Details

Overview

Features

The VCAP furnaces are available to suit a wide variety of applications in sizes ranging from 100 lbs (50 kg) to 20 tons. All VCAP furnaces come equipped with the following features:

Induction furnace and vacuum shell
Water-cooled vacuum lid
High-capacity vacuum pumping system
Hydraulic tilt system
Viewing ports
Water-cooling manifolds
Inductotherm® VIP power supply suitable for vacuum applications
Immersion thermocouple/sampling
Control systems

Tech Specs

Some typical processes that can be performed in the VCAP range include:

Air melting from solid charge
Controlled atmosphere melting from solid charge
Full vacuum melting
Alloy homogenization and chemistry adjustment
Vacuum degassing (hydrogen and nitrogen removal)
Reduction of low vapor pressure tramp elements (e.g. Pb, Cd, Bi, Zn)
Deoxidation using combination of vacuum and C-O reaction
Decarburization – Intensified C-O reaction at low pressure enabling decarburization for lower carbon levels.
Optional gas purging of metal with porous plug

Some of the more important customer product advantages from VCAP operation are:

Significant improvement of mechanical properties like yield strength, ductility, impact strength, fatigue and stress-rupture-elevated temperature properties
Improvement of technological characteristics such as hot workability, weldability and machinability
Increased fluidity of metal which improves mold-filling
Better micro-cleanliness due to strong carbon deoxidation and smaller residual inclusions
Significant reduction of “scatter” in product properties and characteristics, resulting in less rejections
Choice of air melting or vacuum melting furnace modes provides unprecedented hybrid equipment versatility

Accessories

Many optional accessories can be included with VCAP furnaces to meet additional process requirements.

Double trunnion pour for high pouring accuracy
Pour-through hatch with inert gas shroud
Back tilt
Fume ring for use during air melting
Optical pyrometer
High-voltage supply transformer
Hydraulic lining pushout system
Scrap and raw material charging
Liquid metal charge
Manual charging hatch
Vacuum-sealed overmelt charger
Dry-type vacuum pumps
Melt-Manager® control upgrade
Automated vacuum cap handling
Closed-loop water cooling
Porous plug gas (argon-nitrogen) purging
SCADA supervisory control systems

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Consarc Corp.

100 Indel Avenue P.O. Box 156
Rancocas, NJ 08073-0156 USA

609-267-8000 | sales@consarc.com

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Inductotherm Group Brasil

R. Herminio de Mello, 526, Indaiatuba/SP
CEP 13347-330

+55-19-3885-6800 | contato@inductothermgroup.com.br

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Inductotherm Group Australia

62 Bardia Avenue, Seaford. Victoria 3198
Australia

+61-3-9786-6000 | furnaces@inductotherm.com.au

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Inductotherm Group China

Inductotherm Industries (Shanghai) Ltd.
50 Guoshoujing Road, Zhangjiang High-tech Park, Pudong, Shanghai
+86-021-3895-3220 I sales@inductotherm.com.cn

Inductotherm Group China Ltd.
92 Ximei Road, Xinwu District, Wuxi, Jiangsu

+86-510-8523-1010 | sales@inductotherm.com.cn

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Inductotherm Group Taiwan

10, Gongye W. 5th Rd. Lukang
Changhua County 505004 Taiwan (R.O.C.)

+ 886-4-7811630 | sales@inductothermgroup.com.tw

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Inductotherm Group Japan

1-3-10 Mibemibefu,
Nishi-Ku, Kobe 651-2116 Japan

+81-78-974-2552 | info@inductothermgroup.jp

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Consarc Engineering

9 Woodside, Eurocentral, Holytown
North Lanarkshire, ML1 4XL Scotland UK

+44-1698-730430 | sales@consarceng.com

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Inductotherm Group France

LE SARIA. 14 Avenue de SARIA, 77700 Serris, France

+33-1-6417-9919 | sav@inductothermie.fr

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Inductotherm Group India

INDUCTOTHERM (INDIA) PVT. LTD.
Plot No. SM-6&7, Road No.11 Sanand-II, Industrial Estate, BOL Village, Sanand Ahmedabad- 382170
Toll free: 1 800 419 2900
Sales: +9193745 78586
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