Drastically Reduce Resource Use to Produce Highly Stressed Steel Components (RAPS)
| Reference number | |
| Coordinator | SWERIM AB |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 1 000 000 |
| Project duration | October 2024 - June 2025 |
| Status | Ongoing |
| Venture | Impact Innovation Metals & Minerals - Program-specific efforts Vinnova |
| Call | Impact Innovation: Feasibility studies within Technological Action Areas in the program Metals & Minerals |
Purpose and goal
Atmospheric carburizing with oil quenching is one of the most common heat treatment processes today for high-volume production. Due to new environmental requirements and application requirements alternatives are needed. The goal of the project is to map whether a full-scale project can address the most important requirements that prevent the transition from conventional atmospheric carburizing with oil cooling to nitriding processes, induction hardening or low pressure carburizing (LPC).
Expected effects and result
The results from the project will be an industry-based activity plan which, via the full-scale project, can facilitate the transition to nitriding processes, induction hardening and LPC.
Planned approach and implementation
The project will be carried out with a number of seminars and make a current situation analysis and activity plan that will map the following: Requirements specifications through company dialogue Access to testbeds Material availability for each alternative heat treatment method Resource consumption for each method