Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method of manufacturing zirconium alloy tubular products
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Application No.: US17059989Application Date: 2019-12-26
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Publication No.: US11946130B2Publication Date: 2024-04-02
- Inventor: Vladimir Vladimirovich Novikov , Aleksandr Anatolevich Kabanov , Antonina Vasilevna Nikulina , Vladimir Andreevich Markelov , Mihail Nikolaevich Sablin , Nadezhda Konstantinovna Filatova , Vadim Nikolaevich Solovev , Kirill Vladimirovich Ozhmegov , Sergei Vladimirovich Chineikin , Sergei Vasilevich Lozitckii , Aleksandr Gusmanovich Ziganshin
- Applicant: JOINT-STOCK COMPANY “TVEL”
- Applicant Address: RU Moscow
- Assignee: JOINT-STOCK COMPANY “TVEL”
- Current Assignee: JOINT-STOCK COMPANY “TVEL”
- Current Assignee Address: RU Moscow
- Agency: Carstens, Allen & Gourley, LLP
- Agent J. Miguel Hernandez; James R. Gourley
- International Application: PCT/RU2019/001025 2019.12.26
- International Announcement: WO2021/133196A 2021.07.01
- Date entered country: 2020-11-30
- Main IPC: C22F1/18
- IPC: C22F1/18 ; B21B37/78 ; C22C16/00 ; C22F1/00

Abstract:
Method of manufacturing zirconium alloy tubular products containing (wt. %): niobium—0.9-1.7; iron—0.04-0.10; oxygen—0.03-0.10; silicon—less than 0.02, carbon—less than 0.02, and zirconium—as the base of the alloy. This includes an ingot melting by multiple vacuum arc remelting, mechanical processing of the ingot, heating, hot working of the ingot, subsequent mechanical processing for the production of tubular billets, heat treatment of the tubular billets, application of a protective coating and heating to a hot pressing temperature, hot pressing, removal of the protective coating, multi-stage cold radial forging, vacuum thermal treatment, multiple cold rolling runs with a total deformation degree of 50-80-% per run and a tubular coefficient of Q=1.0-2.7 with intermediate vacuum thermal treatment after each cold rolling operation, and final vacuum thermal treatment of the resulting tubular products carried out at the final size with subsequent final finishing operations.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220316040A1 Method of Manufacturing Zirconium Alloy Tubular Products Public/Granted day:2022-10-06
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