TU Institute
Fabrication process & practical production for Aluminium heat exchanger technology
Prof. Bleicher. TUV Vienna
The Institut für Fertigungstechnik (IFT) in English Inst. for Fabrication and Process Engineering will present various possibilities to advise and support newcomers in the field of Aluminium Technology. Prof. Bleicher will describe the fields of expertise which complement the expertise of the other specialists of this seminar. Due to the network of the Technical University of Vienna all other Institutes may be utilized and their expertise, moreover their scientific equipment is accessible from one source. As in the last 25 to 30 years the basic technology for the mass production of cores or blank bodies was researched by the Automobile Industry only those parameters are variable which concern the production of small batches and the fine tuning of heat exchangers for specific applications. Hereby the help can be two fold, in evaluating and dimensioning the specific designs from the customer by theoretical calculations like “Finite Elements” etc. and then even more important by counseling and
practical advice of “how to set up the specific production line”. This later function goes down to designing and prototyping of various machines and last but not least to connect these machines to Production On Demand. POD is aimed as only with automation high labour countries can compete.
Machine assisted fabrication & confectioning of Aluminium heat exchanger
Dr. Christoph Einspieler
In the second lecture the IFT presents some specific machines for “machine assisted Fabrication” of Aluminium Heat exchangers. There are several possibilities of how to perform the mechanical confectioning after the mass production of the Blank bodies or cores. In fact the institute will help to build-up the intrinsic know-how of each “HEX producer”. This essential step, the mechanical confectioning can be done either manually by utilizing existing universal machinery -–needless to say costly - as available at the customer site or institute (if wished so for trials) or by the two machines presented in the lecture. There are firstly a specific milling machine for the RCB/FSP and secondly a more productive rolling machine for the FSP.
