Categories Starting with 'I'

Investment casting is a pattern casting approach that utilizes a thermoplastic or wax pattern. A refractory slurry invests (envelops) the pattern. Once the mold dries, the pattern is extracted out of the mold cavity by burning or melting it, and the molten metal is decanted into the resulting cavity. Aluminum, ferrous, titanium, and non-ferrous are some types in this genre of castings. Investment castings are widely used in military, dental, mining, music, automotive, food processing, sports and telecommunication industries.

An industrial chiller cools down liquid by extracting heat from the liquid and transferring it to either water or ambient air. These chillers use the technique of refrigeration to cool water, which is subsequently pumped through laboratory or process equipment. They are predominant in cryogenic applications that demand controlled cooling of mechanisms, products and factory machinery in diverse industries. They are of common encounter in welding equipment, injection and blow molding, X-ray diffraction, metal working cutting oils, pharmaceutical formulation, and gas cooling among other numerous applications.

Instrument valves are designed and manufactured to meet the stringent demands for accurate fluid control required for the processes of isolation, pressure, flow and level measurement as applied to instrumentation. These valves can be of any type such as manual, pneumatic, electric, ball, needle, metering, check and plug valves.

An inline check valve is a check valve placed anywhere along a flow path to limit the flow to one direction.