低温空気による水分含有鋳造砂型の凍結成型特性

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This paper reports the freezing characteristics of sand molded with "the freeze mold method". The freeze mold method is the casting process where little water is added to cast sand then they are frozen and become harden as a mold. Instead of using organic hardener, this molding technology possibly reduces resources and environment loading.
We aimed at the practical application of the freeze mold method and chose cold airflow as the medium taking heat away from the mold. At first the sand with water was filled into a rectangular container that is the test section. Then cold air flowed into the container. Consequently, the mold was cooled and frozen by the cold airflow. The freezing behavior of the sample by cold airflow was investigated experimentally under the conditions of added water amount, superficial velocity, inflow air temperature and fixed bed height. As a result, the freezing completion time becomes long as the added water amount increases. However, an increase in the added water amount doesn't influence the pressure loss of the test section so much. Moreover, the empirical equation was derived to predict the freezing completion time.