Electron Beam Melting Machine
Catalogue: Electron Beam Melting Machine
What is electron beam melting machine and how it work?
Electron Beam Melting Machine is a type of additive manufacturing or 3D printing equipment that uses an electron beam as the energy source to melt metal powder, thereby creating solid parts layer by layer. Here’s a brief overview of how it works and its applications:
How It Works
1. Powder Bed: The process begins with a thin layer of metallic powder being spread over the build area.
2. Electron Beam: A high-energy electron beam is then focused and scanned across the powder surface, selectively melting the powder where the part is to be built. This process is guided by a digital design from a 3D model.
3. Layer-by-Layer Building: After one layer is melted and solidified, the build platform descends slightly, a new layer of powder is applied, and the beam melts the next layer, bonding it to the previous layer. This process repeats until the entire part is constructed from the bottom up.
4. Cooling and Cleaning: The finished part must cool down before it is removed from the powder bed. Excess powder is then removed and can often be reused.
Key Features
Material Use: The materials used in EBM are typically high-performance metals such as titanium, which is popular in aerospace and biomedical applications.
Vacuum Environment: EBM takes place in a vacuum, which is necessary to prevent the electron beam from scattering and to manage the thermal stresses within high-performance metal parts.
High Energy Efficiency: The electron beam can melt the metallic powder efficiently and quickly, allowing for faster production times compared to other methods like laser sintering.
Applications
Aerospace: Used for manufacturing complex parts with lightweight properties.
Medical: Ideal for producing orthopedic implants due to the ability to create porous structures which encourage bone ingrowth.
Automotive: Useful for producing lightweight yet robust parts that can withstand extreme conditions.
EBM machine offer distinct advantages in terms of speed and material properties, particularly for complex and high-strength parts. However, they are also generally more costly and operate under more complex technical constraints than some other forms of 3D printing.
Features:
The forming process is open source, and the development of new material system is convenient and quick.
Less powder loading per heat, low cost of machine use and maintenance.
Smaller forming chamber size is optional and material selection is more flexible.
Applicable materials: Titanium and titanium alloy; Tungsten, molybdenum, tantalum, niobium and other refractory metals; Titanium aluminum alloy; Brittle and difficult processed materials; Copper and copper alloy; Zirconium alloy; Nickel base superalloy; Ceramics and metallic composites.
Electron Beam Melting Machine (Y150)
Specifications:
| Model | Y150 |
|---|---|
| Manufacturing method | Powder Bed Fusion |
| Process | Hot process |
| Max. build size | 150×150×180mm³ |
| Beam power | 3kw |
| Electron accelerating voltage | 60Kv |
| Beam current | 0-50mA |
| Filament life | ＞500 h |
| Cathode type | Directly heated tungsten cathode |
| Min. beam diameter | ≤300 μm |
| Max. powder bed preheat temperature | 1100 ℃ |
| Ultimate vacuum | 5×10-³ Pa |
| Build accuracy of components | ±0.2mm |
| External dimension | 2000×1200×2150 mm³ |
| Machine weight | 1.5 t |
| Data format | STL |
Electron Beam Melting Machine (Y150 plus)
Specifications:
| Model | Y150 Plus |
|---|---|
| Manufacturing method | Powder Bed Fusion |
| Process | Hot process |
| Max. build size | 170×170×180 mm³ |
| Beam power | 3kW |
| Electron accelerating voltage | 60 kV |
| Beam current | 0-50 mA |
| Filament life | >500h |
| Cathode type | Indirectly heated tungsten cathode |
| Min. beam diameter | ≤100 μm |
| Max. powder bed preheat temperature | 1100 ℃ |
| Ultimate vacuum | 5×10-³ Pa |
| Build accuracy of components | ±0.1mm |
| External dimension | 2000×1200×2150 mm³ |
| Machine weight | 1.5 t |
| Data format | STL |
Features:
Equipped with high-precision indirectly heated electron gun so that satisfy the finer electron beam spot and higher forming accuracy, it is specially designed for the precise manufacturing of complex
components such as orthopedic implants.
Less powder loading per heat, low cost of machine use and maintenance.
Applicable materials: Titanium and titanium alloy; Tantalum; Zirconium Niobium alloy and other medical materials.
Features:
Equipped with a high-power, high-precision and long-life indirectly heated electron gun that can quickly preheat the powder bed of 200×200 mm up to 1300°C above.
Larger printing size can fully exert the advantages of stacked printing, which can satisfy the demand of high precision, low cost and mass production of complex parts, such as orthopedic implants, TiAl blade and other crack-sensitive materials, tungsten and niobium and other refractory metal and alloys.
Applicable materials: Titanium and titanium alloy Tantalum Zirconium niobium alloy and other medical materials Titanium aluminum alloy; Brittle and difficult processed material ; Tungsten niobium, and other refractory metals and alloys.
Electron Beam Melting Machine (T200)
Specification:
| Model | T200 |
|---|---|
| Manufacturing method | Powder Bed Fusion |
| Process | Hot process |
| Max. build size | 200×200×500 mm³ |
| Beam power | 6kW |
| Electron accelerating voltage | 60 kV |
| Beam current | 0-100 mA |
| Filament life | ＞500h |
| Cathode type | Indirectly heated tungsten cathode |
| Min. beam diameter | ≤100 μm |
| Max. powder bed preheat temperature | 1300 ℃ |
| Ultimate vacuum | 5×10-³ Pa |
| Build accuracy of components | ±0.1 mm |
| External dimension | 2400×1900×3600 mm³ |
| Machine weight | 4.5 t |
| Data format | STL |
Electron Beam Melting Machine (H400)
Specification:
| Model | H400 |
|---|---|
| Manufacturing method | Powder Bed Fusion |
| Process | Hot process |
| Max. build size | 400×400×400 mm³ |
| Beam power | 6kW |
| Electron accelerating voltage | 60 kV |
| Beam current | 0-100 mA |
| Filament life | ＞500h |
| Cathode type | Indirectly heated tungsten cathode |
| Min. beam diameter | ≤300 μm |
| Max. powder bed preheat temperature | 750 ℃ |
| Ultimate vacuum | 5×10-³ Pa |
| Build accuracy of components | ±0.3 mm |
| External dimension | 3900×5200×3500 mm³ |
| Machine weight | 7.5 t |
| Data format | STL |
Features:
Larger build size, heat source power and higher melting efficiency can satisfy the manufacturing demand of large-size complex parts and the mass production of small and medium-size complex parts in aerospace, nuclear industry, weapons, automotive and other industries.
Applicable materials: Titanium and titanium alloy; Copper and copper alloy.
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