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    The CO2 molding process uses a mold made of sand and sodium silicate binder. Passing CO2 gas over the mold hardens it, delivering accurate production. This is a type of sand casting that provides dimensionally accurate castings with fine surfaces. CO2 is blown into the prepared mold to harden the sodium silicate binder via a reaction forming silica gel, which cements the sand grains. Applications include cylinders, impellers, and parts for agriculture, medical, and automotive industries.

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    The CO2 molding process uses a mold made of sand and sodium silicate binder. Passing CO2 gas over the mold hardens it, delivering accurate production. This is a type of sand casting that provides dimensionally accurate castings with fine surfaces. CO2 is blown into the prepared mold to harden the sodium silicate binder via a reaction forming silica gel, which cements the sand grains. Applications include cylinders, impellers, and parts for agriculture, medical, and automotive industries.

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    The CO2 molding process uses a mold made of sand and sodium silicate binder. Passing CO2 gas over the mold hardens it, delivering accurate production. This is a type of sand casting that provides dimensionally accurate castings with fine surfaces. CO2 is blown into the prepared mold to harden the sodium silicate binder via a reaction forming silica gel, which cements the sand grains. Applications include cylinders, impellers, and parts for agriculture, medical, and automotive industries.

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    CO2 Molding Process

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    The CO2 molding process uses a mold made of sand and sodium silicate binder. Passing CO2 gas over the mold hardens it, delivering accurate production. This is a type of sand casting that provides dimensionally accurate castings with fine surfaces. CO2 is blown into the prepared mold to harden the sodium silicate binder via a reaction forming silica gel, which cements the sand grains. Applications include cylinders, impellers, and parts for agriculture, medical, and automotive industries.

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    CO2 Molding Process

    CO2 Molding Process


    • The Mold for Co2 Casting is made of a mixture
    of sand and liquid silicate binder
    • Which is hardened by passing Co2 gas over
    the mold.
    • Carbon dioxide molding deliver great accuracy
    in production.
    CO2-Sodium Silicate Casting
    • Kind of Sand casting process
    – Dimensionally accurate castings with fine surface finish
    – Process is not economical than green sand casting process
    – Its rapid mold hardening
    – Moisture is completely eliminated from the molding sand
    – Good surface finish
    – Thin section casting
    – Hard mold
    – Less machining
    – High production run
    Mold
    • The material for making the mold
    – Clean dry silica sand
    • The binder used is sodium silicate liquid (Na2SiO3)
    about 3 to 4%.
    • That mold receive its strength from the addition of
    sodium silicate,
    • A liquid inorganic binder that is also known as water
    glass and become harder by flow of carbon die oxide
    gas.
    • CO2 is blown into the mold or core at a pressure of
    around 20 psi, which hardens the mold.
    Applications
    • The modification of CO2 process can be used
    • Where speed and flexibility is the prime
    requirement.
    • When certain portions of a mold require high
    strength, better accuracy, thinner sections or
    deep draws.
    • Molds and cores of a varied sizes and shapes
    can be molded by this process.
    CO2-Sodium Silicate Casting
    • Cylinder
    • Impellers: a rotating device used to force a fluid in a desired
    direction under pressure
    • Agricultural machines; lifting machines; grinding machines;
    medical machines, automobile cars, etc
    CO2-Sodium Silicate Casting
    CO2-Sodium Silicate Casting
    • Some sodium silicate bonding agent permit
    self-setting action without CO2.

    • Special carbonaceous sands or sea coal


    improves shakeout (The act of removing
    castings from the sand mold ).

    • It also reduces pollution.


    CO2-Sodium Silicate Casting
    • Silicate bonded sands can be shaken out
    relatively easily by mixing additives in them to
    enhance the collapsibility of sodium silicate
    mold.
    • Sugar is used up to 12% as a breakdown agent
    so the core deteriorates fully after
    solidification of mold.
    • The molding sand can be reused by adding
    30% new sand.
    CO2-Sodium Silicate Casting
    Procedure:
    • The mold is prepared from this mixture by
    – Standard molding machines
    – Core blowers
    – By hand
    • After the mold has been prepared with the required
    cavity.
    • Before removing the molding jacket
    – CO2 gasket is fitted on top of the flask or a hood is placed
    on top of larger molds
    – CO2 is blown into the mold.
    CO2-Sodium Silicate Casting
    • Sodium Silicate binder reacts with the CO2 to form
    silica gel, which gives it a strong and smooth surface.
    • The reaction is as follow:

    Na2SiO3 + CO2  SiO2 + Na2CO3

    • This silica gel acts as cement to bond sand grains


    together.
    • In some case, CO2 molding has been used together
    with zircon sand to give superior finish and to make
    permenent molds or patterns.
    CO2-Sodium Silicate Casting
    • CO2 must be blown uniformly through the sand body
    with pattern to harden the contact area.
    • Small tubes and vented pattern facilitate this
    process.
    • The time of CO2 blowing is 15 to 30s.
    • Sand mixed with sodium silicate is packed around a
    metal pattern to a depth of about 1 in followed by
    regular molding sand.
    Disadvantages
    • The hardened sand has poor collapsibility, so
    creates shakeout and core removal difficulty
    and the additives are generally to enhance the
    collapsibility.
    • Care must be taken to prevent the carbon
    dioxide in air from hardening the sand before
    the mold making process is complete.
    • It is more expensive than the other sand
    methods, and harder to shake out from
    internal passages in the castings

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