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CVD Machines
ATL develops, designs & builds all types of CVD reactor. These range in size from experimental tube reactors 50mm in diameter to production reactors up to 2m in diameter.
All of our machines are available in lab-scale, pilot plant and full production scale. Please contact us to discuss your requirements, our engineers can design the perfect custom reactor for your facility.
Explore our machines below.
Aluminising Machines
High Temperature Machines
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Available in isobaric vapour aluminising (IVA) and CVD aluminising variants
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Double pumped vacuum furnace
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Operating temperatures between 900 and 1050°C
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Pressure range of 1–50 mBar during operation
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Wet scrubbing system to absorb acid byproducts
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500 kg maximum weight of work and fixturing
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Overhead crane used to remove retort, this can be done whilst hot to reduce cycle times
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Retort placed in cooling station for loading and unloading
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Uses flow of aluminium trichloride vapour to convert nickel surface to nickel aluminide
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Operating temperatures between 900 and 1160°C
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Pressure range of 50–300 mBar during operation
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Vapour stream can coat external surfaces or internal cooling passages
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Additional dopants can be added
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Low and high activity aluminides coatings possible
Isobaric Vapour Aluminising
CVD Aluminising
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Available gas supplies – MTS, BCl , NH , TCS, CH C H , Ar, N , H
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Possible coatings – SiC, BN, Si-BN, Si N , PyC, B C
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Maximum temperatures up to 2200°C
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Pressure range of 1–1000 mBar
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Wet scrubbing system to absorb acid byproducts
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System supplied with graphite chamber and furnace, supporting steelwork, gas supply system, vacuum pumps and control system
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Rotating platform available
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Top- or bottom-loading variants available
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Customisable to specific requirements
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Available with add on chlorinator module, for deposition of transition metals and their carbides (e.g. TaC) through use of their chloride gases
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