LINDE Industrial GAses for Aerospace and Aircraft
Innovation grounded in experience
At Linde, we have been involved in aerospace and aircraft development for over a century. Today, our industrial gases, services and supply systems allow our customers to meet environmental and safety standards, reduce operating costs, and most importantly, continue to push the boundaries. Staying ahead in the aerospace business is important and our industrial gases can help you innovate and achieve success.
We are proud to support space launch programs that are making commercial space travel a reality, develop wear-resistant coatings to help jet engines last longer, and supply industrial gases and liquids to testing facilities to make sure you get where you need to go, safely. We work hard on the ground to help your business take off.
Inert Gases for Additive Manufacturing in Aerospace
Additive manufacturing is often used in the development of spare parts, small series production and tooling. It has had the greatest uptake in industries where its relatively higher production costs can be outweighed by the advantages additive manufacturing can deliver, particularly in highly innovative industries, such as aerospace.
Additive manufacturing requires an inert environment to prevent the contamination of components. Our gas supply of nitrogen, argon, and helium, combined with our technology can allow you to complete more customized parts, improve product strength and functionality, and reduce assembly time.
With proper atmospheric control, the amount of oxygen in your environment can also be closely monitored. Even extremely small variations in oxygen content can impair the mechanical or chemical properties of alloys sensitive to oxygen like titanium or aluminum and can affect the composition of the product, resulting in negative physical characteristics such as discoloration and even poor fatigue resistance.
Gas Supply for Wind Tunnels
Our industrial gas supply for the aerospace industry includes gas concentrations appropriate for hypersonic and heated environments. Our professionals listen to your requirements to recommend options for you, whether you need industrial gases for your testing environment or you are ready to go live with your application.
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Metals and Materials Processing
Industrial gases for the aerospace & aircraft industry
Nitrogen
Nitrogen is used in high Reynolds number wind tunnels, heat treating furnaces and autoclaves to help create strong but lightweight materials. It is also used as an assist gas for laser cutting applications.
Hydrogen
Used as fuel, industrial hydrogen fuel powers life-support systems and computers in space environments. It is also used for metal sintering and annealing.
Oxygen
Liquid oxygen has been used in many bipropellant vehicles since the 1940's. In metal fabrication, the flame temperature and intensity depends on the fuel gases used and oxygen mixing ratio.
Argon
Argon is a versatile industrial gas used in the production of light bulbs and lasers, and in welding applications. As an inert gas, it is also used in vacuum carburizing and other heat treating processes.
Helium
Helium is used as a lift gas, in both the liquid and gas form, to purge and pressurize liquid hydrogen fuel systems and detect leaks.
Industrial applications for aerospace & aircraft
Autoclave Inerting
At Linde, we design and install customized systems to provide the high pressure, high flow rates required for autoclave inerting. Linde provides an online survey tool and other services to evaluate your system and work toward optimizing industrial autoclave performance.
Heat Treating
From annealing and brazing to sintering and carburizing, our nitrogen-based heat- treating applications are low in cost, high in productivity, and help you meet the stringent standards of the aerospace & aircraft industry.
Forging
Our proprietary Dilute Oxygen Combustion burners are used to provide even heating in critical preheating processes for the forging of exotic alloys for jet engines and other critical aerospace and aircraft parts.
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Industrial services for the aerospace & aircraft industry
Cool Clean Technologies
Cool Clean Technologies works with Linde to provide the most effective CO2 cleaning, extraction, and dry machining technology to aerospace manufacturers. Cool Clean specializes in drilling for CFRP stackups, various weld soot and residue removal, outgassing, and degreasing applications that are environmentally friendly.
UPC-Marathon
UPC-Marathon's technologies and equipment for process and flow control, combined with Linde’s expertise in industrial gases, enables the expanding requirements of the heat-treatment market to meet quality product needs. Our product offerings cover a broad spectrum of batch and continuous heat treating processes.
At Linde, we do more than provide industrial gases and products to the aerospace & aircraft industry. We also offer high performance surface coatings that help reduce the harmful effects of abrasion, oxidation, corrosion, wear and extreme heat that commercial and military aircraft engines, parts and accessories can be subjected to.
Our high volume systems and high pressure pumping technology delivers reliable supply and reduces product loss, while our pressure testing and cleaning services help maintain tank and piping integrity. Regardless of what challenges you may be facing in your process, our tailor made supply systems will help you obtain improved performance and get the most out of your supply.
We will work with you to optimize every step of your manufacturing process. From consultation to implementation and use, we offer a range of industrial services that help you monitor and manage your gas supply, so you can improve your product quality.
