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At the beginning of June, the annual conference on heat treatment and surface technology (European Conference on Heat Treatment and Surface Technology – ECHT 2024) took place, this year in Toulouse, the ‘Airbus capital’. Under the theme ‘Flying to a sustainable future’, numerous scientists and industry representatives from countries including France, Switzerland, Turkey and even India to discuss topics such as sustainability developments in heat treatment and Surface technology, thermochemical and inductive heat treatment, numerical simulation in heat treatment, the machining of additively manufactured parts, and chromium-VI-free technologies.
The aim of the conference is to bring together manufacturers, suppliers and researchers to discuss technological innovations and exchange feedback.
Nurul Amanina Binti Omar, M.Sc., a research assistant at the Faculty of Engineering Sciences, in the Electroplating and Surface Technology Research Group (headed by Professor Dr. rer. nat. Frank Köster), represented Mittweida University of Applied Sciences with her presentation. “Novel Electroless Deposited NiP-amorphous boron Dispersion Coating as an Alternative to Boriding and Hard Chromium Coating”, in German “Neuartige stromlos abgeschiedene NiP-amorphe Bor-Dispersionsbeschichtung (NiPB) als Alternative zur Borierung und Hartchrombeschichtung”.
The aims of this research project are to find an alternative to coating processes that use hexavalent chromium, a carcinogenic substance, and to reduce the energy consumption of the manufacturing processes.
The presentation focused primarily on investigating the relationship between the coating and heat treatment parameters and the properties of the coatings. Given the good hardness profile across the coatings, the comparable wear resistance and the compressive residual stress of NiPB under certain heat treatment parameters, NiPB dispersion coatings could offer an alternative to hard chrome plating. Further information on the presentation, which was well attended with around 100 listeners, is available via the link https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfcoat.2023.130261. A further publication this year in the journal *Surface and Coating Technology* is planned.
It was a successful conference for the young researcher from Mittweida. During the conference, she was not only able to make new contacts, but also gained a great deal of new interdisciplinary knowledge and gathered many ideas for future projects. Further information about the conference and the organisers can be found at the following link: ECHT 2024 – A3TS 2024.
Text and images: Nurul Amanina Binti Omar