Welding and Welding Research

Advances in the metallurgical welding sciences have driven a need for new shielding gas blends. The Fusion Flow Technologies MXM platform allows for real-time control over the gas mixtures, providing welding researchers with a way to fine-tune the chemistry surrounding weld oxidation, plasma rejection, droplet formation, weld penetration, brittleness, and porosity. Additionally, newly discovered industrial metal alloys introduced will necessitate the need for ever-changing welding parameters, and the MXM is the perfect companion in developing the new techniques needed. On a more basic level, the MXM can also be configured to deliver a particular shielding gas mixture (created from inexpensive pure gases), to a large welding network or ballast tank. Sized appropriately, the MXM will easily meet the highly variable demand from the factory floor throughout the work week, all while allowing user adjustments to the mixture; a capability that is impossible when using pre-mixed cylinders.