Ceit
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Gas atomizer plant for spherical metallic powders production
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Cu alloy powder
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Atomized powder
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Atomizer
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Pic legend 1: Gas atomizer plant for spherical metallic powders production
Pic legend 2: Cu alloy powder
Pic legend 3: Atomized powder
Pic legend 4: Atomizer

General information

  • Company name
    Ceit
  • Adress
    Paseo Manuel Lardizabal 15, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastián
  • Turnover
    25.50 million EUR in year 2023
  • Employees
    280 in year 2023
  • SME
    NO
  • Contact Info:
    • Phone
      943212800
    • Email
      infoceit@ceit.es

Activity and Skills

Ceit is a nonprofit private research center with the mission to serve the industrial sector, carrying out projects of applied research and technological development. Ceit is a multidisciplinary center, whose work is oriented to different sectors: railway, aeronautical, automotive, health, manufacturing, energy, environment and ICT.

Ceit's capabilities and interest with regard to large scientific facilities are:

- Development of materials and components for extreme environments: graphitic materials, self-passivating W alloys, ODS Steels, EUROFER, CuCrZr, porous silicon carbon with tailored porosity.

- Design, production and processing of powders. Equipment with metal/gas atomizer to produce tailored metallic powders for Additive Manufacturing or (Near) Net Shape technologies. From 1 kg up to 250 kg of powder with composition within ITER/EUROfusion specifications: ODS Steels, EUROFER, CuCrZr, Cu-OHF.

- HIP. Consolidation of ceramic and metallic powders encapsulated in cannisters, removal of residual porosity in castings or components obtained by Additive Manufacturing.

- Additive Manufacturing: PBF-LB (powder bed fusion laser beam), BJ (Binder Jetting), wire and powder DED-L (laser beam directed energy deposition).

- High precision Femtosecond Laser surface processing.

- Solid state diffusion bonding of Cu, CuCrZr, AISI 316L, EUROFER, ODS steels and tungsten.

- Failure analysis: identification of failure mechanism (mechanical and thermomechanical fatigue, fractography analysis...). Advanced techniques for residual stresses measurement.

- Electronic and magnetic NDT for microstructural characterization and identification of defects and cracks.

- Thermal Physical, Mechanical and microstructural characterization (SEM, TEM, AFM).

-Remote handling: haptic devices (mechatronics background), control engineering (teleoperation, mobile cobots, low latency communication systems like 5G), own XR technology for remote asistance, 2D and 3D vision for metrology, quality inspection and perception.

-AI applied technologies: machine learning, generative AI, NeRF, Deep Learning...

-Cybersecurity

Contracts for Big Science facilities

No registered contracts

Relevant R&D projects

[Elkartek ] -Development of more sustainable, digital and intelligent metallic AM technologies (EDISON ) (2022 - 2023)
Development of CuCrZr process parameters by Binder Jetting. Heatsink demonstrator.
[Misiones - CDTI ] -Advanced Manufacturing for the Development of Critical Technologies for the Construction of DEMO and the Advancement of the Fusion Roadmap, Based on Challenges Identified During the Design and Construction of ITER (ROAD2DEMO ) (2022 - 2024)
Cu, CuCrZr and EUROFER powder for AM (BJ, PBF-L and Rovalma-MAM) development.
[Misiones - CDTI ] -Industrial research in critical technologies for the operation and maintenance of large scientific facilities applied to IFMIF-DONES (NEURON-DONES ) (2022 - 2024)
-Cybersecurity assessment of energy infrastructure solutions through the simulation of attacks on ICS (Industrial Control Systems) and standards mapping -Development of an algorithm based on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence techniques capable of automatically detecting anomalies in material irradiation facilities
[CDTI ] -Strategic program for excellence qualification in Additive Manufacturing of metallic materials (CEFAM) for highly demanding sectors, like Large Scientific Facilities, Aerospace or energy. (2020 - 2023)
[EUROfusion ] -Manufacturing and testing of SiC-based Flow Channel Inserts for the high temperature DCLL blanket (2019 - 2021)
[EUROfusion ] -Additive Manufacturing of CuCrZr perts by Electron Beam Melting (EBM) (2019 - 2023)
[EUROfusion ] -Self-passivating tungsten alloys (2019 - 2023)
[EUROfusion ] -ODS ferritic steels fabrication and characterization (STARS route) (2019 - 2023)
[F4E ] -Material Characterization at room and elevated temperatures (2016 - 2018)
[CDTI - HEDISA and Leading Metalmechanic Solutions ] -Solid state diffusion bonding of titanium alloys and develpment of complex stainless components following (Near) Net Shapetechnology, by powder metallurgy and HIP consolidation of powders (2016 - 2018)
[F4E - Leading Matelmechanical Sollutions ] -Supply of Full Scale Prototypes (FSP) of ITER Normal Heat Flux (NHF) FW Panels (2015 - 2017)
[ESS-Bilbao ] -Assessment of the candidate tungsten bricks of the ESS target suppliers according to the test protocol provided by ESS-Bilbao (2015 - 2019)
[EUROfusion ] -Manufacturing and testing of SiC-based ceramics for Flow Channel Inserts in DCLL blankets (2015 - 2017)
[CompITER, Government of Cantabria - Leading Metalmechanic Solutions ] -Development of a simplified 10-fingers prototype to desing proper cutting strategies of the fingers of the FWP of ITER to mitigate distortions in the final component (2015 - 2016)
[EUROfusion ] -Self-passivating tungsten alloys (2014 - 2018)
[EUROfusion ] -ODS ferritic steels fabrication and characterzation (STARS route) (2014 - 2018)
[F4E - Leading Metalmechanic Solutions ] -Fabrication of a standard semi-prototype of the ITER NHF First Wall Panels (2013 - 2014)
[F4E - Tecnalia ] -Material characterization at room and elevated temperatures (2012 - 2014)
[CDTI - Leading Metalmechanic Solutions ] -Diffusion bonding of Be and CuCrZr by HIP, and microstructural characterization to evaluate quality of joints (2012 - 2013)
[Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation ] -Fusion Technologies Programme: Development and characterization of porous SiC and SiCf/SiC for application as Flow Channel Inserts in Dual Coolant Lead-Lithium Blankets (2009 - 2014)

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