additive manufacturing at basf chances and perspectives

Additive Manufacturing at BASF Chances and PerspectivesMunich Technology Conference on Additive Manufacturing Dr. Sebastian Schillo

Classical BASF’s segments are very relevant for 3D-P

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Crop Protection

PerformanceProducts

Dispersions & PigmentsCare Chemicals

Functional Materials & Solutions

AgriculturalSolutions

Nutrition & Health

Performance Chemicals

Oil & Gas

Oil & Gas

Chemicals

Monomers

Intermediates

Petrochemicals

Functional Materials & Solutions

ConstructionChemicals

Coatings

Catalysts

Performance Materials

Materials for 3D-Printing in BASF portfolio

� Metals and ceramic

powders

� Catamold

� Acrylates

� Solvents

� Resins

� Photo-reactive

chemicals

� Dispersants

� Dyes & pigments

� Stabilizers

� Plastics

� UV-curing

formulations

� Coatings

Additive Manufacturing at BASF - Sebastian Mathias Schillo

Portfolio of products for all main 3D-P technologies complemented with offering high quality services

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Powder Bed Fusion(SLS, HSS, MJF)

Photo-curing (SLA & PPJ)

Stereolithography Jetting

Filament & layer-by-layer extrusion (FFF)

Plastics for direct layer-by-layer extrusion (BAAM)

e.g. Ultramid® products

BASF products & services for 3D-Printing

Plastic filaments for extrusione.g. Elastollan®, Ultrason® products

Ultrafuse 316LX for filament metal printing

Ultrasint PA6 powders for laser sintering

Ultrasint PA6 mineral filled powder for laser sintering

Ultrasint TPU powder for High Speed Sintering (MJF)

Raw Material photo-polymers

e.g. Laromer acrylates

Photo-Resins X004 for SLA/DLP systems

BAAM: Big Area Additive Manufacturing; DLP: Digital Light Processing

Design for function

Qualification of 3D-printed parts

Ultrasim® for 3D-P

Ultrasint TPU parts by laser sintering

Ultrasint PA6 glass beads filled powder for laser

sinteringPhoto-Resins for PPJ

Services


� Simulation

� Qualification

� ….

AM positioning in BASF

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Functional parts, materials & solutions

BASF 3-D Printing

Solutions GmbH

BASF Engineering &

Maintenance

Exchange

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… for industrial applicationsParts for internal use


� Simulation

� Qualification

� ….

AM positioning in BASF

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Functional parts, materials & solutions

BASF 3-D Printing

Solutions GmbH

BASF Engineering &

Maintenance

Exchange

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… for industrial applicationsParts for internal use


Internal solutions

� Enabler for chemical production

� Mass customization

� Spare part management

External customer

� AM materials

� Tailored AM solutions

DigitalizationSmart manufacturing: Additive Manufacturing workflow

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Digital backbone – PDM System1

1PDM = Product Data Management

Simulation

CFX Data

Finishing

CAM Data

Material testing

3-D printing

STL Data

Design

CAD Data


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Result

Design

3D-P Process

Material

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Design for AMCase study high pressure heat exchanger

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Idea and design

Simulation of heat transfer

Topology optimization

AM heat exchanger


AM technologies

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Stereolithography Selective Laser Melting Fused Layer Modeling


Metal filament

BASF innovation - Ultrafuse 316LXMetal composite filament for 3D - printed metal part

10B

row

n P

art

Fila

ment

Meta

lP

art

Industrial-standard process of metal injection molding technology

Gre

en P

art

15-20% shrinkage

Debinding Sintering3D-printing


Metal filament 316LXServices and solutions


Optimization of components for process engineering – static mixer

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Chemical process� Heat transfer

� Mixing conditions

� Form follows function

� Monolithic printing of part

AM optimizationConventional

Static mixing

� Heat exchange difficult

� Fouling in tubes

� Moderate process efficiency


Summary: Functional parts, materials & solutions

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BASF internal solutions

External customerTransfer


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