CIP, WIP or HIP for this job?
Answer three questions and enter the pressure. Each process is checked against each answer separately, with the reason, and the pressure and temperature are compared with the ratings of PressPro™ cold and warm isostatic presses.
1. What goes in
2. What should come out
3. Temperature during pressing
The pressure in an isostatic chamber is the pressure on the sample. It needs no conversion for sample size.
Orientation aid. It sorts a job by what goes in, what comes out, temperature and pressure, using the general roles of the three processes, and compares the last two with PressPro ratings: 300 MPa cold on standard chambers (500 MPa to order), and 200 MPa at up to 200 °C on the warm press. It does not judge whether a particular material will densify or bond. Layered samples are asked for by what they contain, because that decides the route: nothing is assumed about layers you have not described. Hot isostatic pressing is a different class of equipment and is not supplied by ACS Material; a process marked as fitting is not thereby a PressPro product.