Hybrid Gas Atomization for Powder Production

Flow mechanisms in high pressure gas atomization

Very fine (d < 10/~m) metal and alloy powders can be produced efficiently by a high pressure gas atomization (HPGA) technique. Rapid solidification processing, metal injection molding, thermal spraying and other emerging powder-processing approaches benefit from the use of such fine powders. This paper reports on the results of an investigation of gas atomization process dynamics with emphasis ...

Towards an Expert System for Powder Production Processes : (I) the Atomization Process

The practical definition for the expert system, as a system simulating the expert methods and knowledge in dealing with or manipulating special tasks is presented. The application of such a system in powder technology is attempted. The main features of the proposed system design are documented. It constitutes, actually, another part of an effort towards building an expert system for powder tech...

Gas Atomization of Aluminium Melts: Comparison of Analytical Models

A number of analytical models predicting the size distribution of particles during atomization of Al-based alloys by N2, He and Ar gases were compared. Simulations of liquid break up in a close coupled atomizer revealed that the finer particles are located near the center of the spray cone. Increasing gas injection pressures led to an overall reduction of particle diameters and caused a migrati...

Production of fine calcium powders by centrifugal atomization with rotating quench bath

Supercritical fluids-assisted micronization techniques. Low-impact routes for particle production*

Micronized powders are of interest in many industrial fields; pharmaceuticals, catalysts, pigments, and biopolymers, for example, are some categories of products that can be used as micro-sized particles. Traditional techniques used to produce micronic powders are based on high-temperature reactions that require high energies, on jet milling that is characterized by low efficiencies and mechani...