Production of Fine Metallic Powders by Hybrid Atomization Process

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

Hybrid Gas Atomization for Powder Production

Production of fine Nd-Fe-B alloy powder by pulsed plasma atomization

Extremely fine (<10 μm) Nd-Fe-B powder was generated by pulsed plasma atomization processing. The number average was just over 3 μm, as determined by computer-assisted scanning electron microscopy analysis of almost 3000 particles. Despite the fine particle size, alloys of stoichiometric Nd2Fe14B resulted in the properitectic formation of -Fe, deleteriously affecting the magnetic properties. N...

Jamming threshold of dry fine powders.

We report a novel experimental study on the jamming transition of dry fine powders with controlled attractive energy and particle size. Like in attractive colloids dry fine particles experience diffusion-limited clustering in the fluidlike regime. At the jamming threshold fractal clusters crowd in a metastable state at volume fractions depending on attractive energy and close to the volume frac...

Aerated bunker discharge of fine dilating powders

The discharge rate of coarse powders (mean particle size >500 pm) from bunkers without aeration can be described by both empirical relations and theoretical models. In the case of small particles the discharge rate is largely overestimated. As the powder dilates during flow a negative pressure gradient develops near the hopper outlet, inducing an air flow into the hopper. This extra drag force ...