| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/N23011/01 |
| Title: |
OPTIMISATION OF ATOMISER ROTOR DESIGN IN CENTRIFUGAL ATOMISATION FOR POWDER PRODUCTION |
| Principal Investigator: |
Zhao, Professor Y |
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| Department: |
School of Engineering |
| Organisation: |
University of Liverpool |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
10 August 2000 |
Ends: |
09 February 2002 |
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63,173
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| Energy Storage |
Materials Processing |
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| Construction |
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There are rapidly increasing demands for high quality metal powders for manufacturing high performance structural and functional components for automotive, aerospace and energy storage applications. Centrifugal atomisation is a promising powder manufacturing method because of its unique capability of producing super clean, highly spherical powders with a controlled narrow size distribution. Although considerable efforts have been made in the technical and commercial developments, there is still lack of a full scientific understanding of the centrifugal atomisation process. The objective of the project is to provide a fundamental understanding of the relationship between the processing conditions and the velocity development in the melt for different atomiser rotor designs in centrifugal atomisation. An imaging system will be used to measure the velocities of the atomised droplets under a series of processing conditions. The velocity development on the rotor will be modelled numerically. The design of the atomiser rotor and the process conditions will be optimised for manufacturing high quality powders. The work will be of direct interest to the manufacturers and users of metal powders and will also assist the scientific understanding of the other centrifugal atomisation and spray forming techniques.
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