Professional Documents
Culture Documents
C, 750
C, 800
C).
Aluminum powder with a mean particle
size of under 75 microns were obtained
from these experiments. The morphologies
of product aluminum powder were
determined by SEM and crystallization
phase structures were studied by XRD.
The product aluminum nano-particles
with the size range from 50 to 80 nm were
observed at 800
C) inside the
crucible to indicate the temperature of liquid
metal. At the bottom of the crucible, feed
tube was attached. The end of the tube was
extended into an atomizing nozzle. The
diameter of nozzle was 3mm. In this system,
confined type nozzle was used.
In the middle part of the system, disk
actually was a basic element in the
centrifugal atomization process. The disk
was made of stainless steel. Disk was
Special Issue of the International Journal of the Computer, the Internet and Management, Vol. 19 No. SP1, June, 2011
65.2
Production of Fine Aluminum Powder from Metallic Aluminum
attached with flexible wire from the high
speed motor. The motor rotating speed was
up to 23000 rpm. The spray distance was
100mm and the atomizing gas (nitrogen)
entered the furnace and atomizer. Nitrogen
gas was used as an atomizing medium.
This gas can be adjusted by using a
pressure regulator. The function of this gas
was to prevent the oxidation on the particle.
The atomizing chamber was divided by two
sides, a glass chamber at the upper side and
zinc chamber at the bottom side.
The lower part of the atomizer
involved an air cleaner and powder collector.
Fig.2 Schematic Diagram of Hybrid Atomization
III. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN
PROCEDURE
A. Experimental Procedure
Experimental procedure of aluminum
powder was shown in Fig. 3. Twenty grams
of aluminum metal wire was weighed and
placed in a crucible for the primary three
experiments. Six grams of aluminum metal
wire was used for other experiments. Then,
the crucible was placed into the furnace and
heated for 30 min at (710
C, 750
C and
800
C,
750
C, 800
C
The First International Conference on Interdisciplinary Research and Development, 31 May - 1 June 2011, Thailand
65.3
Hnin Yu Khaing and Tint Tint Kywe
TABLE 5
PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION AT GAS
PRESSURE 0.6 MPA AND TEMPERATURE 710
C
TABLE 6
PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION AT GAS
PRESSURE 0.7 MPA AND TEMPERATURE 710
C
TABLE 7
PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION AT GAS
PRESSURE 0.5 MPA AND TEMPERATURE 750
C
TABLE 8
PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION AT GAS
PRESSURE 0.6 MPA AND TEMPERATURE 750
C
TABLE 9
PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION AT GAS
PRESSURE 0.7 MPA AND TEMPERATURE 750
C
TABLE 10
PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION AT GAS
PRESSURE 0.5 MPA AND TEMPERATURE 800
C
TABLE 11
PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION AT GAS
PRESSURE 0.6 MPA AND TEMPERATURE 800
C
TABLE 12
PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION AT GAS
PRESSURE 0.7 MPA AND TEMPERATURE 800
C
Special Issue of the International Journal of the Computer, the Internet and Management, Vol. 19 No. SP1, June, 2011
65.4
Production of Fine Aluminum Powder from Metallic Aluminum
Fig. 4 Particle size distribution of powders under
different gas pressures and melting temperature 710
C
Fig. 5 Particle size distribution of powders under
different gas pressures and melting temperature 750
C
Fig. 6 Particle Size Distribution of Powders under
different gas pressures and melting temperature 800
C
For the particle size less than 75 m,
the yield of aluminum powder at 0.7 MPa is
more than that at other two pressures.
According to the experiment 1, yield of
aluminum powder under 75m was found to
be 20.6%. As for experiment 3, although it
gave 44.5% of yield, it had larger particle
size than experiment 2. In experiment 2,
product yield was lower than that of
experiment 3. When the metal temperature
reached a melt temperature (800
C 5), yield
of powders was more than at that other
conditions. Table.13 summarizes the total
yield percent of aluminum powder obtained
during the present experiment work. The
result shows that pressure and temperature
variables have a strong influence on weight
of grams. By viewing from this experiments,
it was found that total yield percent of
aluminum powder (97.6%) at gas pressure
(0.7MPa)and temperature (800
C) was higher
than that at other two conditions.
TABLE 13
YIELD PERCENT OF ALUMINUM POWDER
B. Aluminum Powder Morphology
The shape and microstructures of the
powders were observed by a scanning
electron microscope (SEM)(SEM JEOL JSL-
5610). Scanning electron microscope images
of the produced powders were shown in Figs
7. Most of the powder particles were nearly
spherical. Few particles were dumbbelled
shape or granular. According to the Figs, the
powder particles were more nearly spherical
at gas pressure 0.6 MPa and temperature
800
C
C. Analysis of Obtained Aluminum Powder
The crystal structure of the aluminum
powder was characterized by XRD
(RIGAKU model RINT 2000) diffractometer
using Cu/K radiation (=1.54056 A
with
40kV, 40mA), scan speed of 4
/min, in the
2 range of 10
to 70
(111), 45.020
(200),
65.420
C
with the minimum size of 50nm and
maximum of 80nm.
Fig. 8 X-ray Diffraction Pattern of Aluminum Powder
IV. CONCLUSIONS
In this research, hybrid atomization
unit for producing aluminum powder was
fabricated. By using the hybrid atomization
method, it can be produced fine, nearly
spherical aluminum powder with high yields.
Aluminum powders with the particle size of
under 75 m were obtained.These
atomization experiments confirm the strong
influence of two processing variables (gas
pressure and melting temperature) on particle
size distribution.The smallest size of 50nm
was obtained from powder synthesize at
800
C.
REFERENCES
[1] S. K. Grjotheim and B. J. Welch, Aluminum
smelter technology- a pure and applied
approach, 1988, pp. 1-10.
[2] J. B. Verlinden and L. Froyen, Aluminum
powder metallurgy, 1994, pp. 1-26.
[3] S. E. Klar and J. W. Fesko, Gas and water
atomization, ASM Handbook , ASM
International, USA, 1984, pp.2539.
[4] J. J. Dunkley, Atomization, powder metal
technologies and applications, ASM Handbook,
ASM International, Ohio, 1998, pp. 35-52.
[5] Y.Z. LIU, K. Minagawa, H. Kakisawa and H.
Halada Melt film formation and disintregation
during novel atomization process, vol.17,
pp.1276-1281, September 2007.
[6] K. Minagawa, H. Kakisawa, H. Halada, Y.
Osawa and S. Takamori, Production of fine
spherical lead-free solder powders by hybrid
atomization, pp. 325-329, July 2005.
[7] K. Minagawa, H. Kakisawa, H. Halada, Y.
Osawa and S. Takamori, Hybrid atomization
method suitable for production of fine spherical
lead-free solder powder, pp. 8388, December
2005.
[8] H. Lubanska, Correlation of spray ring data for
gas atomization of liquid metal,. pp.45-49, 1970.
Special Issue of the International Journal of the Computer, the Internet and Management, Vol. 19 No. SP1, June, 2011
65.6