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Formation of powder particles has been studied in aconfined design atomizing nozzle. Liquid metal (AA 2014) is presented in the form of a thin film to the atomizing gas in this type of operation. Upon contacting, the film breaks up into large droplets of diameters up to 500 /im (primary break-up). These droplets undergo further disintegration in flight to produce the powder (secondary disintegration). Photographs taken using a high-speed flash indicate that this takes place by stripping. It is proposed that the fine range of the particles are the products of stripping break-up, while the coarse range are stable particles obtained when stripping stops and the remaining particle becomes too small to undergo further disintegration. Size distribution curves often contained two or more peaks providing support for different formation mechanisms for fine and coarse particles. All particles were dense and single droplets except for the very large ones (>55 μm)which had satellites of fine particles on the surface and showed porosity in some cases. Particles <30 μm in general were fully spherical, whereas larger ones also showed oblong features. No evidence was found for small particles agglomerating to produce large ones.
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Ünal, A. Liquid break-up in gas atomization of fine aluminum powders. Metall Trans B 20, 61–69 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02670350
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