Nitrogen spray atomization of molten tin metal: Powder morphology characteristics

Journal of Materials Processing Technology

Volumn 195, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 248-254

  Metz, Renaud ^a   Machado, Céline ^a   Houabes, Mourad ^a   Elkhatib, Mazen ^a   Hassanzadeh, Mehrdad ^b  

^a UMR 5278 CNRS UCBL CNES Herakles Safran   (France)

^b AREVA NP   (France)

Author keywords

Melt atomization; Tin powder

Indexed keywords

ATOMIZATION; LIQUID METALS; NITROGEN; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POWDER METALS;

GAS PRESSURE; LUBANSKA EQUATIONS; SPRAY ATOMIZATION;

TIN;

EID: 36549053054     PISSN: 09240136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2007.05.006     Document Type: Article

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