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US3646176A
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  • a method for producing high purity metal powders having an irregular and angular shape and a very low oxygen content (less than 0.25% oxygen in iron and steel powders).
  • the invention utilizes a high pressure liquid atomization procedure for converting the molten metal to angular particulate form, and provides for the very rapid subsequent cooling of the hot particles under conditions of high pressure sprays and violent turbulence of the powder particles in the liquid that minimize the formation of oxide impurities on the particle surface.
  • High pressure atomization to produce angular and irregular particles tends to create an oxidizing environment because of the mixture of hot particles and liquid.
  • Metal powders have gained increasing popularity in recent years mainly because of new, practical and commercially feasible methods for producing them.
  • Metal powders can be produced by a number of processes including atomization of the molten metal by liquids or gases under pressure.
  • a particularly advantageous method for the liquid atomization of molten metals, particularly iron or steel, is disclosed in my United States Pat. No. 3,334, 408. Briefly, the method disclosed in the foregoing patent involves the use of high velocity, thin, solid, flat streams of cooling liquid that angularly impinge upon a stream of the molten metal to disperse it into fine, irregularly shaped powder particles. The powder particles thus formed are quenched and may be subsequently molded or compacted into coherent forms having many commercial applications.
  • iron powders produced by the liquid atomization of molten iron or steel generally have an oxygen content of more than about 0.7% after quenching and between about 0.8% and 1.0% after being dried.
  • the oxygen content of the powder should be reduced to less than about 0.25%.
  • the removal of such oxide impurities from iron powders can be accomplished by annealing the powder in a reducing atmosphere in accordance with well known procedures.
  • the annealing process can have adverse effects on the powder, as by undesirably increasing the grain size. It also has been found that the annealing of iron powder relieves energy and internal stresses in the particles which ice I have found to be advantageous for the subsequent processing of wrought products.
  • the oxidation of iron powder particles produced by liquid atomization of the molten metal is a function of many variables, including the particle size, time at elevated temperature, and environment. Iron powder will oxidize very rapidly at tempeartures down to about 300 F. in an oxidizing environment. However, when cooled to below about 200 F., the oxidation rate is relatively slow. Oxide formation also, of course, occurs during the drying of liquid atomized powder, which tends to compound the problem of high oxide formation.
  • gas atomizing techniques have many significant disadvantages.
  • the production capacity of a gas atomizing system is very low, as there is a relatively low rate of heat transfer between the hot metal and the atomizing gas.
  • the cost of the atomizing gas which must be inert, is a significant factor in the economics of the system.
  • the present invention is directed to a process enabling low oxide atomized metal powders to be produced by liquid (typically water) atomizing procedures. This enables the high production capacities and favorable economics of the liquid atomizing techniques to be realized, and also accommodates the production of angularly shaped, irregular metal particles, which are advantageous for subsequent processing.
  • liquid typically water
  • molten metal is subjected to liquid atomization in a procedure of two or more distinct but closely timed stages.
  • a controlled stream of the molten metal is acted on by thin, flat, solid sheets of atomizing liquid, which are disposed to intersect in the form of a V and are ejected under extremely high pressure (e.g., about 500 p.s.i. or greater).
  • extremely high pressure e.g., about 500 p.s.i. or greater.
  • the atomized metal particles still at high temperature, are struck by a second set of liquid jets, the function of which is to effect extremely rapid transfer of heat from the hot metal particles to the liquid by intimate contact between the water and the particles under conditions of substantial velocity and agitation.
  • the hot particles are maintained continuously in highly turbulent contact with cooling liquid, until the particles are reduced to a temperature of, say, 200 F., at which temperature the tendency to oxidize is significantly reduced.
  • the process is carried out by directing the particles, immediately after being struck by the second or quenching stage of liquid jets, into a highly turbulent water body which disperses the particles and continues the cooling to a desired final level of around 200 F. or below.
  • an inert environment advantageously is maintained at the stages in which the metal is initially atomized and then quenched by jets of atomizing and cooling liquid, in order to reduce to a minimum the exposure of the metal to oxygen during its critical, higher temperature stages.
  • positive steps are taken to preclude the entry of air into the atomizing zone.
  • oxygen can be available for reaction with the high temperature metal particles (e.g., from dissociation of the cooling water itself or from water vapor), and the rapid quenching of the atomized particles to a temperature below that at which oxidation reactions readily occur is a critical aspect of the present process.
  • the surface area available for oxidation reactions is enormously increased, and the tendency to form oxides is correspondingly increased.
  • the atomization-quenching sequence is required to be carried out in two or more distinct stages, in order to achieve the combined results of a small, angular, irregularly shaped particle and a sufficiently low overall oxygen content.
  • a small, angular, irregular particle which is desired in accordance with the invention, it is necessary to intercept a descending metal stream, typically of A to /2 inch in diameter, with a pair of intersecting thin, flat, solid streams of quenching liquid, typically water, at high pressure.
  • these atomizing streams are sufiiciently thin (i.e., using spray nozzle openings about to of an inch in thickness) to achieve the desired particle size and shape, they lack sufiicient liquid volume to achieve sufiicient heat transfer from the particles in the region of water and hot metal contact to avoid substantial oxidation.
  • sufiiciently high rate of heat transfer on the one hand, and a desired particle shape and size, on the other, with a single set of liquid streams, are mutually inconsistent.
  • the atomized metal in the instants immediately following atomization, is again forcibly struck by a second set of liquid streams.
  • the second set of streams is of sufiicient thickness and volume to effect a. high rate of heat transfer from the high temperature particles, and to rapidly cool the particles.
  • the metal already has been atomized and is of the desired shape and size, so that the second stage of jets, referred to as the quenching stage, is controlled for optimum heat transfer.
  • the particles are directed immediately into a turbulent body of cooling water which further cools the particles down to below 200 F.
  • a condition of violent turbulence between the particles and quenching water must be maintained, until the particles are in a temperature below the boiling point of the water. This avoids any sustained contact of the metal surfaces with steam or water vapor, which are highly reactive, oxide-forming media.
  • Iron powder for example, can be produced in accordance with the invention to have an oxygen impurity content at the extraordinarily low level of significantly less than 0.25 percent, even after drying, it being understood that, under normal circumstances, iron powder will be subject to some oxide formation (and therefore additional oxygen pick-up) during a drying step, because of the elevated temperature conditions necessarily involved in the economical drying of water atomized powders.
  • the techniques of the present invention are especially significant in the production of atomized powders from certain classes of metals and alloys.
  • Many alloyed materials contain oxygen-reactive components such as chromium, aluminum, titanium, manganese, silicon, etc.
  • the oxides formed with many of these reactive materials are difiicult, if not impossible, to reduce in subsequent operations. Therefore, the techniques of water atomizing these materials under circumstances which substantially minimize the formation of oxides in the first instance are especially valuable.
  • FIG. 1 is a simplified, schematic representation of a liquid atomization process incorporating the principles of the invention.
  • FIG. 2 is an enlarged cross section taken generally on line 22 of FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 3 is an enlarged cross section taken generally on line 33' of FIG. 2.
  • the reference numeral 10 designates a large open top receiving tank.
  • the receiving tank retains a large body of cooling liquid, typically water, designated by the reference numeral 11.
  • the tank is also provided with an outlet opening 12 for removal of water and particulate matter, as will be described.
  • the housing 13' Suitably mounted on the receiving tank 10 is an atomizer housing 13.
  • the housing 13' constitutes, in effect, a sealed enclosure. It is provided, however, with an opening 14 at the top for the instruction of molten metal for atomization, with an opening 15 in an upper portion thereof for the emission of inert gas, and with a discharge opening 16 in its lower extremity, below the water level in the retaining tank 10.
  • the discharge end 16 of the atomizer housing is of smaller dimensions than the upper portions thereof constituting the atomizing chamber 17.
  • the atomizing chamber portion of the housing may be of generally rectangular cross-section, having a width dimension on the order of 15 inches and a thickness dimension on the order of 10 inches.
  • the discharge opening 16, on the other hand, may have a thickness dimension (vertical in FIG. 1) on the order of 23 inches, with a width dimension on the order of 15 inches.
  • the atomizer housing advantageously tapers gradually in its thickness dimension and angles forwardly somewhat in a water leg section 18.
  • a receiving crucible 19 adapted, when the system is in operation, to receive a body of molten metal 20.
  • the crucible 19 has an opening 21 in its bottom wall, which communicates with the interior of the atomizer housing 13 and provides for the gravity discharge of molten metal in a solid stream.
  • the descending stream of molten metal is on the order of of an inch in diameter, although somewhat larger sizes (e.g., V2 inch) may be utilized in some instances. It is indicated that optimum performance is realized using metal streams of this order of diameter. Accordingly, if sufficient atornizing capacity can not be achieved with a single metal stream on the order of /2 inch diameter, a plurality of such streams should be utilized to increase capacity, rather than to further increase the diameter of the metal stream.
  • two sets of liquid spray jets are provided in the atomizing chamber 17, disposed to act in rapid sequence upon the descending stream of molten metal.
  • a first pair of water discharge nozzles 22, 23 is disposed symmetrically on opposite sides of the descending, coherent stream of molten metal 24.
  • the nozzles 22, 23 are directed downward and inward at an angle of 1530 from the vertical, and are arranged to direct controlled jets of atomizing water into intercepting relation to the molten metal stream 24.
  • the metal atomizing stage metal particles which are fine in size and are angular and irregular in configuration.
  • This is achievable through the use of thin, fiat, solid streams 25, 26 of atomizing water, ejected from the nozzles 22, 23 at high pressure.
  • the atomizing streams 25, 26 are ejected under pressures of 500-1000 p.s.i.
  • the nozzle openings, through which the water streams are ejected optimally are of rectangular configuration, measuring about /2 inch in width and inch in thickness.
  • These nozzles eject solid, flat streams 25, 26 of water from points around inches or so away from the point 27 of intersection with each other and with the descending metal stream 24. In the short distance between the nozzle tip and the point of intersection 27, the water streams will fan out somewhat to a width of about 3 inches, as indicated in FIG. 2, and may increase slightly in thickness, but will essentially retain their fiat, thin, solid, characteristic.
  • the interaction of the high pressure water streams 25, 26 with the descending molten stream 24 causes the molten metal stream to be literally shattered and broken up into fine particles.
  • the particles are almost instantly solidified and, due to the violence and rapidity of the solidification, the particles are derived in an irregular and angular configuration, which is highly desirable.
  • the interaction of the water streams 25, 26 and the descending stream of molten metal 24 is such as to produce particles substantially all of which are minus 40 mesh in size. This means that almost all of the particles produced would pass through a 40 mesh screen (U.S. Sieve Series, A.S.T.M. specification E-l l-6l). More desirably, the atomizing interaction is so controlled as to achieve angular, irregular particles largely of minus 80 mesh size.
  • a critical facet of the present invention involves, in addition to the production of fine, atomized particles as described immediately above, the maintenance during the atomizing process of relatively non-oxidizing conditions and, in addition, the quenching of the atomized particles in the fastest possible time to a temperature below which oxidation readily occurs.
  • Extremely rapid quenching of the atomized particles is enabled, in part, by the production in the first instance of particles of suitable fineness, and so the conduct of the atomizing stage itself is an integral part of the invention. It has been observed, however, that the formation of atomized particles of the desired size and shape, and the sufiiciently rapid transfer of heat from these particles tend to be mutually inconsistent objectives, at least when using a single set of nozzles.
  • a second set of water nozzles 28, 29 is provided in the atomizing chamber, arranged to direct streams of water 30, 31 into intersecting impingement at 32, just slightly below the intersecting impingement 27 of the principal atomizing streams 25, 26.
  • the water streams 30, 31 which may be referred to for convenience as the quenching streams, are brought as close up to the atomizing streams 25, 26 as practicable without causing interference with the action of the atomizing streams.
  • the quenching streams may intersect at a point from as close as about A; inch to as far as about 2 inches below the intersection of the atomizing streams, with a more typical spacing being about inch.
  • the quenching nozzles 28, 29 may be operated at a somewhat lower pressure than the atomizing streams, say, on the order of 100 p.s.i. or more and typically around 200 p.s.i., and may advantageously deliver quenching water in solid streams of somewhat greater thickness than the atomizing streams, substantially as illustrated in FIG. 3.
  • the objective in the case of the quenching streams is to envelope the just-atomized particles in a substantial volume of water, accompanied by violent turbulence. This provides for the fastest possible transfer of heat from the small metal particles to the quenching water, by minimizing sustained contact between the hot particles and unagitated water. This minimizes the formation of surface films of steam or vapor that tend to form during the quenching.
  • steam is a highly reactive oxidizing medium, and surface oxides will quickly form if there is sustained exposure of the particles to such steam films.
  • the quenched particles are flowed downward through the water leg 18 of the atomizer housing, and ejected out through the more or less horizontally disposed discharge opening 16 into the body of water 11.
  • the water issuing from the discharge nozzle 16 has sufiicient forward discharge velocity to maintain a desired condition of substantial turbulence within the water body 11.
  • supplementary agitation of the main body 11 of cooling water may be provided, if necessary or desirable.
  • the water utilized for quenching and cooling may be heated to reduce its content of dissolved oxygen, to further reduce the exposure of the metal to oxidizing conditions.
  • the range of particle sizes plays an important part, because there is a significant, inverse ratio between the mass of the individual particles and the surface area available for cooling contact (and also oxidation).
  • the particles are too small, an excessive area is presented for possible oxidizing reaction, not only during quenching and cooling, but during subsequent drying, handling and storage.
  • compaction of the powder to form wrought products is made difficult.
  • Optimum results in the practice of the invention are realized when the particles are almost exclusively minus 40 mesh, and preferably minus mesh; advantageously, however, not more than about 60% of the particles are minus 325 mesh in size,
  • provisions are made for controllably increasing the pressure within the atomizing chamber 17, partially to compensate for the pressure reducing action of the atomizing and quenching jets, and thereby controlling the height of water in the water leg 18 and expediting passage of the atomized particles out through the discharge opening 16 and into the large body of cooling water.
  • pressure in the atomizing chamber is controllably increased by means of a supply (not shown) of inert gas, typically argon, which is fed in through a conduit 33, through a flow or pressure regulator 34.
  • the regulator 34 may be set at a level which will retain, say, a to 20 inch column of water in the water leg 18, which, even allowing for substantial surface turbulence, will usually provide sufficient clearance below the atomizing and quenching jets to avoid interference.
  • a gas consumption of about 100 cubic feet per hour is sufficient to maintain effective pressure control within the chamber and thereby properly control the water leg column.
  • the out-gassing of the metal itself may be utilized to advantage in controllably increasing the pressure in the atomizing chamber 17.
  • certain formulations of steel provide a gassy melt, because of the presence of oxygen and advantage may be taken of the evolution of the gas during the atomizing process to help maintain controlled pressure within the chamber.
  • the oxygen generally combines with carbon present in the melt, during solidification, and come off as carbon monoxide (CO) gas.
  • CO carbon monoxide
  • the out-gassing of the molten metal is insuflicient, in itself, for adequate pressure control, and supplementary quantities of inert gas are introduced by the regulator 34.
  • the atomizing chamber 17 it is desirable to purge the atomizing chamber 17 prior to the commencement of the atomizing operation. Typically, this can be done by introducing argon into the interior of the atomizer housing, expelling the at-mospheric air, and then sealing over the crucible opening 21 with a destructible film, such as aluminum foil. When the molten metal subsequently is poured into the crucible, the seal is instantly broken. However, the molten metal itself functions as a seal, as long as a quantity thereof remains in the crucible 19'.
  • the production of water-atomized metal powders in accordance with the invention can be carried out in a. manner to achieve oxide levels which have never before been achieved in a water atomizing process.
  • the powder produced in accordance with the invention should be handled at subsequent stages in an appropriate manner so that the dried powder available for ultimate utilization in the formation of wrought products or compacts, remains well below the 0.25% oxygen content level.
  • the receiving tank 10 has its outlet 12 connected to a suitable separating device, usually of a centrifugal type, designated by the numeral 35.
  • a suitable separating device usually of a centrifugal type, designated by the numeral 35.
  • water and entrained particles are flowed or pumped to the separator 35, which is adapted to remove low density impurities such as slag, furnace refractories, etc.
  • the impurities are discharged at 36, and the mixture of water and higher density particles is suitably drained at 37 to remove most of the water content. Thereafter, the still wet powder containing from 1% to as much as l5%20% water, is taken directly to a drying facility 38, where the remaining water is removed.
  • the drying facility 38 is a vacuum dryer, from which the air is first exhausted (eliminating oxygen), and then the powder is heated to about -l80 F. (i.e., less than 200 F.) while retaining the vacuum of about 28 inches of mercury.
  • -l80 F. i.e., less than 200 F.
  • the powder may be dried in a reducing atmosphere.
  • vacuum drying appears to have economic advantages.
  • iron and steel powders produced in accordance with the invention generally will have no more than an extremely thin oxide film at the surface, as is evidenced by a light gray cast. This thin film can be flashed off quickly and economically in a reducing atmosphere after compaction of the powder into a green strip and while the green strip is being conveyed through a furnace for heating to temperatures suitable for hot rolling.
  • More conventional powders having high oxygen content if water atomized, typically will have to be reduced separately, prior to formation of the green compact.
  • the much heavier oxide coating of conventionally water atomized particles is characterized by a dark gray or black surface coloration (reflecting an oxygen content of 0.8% or more), in the case of iron and steel particles.
  • An important advantage derived from the avoidance of a reducing step after atomization, resides in the ability to compact the powder into strip, rods, forging blanks, etc.. while the powder remains in its internally stressed, as-atomized condition. This represents a high energy state or" the atomized particles, which favorably influences the achievement of final products of desired density and coherency.
  • typical metal powders produced in accordance with the invention may be of the following representative analysis:
  • Samples I, II and III reflect a final oxygen content of 0.18% for high carbon steel and less than 0.17% for low carbon steel. Powders of corresponding analysis, water atomized by conventional procedures, would reflect an oxygen content of well over 0.25% after drying and would surely require a separate reduction procedure for most end uses.
  • Sample IV reflects an oxygen content of 0.21% after drying, whereas material of similar analysis, atomized conventionally, would typically have an oxygen content of over 0.25%.
  • Sample V is a nickel-steel alloy powder reflecting an oxygen content of 0.16%.
  • Samples VI and VII are nickel and copper alloy powders reflecting oxygen contents of 0.09%. In all samples, the techniques of the invention have enabled a significantly lower oxygen content to be realized in the dried powder.
  • the process of the present invention are ideally suited for production on an industrial scale, using equipment of a practical, trouble-free nature, which can be set up and operated on an economic basis.
  • iron shall be considered to include steel, wherever the context admits thereof, and the term steel shall be considered to include alloys containing 50% or more iron by weight.

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