2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Research on Low-Temperature Material Processings Using Supersonic Plasma Jets
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23656543
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Aerospace engineering
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| Research Institution | Osaka Institute of Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
UETSUJI Yasutomo 大阪工業大学, 工学部, 准教授 (00340604)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | プラズマジェット / 超音速 / 熱力学的非平衡 / 材料加工 / 表面処理 / 低温処理 / 溶射 |
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| Research Abstract |
In low-pressure plasma spraying, a plasma jet generator with a supersonic expansion nozzle is useful for spraycoating hard and large-area films adhering strongly to substrates. In the expansion nozzle, the pressure and the electron density drastically decrease downstream, and therefore the plasma is in thermodynamical nonequilibrium state. In this study, titanium nitride reactive spraying was carried out under a low-pressure environment using a DC arc plasma jet generator. Titanium powders were injected using a hollow cathode with argon gas, and the plasma gas was nitrogen or nitrogen and hydrogen mixture. Microstructure and properties of the coatings were examined using SEM and XRD. A dense and high-quality TiN coating with a Vickers hardness of 2000 was formed at a low substrate temperature of 700 oC with a low input power of 5.3 kW. All results showed that the supersonic plasma jet in thermodynamical and chemical nonequilibrium state had high potentials for reactive spraying.
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[Journal Article] Development of Long-Life Lightweight Arcjets2013
Author(s)
Daisuke Nakata, Kiyoshi Kinefuchi, Satoshi Hosoda, Masahiro Kinoshita, Hirokazu Tahara and Hitoshi Kuninaka
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Journal Title
33rd International Electric Propulsion Conference (33rd IEPC), George Washington University, Washington, D.C., USA
Volume: EPC-2013-292
Pages: 1-10
Peer Reviewed
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