Study on Temperature Change Rule of Sprayed Composite Powders in Flight

Abstract:

The temperature change process of the single sprayed composite powder during the self-reactive spray forming process for preparing the Ti (C,N)-TiB₂ ceramic preforms was numerically simulated by means of finite element analysis. The results show that after the sprayed composite powder with grain size of 50μm has entered the flame field for 0.35ms, the surface temperature of it will reach the igniting temperature and the self-propagating high-temperature synthesis (abbr. SHS) reaction will take place. The heating rate of the particle in this period is about 2.82×10⁶°C/s. After the SHS reaction has taken place, the heating rate becomes quicker because of the double function of the flame and the reactive heat release. When the temperature of the sprayed particle is higher than that of the flame, the heat exchange process will turn into heat absorption from heat release, which leads to the great drop of the heating rate (about 1.20×10⁶°C/s). The composite powder completes the reaction in 0.88ms and reaches the highest temperature of 2920°C, which makes it become a ceramic droplet. After the reaction has finished, the droplet cools down quickly from exterior to interior, and the surface temperature of it descends to the theoretic eutectic melting point of the composite ceramics (2620°C) after 0.34ms. Then the droplet begins to solidify at some degree of supercooling and becomes ceramic particle. The numerically simulated results before, during and after the reaction match the water-quenching experiments of the sprayed particle with particle size of 50μm during the corresponding period. It indicates the heat process of the sprayed composite powder on the whole, which is composed of being heated, heat releasing, cooling and solidifying.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volumes 704-705)
• Pages: 375-381
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.704-705.375
• Online since: December 2011
• Authors: Hong Wei Liu, Jian Jiang Wang, Xiao Feng Sun, Ji Qiu
• Keywords: Composite Powder, Numerical Simulation, Self-Reactive Spray Forming, Temperature Field

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