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Electrodynamic Concentration of Non-ferrous Metallic Particles in the Moving Gas-powder Stream: Mathematical Modeling and Analysis

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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>9/03/2019
<mark>Journal</mark>International Journal of Magnetics and Electromagnetism
Issue number1
Volume5
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

This paper presents theory, modeling, and analysis of a novel electrodynamic concentration approach for submillimeter-sized conductive metal particles focusing in moving gas-powder stream. Such method is of particular interest in blown-powder feeding fabrication industry (e.g., powder-fed additive manufacturing) to generate a tightly focused powder stream. Conceptual design of a concentration generator is proposed with two different configurations: The doublet Halbach permanent magnet quadrupoles (doublet-Halbach-PMQs) and the doublet electromagnet quadrupoles (doublet-EMQs). Analytical models for magnetic forces and concentration angles were built. Numerical calculations were conducted for pure aluminum particles with a radius of 50<Rp≤500 μm
. It was found that the magnetic force and the concentration angle increase with an increase of the particle size. The numerical results indicate that the proposed concentration generator with doublet-Halbach-PMQs configuration cannot be effectively used for small-size particle concentration. By contrast, the concentration generator with doublet-EMQs configuration under high frequency is capable to concentrate particles with a radius of Rp>150 μm
. The particles with a radius of Rp = 300 μm
can be concentrated with more than 15∘
angle at the frequency of 600 kHz
. Therefore, the proposed doublet-EMQs configuration has a great potential to generate a narrowed and finely focused powder stream in the blown-powder feeding fabrication process.