Actors in the field of metallurgy, you wish to characterise metal powders
What is a metal powder?
Metal powders or powdered metals are used in a wide range of applications including metallurgy.
The main routes for the manufacture of metal powders are as follows:
- Grinding of solid metal
- Precipitation of a salt from a solution
- Thermal decomposition of carbonyl metal (carbonyl process)
- Solid state reduction of metal oxide
- Electrodeposition
- Atomisation of molten metal
Why characterise a metal powder for the metallurgy sector?
The production of metal components of the correct quality requires input materials with known and reliable characteristics. For metal powders, these can include chemical, morphological and microstructural characteristics that need to be measured using the appropriate analytical technique.
Indeed, the manufacturing process of metallurgical parts is sensitive to variations in the size and shape of the metal powder particles used as raw or recycled material.
These geometrical characteristics condition in particular its spreading during the process but also its level of compaction allowing to limit the interstices.
FILAB supports you in the characterisation of metal powders for metallurgy
For more than 20 years, our FILAB laboratory has had the experience and specific analytical equipment to assist metallurgy manufacturers in the characterisation of powders using various analytical techniques: XRD, SEM-EDX, BET, laser granulometry, etc.
