Real-Time Slurry Characteristic Analysis During Ball Milling Using Vibration Data

Author(s):  
Hyeondeok Jeong ◽  
Jungwon Yu ◽  
Youngjae Lee ◽  
Sung-min Lee ◽  
Sung-Soo Ryu ◽  
...  

Abstract The characteristics of an internal slurry were analyzed during ball milling, which is commonly utilized in ceramic processing. We used a device with a capacity of 50 L because this is the size employed in industries, and built a circulation system to collect the slurry during the milling process. The properties of the slurry were characterized in terms of their particle size and viscosity, while vibration data were collected from the side of the ball mill drum in real time. A fast Fourier transform was performed on the vibration data, allowing the energy to be calculated and compared with the slurry characteristics. The vibration data in the 3–4 kHz range showed a strong negative correlation with the slurry viscosity. Our results confirm that the characteristics of the internal slurry can be monitored in real time using vibration data collected during ball milling.

2008 ◽  
Vol 591-593 ◽  
pp. 147-153
Author(s):  
Gilbert Silva ◽  
Erika Coaglia Trindade Ramos ◽  
N.S. da Silva ◽  
Alfeu Saraiva Ramos

A large amount of the Ti6Si2B compound can be formed by mechanical alloying and subsequent heat treatment from the elemental Ti-22.2at%Si-11.1at%B powder mixture, but the yield powder after ball milling is reduced due to an excessive agglomeration of ductile particles on the balls and vial surfaces. This work reports on the structural evaluation of Ti-22.2at%Si-11.1at%B powders milled with PCA addition, varying its amount between 1 and 2 wt-%. The milling process was carried out in a planetary ball mill under argon atmosphere, and the milled powders were then heated at 1200oC for 1h under Ar atmosphere in order to obtain equilibrium structures. Samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, and thermal analysis. Results revealed that the PCA addition reduced the excessive agglomeration during the ball milling of Ti-22.2at-%Si-11.1at-%B powders. After heating at 1200oC for 1h, the Ti5Si3, Ti3O and/or Ti2C phases were preferentially formed in Ti-22.2at%Si-11.1at%B powders milled with PCA addition, and the Ti6Si2B formation was inhibited.


Materials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 2920
Author(s):  
Soo-Hong Min ◽  
Tae Hun Lee ◽  
Gil-Yong Lee ◽  
Daniel Zontar ◽  
Christian Brecher ◽  
...  

A real-time, accurate, and reliable process monitoring is a basic and crucial enabler of intelligent manufacturing operation and digital twin applications. In this study, we represent a novel vibration measurement method for workpiece during the milling process using a low-cost nanoparticle vibration sensor. We directly printed the vibration sensor based on silver nanoparticles positioned onto a polyimide substrate using an aerodynamically-focused nanomaterials printing system, which is a direct printing technique for inorganic nanomaterials positioned onto a flexible substrate. Since it does not require any post-process such as chemical etching and heat treatment, a highly sensitive vibration sensor composed of a microscale porous structure was fabricated at a cost of several cents each. Furthermore, accurate and reliable vibration data was obtained by simple and direct attachment to a workpiece. In this study, we discussed the performance of vibration measurement of a fabricated sensor in comparison to a commercial vibration sensor. Using frequency and power spectrum analysis of obtained data, we directly measured the vibration of workpiece during the milling process, according to a process parameter. Lastly, we applied a fabricated sensor for the digital twins of turbine blade manufacturing in which vibration greatly affects the quality of the product to predict the process defects in real-time.


2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 484-489
Author(s):  
Hyeondeok Jeong ◽  
Young-Beom Kim ◽  
Sung-Soo Ryu ◽  
Seiki Kim

Author(s):  
A. Boschetto ◽  
A. Ruggiero ◽  
F. Veniali ◽  
A. La Barbera ◽  
C. Colella

Ball milling is a material processing method that allows near room temperature process of elements in powder and permits to synthesize materials with peculiar properties otherwise difficult or impossible to obtain. Due to the repeated fractures and cold welding of the reactants particles, solid solutions, amorphous alloys and equilibrium nanostructured materials can be obtained. Products coming from mechanosynthesis process can be advantageously applied as high performance structural and functional materials. Different milling devices can be utilized for the powder processing: planetary mill, attritor, horizontal ball mill, 1D and 3D vibrating machines. The wide differentiation in configuration of the mills obstacles the development of a unified model on powder transformation kinetics in the milling process and then most of processing procedures are still developed by using a trial and error method. The focus of this paper is on a horizontal fixed vial ball mill; in this configuration a high speed rotor launches several tumbling against the vial wall. During hits, a quantity of energy is released to the trapped powder and the solid state reactions are promoted. To characterize the powder transformation process, knowledge of the kinematics of the balls system must be inferred. For this purpose an experimental setup based on digital image acquisition was constructed and the movement of balls inside the vial was filmed. Particle trace analysis methodology permitted to obtain balls trajectories, velocity vector field and total hit frequency. The kinetic energy of the impacting balls inside the vial was quantified, so that the energy released to the powder in a milling experiment can be estimated.


2021 ◽  
Vol 217 (1) ◽  
pp. 255-264
Author(s):  
Xiaomeng Zhu ◽  
Xiaolan Cai ◽  
Shuang Zhang ◽  
Lei Wang ◽  
Xudong Cui

Author(s):  
Fenglin Wang ◽  
Yunping Li ◽  
Xiandong Xu ◽  
Yuichiro Koizumi ◽  
Kenta Yamanaka ◽  
...  

Nanoscale ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haimei Li ◽  
Xianglong Li ◽  
Denghui Wang ◽  
Siyuan Zhang ◽  
Wenqiang Xu ◽  
...  

A silicon nanoplate-decorated graphite design is developed for lithium battery anodes via a simple ball milling process. The resultant silicon-graphite electrodes show high cyclic stability with high capacity, superior rate...


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