Features of Obtaining Ni-Cr-Fe Alloy Powders by Plasma Atomization

Abstract

New requirements put forward to the modern industry to reduce harmful emissions increase the utilization rate of metal, reduce the production time of equipment, the production of components and parts from hard-to-process materials aim to introduce new technological processes. A promising technology is additive growing, which allows one to minimize the production time of unique products, to use hard-to-process alloys, for example, based on the Ni-Fe-Cr system, in their manufacture. The study was carried out by the method of mathematical planning of the experiment with subsequent processing of the results on a supercomputer. The results of the influence of the current applied to the plasma torch and the flow rate of the plasma-forming gas are presented; wire feed rates during spraying in power plants per fraction and particle size ratio in the volume of the yield of suitable. The minimum allowable yield of the product is set at 30 % with the production of fractions in the range from 40 to 140 microns. The results obtained for the Inconel 718 alloy confirmed the possibility of obtaining Ni-Cr-Fe alloy powders. The mode proposed in the work allows obtaining commodity fractions at the level of 30-35% of the mass of the sprayed feedstock. Additional tests of the mechanical properties and corrosion resistance of samples made from the resulting powder showed satisfactory results, similar to the results of tests of samples made from heat-treated alloy forgings.