Boeing and South Africa's Council for Scientific and
Industrial Research recently announced plans to partner in a new research
effort involving the future of ceramic powder. The two organizations will
collaborate in investigating and defining processes that could increase the
distribution and use of titanium powder-based products in commercial markets,
such as the aerospace industry, on a commercial scale.
Moving forward, the Boeing Research & Technology
organization will oversee the research for the company, an agreement outlined
in a Memorandum of Understanding signed by both parties. South Africa's Council
for Scientific and Industrial Research is seen a fitting partner for the
research project, as South Africa is home to the world's second-largest reserve
of titanium ore. What's more, South Africa has developed and patented
technology to convert titanium ore and South Africa's Council for Scientific
and Industrial Research recently launched a titanium pilot plant in an effort
to advance titanium powder technology and future uses.
When titanium is processed, it turns into a fine metal
powder, which is also known as titanium powder. Ranging in colour from gray to black,
Ferro Titanium Powder form offers the same properties as solid titanium and
is commonly used in the creation of lightweight parts for aerospace transport
vessels, as well as propellants, as it has the capability to withstand extreme
temperatures. Titanium powder has long been used in a variety of applications,
but new technologies could take it much, much farther.
More advanced Ferro
Silicon Powder research might result in an economical, effective way to
produce the powder and incorporate the powder into a number of commercial
industries, supplies, and products. Boeing and the South Africa's Council for
Scientific and Industrial Research's efforts might be just what the aviation
industry and commercial markets need to find a way to manufacture titanium
powder, and reduce waste and energy consumption at the same time.
Advanced titanium technologies could result in a strong,
lightweight product that's produced easier, more efficiently, and with less
strain on the environment and the bottom line. For the aerospace industry, this
future research promises great rewards.
Titanium metal powder is dark gray in colour. Supplies of
titanium in its pure form are rare, only five percent of the titanium mined
today is used in its pure metallic form. The alloy is as strong as steel. When
it is alloyed with other metals, the power and the capability to withstand
extreme temperature improves greatly.
Titanium has the ability to be coated in acidic environment
that make it corrosion resistance to acids. It's at least twenty times more
resistant than the copper-nickel alloys. It is nontoxic and biocompatible.
These properties make titanium and its alloys useful in a wide range of
structural, chemical, petrochemical, marine and biomaterial applications.
Uses of titanium metal powder
• Alloys: Titanium metal powder is used as a raw material
for titanium alloy for the aerospace, medical, consumer, motorsports and
recreation industries.
• Titanium Metallurgy: Ferro
Titanium Powder is used as a raw material for powder metallurgy that
provides the prospect of creating net shape or near net shape parts without the
material loss and cost.
• Fabrication of intricate parts: It's used as a raw
material for Ferro Silicon Powder
injection melding, a well-established and cost-effective method of fabricating
small-to-moderate size metal components in massive quantities.
• Thermal Spray: It can be used as a raw material of
titanium thermal spray protective coating solution.
• Laser Cladding: It is also used in laser cladding
techniques to coat or fabricate a near-net shape parts to improved mechanical
or corrosion resistance properties.
• Pyrotechnics: The use of titanium in fireworks is usually
easy, relatively safe and very effective
• Titanium-carbon: Titanium metal powder is also used in the
Production of Titanium Carbon widely used in the sporting cars.
