Low Cost and Energy Efficient Methods for the Manufacture of Semi-Solid (SSM) Feedstock

Apelian, Diran; Pan, Qingyue; Makhlouf, Makhlouf

doi:10.2172/859300

Title: Low Cost and Energy Efficient Methods for the Manufacture of Semi-Solid (SSM) Feedstock

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The SSM Consortium (now ACRC) at WPI has been carrying out fundamental, pre-competitive research in SSM for several years. Current and past research (at WPI) has generated many results of fundamental and applied nature, which are available to the SSM community. These include materials characterization, yield stress effects, alloy development, rheological properties, process modeling/simulation, semi-solid slurry formation, etc. Alternative method to produce SSM slurries at lower processing costs and with reduced energy consumption is a critical need. The production of low cost SSM feedstock will certainly lead to a dramatic increase in the tonnage of castings produced by SSM, and will provide end users such as the transportation industry, with lighter, cheaper and high performance materials. In this program, the research team has addressed three critical issues in semi-solid processing. They are: (1) Development of low cost, reliable slurry-on-demand approaches for semi-solid processing; (2) Application of the novel permanent grain refining technology-SiBloy for the manufacture of high-quality SSM feedstock, and (3) Development of computational and modeling tools for semi-solid processing to enhance SSM process control. Salient results from these studies are summarized and detailed in our final technical report.

Authors:: Apelian, Diran; Pan, Qingyue; Makhlouf, Makhlouf

Publication Date:: Mon Nov 07 00:00:00 EST 2005

Research Org.:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE); USDOE Office of Industrial Technologies (OIT) - (EE-20)

OSTI Identifier:: 859300

Report Number(s):: DOE/ID/14232
TRN: US200710%%103

DOE Contract Number:: FC36-02ID14232

Resource Type:: Technical Report

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; ALLOYS; CASTINGS; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; PERFORMANCE; PROCESS CONTROL; PROCESSING; PRODUCTION; REFINING; SIMULATION; SLURRIES; "Semi-Solid Processing"; "Feedstock"

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                    Apelian, Diran, Pan, Qingyue, and Makhlouf, Makhlouf. Low Cost and Energy Efficient Methods for the Manufacture of Semi-Solid (SSM) Feedstock.  United States: N. p., 2005. 
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                    Apelian, Diran, Pan, Qingyue, & Makhlouf, Makhlouf. Low Cost and Energy Efficient Methods for the Manufacture of Semi-Solid (SSM) Feedstock.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.2172/859300

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        "Low Cost and Energy Efficient Methods for the Manufacture of Semi-Solid (SSM) Feedstock".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.2172/859300.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/859300.

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