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Title: PROCESS OF FORMING POWDERED MATERIAL

Abstract

A process of forming high-density compacts of a powdered ceramic material is described by agglomerating the powdered ceramic material with a heat- decompossble binder, adding a heat-decompossble lubricant to the agglomerated material, placing a quantity of the material into a die cavity, pressing the material to form a compact, pretreating the compacts in a nonoxidizing atmosphere to remove the binder and lubricant, and sintering the compacts. When this process is used for making nuclear reactor fuel elements, the ceramic material is an oxide powder of a fissionsble material and after forming, the compacts are placed in a cladding tube which is closed at its ends by vapor tight end caps, so that the sintered compacts are held in close contact with each other and with the interior wall of the cladding tube.

Inventors:
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Issue Date:
Research Org.:
Originating Research Org. not identified
OSTI Identifier:
4039695
Patent Number(s):
2991601
Assignee:
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
B - PERFORMING OPERATIONS B22 - CASTING B22F - WORKING METALLIC POWDER
G - PHYSICS G21 - NUCLEAR PHYSICS G21C - NUCLEAR REACTORS
NSA Number:
NSA-15-022687
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 31-DEC-61
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
METALS, CERAMICS, AND OTHER MATERIALS; BINDERS; CANNING; CEMENTS; CERAMICS; COMPACTING; DECOMPOSITION; DIES; EVAPORATION; FISSIONABLE MATERIALS; FUEL ELEMENTS; HEATING; LUBRICANTS; LUBRICATION; MIXING; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OXIDES; POWDER METALLURGY; POWDERS; PREPARATION; PRESSURE; SEALS; SINTERING; TUBES

Citation Formats

Glatter, J, and Schaner, B E. PROCESS OF FORMING POWDERED MATERIAL. United States: N. p., 1961. Web.
Glatter, J, & Schaner, B E. PROCESS OF FORMING POWDERED MATERIAL. United States.
Glatter, J, and Schaner, B E. Fri . "PROCESS OF FORMING POWDERED MATERIAL". United States.
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title = {PROCESS OF FORMING POWDERED MATERIAL},
author = {Glatter, J and Schaner, B E},
abstractNote = {A process of forming high-density compacts of a powdered ceramic material is described by agglomerating the powdered ceramic material with a heat- decompossble binder, adding a heat-decompossble lubricant to the agglomerated material, placing a quantity of the material into a die cavity, pressing the material to form a compact, pretreating the compacts in a nonoxidizing atmosphere to remove the binder and lubricant, and sintering the compacts. When this process is used for making nuclear reactor fuel elements, the ceramic material is an oxide powder of a fissionsble material and after forming, the compacts are placed in a cladding tube which is closed at its ends by vapor tight end caps, so that the sintered compacts are held in close contact with each other and with the interior wall of the cladding tube.},
doi = {},
journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {1961},
month = {7}
}

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