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In line with the industrial trend of additive manufacturing, cold spray as a non-laser-based process is becoming increasingly important for many fields of application. For the evaluation of additive manufacturing of winding components made of copper for large electrical high-voltage machines, material and component properties such as electrical conductivity, mechanical load capacity and the component size that can be produced are of particular importance. In this context, the cold spray process offers advantages over laser-based additive manufacturing processes such as laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) or laser cladding by using the kinetic energy of the copper powder particles to generate particle cohesion. To investigate the electrical conductivity as well as the mechanical load capacity of cold spray parts, specimens were machined out of cold sprayed bulk copper deposits. The characteristic values were obtained with regard to the direction of deposition, which is defined by the direction of the robot’s movement. Thus, for the investigation of the component properties, specimens were provided that had been produced both longitudinally and transversely as well as orthogonally to the direction of deposition. The results of the investigations show that both the electrical conductivity and the mechanical load capacity of the specimen have a strong preferential direction of the specimen orientation with respect to the direction of deposition. Furthermore, it could be shown that by increasing the deposition height, there is an increasing oxygen content in the sample material, combined with increasingly significant defect networks. These effects have a negative impact on the electrical conductivity as well as on the mechanical load capacity. As a conclusion, further need for investigation is identified in the optimization of the process parameters as well as in the deposition strategy for the additive manufacturing of large-volume components with cold spray.
Comparison of traceable methods for determining the calorific value of non-conventional fuel gases
(2016)
Energy-content measurements by direct methods (such as calorimetry) are used to validate the indirect method (from gas composition obtained by gas chromatography) which is generally adopted by grid operators for on-site gas control. A primary reference gas calorimeter and three field calorimeters were used for the first time to measure accurately the energy content of non-conventional gases (biogas and coal mine methane). The gas mixtures for this study were prepared by gravimetry and comprised three binary mixtures containing carbon dioxide and (up to 80 mol-%) methane, three ternary mixtures containing carbon dioxide, (up to 70 mol-%) methane and (up to 0.3 mol-%) hydrogen sulphide as well as a ten-component mixture with a methane content of approximately 64 mol-% which represents a typical coal mine methane. Associated uncertainty calculations were developed for each instrument and are presented here. Traceability of the measurements to the SI units is ensured in reference calorimetry, as calibration is accomplished by electrical simulation based on the Joule effect in order to obtain the heat capacity of the entire system. The results obtained with the four calorimeters are compared with each other and also with results calculated from the indirect method that is based on gas chromatography. Uncertainties (k = 2) between 0.07 and 0.49% for the reference gases were obtained with the reference calorimeter, while uncertainties for the field calorimeters range between 0.18 and 2.48% for the same mixtures. Compared to the usual standard deviation observed by gas chromatography for a multicomponent gas mixture of about 1%, it is demonstrated that the calorimetric method, although rarely used for non-conventional gases before, is appropriate for energy-content measurements of gases originating from renewable energy sources.