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  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,761 Views
12 Pages

13 November 2021

This study examined the feasibility of combining data from different powder flow testers to determine the flow function characteristics of pharmaceutical powders. The Brookfield PFT and Freeman FT4 can measure flow function over different scales of c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
64 Citations
14,846 Views
16 Pages

Effect of Moisture on Powder Flow Properties of Theophylline

  • Niklas Sandler,
  • Katharina Reiche,
  • Jyrki Heinämäki and
  • Jouko Yliruusi

Powder flow is influenced by environmental factors, such as moisture and static electricity, as well as powder related factors, such as morphology, size, size distribution, density, and surface area. Pharmaceutical solids may be exposed to water duri...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,347 Views
13 Pages

Food Powder Flow in Extrusion: Role of Particle Size and Composition

  • Cameron McGuire,
  • Kaliramesh Siliveru,
  • Kingsly Ambrose and
  • Sajid Alavi

17 January 2022

Innovations in food extrusion technology are enabling its rapid expansion and applicability in diverse areas related to bioprocessing and value addition. This study relates raw material particulate rheology to the granular flow in a single screw food...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,896 Views
17 Pages

Investigation of the Performance of Fumed Silica as Flow Additive in Polyester Powder Coatings

  • Junqing Xie,
  • Haiping Zhang,
  • Yuanyuan Shao,
  • Danni Bao,
  • Hui Zhang and
  • Jesse Zhu

14 October 2020

Fumed silica is one of the most commonly used flow additives in the powder coating industry. To investigate the influence of the properties of fumed silica on powder coatings, three different types of fumed silica, Aerosil R812, R972, and R8200, were...

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  • Open Access
1,026 Views
18 Pages

23 June 2025

Wide-beam laser direct energy deposition (LDED) has been widely used due to its superior deposition efficiency. To achieve optimal laser-powder coupling, this technique typically employs rectangular powder nozzles. This study establishes a simulation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
6,520 Views
20 Pages

Experimental and Numerical Analysis of Gas/Powder Flow for Different LMD Nozzles

  • Elise Ferreira,
  • Morgan Dal,
  • Christophe Colin,
  • Guillaume Marion,
  • Cyril Gorny,
  • Damien Courapied,
  • Jason Guy and
  • Patrice Peyre

20 May 2020

The Laser Metal Deposition (LMD) process is an additive manufacturing method, which generates 3D structures through the interaction of a laser beam and a gas/powder stream. The stream diameter, surface density and focal plan position affect the size,...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,596 Views
16 Pages

Multiple-Instance Regression for Metal Powder Hall Flow Rate Prediction Using Augmented Particle Size and Shape Data

  • Ashley Schuliger,
  • Stephen Price,
  • Bryer C. Sousa,
  • Danielle L. Cote and
  • Rodica Neamtu

14 March 2023

This study investigates the relationship between metallic powders and their flowability behavior (captured in terms of Hall flow rates using Hall flowmeters). Due to the many trait dependencies of powder flowability, which have made the formulation o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,819 Views
16 Pages

Influence of Powder Mass Flow Rates on Wear Resistance and Impact Toughness of Inconel 718 Surface Coatings

  • Chaoming Zhang,
  • Linsen Shu,
  • Peiyou Li,
  • Jiangtao Gong,
  • Wei He and
  • Helong Yu

1 November 2023

Optimum laser cladding processing parameters were obtained based on the study of various powder mass flow rates for the repair of 27SiMn steel parts using Inconel 718 powder. In this study, fusion coating process parameters were set according to the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
786 Views
19 Pages

18 June 2025

This study establishes a transient numerical model for the gas–solid two-phase flow of ultrafine dry powder fire extinguishing agents released in the confined space based on the Fluent software platform. The model investigates the spatial flow...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,914 Views
15 Pages

Laser-based powder bed fusion is an additive manufacturing process in which a high-power laser melts a thin layer of metal powder layer by layer to yield a three-dimensional object. An inert gas must remove process byproducts formed during laser proc...

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  • Open Access
720 Views
25 Pages

Improving Shielding Gas Flow Distribution to Enhance Quality and Consistency in Metal Laser Powder Bed Fusion Processes

  • H. Hugo Estrada Medinilla,
  • Christopher J. Elkins,
  • Jorge Mireles,
  • Andres Estrada and
  • Ryan B. Wicker

Shielding gas flow in metal Laser Powder Bed Fusion (PBF-LB/M) removes ejecta and byproducts from the build plate and the optical path, preventing laser interference and loss of part quality. Previous research conducted on an EOS M290 used Magnetic R...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,834 Views
17 Pages

Influence of Laser Energy Input and Shielding Gas Flow on Evaporation Fume during Laser Powder Bed Fusion of Zn Metal

  • Yu Qin,
  • Jinge Liu,
  • Yanzhe Chen,
  • Peng Wen,
  • Yufeng Zheng,
  • Yun Tian,
  • Maximilian Voshage and
  • Johannes Henrich Schleifenbaum

20 May 2021

Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) of Zn-based metals exhibits prominent advantages to produce customized biodegradable implants. However, massive evaporation occurs during laser melting of Zn so that it becomes a critical issue to modulate laser energy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,759 Views
17 Pages

Three-Jet Powder Flow and Laser–Powder Interaction in Laser Melting Deposition: Modelling Versus Experimental Correlations

  • Muhammad Arif Mahmood,
  • Andrei C. Popescu,
  • Mihai Oane,
  • Carmen Ristoscu,
  • Diana Chioibasu,
  • Sabin Mihai and
  • Ion N. Mihailescu

19 August 2020

Powder flow and temperature distribution are recognized as essential factors in the laser melting deposition (LMD) process, which affect not only the layer formation but also its characteristics. In this study, two mathematical models were developed....

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,337 Views
14 Pages

Effect of Microscopic Properties on Flow Behavior of Industrial Cohesive Powder

  • Maheandar Manokaran,
  • Martin Morgeneyer and
  • Dominik Weis

25 June 2024

The characteristics of powders on a bulk scale are heavily influenced by both the material properties and the size of their primary particles. Throughout the stages of storage and transportation in the powder processing industry, various forms of def...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,496 Views
16 Pages

21 September 2023

Satsuma mandarins are good sources of vitamin C and can be used as raw materials to produce novel plant-based food ingredients including satsuma mandarin juice powders (SJP). Food powders produced via spray drying often show thermal degradation due t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,654 Views
10 Pages

6 March 2019

Wall slip in the flow of powder injection molding (PIM) compounds can be the cause of unrealistically low viscosity values, and can lead to a failure of flow simulation approaches. Regardless of its importance, it has been considered only scarcely in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,775 Views
9 Pages

A Flow-Through Reaction Cell for Studying Minerals Leaching by In-Situ Synchrotron Powder X-ray Diffraction

  • Fatemeh Nikkhou,
  • Fang Xia,
  • Xizhi Yao,
  • Idowu A. Adegoke,
  • Qinfen Gu and
  • Justin A. Kimpton

8 November 2020

A flow-through reaction cell has been developed for studying minerals leaching by in-situ time-resolved powder X-ray diffraction, allowing for a better understanding of the leaching mechanisms and kinetics. The cell has the capability of independent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
718 Views
18 Pages

25 July 2025

This paper presents the flow field reconstruction and prediction of powder fuel transport systems based on representative feature extraction from scattering images using deep learning techniques. A laboratory-built powder fuel supply system was used...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,148 Views
10 Pages

10 August 2021

ECKA Granules Alumix 431D commercial grade, press ready, pre-alloyed aluminium-based powder containing 1.5 mass% of Acrawax C was used to study the effect of nitrogen linear flow on de-lubrication and sintering densification. In situ dimensional chan...

  • Review
  • Open Access
33 Citations
7,486 Views
25 Pages

Dry powder inhaler (DPI) is a device used to deliver a drug in dry powder form to the lungs. A wide range of DPI products is currently available, with the choice of DPI device largely depending on the dose, dosing frequency and powder properties of f...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
2,550 Views
18 Pages

10 September 2023

The present work aims to explore the ability to simulate flow patterns and the velocity field in the powder injection molding (PIM) process using the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method. Numerical simulations were performed using the DualSPH...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,285 Views
27 Pages

Effect of Solid-to-Gas Ratio on Powder Fuel Mixing in a Cavity-Based Supersonic Combustion Chamber with Induced Shock: A Numerical Study

  • Zuodong Liang,
  • Ming Jiang,
  • Shaoqing Hu,
  • Kai Ma,
  • Guiyang Xu,
  • Wenjie Wang,
  • Yuezu Miao and
  • Hongyan Li

19 January 2025

The development of powder-fueled ramjets is challenged by the mechanisms of flow mixing for the combustion of powder fuel in supersonic airflows. This paper describes a series of numerical simulations on the injection process of boron powder fuel in...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,662 Views
25 Pages

Advances in Powder-Filled Mold Processes: A Comprehensive Review and Outlook

  • Pengyu Bai,
  • Shuhua Yang,
  • Yalin Yan,
  • Dongliang Wang and
  • Yanwei Ma

9 November 2024

Powder molding technology is a versatile process widely used in the pharmaceutical, ceramic, chemical, food, and powder metallurgy industries. The powder-filling mold process is a key link in powder compression molding, and the uniformity and consist...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,997 Views
17 Pages

A Cold-Pressing Method Combining Axial and Shear Flow of Powder Compaction to Produce High-Density Iron Parts

  • Sergey N. Grigoriev,
  • Alexandr M. Dmitriev,
  • Natalya V. Korobova and
  • Sergey V. Fedorov

Highly performance methods for cold pressing (cold die forging) of preforms from iron powder with subsequent heat treatment and producing ready parts made of powder are described in the paper. These methods allow fabricating parts with smooth surface...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,621 Views
15 Pages

14 February 2021

In the pharmaceutical industry, silicates are commonly used excipients with different application possibilities. They are especially utilized as glidants in low concentrations, but they can be used in high concentrations as porous carriers and coatin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,291 Views
18 Pages

7 November 2023

Controlling injection parameters is paramount when it comes to producing high-quality green parts using powder injection molding. This work combines experimental and numerical approaches to study the impact of injection parameters on mold in-cavity p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,404 Views
22 Pages

21 October 2021

Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) has a wide range of uses in high-tech industries, including the aerospace and biomedical fields. For LPBF, the flow of molten metal is crucial; until now, however, the flow in the melt pool has not been described thorou...

  • Review
  • Open Access
58 Citations
19,783 Views
12 Pages

Factors Influencing Food Powder Flowability

  • Rajat Suhag,
  • Abdessamie Kellil and
  • Mutasem Razem

28 February 2024

The flowability of food powders is a critical determinant of their processing efficiency, product quality, and overall operational success. This review delves into the intricacies of powder flowability, elucidating the factors that govern it and expl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,444 Views
22 Pages

10 September 2021

Coaxial powder feeding technology in the field of metal additive manufacturing is booming. In this paper, a new laser cladding nozzle with powder feeding channels of inner and outer rings is designed. The nozzle works with a new kind of laser, which...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,740 Views
24 Pages

Research Progress and Current Status of Gas–Solid Two-Phase Flow Technology in the Direction of Laser Cladding

  • Jianjun Peng,
  • Erhao Zhou,
  • Run Feng,
  • Meng Xue,
  • Junhua Wang,
  • Zhidan Zhong and
  • Xiangchen Ku

26 September 2024

In the process of laser cladding, there are usually problems such as powder plugging and uneven delivery, which affect the quality of the final cladding layer. Therefore, powder convergence characteristics in laser cladding need to be further improve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
781 Views
16 Pages

19 September 2025

The current study examines the feasibility of Ultrasint PP nat 01 polypropylene material in powder bed fusion through powder characterisation. The results obtained are also deemed to be pertinent when developing or validating analytical and numerical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,178 Views
24 Pages

Modelling of Powder Removal for Additive Manufacture Postprocessing

  • Andrew Roberts,
  • Recep Kahraman,
  • Desi Bacheva and
  • Gavin Tabor

A critical challenge underpinning the adoption of Additive Manufacture (AM) as a technology is the postprocessing of manufactured components. For Powder Bed Fusion (PBF), this can involve the removal of powder from the interior of the component, ofte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
8,618 Views
17 Pages

Impact of Powder Properties on the Rheological Behavior of Excipients

  • Pauline H. M. Janssen,
  • Sébastien Depaifve,
  • Aurélien Neveu,
  • Filip Francqui and
  • Bastiaan H. J. Dickhoff

With the emergence of quality by design in the pharmaceutical industry, it becomes imperative to gain a deeper mechanistic understanding of factors impacting the flow of a formulation into tableting dies. Many flow characterization techniques are pre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,931 Views
19 Pages

Paddle feeders are devices commonly used in rotary tablet presses to facilitate constant and efficient die filling. Adversely, the shear stress applied by the rotating paddles is known to affect the bulk properties of the processed powder dependent o...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
8,619 Views
32 Pages

29 July 2014

An experimental study of inert particle dispersion in an isothermal concentric air jet near field was conducted for cases of standard non-staggered and alternative staggered jet nozzles, each taken from a polymer powder flame deposition gun. The expe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
706 Views
16 Pages

17 June 2025

In this study, the effects of stearic acid coating concentration (0.85%, 1%, and 1.15% wt.) and storage duration (up to 30 days) on the flow properties of surface-modified micronized calcite powder were investigated to evaluate their implications for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,477 Views
13 Pages

Preparation and Microstructure of Multi-Component High Entropy Alloy Powders Fabricated by Gas Atomization Method

  • Zhiqiang Ren,
  • Sheng Zhu,
  • Xiaoming Wang,
  • Yang Zhao,
  • Guofeng Han,
  • Kebing Zhou,
  • Wenyu Wang and
  • Gen Tian

20 February 2023

As an attractive high-entropy alloy, AlCrCoNiCu high-entropy alloy has excellent corrosion resistance, wear resistance, and anti-bacterial capabilities, and is considered to be a potential substitute material for marine and nuclear industry materials...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,614 Views
10 Pages

A Novel Method to Formulate Pigmented Powder Coatings by Ultrafine Powders

  • Lang Li,
  • Liyi Xu,
  • Marshall Shuai Yang,
  • Jinbao Huang,
  • Hui Zhang and
  • Jesse Zhu

17 November 2022

Powder coatings are a green alternative to conventional solvent-borne liquid coatings, but they have the intrinsic drawback of color-matching and adjustment in production with the conventional extrusion process. In this study, an industrially applica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,110 Views
10 Pages

3 December 2015

Black beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) are a rich source of flavonoids and saponins with proven health benefits. Spray dried black bean extract powders were used in different formulations for the production of nutraceutical capsules with reduced batch-t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,444 Views
23 Pages

14 October 2019

The discrete element method (DEM) is commonly used to study various powders in motion during transportation, screening, mixing, etc.; this requires several microscopic parameters to characterize the complex mechanical behavior of the particles. Herei...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,573 Views
22 Pages

Numerical Simulation in the Melt Pool Evolution of Laser Powder Bed Fusion Process for Ti6Al4V

  • Yixuan Xu,
  • Dongyun Zhang,
  • Junyuan Deng,
  • Xuping Wu,
  • Lingshan Li,
  • Yinkai Xie,
  • Reinhart Poprawe,
  • Johannes Henrich Schleifenbaum and
  • Stephan Ziegler

28 October 2022

In order to track the free interface of the melt pool and understand the evolution of the melt pool, the flow of fluid, and the interface behavior of gas and liquid, a physical model is developed by using the VOF method in this paper. Its characteris...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,855 Views
19 Pages

Experimental and Numerical Study of the Discharge Performance of Particle-Laden Turbulent Flow

  • Hongbo Shi,
  • Xikun Wang,
  • Qingjiang Xiang,
  • Gonghe Zhang and
  • Lin Xue

In the marine fire suppression system, continuous delivery of dry chemical powder to the fire source with long powder discharge range and high dispersion concentration is essential. The work is devoted to experimental and numerical studies of the flo...

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  • Open Access
266 Views
17 Pages

Enhancing the Strength and Durability of Cement Mortar: Synergetic Effects of Shell Powder, Calcium Formate and Basalt Fibers

  • Wei Shi,
  • Zhongping Tang,
  • Yiming Jin,
  • Shixiang Yi,
  • Lili Huang,
  • Shuang Lu and
  • Wenjing Sun

25 December 2025

This study focuses on the core issue of sustainably utilizing shells to enhance the performance of cement mortar. The influence of shell powder on the slump flow, setting time, mechanical strengths, drying shrinkage rate and carbonation depth of ceme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
8,090 Views
15 Pages

30 January 2020

Avocado (Persea Americana Mill.) generates byproducts, especially the avocado seeds. Hence, the aim of this study was to investigate the potential utilization of avocado seed as a very important, high phenolic content, climacteric fruit with unique c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,729 Views
16 Pages

Composite Fe-Cr-V-C Coatings Prepared by Plasma Transferred-Arc Powder Surfacing

  • Xin Zhang,
  • Yong Liu,
  • Huichao Cheng,
  • Kun Li,
  • Cheng Qian and
  • Wei Li

18 July 2023

In this study, we developed composite Fe-Cr-V-C coatings by plasma transferred-arc (PTA) powder surfacing on a 42CrMo steel substrate. The effects of arc current and ion gas flow rate on the coatings’ microstructure, hardness, and bonding perfo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,600 Views
14 Pages

18 April 2024

Flowability greatly affects the application of ultrafine dry powder fire extinguishing systems, while hydrophobicity and acute inhalation toxicity are concerns for fire extinguishing agents. In the present study, we examined the impact of hydrophobic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,831 Views
19 Pages

15 July 2025

The use of dry powder inhalers (DPIs) represents a cornerstone in the treatment of chronic pulmonary diseases. However, suboptimal inhalation techniques, including inadequate airflow rates, have been a persistent concern for achieving effective thera...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
9,264 Views
11 Pages

A Novel Method to Measure the Powder Consumption of Dental Air-Polishing Devices

  • Marcel Donnet,
  • Maxime Fournier,
  • Patrick R. Schmidlin and
  • Adrian Lussi

25 January 2021

Background: Oral preventive measures should be efficient, minimally invasive, and painless. Air-polishing has this potential. As the efficiency and abrasivity of powders are dependent on the amount of powder projected, a better understanding of this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,261 Views
18 Pages

14 September 2024

To enhance the jet performance of the three-phase jet fire monitor (TPJFM), an analysis was conducted on the internal flow field (IFF) characteristics of the monitor head. Using the volume of fluid method, the impact of key structural parameters, suc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
6,657 Views
22 Pages

Characterisation of UHMWPE Polymer Powder for Laser Sintering

  • Yas Khalil,
  • Neil Hopkinson,
  • Adam Kowalski and
  • John Patrick Anthony Fairclough

25 October 2019

Ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) is a thermoplastic semicrystalline polymer that has outstanding mechanical properties, low friction coefficient, excellent wear resistance, and is highly resistant to corrosive chemicals. UHMWPE is fo...

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