Iranian Company Achieves Technical Know-How to Produce Metal Powders with 99.9% Purity
“The products manufactured by our company are metal-based powders with a purity of over 99.9% by using the water gas atomization method,” said Parsa Biriyayee, a member of the research and development department of the knowledge-based company.
“These metal powders are used in fields like mining, electrode manufacturing, and component manufacturing,” he added, noting that for production of this powder, iron scrap is received and poured into a furnace, and it is sprayed into it by melting and casting processes inside the cavity, water atomization, and finally powder with different grain sizes is obtained.”
“The main application of these powders is in manufacturing of parts. The main powder produced by this company, which has a wide range of applications, is iron powder with various alloys. This powder contains one and a half percent molybdenum and two hundredths of a percent nickel to increase hardness,” Biriyayee said.
“The hardness of this powder is about 40 Rockwell C,” he added.
In a relevant development in July, Iranian researchers at a knowledge-based company had also succeeded in producing frequency converters, an electronic or electromechanical device that changes alternating current with a special type of frequency to another frequency.
The knowledge-based company which is active in the field of design, reverse engineering, manufacturing, installation and implementation, repair, service and maintenance, and supply of parts and equipment for electricity, electronics, power, control, telecommunications, precision instruments and industrial automation, has manufactured the frequency converters.
“In the design, manufacturing and implementation department, one of the main specialties and missions of the company is to carry out industrial projects from the reverse engineering stage, from design to implementation in the form of EPC and turnkey,” said Mohammad Taqi Rajabi, the sales manager of the knowledge-based company.
“Our company is the only producer of these frequency converters in Iran and it is used to drive synchronous motors of about 6.6 kV,” he added.
“This type of converters can be used in industries like steel and copper. Its foreign counterparts are the medium voltage brand Weg (WEG) in Brazil, and we have indigenized it with our own design and construction,” Rajabi said.
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