Gas discharge combustion with a liquid tetrachloride electrode

Abstract

Titanium powders are widely used in selective laser melting and electron beam melting technologies to create medical implants. However, powders of a certain fractional composition are suitable for these purposes. A gradual increase in the volume of manufactured products requires the creation of new cheap methods for obtaining metal powders. Plasma-chemical synthesis in titanium tetrachloride solution can be one of the new methods for producing powders. A feature of this method is the use of a gas discharge with liquid electrodes, as a liquid electrode and is a titanium tetrachloride solution. The aim of the work was to study the possibility of obtaining a metal powder and its rapid cooling in a liquid. The question of the influence of the discharge parameters on the formation of metal particles remains open. In this work, a study of a gas discharge with liquid electrodes under the conditions of anode and cathode modes is carried out. A gas discharge between a liquid electrolyte and a metal electrode is experimentally investigated in the voltage range of 300-1000V. The conditions under which a stable discharge column is formed and a metal powder is formed are established. The regularities of the change in the I-V characteristic of the discharge are determined depending on the interelectrode distance.