The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Ames Laboratory has received USD$392,000 in funding to commercialize a gas atomization nozzle design used to produce metal powders for manufacturing.
The funding is part of the DOE’s Office of Technology Transition’s Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) announced recently by US Secretary of Energy, Rick Perry. The funding, totaling USD$19.7 million, will support 54 projects across 12 National Laboratories involving more than 30 private sector partners, and will help businesses move promising energy technologies from National Laboratories to the marketplace.
Gas atomization is a powder production method that uses high-pressure gas flow to disintegrate molten metal, poured through a custom-designed nozzle, into particles.