Control System Development and Experimental Study on Ultrasonic Vibration Feeding

Ultrasonic vibration feeding（UVF） method which can quantitatively feed and precisely deposit fine powder is a potential technique for micro feeding.The excitation sources transmit vibration to capillary though the third medium for most UVF devices.The vibrator is directly touched with the capillary can transmit mechanical energy on the capillary as much as possible,and the powder feeding can be controlled more precise.However,there are few reports about it.A direct UVF system which integrates the function of micro feeding,process observing,and powder forming was developed in this work.In order to analyze the effect of the system factors on feeding,a group of L9（3^3） orthogonal experiments are selected to confirm the effect of level change of factors.The three factors are capillary nozzle diameter,amplitude and signal.The flow rate was stable for each combined factors,and the optimum combination for the minimum flow rate are choosing small capillary,small amplitude,and triangular wave orderly.The whole process of feeding includes start point,middle stage and stop stage.Starting of feeding was synchronized to vibration when the amplitude of capillary nozzle is larger than critical amplitude.Then,the feeding process enters the middle stage,the feeding state is observed by the CCD,and it is very stable in the middle stage.Overflow of feeding can＇t be eliminated during the stop stage.The features of the deposited powder lines are analyzed; the overflow can be diminished by choosing small capillary and appropriate ratio of the capillary nozzle diameter to the particle size.Chinese characters lattices were deposited to validate the ability of quantitatively feeding and fixed feeding of UVF.Diameters of all powder dots show normal distribution,and more than 60% dots are concentrated from 550 μm to 650 μm,and the average diameter for all the dots is 597 μm.Most dots positions are well approached to their scheduled positions,and the maximum deviation is 0.27 mm.The new direct UVF system is used to implement experiments,which confirms the precise controllable of feeding.According improve the feeding technique,it suits well for rapid prototyping,chemistry,pharmaceutics and many other fields,which require precise measurement and feed minim powder.

Design and characteristic analysis of vibration feeding system for coal-gas dust-removal medium

A vibration feeder is a piece of equipment for rationing and conveying powder,particle and block materials.In order to test the regeneration performance of de-dusting medium for high-temperature coal gas,a set of de-dusting medium-feeding systems was designed quantitatively.The de-dusting medium-feeding system is used in the gasification process for cleaning coal gas.The system is mainly composed of a hopper unit,control unit and feeding unit.In order to optimize the feeding stability of the coal-gas dust-removal medium vibration feeding system,the setting and scope of the following design factors and operating factors are investigated.Specifically,it includes the influence of gate-valve-opening adjustment of the control unit on the feeding stability of a vibrating feeding system;the influence of the gap size of the dipleg of the control unit on the feeding sensitivity of the vibration system;the influence of the particle size of the de-dusting medium on the operating range of the vibrating feeding system;the influence of the digitization of the working-current indicator of electromagnetic vibrating feeders on measurement variation and the process variation of a vibration feeding system.This vibration feeding system can realize the function of precise and quantitative feeding of the de-dusting medium,which can meet the design requirements of subsequent experimental research.

Experiments on densifying packing of equal spheres by two-dimensional vibration

Densification of mono-sized sphere packings using two-dimensional （2D） vibration was experimentally studied. The effects of vibration mode, amplitude and frequency, feeding method, and container size on packing density were systematically analyzed. Useful results were obtained.