Superconductor technology: apparatus – material – process – High temperature – per se – Having tc greater than or equal to 150 k
Patent
1988-11-09
1992-01-14
Dean, R.
Superconductor technology: apparatus, material, process
High temperature , per se
Having tc greater than or equal to 150 k
423593, 505737, C01F 100, C01F 1104, C01F 1700
Patent
active
050811029
ABSTRACT:
A spray calcination process is provided for decomposing a metal nitrate solution to form fine grain multicomponent metal oxide powders of selected composition of particular utility as superconductor precursor powders. Such precursor powders are produced in bulk quantities as high purity, reproducible, intimately mixed powders for conversion to high temperature superconductors.
A metal nitrate solution containing two or more metal constituents in a preselected ratio is sprayed as a finely atomized spray into a spray calcination zone where it is contacted with a hot gas stream for a residence time of less than 15 seconds at a high temperature between 200.degree. C. and 1100.degree. C. sufficient to vaporize the water of the nitrate solution and convert the metal nitrates to their corresponding oxides. The formed metal oxides are recovered from the gas stream as the desired metal oxides powders of selected composition which, where required, may be further sintered to form the desired superconducting metal oxide ceramics such as the Y-Ba-Cu-O and Tl-Ba-Ca-Cu-O superconductors.
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Gay Richard L.
Grantham LeRoy F.
Dean R.
Field Harry B.
Hamann H. Fredrick
Kolin Henry
Rockwell International Corporation
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