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- Title
- Visualization of aluminium intial stage oxidation
- Author(s)
- Fateh, Behrooz; Brooks, Geoffrey; Rhamdhani, M. Akbar; Taylor, John A.; Davis, Jeff; Lowe, Martin
- Abstract
- Aluminium is among the metals with the greatest affinity for oxygen. Aluminium oxidation is a process that occurs easily and rapidly. At room temperature Al is always covered with an oxide film (2-3 nm in thickness). The study of initial oxidation is very important as it concerns the first step of a metal's oxidation and corrosion behaviour. The characteristics of the kinetics of early-stage oxidation are believed to have an important influence on the later steady-state growth. Furthermore, there are many aspects of Al melt handling and cast process that results in oxidation of Al and dross formation. Dross is an inhomogeneous complex mixture of aluminium oxides along with entrapped molten metal. Dross formation in melt handing process leads to a huge profit loss.
- Publication type
- Conference paper
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences
- Source
- Proceedings of the 2nd Annual High Temperature Processing Symposium, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia, 08-09 February 2010 / Geoffrey Brooks, M. Akbar Rhamdhani and Xiadong Xu (eds.), pp. 75-76
- Publication year
- 2010
- Keyword(s)
- Al initial oxidation; Fast imaging; Femto-second laser ablation
- Publisher
- Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology
- ISBN
- 9780980670806
- Publisher URL
- http://www.swinburne.edu.au/lib/ir/onlineconferences/HTP2010/
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2010 Swinburne University of Technology.
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