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Ultrasonic degassing, an environmentally clean and cheap technique, is an efficient way of degassing in a static volume melt. Vacuum degassing has also been tested a beneficial and clean method in producing high quality products. Combination of these two techniques will make degassing more efficient. An experimental device which combines the vacuum degassing and ultrasonic degassing has been built in Oak Ridge National Laboratory recently. Parametric studies have been carried out to investigate the efficacy of the ultrasonic degassing of molten Aluminum alloy under reduced pressure. This article reports the initial experimental results on ultrasonic degassing under reduced pressure.
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Xu, H., Jian, X., Meek, T.T., Han, Q. (2016). Ultrasonic Degassing of Molten Aluminum under Reduced Pressure. In: Grandfield, J.F., Eskin, D.G. (eds) Essential Readings in Light Metals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48228-6_30
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