Novel sustainable metallic powder production process with water used as milling medium.

Today, Fe-Al intermetallic compounds are receiving a great interest from the mechanical, aerospace, and biomedical industries. A novel production process for Fe-Al intermetallic powders based on the generation of metallic tapes by rapid solidification and disintegration by water vapor was proposed. In this research work, a comparison is made between the energy required to manufacture of Fe-Al powder using the aforementioned process and one of the most commonly used manufacturing processes within the industry such as mechanical alloying.