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CARBOTHERMAL REDUCTION PROCESS OF MILLED AMORPHOUS SILICON DIOXIDE USING TAGUCHI’S METHOD

In today's era of cutting edge technology of the highly competitive engineering advancement, silicon carbide (SiC) material will be the workhorse of power electronics and thermo-mechanical industry. The apprehension behind this is because it's astounding properties which includes great dur...

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Main Author: NANDA KUMAR, KISHEN
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: IRC 2017
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TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
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spelling my-utp-utpedia.179292019-06-20T11:52:15Z http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/17929/ CARBOTHERMAL REDUCTION PROCESS OF MILLED AMORPHOUS SILICON DIOXIDE USING TAGUCHI’S METHOD NANDA KUMAR, KISHEN TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery In today's era of cutting edge technology of the highly competitive engineering advancement, silicon carbide (SiC) material will be the workhorse of power electronics and thermo-mechanical industry. The apprehension behind this is because it's astounding properties which includes great durability, rigidity, resistance against corrosion and wear in high temperatures. Also, SiC can manage the same level of power at half the size, enabling impressive increase in power together with reliability. This study concerns the carbothermal reduction of milled amorphous silicon dioxide (SiO2) to produce SiC using Taguchi's Design Matrix. The major problem faced by industrially manufactured SiC is that, it's often synthesized at elevated temperature in electrical resistance furnace which required further milling and purification process as they possessed large grains which is a critical issue. Manufacturers also have no precise configuration to synthesis maximum yield of SiC from amorphous SiO2 in carbothermal reduction. Therefore, the primary objective of this research is to have an imperative understanding on the effects of parameters for optimal production of SiC. As for such, the response of four operation specifications; mechanical milling duration, time, heating rate and temperature, on amorphous SiO2 was analysed via nine experiment of carbothermal reduction. The morphology changes of amorphous SiO2 to SiC whiskers formation was reviewed using Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and phase analysis with X-Ray Diffraction (XRD). The response data was then evaluated by employment of the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) technique and the end results was used to establish a design model devolved by the Design-Expert software to understand the significance of each parameter on SiC response rate. IRC 2017-01 Final Year Project NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/17929/1/1%29%20Kishen%20Nanda%20Kumar_17978_Dissertation.pdf NANDA KUMAR, KISHEN (2017) CARBOTHERMAL REDUCTION PROCESS OF MILLED AMORPHOUS SILICON DIOXIDE USING TAGUCHI’S METHOD. IRC, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS. (Submitted)
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NANDA KUMAR, KISHEN
CARBOTHERMAL REDUCTION PROCESS OF MILLED AMORPHOUS SILICON DIOXIDE USING TAGUCHI’S METHOD
description In today's era of cutting edge technology of the highly competitive engineering advancement, silicon carbide (SiC) material will be the workhorse of power electronics and thermo-mechanical industry. The apprehension behind this is because it's astounding properties which includes great durability, rigidity, resistance against corrosion and wear in high temperatures. Also, SiC can manage the same level of power at half the size, enabling impressive increase in power together with reliability. This study concerns the carbothermal reduction of milled amorphous silicon dioxide (SiO2) to produce SiC using Taguchi's Design Matrix. The major problem faced by industrially manufactured SiC is that, it's often synthesized at elevated temperature in electrical resistance furnace which required further milling and purification process as they possessed large grains which is a critical issue. Manufacturers also have no precise configuration to synthesis maximum yield of SiC from amorphous SiO2 in carbothermal reduction. Therefore, the primary objective of this research is to have an imperative understanding on the effects of parameters for optimal production of SiC. As for such, the response of four operation specifications; mechanical milling duration, time, heating rate and temperature, on amorphous SiO2 was analysed via nine experiment of carbothermal reduction. The morphology changes of amorphous SiO2 to SiC whiskers formation was reviewed using Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and phase analysis with X-Ray Diffraction (XRD). The response data was then evaluated by employment of the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) technique and the end results was used to establish a design model devolved by the Design-Expert software to understand the significance of each parameter on SiC response rate.
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author NANDA KUMAR, KISHEN
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author_sort NANDA KUMAR, KISHEN
title CARBOTHERMAL REDUCTION PROCESS OF MILLED AMORPHOUS SILICON DIOXIDE USING TAGUCHI’S METHOD
title_short CARBOTHERMAL REDUCTION PROCESS OF MILLED AMORPHOUS SILICON DIOXIDE USING TAGUCHI’S METHOD
title_full CARBOTHERMAL REDUCTION PROCESS OF MILLED AMORPHOUS SILICON DIOXIDE USING TAGUCHI’S METHOD
title_fullStr CARBOTHERMAL REDUCTION PROCESS OF MILLED AMORPHOUS SILICON DIOXIDE USING TAGUCHI’S METHOD
title_full_unstemmed CARBOTHERMAL REDUCTION PROCESS OF MILLED AMORPHOUS SILICON DIOXIDE USING TAGUCHI’S METHOD
title_sort carbothermal reduction process of milled amorphous silicon dioxide using taguchi’s method
publisher IRC
publishDate 2017
url http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/17929/1/1%29%20Kishen%20Nanda%20Kumar_17978_Dissertation.pdf
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