ASME Magazine: “Pumping Extremely Hot Metal, Part 1”
May 17, 2018 | by Jeff O’Heir
For two long days and nights, Professor Asegun Henry’s team of researchers at Georgia Tech’s Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering anxiously watched their new ceramic pump move molten tin heated to record-high temperatures. At any moment, they expected something to go wrong. The extreme heat could shatter a shaft, break a bearing, melt a seal, as it did during countless tests conducted throughout the pump’s four-year development cycle. The students were forced to monitor the machine in case it started leaking dangerously hot metal. They didn’t want to burn down the lab………
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