R&D Public - Microwave Sintering

Welcome to the Open page of the EPMA Microwave Sintering project.

In EPMA "Club" Projects a subject of importance to EPMA Members is identified (typically by an EPMA Committee); a specification is prepared and quotations are obtained from specialist organisations or experienced consultants; the most appropriate offer is then circulated to relevant EPMA members with an invitation to participate in a consortium. Providing sufficient members express commitment, a Consortium Agreement is normally drafted, agreed by the members, and the project commences.

The first phase of the Microwave Sintering Project, a feasibility study, was successfully finalized end of year 2000.

15 EPMA member companies have contributed to the project both financially and by their own technologies.

Dr Frank Petzoldt and Dr Barbara Scholz, Fraunhofer Institut IFAM, Bremen and Prof. Monica Willert-Porada and Dipl.-Ing. Ho-Seon Park, University of Bayreuth have carried out the microwave sintering experiments and also evaluated the obtained properties of sintered test bars and components.

This study showed that microwave sintering successfully could be applied for sintered steel components.

The project is now continued in a second phase that will be ended beginning of the year 2002 and it is supported with about the same EPMA members as in phase I.

For more information contact: Dr Olle Grinder, EPMA Microwave Sintering Project Coordinator, c/o EPMA Secretariat email: grinder@algonet.se