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두꺼운 세라믹 사출성형체로부터 효율적인 결합제 제거를 위한 초임계 CO2 가변조건 탈지공정 연구

A Study on the Variable Condition Debinding Process in Supercritical CO2 for Removing Binder from Thick Ceramic Injection Molded Parts

  • Kim, Hyung-Kun (Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Sogang University) ;
  • Yim, Joon-Hyuk (Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Sogang University) ;
  • Kim, Hyung-Soo (KINORI Co., LTD.) ;
  • Lim, Jong-Sung (Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Sogang University)
  • 투고 : 2012.04.12
  • 심사 : 2012.06.02
  • 발행 : 2012.06.30

초록

본 연구의 목적은 분말 사출성형 공정에서 초임계유체를 이용하여 사출성형체로부터 결합제를 효율적으로 제거하는 것이다. 두께 1~2 mm 정도의 얇은 성형체의 경우는 기존의 초임계 추출공정을 이용하여 초기부터 온도, 압력이 높은 조건에서도 아무런 결함 없이 단시간 내에 결합제를 제거할 수 있지만, 시편이 두꺼워질수록 초기에 균열이 발생하기 때문에 일정 공정조건에서는 한계가 있다. 따라서 초기에는 낮은 공정조건에서 시작하여 단계별로 온도와 압력을 상승시키는 초임계 가변 조건 탈지공정을 연구하였다. 두께 1~4 mm의 세라믹 사출성형체 시편을 사용하여 여러 가지 초임계 조건에서 탈지실험을 수행하여 두꺼운 세라믹 사출성형체에 균열이 생기지 않으면서 가장 추출수율이 높은 가변조건 공정의 초기조건을 설정하였다. 이렇게 설정한 초기조건을 시작으로 직경 10 mm, 두께 4 mm의 두꺼운 세라믹 사출성형체 시편을 온도 333.15~343.15 K, 압력 12~27 MPa, $CO_2$ 유량 0.5~1.0 L/min 범위에서 단계별로 상승시켜 최종적으로는 5시간동안 95% 이상의 파라핀 왁스 결합제를 제거할 수 있었다.

The purpose of this study is to remove paraffin wax binder effectively from powder injection molded part using supercritical fluids in powder injection molding process. For a thin powder injection molded part about 1-2 mm thickness, paraffin wax binder can be removed rapidly without any defect by traditional supercritical extraction process which has fixed high temperature and pressure condition. But, for a thick powder injection molded part, there are limitations in removing paraffin wax binder by the fixed high process condition because crack occurs at the beginning step. Therefore, here we studied variable condition debinding process that starts with mild process condition at the beginning step and then increase the process conditions simultaneously at each step. To find out the initial process condition that has the highest extraction yield without any defect for each sample thickness, we investigated various supercritical debinding conditions using 1-4 mm thickness ceramic injection molded sample. By using the variable condition debinding process that starts with the initial process condition at the first step and then increasing process conditions simultaneously at each step (temperature from 333.15 to 343.15 K, pressure from 12 to 27 MPa, and $CO_2$ flow rate from 1.5 to 10 L/min), over 95% of paraffin wax binder was removed from the 4 mm thick (10 mm diameter) ceramic injection molded disk samples within 5 hours.

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