If you want to do casting at home, you’ll need a way to melt metal. [Jake]’s DIY foundry furnace gets hot enough to melt aluminium, and is built out a mix of scrap parts. The chamber of the ...

Casting metal parts from 3D-printed plastic or Styrofoam models is all the rage these days, and for good reason — casting is a way to turn one-offs into mass-produced parts. Seems like most of ...

Metal scrap can be directly transformed and upgraded into high-performance, high-value alloys without the need for ...

produce and test a wide range of cast metals and cast metal matrix composites. Our facilities and equipment allow students to understand the following melting, molding and casting processes, which are ...

Facilities that support melting and casting of metals; including simulation ... Induction melting uses a magnetic field to create a flow of electrons in a conductive metal, creating resistance, which ...

Applications: Aluminum production; Foundry or metal casting; Iron & Steel Making; Nickel / Superalloy; Precious / Red Metal; Titanium, zirconium or reactive; Chromium ...

According to PNNL, the solid phase alloying process converts aluminum scrap blended with copper, zinc and magnesium into ...

A groundbreaking method developed by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) ...