The present research work explains the dry sliding wear characteristics of thermally sprayed red mud and its composite coatings. Composite of red mud, fly ash and aluminium are plasma sprayed at 6, 9, 12 and 15 kW operating power levels. The coatings were experimented to study th...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/12691
Red mud is a solid waste residue of the digestion of bauxite ores with caustic soda for alumina production. Its disposal remains a worldwide issue in terms of environmental concerns. During the past decades, extensive work has been done by a lot of researchers to develop various...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/7258
The present paper explains the synthesis of super porous hydrogel (SPH) with reinforcement of different concentrations (0.05, 0.1, 0.15 and 0.2 g) of PVA by solution polymerization. The polymerisation process is conducted at a pH value of 5. The corollaries of PVA on different ch...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2016/22127
The present investigation aims at evaluating the effect of fly ash addition on sliding wear behaviour of pure red mud. Plasma sprayed coatings composed of red mud and varying percentage of fly ash were considered for the wear behavior study. Plasma spraying technique was used wit...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2015/12624
The characteristics of plasma sprayed pure red mud coatings have been investigated.The red mud was collected as a waste from aluminium production. In order to understand the coating characteristics, pure red mud was plasma coated. After plasma spraying, the coated materials have...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2013/3218
The effect of fillers like red mud (RM) on dry sliding wear behavior of pure aluminium has been experimentally investigated. Pure aluminium of IE-07 grades from National Aluminium Company (NALCO), Angul of Odisha, India being collected with fillers in 10%, 15%, 20% and 30% based...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2013/2906