Roll tide: Powder injection molding powers generator that pulls tidal energy | The American Ceramic Society

Roll tide: Powder injection molding powers generator that pulls tidal energy | The American Ceramic Society

A team of scientists from Spain’s Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) is working with European researchers to develop a tidal energy generator that’s not only less costly but also more efficient.

 According to a UC3M news release, the device would replace conventional magnetic materials with ones created using powder injection molding (PIM) technology, which professor José Manuel Torralba says would reduce the cost of tidal energy generators and increase their effectiveness by up to 30 percent.

“These generators use magnetic components that we are producing using PIM technology, which turns out to be more versatile when it comes to modifying the compositions and makes it possible to get the parts for a lower price,” Torralba explains in the release.(...)

The paper is “Powder injection moulding: processing of small parts of complex shape” 

(DOI: 10.1504/IJMMP.2013.052648).