DAE-BRNS Symposium on

APPLICATIONS OF PLASMA, LASER & ELECTRON BEAMS

IN MATERIALS PROCESSING – PBAMP-2002

SEPTEMBER 25 –28, 2002

VENUE

MULTIPURPOSE HALL, TRAINING SCHOOL HOSTEL

ANUSHAKTINAGAR, MUMBAI-400 094

PROGRAMME SCHEDULE

September 25, 2002 (Wednesday)

08:00 - 09:30 hrs Registration*

10.00 - 10.30 hrs INAUGURAL SESSION

10.30 - 11.00 hrs KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Dr. Anil Kakodkar, Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission and

Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy,

POWER BEAMS IN NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE

11.00 - 11.15 hrs Inauguration of Exhibition on Power Beam Equipment

11.15 - 11.45 hrs Director’s Tea

_*Registration of BARC delegates: September 24, 15.00 - 20.00 hrs at Training School Hostel

TECHNICAL SESSION 1, PLASMA BEAMS –1

11.45 - 13.30 hrs

Session Chairman G. Sundararajan, ARCI, India

11.45 - 12.20 Patrick R. Taylor, Colorado School of Mines, USA: Thermal Plasma Processing of Materials

12.20 - 12.55 N. Venkatramani, BARC, India: Power Beams and their Comparative Positioning in Advanced Materials Processing

12.55 - 13.30 M. Hrabovsky, Institute of Plasma Physics, Czech Republic: Generation of Thermal Plasma Jets in Liquid-stabilized and Hybrid Gas-liquid Plasma Torches

LUNCH 13.30 - 14.15 hrs

TECHNICAL SESSION II, LASER BEAMS - 1

14.15 - 15.45 hrs

Session Chairman Patrick R. Taylor, Colorado School of Mines

14.15 - 14 55 G. Sundararajan, ARCI, India: Expanding Horizons of High Power Laser Applications in Advanced Manufacturing

14.55 - 15.25 R. K. Thareja, IIT, Kanpur, India: Spectroscopic and Imaging Diagnostics of Pulsed Laser Deposition Laser Plasmas

15.25 - 15.45 Rajesh Joshi, Adorfontech Ltd., India: Industrial Applications of Plasma Spray Technology

TEA 15.45 - 16.00 hrs

TECHNICAL SESSION III, ELECTRON BEAMS- 1

16.00 - 18.00 hrs

Session Chairman R. C. Sethi, BARC, India

16.00 - 16.40 Philip De Costa, GTRE, India: Electron Beam Welding Technology-an Aero-Engine Experience

16.40 - 17.10 T. E. Burns, Cambridge Electron Beams, UK: Mechanism for Electron Beam Penetration and Weld Formation

17.10 - 17.40 K. Sivaramakrishnan Nair, Kerala High-Tech Industries, India: Electron Beam Processing of Strategic Materials in India

17.40 - 18.00 Derek Farmer, Cambridge Vacuum Engineering, UK: Comparison of Electron Beam Welds Produced at Various Vacuum Levels

19.00 - 20.30 hrs CULTURAL FUNCTION

DINNER 20.30 - 21.30 hrs

September 26, 2002 (Thursday)

TECHNICAL SESSION IV, SURFACE ENGINEERING & MATERIAL PROCESSING

9.30 - 11.40 hrs

Session Chairman M.Hrabovsky, IPP, Czech Republic

09.30 - 10.10 Stan Veprek, Technical University Munich, Germany: Superhard Nano-structured and Nanocomposite Coatings Prepared by Plasma PVD and CVD: Design Principles, Properties and Industrial Applications

10.10 - 10.40 Shrikant Joshi, ARCI, India: High Performance Thermal Barrier Coatings and Relevance of Power Beams in their Development.

10.40 - 11.10 S. Sabharwal, BARC, India: Radiation Processing of Polymer with High Energy Electron Beams: Novel Materials and Processes

11.10 - 11.40 Hughen, Plazma Cutting Equipment, Pvt. Ltd. India: Plasma Cutting Through High Density Beams

TEA 11.40 - 12.00 hrs

TECHNICAL SESSION V, Electron BeamS -II

12.00 - 13.30 hrs

Session Chairman Y. P. Kathuria, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

12.00 - 12.30 V. K. Tikku, Nicco Corporation, India: Electron Beam Irradiation and its Applications

12.30 - 13.00 R. C. Sethi, BARC, India: Development of Indigenous Electron Accelerators as Sources for Advanced Material Processing

13.00 - 13.15 V. Govindrajan Autodata, India: Harmonic Suppression in Thyristor Based Supplies for Power Beam Systems

13.15 - 13.30 B. S. Wanelkar, MD, Neo Power Electronics and Projects Pvt. Ltd., India, Design of VDCL Inverter Based High Power HVDC Power Sources

LUNCH 13.30 - 14.15 hrs

TECHNICAL SESSION VI POSTER SESSION –1

14.15 - 15.45 hrs

Venue: Sports Hall, TSH

Basic Beam Processes, Diagnostics and Modeling, Power Beam Sources and Equipment

TEA 15.45 - 16.00 hrs

TECHNICAL SESSION VII, LASER BEAM – II

16.00 - 17.45 hrs

Session Chairman R. K. Thareja, IIT, Kanpur, India

16.00 - 16.45 Y. P. Kathuria, Ritsumeikan University, Japan: Industrial Aspects of CO₂ and Nd-YAG Laser Processing

16.45 - 17.15 A. K. Nath, CAT, India : High Power CO₂ Lasers & Their Applications in Nuclear Industry

17.15 - 17.45 G. L. Goswami, BARC, India: Laser Processing of Materials: Recent Excitements

18.30 - 19.30 hrs Visit to BRIT Labs., Vashi, Navi Mumbai,

Banquet 20.00 - 21.30 hrs

Hotel Supreme Heritage, Vashi, Navi Mumbai,

September 27, 2002 (Friday)

TECHNICAL SESSION VIII, BEAM TECHNOLOGY IN SPECIALISED AREAS

9.30 - 11.15 hrs

Session Chairman A. K. Nath, CAT, India

09.30 - 10.00 A. K. Ray, BARC, India: Electron Beam Melting and Evaporation,- Current Trends

10.00 - 10.30 P. A. Krishnamoorthy, VSSC, India : Development of High Enthalpy Simulation Facility for Material Evaluation

10.30 - 10.45 S. P. Singh, BARC, India: Plasma Sprayed Coatings on Mild Steel Split Moulds for Uranium Casting

10.45 - 11.00 Y. S. Mayya,, BARC, India: Nuclear Aerosol Test Facility Studies Using Plasma Torch Aerosol Generator

11.00 – 11.15 K. V. Mirji, NFC, India: Developments in Processing of Niobium Thermit by Electron Beam Drip Melting

TEA (at the Poster Hall) 11.15 - 11.45 hrs

TECHNICAL SESSION IX POSTER SESSION –2

Beam Processing of Materials: Industrial Processes, Novel and Emerging Trends

11.45 - 13.30 hrs

Venue: Sports Hall TSH

LUNCH 13.30 - 14.15 hrs

TECHNICAL SESSION X, BEAM MODELING

14.15 - 16.00 hrs

Session Chairman Stan Veprek, Technical University of Munich, Germany

14.15 - 15.00 Xi Chen, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China : Recent Progress in the Modeling of Thermal Plasma Systems

15.00 - 15.30 A. B. Murphy, CSIRO Telecommunications and Industrial Physics, Australia: Thermophysical Property Calculation in Thermal Plasmas: Status, Applications, and Availability of Basic Data

15.30 - 16.00 L. M. Gantayet, BARC, India : Beam Materials Interactions, Problems of the Molten Pool

TEA 16.00 - 16.30 hrs

TECHNICAL SESSION XI, INDUSTRIAL PERSPECTIVE OPEN FORUM & FUTURE STEPS

16.30 - 19.30 hrs

Session Chairman N. Venkatramani, BARC, India

Industry Participants:

M/s Aircraft Plasma Equipments Pvt. Ltd	M/s San Instruments	M/s Plazma Cutting Equipment Pvt. Ltd.
M/s. Scientific Mes-Technik Pvt. Ltd	M/s. Eureka Industrial Equipments Pvt. Ltd	M/s. Technocrats Plasma Systems Pvt. Ltd
M/s. Cambridge Electron Beam	M/s Light Guide Optics Pvt.Ltd	M/s Electro Plasma Equipments Pvt. Ltd.
M/s ION ARC Machines (I) Pvt. Ltd.	M/s Simco Global Technology & Syst. Ltd	M/s Hind High Vacuum Co. Pvt. Ltd.
M/s Neo Power Electronics & Projects Pvt Ltd.	M/s Quantel & M/s Specialise Instruments Marketing Co.	M/s. Hind Rectifiers Ltd
M/s. Sinsil Intrnational	M/s. Systematic Electronics Pvt. Ltd.	M/s. Laser Spectra Services
M/s TechnoVac Corporation	M/s Vacuum Techniques	M/s Autodata
M/s Cambridge Vacuum Engineering	M/s. Aimil Limited	M/s Menzel Labortechnik
M/s ATI Electronics	M/s Associated Plasmatron Pvt. Ltd.	M/s Viking Integration Projects Pvt. Ltd.

User Participants and Future Steps:

DINNER 19.30. - 20.30 hrs

September 28, 2002 (Saturday)

TECHNICAL SESSION XII, BRNS AND POWER BEAM APPLICATIONS

9.30 - 11.00 hrs

Session Chairman L. M. Gantayet, BARC, India

09.30 - 09.45 &nbbsp; BRNS – Introductory Remarks

09.45 - 10.00 S. V. Bhoraskar, Pune Univ., India: Arc Plasma Assisted Synthesis of Nanoparticles and Nanotubes of Ceramic Materials

10.00 - 10.15 S. C Mishra, REC, Rourkela, India: Plasma Processing of Mineral And Industrial Wastes

10.15 – 10.30 V. Selvarajan, Bharathiyar University, India: Plasma Spherodisation of Metal and Ceramic Powders

10.30 - 10.45 R. S. Parolia, Sameer, IIT Bombay, India: Circulators/Isolators for Protection of High Power Sources

10.45 – 11.00 B. B. Nayak RRL, Bhubaneswar India: Spray Drying Process and its use In Production of Plasma Spray Grade Powder

TEA 11.00 - 11.30 hrs

TECHNICAL SESSION XIII, GROWTH OF BEAM TECHNOLOGIES IN INDIA -A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

11.30 - 13.00 hrs

Session Chairman A. K. Ray, BARC, India

11.30 - 12.00 V. K. Rohatgi: Evolution of Electron Beam Technology in India

12.00 - 12.30 U. K. Chatterjee: Evolution of Laser Beam Technology in India

12.30 - 13.00 B. C. Mohanti: Plasma Beams for Materials Processing in India

CONCLUDING SESSION

13.00 - 13.30 hrs

Felicitations

Awards for the Best Papers

Symposium Summary, Future steps and concluding remarks

LUNCH 13.30 – 14.15 hrs

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TECHNOLOGY EXHIBITION

A Technology Exhibition on Power Beam Equipment and Accessories is being arranged as part of the symposium. Twenty-two exhibitors will participate in the exhibition. The exhibition will continue for all four days i.e. Sept. 25 - 28, 2002, and the venue is same as that of the symposium.

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