Yes. Addition of any nano powder will increase the durability of any plastic, and also reduce the weight of the plastic. Most nano particles and nano powders have negative weight, and most can be assigned any desired property, such as the ability to improve combustion while reducing the requirement for the essential contributors to combustion such as the O2 in air.

In the investment world, you will find that adding the word nanotech to any business plan will double or triple company evaluations. Nanofleece is often used in the investment world.

Dear sir, Thanks for this useful information. Actually, one of my relative has alluminum melting furnace and he use furnace oil for this application. So i was just thinking if i could have some type of naopowder with which either i can reduce melting point of al or improve the property of furnace oil. ultimately aim is to save the environment by reducing the consumption of oil. if i can do something like this then i will be happy to apply this case for earning carbon credit. regards, keyur

Hello keyur 197.

Your reasons sound good.

Unlike most metals like steel for instance aluminum has to go through several stages before it can be 'melted' ready for use. That of course takes power and any saving there has to be good for all?

I am not at all sure you will bring down the melting point of aluminum, and I do not know, but the nano-powder may give a more refined end product? You may save on heating oil for the furnaces, but feel it advisable you should experiment with any change in the oil or aluminum, to allow you to know if either or both are going to increase the furnace temperature enough, that it may damage rather than be overall beneficial?

Tests can be done on the burning temp' of the oil in a very small scale, which should answer the oil question. Doing the same with the aluminum may be a little more difficult.

What I am 'getting at' is, if the oil burns hotter and the aluminum burns hotter for even a short time, which you are not able to judge before any tests, it may not work or be detrimental to the furnace and or overall quality of the product during and perhaps after the initial melt.

I am unable to advise you on this. I suggest you do a whole lot more reading, including asking advice of the Aluminium Accredited Association/s

I show a list below of associations which you should for sure be researching and or contacting, as they will have a whole lot more experience than anyone who has answered you so far.

They may well already have experimented with 'nano-powder' and could provide you with useful advice on any alterations necessary to either the oil mixing and or the furnace burn?.

This is my thoughts and opinions only. Get in touch with all the relevant organisations, furnace builders, oil, oil jet, input manifold, etc, ad infinitum. Including researching these accredited associations

If you are able you may want to research the products of 'thermodynamics' in part or further by reading this and following the various links, unless you have already done so. Stay within your own realm (metallurgy, power, aluminum production etc), and you may find mention of > nano-powder < .

And or see the various links on the 'Thermodynamics' sites below................

I think this may be a little more 'involved and complicated' than perhaps you may have first thought? But if something works, then it will have been worth it.

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