Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Maciej Wlodzimierz Rogozinski

Subramania Ramakrishnan

Ashley Grant Doolette

Nicholas A Sanders

Richard W Couch, Jr

Trevor Neil Kearney

Frederick Bedrich Polivka

Maya Gershenzon

A process and apparatus for cutting a material using a plasma are jet provides improved uniformity along the length of cut, despite variations in cutting speed. This is achieved by pulsing the arc current and dynamically varying the pulsing. By this means the momentum of the plasma arc jet can be maintained substantially constant whilst the amount of energy delivered by the plasma arc jet is controllably varied. The pulsing can be dynamically varied in dependence on one or more of the cutting speed, the angle of ejection of a stream of molten material from the cut, the size of the droplets of the ejected material, the intensity of spectral pattern of light emitted from the plasma arc jet and material interface, and the arc voltage. The pulses can be varied by varying one or more of the pulsing frequency, the pulse duty, upper value of the pulse current, and depth of the pulses.

Controlled plasma arc cutting

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Plasma torch condition monitoring

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Bulleen, Australia

Maciej Wlodzimierz Rogozinski