Tekna PlasmaSonic ICPT 350 kW can be provided with a high erosion testing configuration. This configuration is dedicated to the material testing and deposition or coating. This configuration include: 1) Independent coating and erosion 3 axis manipulator, 2) Powder feeder, 3) particle trap and filtration system. 4) Curved duct interlocked with the powder feeder. This interlock avoid sending powder if the system is configured in Aerospace setup. (Fig. 17) After the particle trap system, the gases are directed to the heat exchanger, and then to the vacuum system. The high erosion testing configuration is provided with a Laser based velocity measuring system for particle erosion and coating experiments with spray pattern trajectory, for measuring the instantaneous global velocity field of particle flowing in the plasma plume. This system is also commonly called PIV (Particle Imaging Velocimetry). The PIV technique comes with 1) Lighting source which consist on the double pulse Nd-YAG laser, 2) High resolution monochrome camera of 2048×1700 pixels 3) Acquisition and analysis software.
