Soft magnetic powder materials are used throughout industries such as motors and power converters. When manufacturing Fe-based soft magnetic composites, the size and shape of the soft magnetic powder and the microstructure in the powder are closely related to the magnetic properties. In this study, Fe-Si-Al-P alloy powders were manufactured using various manufacturing process parameter sets, and the process parameters of the vacuum induction melt gas atomization process were set as melt temperature, atomization gas pressure, and gas flow rate. Process variable data that records are converted into 6 types of data for each powder recovery section. Process variable data that recorded minute changes were converted into 6 types of data and used as input variables. As output variables, a total of 6 types were designated by measuring the particle size, flowability, apparent density, and sphericity of the manufactured powders according to the process variable conditions. The sensitivity of the input and output variables was analyzed through the Pearson correlation coefficient, and a total of 6 powder characteristics were analyzed by artificial neural network model. The prediction results were compared with the results through linear regression analysis and response surface methodology, respectively.

The fuel efficiency was 16.77km/L on average for D-ENG and 12.97 km/L for B-ENG. The fuel efficiency of D-ENG was 22.66% higher than that of B-ENG. NOX had an average D-ENG of 191.75ppm and B-ENG of 104ppm. NOX of D-ENG occurred 145.76% more than B-ENG. The amount of CO2 generated was 154.25ppm for D-ENG and 199ppm for B-ENG. CO2 of D-ENG occurred 29.01% less than B-ENG. From this, it was found that the higher the fuel efficiency, the higher the emission of nitrogen oxide and the lower the emission of carbon dioxide decreased.

In this paper, we compare and analyze the injector defects of P-ENG and S-ENG with normal injectors by measuring current waveforms, voltage waveforms, exhaust gases and driving fuel economy. In the case of FTS failure, the S-ENG reduced the overall injection time by 3.7% and the main injection by 3.5% compared to the normal engines. In the case of AFS failure, the overall injection time increased by 45.7% and the main injection time increased by 24.1% compared to the normal engine. The rest data showed that fuel economy of S-ENG had 25.9% higher than P-ENG, NOX had 162.5% higher than that of P-ENG, and CO2 of S-ENG had 26.7% lower than P-ENG.

In this paper, the injectors with normal quantity, over quantity of +10%, under quantities of -10% and –30%, were mounted on S-ENG and P-ENG in order to measure the voltage energy, current energy and power supplied to the injectors and the fuel economy under several speed of rpm conditions. The voltage and current energy of S-ENG was greater than P-ENG, and the power of S-ENG was measured and analyzed 4.8 times higher than that of P-ENG at all injectors, and the tendency of carbon dioxide emissions calculated from fuel efficiency measurement results was not significantly affected by the type of injectors, but P-ENG was measured to be slightly affected by the type of injectors. It is assumed that the model year and mileage of the test vehicle affects this tendency.

In this study, we investigate the deformation behavior of Hf44.5Cu27Ni13.5Nb5Al10 metallic glass powder under repeated compressive strain during mechanical milling. High-density (11.0 g/cc) Hf-based metallic glass powders are prepared using a gas atomization process. The relationship between the mechanical alloying time and microstructural change under phase transformation is evaluated for crystallization of the amorphous phase. Planetary mechanical milling is performed for 0, 40, or 90 h at 100 rpm. The amorphous structure of the Hf-based metallic glass powders during mechanical milling is analyzed using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). Microstructural analysis of the Hf-based metallic glass powder deformed using mechanical milling reveals a layered structure with vein patterns at the fracture surface, which is observed in the fracture of bulk metallic glasses. We also study the crystallization behavior and the phase and microstructure transformations under isothermal heat treatment of the Hf-based metallic glass.