Packaging water-reactive aluminum
AssigneeLtag Systems LLC
InventorsJonathan T. Slocum, Alexander H. Slocum
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Abstract
A method of packaging water-reactive aluminum may include directing at least one discrete object into a container, the at least one discrete object including an aluminum alloy, the aluminum alloy plastically deformed and non-recrystallized, introducing, into the container, a liquid metal alloy including one or more activation metals, enclosing the at least one discrete object and the liquid metal alloy with one another in the container to form a kit, for a predetermined period, exposing the kit to a heating environment, and agitating the at least one discrete object and the liquid metal alloy in the container in the heating environment during the predetermined period to form the kit into a packaged unit of water-reactive aluminum.
Claims10
A system comprising:
- a heating environment defining a volume;
- a pair of rollers disposed in the volume, at least one roller of the pair of rollers actuatable to rotate a container on the pair of rollers;
- a heater operable to direct heat into the container, via one or more rollers of the pair of rollers, as the container rotates on the pair of rollers;
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- a controller in electrical communication with the at least one roller and with the heater, the controller configured to actuate the at least one roller according to a speed and a time of a predetermined heating protocol and to control the heater according to a temperature and the time of the predetermined heating protocol.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.