Systems and methods for heating of dispersed metallic particles

A system for inductive heating of dispersed metallic particles, the system comprising:

• a particle-laden flow including a carrier phase comprising a carrier fluid and a dispersed phase comprising the dispersed metallic particles, wherein the dispersed metallic particles include a soft binder component for cohesion and flow and a hard particulate component;
• an inductive heating subsystem for inductively heating the dispersed metallic particles, the inductive heating subsystem comprising a magnetic field generator for generating a magnetic field for heating the dispersed metallic particles via at least one of hysteresis and Joule heating mechanisms;
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• a control unit for controlling an operating parameter of the inductive heating subsystem to control a flow parameter of the particle-laden flow, the flow parameter being any one or more of an induction heating timescale, a particle thermal timescale, a heat diffusion in the carrier phase, and a particle clustering of the dispersed metallic particles.