Method and apparatus for preparing spherical crystalline fine particles

Abstract

A spherical crystalline metal oxide particle is produced by introducing a metal ion-containing solution, which has been atomized, into an atmosphere that is kept at 1000° C. or more and under oxidizing condition, in order to concurrently dry and sinter the metal ion-containing solution. Moreover, As an apparatus for producing the particle, an apparatus is used, which is structured by connecting: (A) a heating apparatus for concurrently drying and sintering an atomized particulate, the heating apparatus (4) including multi channel atomizing apparatus (3) having a function of atomizing a metal ion-containing solution, and a function of sorting a size of the thus atomized particulate; and (B) an electrostatic particle collecting apparatus (5) for electrostatically collecting the particle that is thus produced by (A) and has a predetermined size. With this arrangement, it is possible to provide a method and an apparatus capable of obtaining a highly crystalline spherical particle of a metal oxide safely and easily.

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