Apparatus and method for uniformly processing powder material using intense pulsed light

Abstract

An apparatus and a method for processing a powder material using IPL are disclosed. The powder material processing apparatus includes a chamber; a raw-powder feeding line for feeding raw-powders having a polymer coating into the chamber; a gas ejector disposed on a bottom of the chamber so as to eject air upwardly to suspend the raw-powders in the chamber; an IPL (Intense Pulsed Light) irradiator for carbonizing the polymer coating of the raw-powders; and a treated-powder discharging line for discharging treated-powders having the carbonized polymer coating out of the chamber.

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