Development of Vacuum Levitation Melting Technology in China

摘要

This paper reviews the development of levitation melting technology including the equipment production, fundament research and applied development from 1981 to 2012, moreover, introduces the new progresses after 2010 from different aspects including improved levitation ability, increased melting temperature, increased equipment specification, and combining levitation melting with modern technologies of the material science, and so on. The development of advanced materials preparation by using levitation melting technology also is introduced in this paper.