A novel technology for minimizing the synthesis time of nanostructured powders in planetary mills

A key objective in processing of nanostructured powders via high energy ball milling is to minimize the synthesis time. This paper presents the application of imperialist competitive algorithm (ICA) for optimization of milling parameters in order to minimize the synthesis time of nanostructured powders in planetary mills. At first a direct relationship between the inverse of the milling time and the power of the planetary mill was established, which allows the validation of theoretical models proposed in the literature for the energy transfer in milling devices and the comparison of milling eq...