Thermal flow tests were performed on steamed bamboo powder using capillaries that were processed under different conditions in order to investigate the effect of the die surface state on the fluidity of the woody powder. The capillaries were processed by wire-cut electric discharge machining, reaming or drilling, and the arithmetic average roughness (Ra) varied from 0.5 to 2.5 μm. The bamboo powder was first steamed at 200 °C for 20 min, and its particle size was then controlled using different mesh screens. The thermal flow temperature was set at 200 °C. The results indicated that the flow behavior improved with increasing particle size. For the capillaries processed by WEDM, the flow rate for samples with particle sizes of 75~150 and 150~300 μm decreased with increasing Ra. On the other hand, when reaming or drilling was used to process the capillaries, the flow rate was almost independent of Ra, regardless of the particle size.

The copper alloys, which were added Nickel show high corrosion resistance. Therefore, they are generally used in environments of poor quality fuel. However, it is expected that we reduce the amount of Ni in copper alloy, due to increase of Nickel consumption in recent years. We used five different types of sintered material samples that are different in the content of Nickel in the present study, to investigate the influence of Ni content to corrosion resistance quantitatively. These samples were used for the experiment of open circuit potentials, anodic and cathodic polarization curves measurements. To simulate environment in poor quality fuel we employed solution of 0.5 M Na2S + 0.1 M NaOH (pH = 13.05). The experiment of open circuit potentials shows that samples that the content of Nickel is less than 42 mass% were formed passivation film on surface of sample during aeration. The experiment of polarization curves measurements show that the each sample was implied behavior of forming passivation film corresponding to potential-pH diagram of Cu in anodic region basically. In addition, the 36.4 mass% Nickel was remarkably improved corrosion resistance.