The invention discloses a preparation method of spherical
yttrium oxide powder for high
apparent density thermal spraying. The method comprises the following steps: 1, preparation of
yttrium oxide slurry: adding high-purity
yttrium oxide serving as a
raw material into a mixing container, adding deionized water into the mixing container, stirring, blending into
slurry, adding a binder into the
slurry, uniformly mixing, putting the mixed slurry into a sand mill, and carrying out high-speed ball milling to obtain yttrium oxide slurry; then guiding the slurry obtained after high-speed ball millingout of a sand mill, and obtaining yttrium oxide slurry; 2,
spray granulation: putting the yttrium oxide slurry obtained in the step 1 into a
spray dryer to prepare spherical yttrium oxide
powder; and3, high-temperature
sintering: placing the spherical yttrium oxide
powder obtained in the second step in a high-temperature
sintering furnace to be sintered, and performing high-temperature sinteringin two stages. According to the method, the
solid content of the slurry is increased and
microwave sintering is adopted in the preparation process, so that the spherical yttrium oxide powder for
thermal spraying with high
apparent density can be prepared, and the method is simple in process, free of
chemical reaction and controllable in process adjustment.