Thanks to their properties of ultra-lightness and high strength/weight ratio, Mg and Al alloys find increasingemploy in aerospace, automotive and biomedical applications. These alloys can be formed using all theconventional technologies used for other materials, like casting and forming. However, the mechanicalproperties of the final components are significantly influenced by the quality of the starting liquid metal.In fact, the quality of the starting liquid metal has been substantially increased in recent years, thanks to theimprovement of cleaning technologies. To this purpose, electromagnetic processing of materials has evolved asan important experimental technique in the fields of material processing, associated with applications such asshape controlling, flow driving, online detecting, controlled heat generation, inclusion removing, magneticlevitation. In particular, electromagnetic levitation, as a promising technique, can be helpful to create somenew phenomena and discoveries, especially in melting process. This work describes the design, optimizationand realization of a cold crucible levitation melting (CCLM) system for light alloys. Electromagnetic models areused and applied in FEM codes to numerical simulate the working range of the CCLM.The simulation results show good agreement with experimental data
