Why Does the Cold Resistance of EB Tungsten Filament Unqualified?

In China, the main material of EB (electron beam) tungsten filament is Double spiral wire. Double spiral wire can heating the cathode evenly. What’s more, the Double spiral wire can eliminate the influence of the magnetic field which is cause by the cathode electron beam. However, the process to make the Double spiral wire is more complex, if the users cannot operate dissolution of molybdenum correctly, it will cause a lot of substandard products. Against to the unqualified phenomenon of the cold resistance of EB tungsten filament, people should try to improve the process of molybdenum core wire dissolution.

Molybdenum core wire dissolution is a pure chemical reaction process. Molybdenum has a strong chemical stability, so that people used a mixture of concentrated sulfuric acid, concentrated nitric acid and water as an etching solution. During the reaction, the temperature and time of the reaction should be to control by a strict operation. In addition, people should also pay attention to the phenomenon of the reaction, the reaction speed would change for the different temperature and the seasons. Due to the low temperatures in winter, the reaction is difficult to control the, it is more likely to cause the cold resistance of EB tungsten filament unqualified.

There exist the remaining acid in the surface of EB tungsten filament without washing cleanly. Oxidation would make the tails of EB tungsten filament become black. Molybdenum wire of cold resistance of EB tungsten filament is mainly caused by the incomplete reaction.

The cold resistance of EB tungsten filament unqualified will produce a lot of waste, causing serious environmental pollution. Therefore, people need to understand the reason to reduce pollution and improve the ecological environment.

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Maintenance of EB Tungsten Filament of SEM

SEM (scanning electron microscope) of the electron microscope has a lower degree of vacuum, and a large beam current. Therefore, the life time of tungsten filament of SEM is limited. Generally speaking, it can last for only a few dozen hours. The life time of tungsten filament of SEM has a direct impact on the cost of the instruments operation and the effective time of operation. Consequently, it would cause more pollution and other adverse consequences. Therefore, the tungsten filament of SEM needs a regular maintenance or repair. Users can take the following measures to maintain tungsten filament and extend the life time of instruments.

Firstly, check the condition of tungsten filament, if possible, users should put the component of tungsten filament on the dissecting microscope to check again. The rate of evaporation of the filament surface is related to the temperature of the filament, users can adjust a higher height to decrease the temperature of the filament. The material can choose a thick filament gasket. And then users should adjust the current of tungsten filament. During the maintenance of tungsten filament of SEM, users should check the saturation of the filament timely. Under an unsaturated condition, current of tungsten filament should be adjusted to the saturated condition. Finally, keep the vacuum degree of Scanning electron microscope lens.

Other measures to maintain tungsten filament of SEM are: 1. Before exchange the filament, users should remove dampness and air of the new filament. 2. Do not switch filament frequently in the daily work.

 

Tungsten bronze (TB) Crystal Material Molecular Design

Molecular design of TB crystal material has made many new progress in recent years. Mainly reflected in that filling position A is applied to new elements; diversification and doping modification of filling position B element .
 
Some of the new crystals of molecules design and development by Foster is listed in Table 1. It can be found that the development of TB-type crystalline material, to fill the main position A traditionally with Ba, Sr, Pb, K and other elements entering, and the new trends of filling with La, Ce and other rare earth elements have appeared in recent years. There are rare reports about TB crystal material of earth elements in China, but there have been systematically studied in foreign countries. Position B is located by only a cationic occupied traditionally. In recent years, through the addition of low-valence cation in this position, the position A can be introduced more cations to balance electricity price, not only expanding the position A molecular design, but also being conducive to get stable crystal structure of TB.
 
Lightly doped TB crystal material, its performance can be improved to improve the quality of the crystal growth. Table following shows the properties changes of SBN, KNSBN after doping.
 
It is worth mentioned that progress of the application of TB-type crystal material is fast. SBN, PBN and other classic TB crystal materials, studies on of which preparation and properties of ceramic materials and film materials are active. Compared with the abroad, research on TB crystal materials with the W element used in position B is less in China. TB structure film of the phosphate has attracted great attention due to good prospects for superconducting applications, but the research in this aspect is weaker in China.

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Prevent WO3 Waste Flue Gas Denitration Catalyst Regeneration Pollution

plate denitration catalystAt present, the NOx in China is mainly coming from coal-fired power plants, tungsten trioxide SCR denitration catalyst is widely used as the best denitration technology due to the nice properties such as high denitration rate, selectivity, mature and reliable. However large numbers of toxic and hazardous waste gas tungsten trioxide denitration catalysts are produced with the ongoing SCR project. Therefore, strengthening the management of waste gas denitration catalyst for preventing human health and environment being damaged is necessary.
 
The activity of waste flue gas denitration catalyst can be restored or upgraded after regeneration, thus to achieve the goal of recycling and saving resource. There are two denitration catalyst regeneration treatments, respectively: on-site regeneration, and factory regeneration. Because the ability of waste gas tungsten oxide denitration catalyst regeneration is serious poor, so far the main way in China is on-site regeneration. However, since the on-site regeneration is very dangerous, which is easily causing the site environment and water pollution; others, the denitration ability can’t meet the requirements after on-site regenerated. Therefore, the factory regeneration is suggested for avoiding secondary pollution.
 
The real factory regeneration of waste tungsten trioxide denitration catalyst is a complex physical and chemical processes, and the chemical composition of regenerated catalyst can be well controlled; more importantly, the activity of catalyst recovered can even reach 100%, by the way, it can be tailored. The key technologies of waste tungsten trioxide denitration catalyst regeneration process include: high-pressure water washing, ultrasonic washing, pickling, active implants and high-temperature calcination; its major regeneration aspects include: pretreatment, cleaning, pickling, drying or calcination, wastewater treatment, waste gas treatment and other processes.

 

Commercial Recovering Value of Waste WO3 Denitration Catalyst

valuable metal content in waste denitration catalystThere are a large number of valuable metals in the waste SCR denitration catalyst, if directly discarded, it will cause a huge resources waste; furthermore, vanadium pentoxide can cause environmental pollution because of its highly toxic. For reducing environmental pollution caused in denitration catalyst regeneration process, to establish a program for generating material with high content of valuable metals, and its products can be sold directly as a raw material thus to have some commercial value.
 
The detailed description plan is showed as below:
1. Calcining the waste tungsten trioxide denitration catalyst at 800~850 ℃ for 7 ~ 8 hours, for making the material of titanium, tungsten, vanadium, molybdenum oxidized sufficiently, and removing spent catalyst and combustibles volatile at the same time; cooled after released, and then pulverized to 60 mesh or less for inactive using;
2. Leaching out the material with ammonia which has been calcined and ground at 80~90℃ for 7 to 9 hours, until the mass of tungsten trioxide and molybdenum trioxide are all leached out; carrying out filtration to separate the leaching solution containing tungsten along with molybdenum and leach residue containing titanium vanadium;
3. The leachate is first carried out Mo precipitation with ammonium sulfide, taken out filtration after Mo completely precipitated thus to get the molybdenum sulfide which can be sold as raw molybdenum material; besides, the ammonium tungstate is remained in the filtrate solution;
4. Concentrate the filtrate to about 45% of its original volume by evaporation, and then adjust the pH value to 6.2 with nitric acid, while reducing the temperature of the solution to about 15℃at the same time, and incubated for 5 hours to precipitate ammonium paratungstate crystals, then directly packing the APT for selling after washed, and the crystal liquor returns to evaporation process;
5. Leaching out the vanadium in the residue by reduction roasting method, by the way titanium leaves in the leaching residue, thus to separate vanadium and titanium; after cooling down and filtrating, the residue can be sold as the titanium-rich material;
6. Add KClO3 into the filtrate to precipitate V2O5, and it can be sold as vanadium application raw material, and the potassium mother liquor can be used as an agricultural fertilizer.

 

What is JEOL EB Tungsten Filament?

The full name of JEOL is Japanese Electron Optics Laboratory. After decades of exploration and research by the world’s top scientific instrument manufacturers, they create the brand JEOL. Nowadays, JEOL products are widely applied in the fields of medicine, biology, biochemistry, agriculture, material science, metallurgy, chemical, petroleum, pharmaceuticals, semiconductor and electronics. EB (electron beam) tungsten filament of JEOL is known to the Chinese businessmen. So far, there are more than 2000 users of JEOL in China. In China, EB tungsten filament of JEOL is used by a key laboratory sciences sector, research institutes, universities, medical institutions, government agencies and enterprises.

EB tungsten filament of JEOL has a strong vacuum system, which is widely applied in a SEM (scanning electron microscope). EB tungsten filament of JEOL uses the newest electro-optical systems to enhance the image quality scanning electron microscope. The main specifications of EB tungsten filament of JEOL are 0.55mm of mosquito type, 0.65mm of mosquito type, 0.8mm of mosquito type, 0.8mm of eccentric type and 0.55mm of half-moon type. EB tungsten filament of JEOL has a strong plasticity in maintaining electron gun and optical coating.

EB tungsten filament of JEOL is made of tungsten with a high-grade.  Its features are high melting point and low coefficients of thermal expansion. This kind of tungsten is the best material for EB tungsten filament. The main types of EB tungsten filament of JEOL is K type. The diameter of its ceramic plate is 28.0 mm, the pin diameter is 1.2 mm, and the distance of center pin is 8.0 mm.

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Tungsten Copper Powder CIP Process

Compared with HIP (Hot Isostatic Pressing) process, CIP (Cold Isostatic Pressing) is a kind of molding process that commonly all directions sealed in plastic mold material simultaneously even pressure at room temperature, and more for powdered metal or non-metallic materials, molding, which provides a pre-sintered compacts for sintering. Tungsten copper is a kind of psudoalloy consists of W and Cu mutually soluble and has a great difference in physical and chemical properties. So it is difficult to prepare by conventional methods, which must be prepared by PM (Powder Metallurgy) process. According to different pressure transmission fluid, including cold isostatic wet bag method and the dry bag method isostatic pressing and soft mode.

Since the conventional molding method between the powder and the powder, powder and punch and die wall there is a certain friction, so that during the pressing force distribution and transmission of certain changes occur, and also resulted in various parts of the compact density and intensity distribution uneven; by comparison, CIP has more uniform forming pressure, which can ensure under lower pressures have pressed leather uniform density and integrity of shape and small loss of mold, high molding efficiency.

In addition, it should be noticed that pressing speed controlling is also a significant factor of the blank density during CIP process. It not only affects the state of friction and work hardening powder particles, but also affects the case of gas escaping. If the compression speed is too fast, the gas can not escape easily, which left in the blanks in the relatively more in the subsequent sintering process are correspondingly difficult to eliminate left voids or pores. Furthermore, pressing too fast will make the inside of the powder aggregate greater stress, resulting in relief the compacts elastic aftereffect. Therefore, in the process of compacting, reduce the speed and extend the dwell time appropriately can ensure that pressure transmission fully, air between powders have sufficient time to escape and be beneficial for density distribution.

Tungsten Carbide Transferring Ball

Tungsten carbide transferring ball, as the name suggests that it is a kind of flexible sphere can run in all directions. So it also has been called universal ball, transferring roller or bull’s eye, etc. Due to the flexibility universal ball rolling, the work bench or other original material quality or bulky workpiece can be more portable to slip, which also greatly reduces the labor intensity of the operator. Universal ball is suitable for transporting the items with smooth and strong surface of bottom, such as cardboard boxes, plastic crates, pallet parts, and surface roughness of the steel sheet-like object. In addition, according to different load requirements, it can adjust the density distribution of transferring ball, or can choose transferring ball with different materials and carrying capacity.

Commonly transferring ball materials includes steel ball, stainless steel ball, carbon steel ball, bearing steel ball, galvanized steel ball, plastic steel ball, tungsten carbide ball and so on. By comparison, tungsten carbide transferring ball has the better properties among them. Tungsten carbide is composed of WC and Co, WC has higher hardness and Co added improves the toughness, strength and wear resistance. It by carbide ball and the support base with the completion of transfer of the workpiece. Tungsten carbide transferring ball has higher machining accuracy and the surface without secondary treatment.

The surface toughness of common steel ball can not meet the requirements, which electrically galvanized or chrome effect will be affected. And secondary processing if the grinder be polished, dimensional accuracy will be affected to some degree. Except surface quality, there are several evaluation parameters of universal ball overall quality, such as flexibility, noise and dimensional accuracy. Generally, plate with your fingers on the ball was moving moment of inertia of the ball more than three seconds for qualified. The noise is related with ball accuracy and the quality, tungsten carbide ball has higher accuracy and quality so its noise is lower and the rotation is smoother and more uniform.

Tungsten Carbide Transferring Ball

 

Tungsten Trioxide Denitration Catalyst Selection of High Ash Working Condition

Honeycomb denitration catalyst has a large surface area due to a large number of holes, small intercept, thin wall, thus to require smaller amount of engineering tungsten trioxide denitration catalyst. However, because of its smaller aperture, the property of flue gas passing through is poor, fly ash blocking the bridge is easily occurred at high fly ash conditions; when part of the aperture blocked, the amount of fly ash will have a sharp increasing in the other aperture, and then the whole catalyst occur serious blockage. We know that the catalyst blockage is a serious irreversible running accident, which has to exit the reactor catalyst to clean up when the situation is serious.

SCR denitration catalyst
 
Since the thickness of the thin-walled catalyst is average 25% or more smaller than the standard, the pore size is about 5% larger than the standard when at the same number holes, thus to have a better smoke and ash passing through, higher specific surface area , lower engineering required. However, since the thin wall thickness, the wear-resistant is reduced, and partial rupture may be occurred, or even blocked, finally bring a high operating costs.
 
The majority of our thermal power combustion conditions are poor which demand very large catalyst regeneration. The selection of catalyst sufficient to consider is not only the life of the chemical mechanical strength, but also the mechanical strength required for catalyst regeneration. Under conditions of high fly ash, ignoring design principle, blindly select long and short type catalyst is not desirable. In general, the smaller thickness, the higher the risk of mechanical damage is; besides, these risks will not ease with the hardening end. According to the experience when the fly ash concentration exceeds 30g/Nm3, the catalyst should be used in standard-type catalyst with wall thickness greater than 1.0mm in order to fully meet the requirements of chemical and mechanical life, and the risks of plug fouled and worn does not occurred.

 

WO3 Denitration Catalyst Uses Titanium Dioxide

Denitration catalyst nano-titanium dioxide is a kind of titanium dioxide, the powder which doped with tungsten trioxide, vanadium pentoxide. The catalyst powder may be supported on a stainless steel plate, ceramic, glass fiber base material, and then shaped in a plate, corrugated honeycomb or plate, finally integrated in the steel to composite of the overall denitration reactor. Denitration catalyst comprising tungsten with titanium dioxide has the nice properties such as high hydrophilicity, strong adsorption, high specific surface area and catalytic activity, stable surface area when sintered under high temperature at 600℃, no secondary pollution, thus mainly used for denitration, which the denitration rate can up to more than 95% under the condition of 100% flue gas.

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SCR is the most effective denitration technology currently, the denitration catalyst containing tungsten trioxide is a denitration catalyst with excellent performance. Compared with traditional SCR catalyst, this catalyst has a larger surface area, particle uniformity, low sulfur content and high catalytic activity, and thus having a stronger catalytic reduction. Denitration catalyst titanium dioxide containing with tungsten is mainly used for the manufacture of a denitration catalyst, a good carrier material for SCR denitration catalyst, mainly dealing with nitrogen oxides, specifically for waste incineration and chemical plants, oil refineries, coke, flue gas treatment, and automotive glass factory, ship exhaust gas treatment required for denitration catalyst manufacturing.
 
If the catalyst exposures at 450℃ for a long-term, it will easy to cause prone catalyst sintered, thus leads to the TiO2 catalyst particle changed, specific performance like that the surface area reduced, activity decreased, but the introduction of tungsten trioxide can reduce the sintering of catalyst at maximum. Furthermore, tungsten trioxide evenly distributed in the surface of titanium dioxide, and catalyst efficiency has been further improved after it combined with vanadium pentoxide.

 

 

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