AMT Neutralization–Nanofiltration–Crystallization Process

Neutralization is a chemical reaction in which an acid and a base react quantitatively with each other. In a reaction in water, neutralization results in there being no excess of hydrogen or hydroxide ions present in solution. The pH of the neutralized solution depends on the acid strength of the reactants. Neutralization is used in many applications.
 
Nanofiltration is a membrane filtration-based method that uses nanometer sized cylindrical through-pores that pass through the membrane at 90°. Nanofiltration membranes have pore sizes from 1-10 nanometers, smaller than that used in microfiltration and ultrafiltration, but just larger than that in reverse osmosis. Membranes used are predominantly created from polymer thin films. Materials that are commonly use include polyethylene terephthalate or metals such as aluminum. Pore dimensions are controlled by pH, temperature and time during development with pore densities ranging from 1 to 106 pores per cm2. Membranes made from polyethylene terephthalate and other similar materials, are referred to as “track-etch” membranes, named after the way the pores on the membranes are made. “Tracking” involves bombarding the polymer thin film with high energy particles. This results in making tracks that are chemically developed into the membrane, or “etched” into the membrane, which are the pores. Membranes created from metal such as alumina membranes, are made by electrochemically growing a thin layer of aluminum oxide from aluminum metal in an acidic medium.
 
Using a coupling process of neutralization–nanofiltration–crystallization, pure ammonium metatungstate (AMT) was prepared. The effects of chemical neutralization of ammonium paratungstate (APT) by nitric acid, operating pressure, AMT concentration, the volume of washing water on the coupling process were systematically discussed. It was found that the better conditions of AMT preparation were as follows: the neutralization temperature was 80–95 °C, pH value was 2.0–3.5; the operating pressure of HDS-12-2 nanofiltration was 1.5–2.0 MPa, the density of AMT crystallization solution was 2.39 kg/L, and then cooling. APT conversion efficiency (δ) to AMT was more than 97.62%. The removal ratio of nitrate ion (NO3−) was more than 99% while AMT rejection (RAMT) was 99.9%. Besides, small-grained, even-proportioned, white-colored and high-purified AMT crystal was be obtained and analyzed. This method has several advantages such as simple technological process, short production cycle, lower environmental pollution and high quality.

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AMT Structure Study

Several techniques have been used to study the structure of the Keggin-type polyoxometalate salt ammonium metatungstate (AMT)—(NH4)6[H2W12O40]*nH2O, a potential fuel cell catalyst. The dehydrated salt is comprised of a mixture of crystallites of different unit cells in a centered eutactic cubic configuration, with an average unit cell of a≅12.295. Varied orientations of the Keggin ions in the cubic arrangement create the differences, and orientational variation within each unit cell size represents an energy well. Progressive hydration of each crystallite leads to expansion of the lattice, with the degree of expansion depending on the locations of the water added in relation to the Keggin ion, which is influenced by cation location and hydrogen bonding. The structural hypothesis is supported by electron diffraction of single and multicrystal samples, by powder density measurements, X-ray powder diffraction studies, synchrotron powder X-ray diffraction, and a priori structural modeling studies. Based on the structure, projected active site densities are compared with nanostructured platinum catalysts for fuel cell application.
 
Graphical abstract
The structure of ammonium metatungstate powders are highly dependent on hydration and POM molecule rotation, with cation and hydrogen bonding forces directing a mixture of structures that have been studied with bulk and single-crystal methods. The illustration shows Monte Carlo simulated anion structural disorder for the fully dehydrated form of the title compound.


structure of ammonium metatungstate powders

Tungsten Gold-Plated Coins for Birthday Party

The concept of birthday celebration for modern people is no longer as indifference as the ancient people. Nowadays, people will use a variety of ways to celebrate their birthday, such as celebrating birthday outdoors with friends and relatives, or going to hotels to have a table of delicious bites, or going to KTV and singing together. Of course, there is another way to celebrate, is to invite your classmates, colleagues, relatives etc. to your home and hold a spectacular birthday party. Westerners prefer to hold a birthday party at home, because this will make a more meaningful birthday, and create more memorable memory. So, in addition to the video and photos, what can be permanently in memory of this memorable birthday party?
 
Tungsten gold-plated coins have golden color and beautiful appearance, which have been used to commemorate various special days, occasions or collections by many people. For the birthday party, its holding meaning is to commemorate, which coincides with the using nature of tungsten gold-plated coins.Therefore, tungsten gold-plated coins can be used as commemorative coins according to the different needs of different carving patterns or texts. Not only can commemorate the birthday but also the celebration of this unforgettable birthday party at the same time.
tungsten gold-plated coins for birthday party

 

Tungsten Gold-Plated Coins for Diamond Wedding Anniversary

People named the marriage of couples who had married 60 years, as a diamond wedding, it is a precious thing that can accompany loves day by day no matter how the time went by, or accompany the lovers together and even get old slowly but still regard each other as good treasure. They stand together through storm and stress till old with grey-haired, and then nestling together bending down in the warm fire, holding hands and reading quietly, sleeping quietly. Many people envy about the couples who can stay in love, about such a precious love. Diamond wedding anniversary is to be set for commemorating such a wonderful and precious date. This is the most precious marriage ceremony for life, children and grandchildren surround in you with happiness. 
 
Tungsten gold-plated coins have very high commemorative significance and value of appreciation, so in this most important moment, we can engrave the date of diamond wedding anniversary in the tungsten gold-plated coins’ surface, giving them to each family to witness and to remember this precious and beautiful moment. Tungsten gold-plated coins for diamond wedding anniversary are immortal with rich texture, which can be permanently preserved, and to witness of your beautiful diamond wedding anniversary eternally.
Tungsten gold-plated coins for diamond wedding anniversary

 

Tungsten Gold-Plated Bars for Silver Wedding Anniversary

According to the European customs accounts, silver wedding is the wedding anniversary of twenty-five years. Twenty five years, neither long nor short time, in this time children are young, but parents are becoming older and older. They are walking through the many years’ disturbance with respect and tender care together, and raised their children with painstaking efforts. Just like the romantic poem says: "hold your hand, and grow old together." So for many people, it’s essential to send gifts to parents in the day of their silver wedding anniversary. 
 
Tungsten gold-plated bars for silver wedding anniversary are the silver wedding commemorative souvenirs, which were made of tungsten alloy. Since tungsten alloy has the unique good wear resistance and corrosion resistance, so that makes the tungsten gold-plated bars have the characters of long lasting life, non-deformation as well as without damage, which make them can exactly imply that parents’ love will last long time, and never deformation. So tungsten gold-plated bars are very suitable for being used as silver wedding anniversary gifts to parents. Although the value of tungsten gold-plated bars for silver wedding is lower than gold, but it has high commemorative value, simple but meaningful. It is the reason why tungsten gold-plated bars would not cause lots of economic loss due to theft, lost and other issues. Regardless of what can be used to commemorate silver wedding anniversary, the essence of commemoration is to retain and remember the beauty, and the essence of tungsten gold-plated bar is for the commemoration of retaining and remembering.
Tungsten gold-plated bars for silver wedding anniversary

 

Ammonium Paratungstate Preparing NaLaMgWO6 Powder

NaLaMgWO6 powder is the matrix of LED phosphor powder. LED is becoming the future development direction of the illumination source with the series advantages, such as low voltage and power consumption, high reliability, long life, environmentally friendly and energy-efficient. Phosphor plays an important role in the field of LED lighting. Tungstate is typically self-activated luminescent material, the stable emission spectrum, very wide intrinsic luminescence band, occupying most of the visible light region, thus strongly influence the emission band position. Therefore, ammonium paratungstate (APT) as the typical tungstate, is a matrix material with excellent light-emitting property, and can be used for preparing NaLaMgWO phosphor powder which is applied in LED. The steps as following:

1. Weighing NaNO3, La(NO3)3, magnesium acetate and APT at a certain proportion, and dissolving them in deionized water, then adding citric acid to prepare a solution named A; the molar ratio of citric acid : NaNO3 is (0.05~0.2):1;
2. Adjusting the pH value of solution A to neutral value;
3. The solution A is carried out a hydrothermal treatment, and then removed for centrifugation, washing and drying to obtain a sample powder;
4. Sintering the powder sample to solid phase, to obtain the NaLaMgWO6 powder. The solid-phase sintering conditions supposed to be: raising the temperature at the rate of 1~2℃/min from room temperature to 200~300℃, and then continually raising to 500-800℃ at 3~5℃/min, holding for 3~8 hours then cooling down.

 

APT Preparing Fluorinated Catalyst

Fluorination catalyst plays a central role in the reaction of gas phase catalytic fluorinated halogenated olefins, a method that using ammonium paratungstate (APT) and chromium hydroxide to prepare fluorination catalyst is proposed in this paper.

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Steps like bellows:
1. Mixing the chromium hydroxide and APT a certain mass percentage, and pressing to obtain the precursor of product;
2. Calcining the catalyst precursor obtained in step 1 in the nitrogen atmosphere at 300℃~500℃ for 6~15 hours. In the calcination, a large amount of volatile compounds will be produced, and mainly is ammonia, making catalyst of high surface area, pore volume, thus enhancing the activity of catalyst;
3. Carrying out activation in the atmosphere of hydrogen fluoride and hydrogen (mixed gas mixed at a molar ratio of 10:1) at the temperature of 200℃~ 400℃ for 6 ~15 hours; in this process, all or part of the tungsten 6 will be reduced to tungsten;
4. Carrying out activation at 200℃~400℃ again, the atmosphere should be the mixed gas of hydrogen fluoride and chlorine at molar ratio of 10:1, for 6~15 hours, thus to get fluorination catalyst.

 

Tungsten Carbide Anti-corrosion Research (2/2)

There is an experiment chooses WC-10(CoNi) tungsten carbide as an object of study. In order to test the anti-corrosion, it adds different content of Co in the binder and finds that Cr element effectively increases the anti-corrosion of tungsten carbide and the hardness increases with the increasing content of Cr. Another study is about corrosion behavior with WC-9Ni-0.57Cr carbide simulation in seawater, the study found that in deep-sea high pressure, corrosive environments on corrosion resistance is concerned, compared to conventional WC-Co carbide system to Ni-Cr alloy as the binder phase has better corrosion resistance.

Recently, some foreign scholars have also studied the correlation titanium carbide (TiC), tantalum carbide (TaC) and chromium carbide (Cr3C2) added impact on the corrosion resistance of the alloy. They believe that an appropriate amount of such reinforcement TiC ceramic composite materials can improve toughness of the alloy, and TiC and TaC has excellent chemical stability, only some of the acid is dissolved in, super acid and alkaline oxide solution: While Cr dissolved in the bonding phase accordingly in its surface layer of passive film is formed, it will not change the strength of the premise, significantly reduce the current density, and the higher the ratio of Cr alloy and Co, the passivity of alloy becomes higher. Furthermore, adding aluminum (Al) in the binder is also a new attempt of researchers. Theoretically, Al can be formed of metal bond compound (Co3Al), will make a fundamental change in the binder phase from the structure and performance, the amount can be increased to improve the content of Al alloy high temperature oxidation resistance and corrosion resistance.

The latest research has progressed to the development of adhesive-free alloy, which is free or very little binder metal content, high hardness (up 95HRA above), corrosion and oxidation resistance is also very good, but its flexural strength and fracture toughness is lower, which is difficult for machining. Overall, for the study of the corrosion of cemented carbide mainly includes three aspects, one is to replace the binder phase, and the second is to strengthen the binder phase by adding elements, hard phase grain refinement, the third is the development of adhesive-free tungsten carbide.

Tungsten Carbide Anti-corrosion Research (1/2)

Conventional tungsten carbide is composed of hard phase WC and the binder Co. Due to Co has good wettability on WC, tungsten carbide has high hardness, high density, high strength and excellent chemical stability, which can be widely used in some wear parts and cutting tools machining. But as binder, Co has poor anti-corrosion, especially for scour corrosion so that to add some other elements with good anti-corrosion or to find new binder becomes the new directions of related researchers. The principle of Co oxidation corrosion of WC and Co is formed of two electrodes in the electrochemical etching solution, to form a closed loop enclosing an electrolyte. WC as a catalyst to promote the electrolytic solution boundaries O2, producing O2-, forming a cathode; Co as the anode is oxidized and causes the corrosion.

The Common nickel (Ni) can effectively take place of the cohesive effect of cobalt (Co) and improve the anti-corrosion of tungsten carbide. But tungsten carbide hardness (HRA) affected its formation, as compared to the original cobalt tungsten carbide decreased 0.5-1 times, only 70-80% strength cobalt tungsten carbide, which is only suitable for less demand in strength, wear resistance situations. In addition, add chromium (Cr) in the binder is also a kind of common method to improve anti-corrosion of tungsten carbide. It can remarkably decrease the corrosion rate of tungsten carbide in corrosive conditions, refine tungsten carbide grains and strengthen the binder phase, which not only improve the anti-corrosion of tungsten carbide, but also promote other properties.

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AMT Production Technical State

With the promotion of the petroleum refining industry, research and development of tungsten catalyst have gained widespread attention. The active component of this catalyst - tungsten trioxide, is used as a catalyst carrier, as spherical silica, aluminum oxide prepared by dipping and  pyrolysis ammonium metatungstate (AMT). This is a direct power in recent years to promote the development of AMT. According to the research and analysis, AMT may be the promising alternative raw materials of doped tungsten production, such as materials of tungsten wire, cerium tungsten electrode, to replace ammonium paratungstate(APT)., the current material of tungsten products with widespread use.
 
There are numerous process for AMT production, but the thermal degradation method using APT as the raw material still have the edge even within the traditional period and foreseeable future. The advantage is that the process is relatively simple and easy to operate. The main disadvantage is the low direct recovery, for example, the direct recovery of AMT is usually 70-80% in several domestic manufacturers. Therefore, there are a lot of patents on pyrolysis equipment for the research and improvement in the United States, so that the direct recovery of AMT has reached a high level of 98%. The key to improve the direct recovery of AMT is thermal degradation device. U.S. Patent proposes three thermal degradation of the furnace, including the plate multiple hearth furnace, tube multiple hearth furnace and microwave, the common feature of which is to make the pyrolysis temperature of raw material APT trend in uniform, avoiding two situations affecting the direct recovery that the pyrolysis temperature is too high or too low.
 
There are many studies for wet process using ammonium tungstate as the raw material and applied for a patent, including liquid-liquid extraction, ion exchange, electrodialysis, and so on. Advantages of these production processes are the ability to save equipment investment, continuous operation, automatic. However, putting the results of these studies into application of production practice still need a lot of work to do.

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