CVD Diamond Coated Carbide Pretreatment—Mechanical Process (1/2)

Traditional mechanical process refers to the treatment of the surface, such as grinding, sand blast and so on. When it used in the CVD diamond coated carbide tools, which is the main means of mechanical polishing and ultrasonic cleaning. Mainly using diamond abrasive powder or fine diamond paste on respective base body is polished such that the surface of the substrate or the surface of the large number of mechanical scratches or shallow grooves, resulting in surface defect density is increased and the expansion of diamond nucleation sites. Solid surface defect position contains a large amount of lattice edges and kinks order, with crystal particles have higher binding force, thereby reducing the diamond nucleation free energy and enhanced nucleation effect. In addition, remain on the substrate surface diamond fine powder can be used as a seed diamond nucleation, which is one of main reason that the use of this method can greatly improve the adhesion of diamond nucleation density and the surface of the substrate.

Foreign researchers related use diamond grinding wheel for tungsten carbide matrix grinding, deposits a layer of diamond film in the process of applying the transition layer the above mentioned, through the gap between detection experiments prove diamond film and the cemented carbide substrate having good adhesion. However, after the grinding process, the surface of cemented carbide leaves more scratches, shallow pit, which will make the diamond nucleation density increase by a certain degree of influence. Meanwhile, it not only causes the damage of the surface of tungsten carbide matrix, but also has worse reuse, especially for the electronics and optics products with high demand of precision has a bad influence.

coated cemented carbide

 

Tungsten Beneficiation Technology Progress after Shizhuyuan Method

Strengthening and readsorption of collector - New Technology of trialkali selectively desorbed off the drug direct selection 
 
Add collector before coarse scheelite concentrate selection, strengthen tungsten ores and readsorb collector; after that add trialkali modifying agent, strengthen selective desorption, reagent removal and inhibition of non-target minerals. Direct flotation without dilution, desliming and reagent removal, simply the processes, recover scheelite efficiently.
 
Tungsten fine mud cyclone concentrated - normal flotation - centrifuge selection short process of new technology
Replace the original complex process of "normal flotation - Heated selection - weak magnetic flotation - intensity magnetic flotation - shaker re-election", simplifying the process, greatly improve the recovery of tungsten fine mud.
 
Isomorphous rich-molybdenum variant scheelite flotation new technology
For molybdenum tungsten isomorphous scheelite’s problem that the selection is difficult and cannot develop and use the resources, the use of TA-3 effects collector made flotation of such resources successful and construction, which makes stay mine resources become available.
 
Basic Theory Study and Innovation
Through the study of wolframite and scheelite flotation kinetics, put forward diversion velocity model innovatively, so the asynchronous flotation separation process of two tungsten minerals was proposed.
Calculate and optimize hydroxamic acid collector structure parameters by quantum chemistry, analyze the effects of the molecular structure of the collector on wolframite and scheelite flotation, as collector optimization basis.
 
The process mineralogy basis of coarse scheelite concentrate heating and normal selection was proposed.

Detinning Process of APT Production- Ion Exchange

Ion exchange is an exchange of ions between two electrolytes or between an electrolyte solution and a complex. In most cases the term is used to denote the processes of purification, separation, and decontamination of aqueous and other ion-containing solutions with solid polymeric or mineralic 'ion exchangers'.
 
Typical ion exchangers are ion exchange resins (functionalized porous or gel polymer), zeolites, montmorillonite, clay, and soil humus. Ion exchangers are either cation exchangers that exchange positively charged ions (cations) or anion exchangers that exchange negatively charged ions (anions). There are also amphoteric exchangers that are able to exchange both cations and anions simultaneously. However, the simultaneous exchange of cations and anions can be more efficiently performed in mixed beds that contain a mixture of anion and cation exchange resins, or passing the treated solution through several different ion exchange materials.
 
In the ion exchange method, the affinity of tin acid radical to resin is far less than the affinity of tungstate to resin in the solution, remove rate of tin in adsorption stage is about 90%, but also to remove 80% to 90% tin when rinsing, so the total remove rate of tin is 98% to 99%. 
Although the ion exchange capacity in addition to tin acid radical is strong, there are still a small amount of tin acid radical adsorbed by resin, and during the desorption, some goes into the ammonium tungstate solution with tungsten. If the ammonium tungstate solution crystallize directly without treatment, tin will hydrolyze and separate out and enters the APT product, it is easy to make tin content exceeded in the products. Therefore, it has been studied all this time that how to remove the depth of tin acid radicals by ion exchange methods in an attempt to tap the potential in addition to tin of ion-exchange method.

Direct Acidifying and Recycling Ammonium Paratungstate Mother Liquor

To achieve the goal of shorten the process, reduce the cost and improve the recovery ratio of tungsten trioxide, reduce the pH of APT mother liquid by hydrochloric acid to realize W, P, as, Mo, Si, S2- separate from NH4Cl is proposed in this paper, and filtrate can be returned directly to desorption agent, adding ammonia or liquid ammonia to increase the pH, and then returned to prepare desorption agent.

Steps are as below:
1. Adjusting pH value of APT mother liquor: turn on the stirred tank under normal temperature, and add ydrochloric acid to apt crystalline mother liquor to adjust the pH value; after H2Soverflow from mother liquor aborted with dilute ammonia, stop stirring after H2S volatilized completely, and clarified for 2 hours;
2. Filter: solid-liquid separation, using the cloth filter or microfiltration; filter residue return to the main flow alone or mixed with the raw materials for alkali decomposition, and filtrate can be returned directly for formulated desorption agent or adding ammonia or liquid ammonia to increase pH and then returned to prepare desorption agent.

The advantages lie in:
1. To make full use of properties of sulfur ions, made it removed from APT in the form of H2S, and recycling as ammonium sulfide for using in recycle process, reduce the secondary pollution caused by wastewater discharge and end of pipe treatment at the same time;
2. Using hydrochloric acid to adjust pH value to make APT crystal liquor directly back to the ion exchange process of desorption agent preparation;
3. The process flow is short and simple, to realize cycle of Tungsten Hydrometallurgy, recycling WO3 and NH4Cl from crystallization mother liquor to achieve APT clean production.

 

Ultracoarse Tungsten Powder Prepared from Ammonium Paratungstate

The special properties of tungsten determine particle generated from tungsten oxide or ammonium paratungstate by reduction size range generally on the 2~5μm, and difficult to obtain ultracoarse tungsten powder. In this paper, the preparation technology of super coarse tungsten powder with low energy consumption, low hydrogen consumption and short reduction time was put forward using ammonium paratungstate and ammonium paratungstate as raw materials. A method that using ammonium paratungstate made from sodium tungstate and tungstate as precursor to generate ultracoarse tungsten powder with low energy and hydrogen consumption, short reduction time is proposed.
Ammonium paratungstate
Steps are as follows:
1. Mixing solution of sodium tungstate and tungstate according to molar ratio of 1:40;
2. Heated the solution obtained in step 1 to boiling, and stop when the volume remaining 10% ~ 20%, sent to far-infrared oven for drying at 150℃ for 2 hours, then generate the precursor mixing with ammonium paratungstate and sodium tungstate crystal;
3. Sieving precursor, made the particle at 80 meshes, and then adding fine tungstate powder which take 20% of the precursor, mixed with V type mixer for 2 hours;
4. Restored in a tube reduction furnace in hydrogen; two sets of ultrasonic generator and three air hammer with uniform center spacing are set on the outer side of the furnace tube;  hydrogen section flow for 0.005L/min.cm2 and the frequency of ultrasonic generator set for 25-26kHz, pneumatic hammer percussive frequency is 60 times/min, and pneumatic hammers are percussion not at the same time, time for 30min, temperature for 900℃, ultracoarse tungsten powder generated;
5. Ultracoarse tungsten powder cleaning in ultrasonic tank with deionized water, and then filtering, dehydration with industrial alcohol, drying in a vacuum drying oven in 80℃ for I~2 hours, screening, the sieved fine tungsten powder can recycling  as raw material.

Effect of Tungsten Powder Granularity on Tungsten Copper Micro-structure

Similarly takes tungsten copper W-30Cu electrode as an example, compared with tungsten copper electrode by tungsten powder with different granularities at the same temperature SEM pictures, we can find that tungsten copper W-30Cu electrode with similar composites, the smaller the particle size of the tungsten powder, tungsten powder dispersed more evenly, but the greater the possibility of the obturator and defects, W grain size is uneven, resulting in an overall lower uniformity; on the contrary, the larger the tungsten powder particle granularity, the greater the corresponding grain size, dispersibility of the tungsten particles is reduced, the connection between the tungsten particles is weakened so that the amount of bores decreased. The following are the different particle size of tungsten powder prepared W-30Cu tungsten copper alloy electrodes SEM photograph, from left to right are the tungsten powder particle size (a) and (b) -2.9μm, (c) and (d) -4.2 -4.8μm, (e) and (f) -11-13μm:

tungsten copper electrode

Theoretically, the porosity of tungsten copper W-30Cu with smaller granularity is smaller than the coarser one at the same sintering temperature. This is due to in the process of sintering (surface diffusion plays an leading role at 1350℃ sintering temperature) with the decreasing granularity of powder, the free energy will increase, which further promotes the sintering processing. While interconnected particles occurs first in the surface of the particles.

The finer the grain size of tungsten powder, which means larger specific surface area, active surface atoms, the more the (surface energy increases), so that the surface diffusion easier to carry out. Reduced powder size is also thought to increase the diffusion of the interface between the particles, and to shorten the diffusion path, thus increasing the number of atoms per unit time-proliferation. In addition, the granularity too coarse to cause uneven tungsten skeleton bores and lead to the appearance of copper enrichment after the infiltration; and the particle size is too prone to particle agglomeration Details such tungsten skeleton prone channel closed or blocked, leading to infiltration of liquid copper is difficult to completely infiltrated, leaving part of the pores in the products, so that the uneven distribution of tissue composition of the product. Therefore, the granularity and the combination of the granularity has an remarkable influence on infiltration process.

Effect of Tungsten Powder Granularity on Tungsten Copper Density

The granularity of tungsten powder plays an important role in the comprehensive properties, such as the hardness, the density, the electrical conductivity and micro-structure and so on. Here we are concentrated on the effect of tungsten powder granularity on the density of tungsten copper electrode.

Take W-30Cu tungsten copper electrode as an example, there is sheet of effect of the granularity of W particle on the relative density of W-30Cu tungsten copper electrode (different size, includes 2.9μm, 4.2-4.8μm and 11-13μm) as follow:

tungsten copper












Theoretically, the granularity of tungsten powder is one of the main factors of the effect of tungsten copper electrode structure and properties. Viewed from the sheet, we can see that the experiment were used Fibonacci particle size of 2.9μm, 4.2-4.8μm and 11-13μm tungsten powder by pressing, infiltration and other technology to prepare W-30Cu tungsten copper electrodes. Several tungsten powder (W) sizes of the resulting tungsten copper alloy electrical extreme density in 14g / cm3 or more, relative density has reached more than 99%, when the tungsten powder particle size 4.2-4.8μm, the relative density of up to about 99.79%, and when the tungsten powder particle size is small about 2.9μm, relative density or lower density, relative density of about 99.13%.

Generally, the smaller granularity of tungsten powder, the smaller capillary radius and the higher liquid metal increases, it is more beneficial for the infiltration processing. However, finer tungsten powder has larger specific area and higher energy of surface, which internal close bores of the porous tungsten skeleton will increase and the liquid metal (copper, Cu) is difficult to penetrate. In addition, the finer the particle size of the tungsten powder, tungsten copper alloy tungsten particle size is smaller, the possibility of greater obturator and defects, tungsten copper electrode so that the uniformity of the overall organization is also affected. Therefore, selecting a moderate size tungsten powder is more suitable for tungsten copper alloy electrode production and processing.

Chinese Zodiac Gold-plated Tungsten Blocks

The Chinese zodiac is the Chinese folk cultural philosophy, with twelve animals correspond to the twelve Earthly Branches, which had became a very unique Chinese traditional culture, the Chinese zodiac and earthly branches can be referred to as: rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, chicken, dog and pig. In China, everyone has their own zodiac, as time passes the zodiac sign has become a reference of the marriage for many young people. Throughout the ages, the Chinese zodiac has obtained it’s own unshaken high status in Chinese history, so people will use many forms to save this ancient cultural symbols, such as: Chinese paintings, poetry, Chinese couplets and carving and so on.
 
The Chinese zodiac is also one of the carriers that to save this cultural symbol. Carving the lifelike Chinese zodiac patterns on the tungsten alloy blocks’ surfaces then plating the bright gold layer, that giving the Chinese zodiac tungsten blocks higher connotation and appreciation of the value. Such Chinese zodiac gold-plated tungsten blocks can be used as the gifts to relatives, friends, or giving children as lucky money in Spring Festival, or can be used as collections.
Chinese zodiac gold-plated tungsten blocks

 

Gold-plated Tungsten Birthday Block of Monkey Year

Chinese traditional spring festival in the year of the monkey,2016l is coming soon, all kinds of New Year celebrating products of Monkey Year have been covered with streets and added the festive atmosphere for the upcoming holiday, the New Year celebrating gold blocks are also no exception. Chinese people are particular loving about the double happiness, or the good things coming in pairs, in this period of time that before and after the Spring Festival, the people who are working away from hometown can come back and reunite together, so the Spring Festival is the best, suitable and preferred days for a lot of elders to held their birthday banquet. This time the young generations are always struggled for choosing what kinds of gifts for the elders that can well show their filial piety but also have the meanings. Therefore, the banks have issued the birthday gold blocks of Monkey Year which have the representative significance.
 
This kind of birthday gold blocks are usually engraved with such words such as "longevity and health", "boundless happiness and longevity", some are expressed in the form of pictures. But the price of this kind of birthday gold blocks is great high, so it can’t be total excepted by consumers. Gold-plated tungsten birthday blocks of Monkey Year have the same high appreciation value and expression meaning with the gold blocks, which can also be preserved for long times, and the gold-plated tungsten birthday blocks have the suitable price, thus making gold-plated tungsten birthday blocks of Monkey Year are more welcomed by people.
gold-plated tungsten birthday blocks

 

Tungsten Alloy Dirty Bomb Shielding Container(2/2)

Although the applications of radioactive substances have brought great progress for human society, but it also brought the radiation pollution problems, which had rang the alarm bells for human beings. Dirty bomb is a kind of bomb with huge destructive power, although it have not been heard that  which country has used dirty bombs. But since dirty bombs are easy to make, and it's easy to be used as a tool for making the terrorist attacks by the terrorists. So we still have to pay great attention to the prevention of dirty bombs and to take certain measures to shield their super radiations.
 
First of all, we should be in the form of law to explicitly prohibit the uses of dirty bombs, any countries, any persons can’t use any reasons to use the dirty bombs. Secondly, the states must strengthen the supervision of the use of radioactive substances. In addition, we can use the tungsten alloy shielding containers to store the radioactive dirty bombs, which have been manufactured, or already exists. The reason for using tungsten alloy shielding containers to shield the dirty bombs is that the tungsten alloy has great highly density and good corrosion resistance, which can not only have the good radiation shielding capacity for the dirty bombs, but also have the long storage capacity, in order to avoid the problems of the dirty bombs leaking that caused by corrosion of the containers. Finally, if one area is attacked by the dirty bombs, the government should immediately command people to evacuate from the area, in order to ensure the safety first of all, then enclosing the area and taking the scientific management to treat the radiation problems.
tungsten alloy shielding container

 

 

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