Ammonium Paratungstate Catalyze Preparation of Nanosize Titanium Dioxide with Tungsten

Nanosize titanium dioxide (TiO2) refers to titanium dioxide with particles under 100 nm, mainly used in cosmetics, antimicrobial agents, etc.. Burning coal will generate nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide and other nitrogen oxides which are poison to human body and plant. So denitrification has practical significance in the process of environmental protection. Denitrification catalyst is a substance that promotes the reducing agent reacting with titanium dioxide selectively at a certain temperature. Nanosize titanium dioxide with tungsten is a kind of catalyst for denitrification with a good performance. Preparation principle: Using metatitanic acid prepared by method of sulfuric acid as raw material, adding precursor of ammonium paratungstate and sulfate, delivery to rotary kiln for drying and roasting after stirring, and nanosize titanium dioxide with tungsten with high specific surface and surface acidic obtained.

nanosiza TiO2

Preparation process:
1. Remove impurities from partial acid by washing, and control ion concentrations of iron, alkali metal and all kinds of heavy metal below 100ppm;
2. Adding distilled water, configure partial acid slurry with content of TiO2 less than 30%;
3. Adding precursor of sulfate into partial acid slurry after mixing;
4. Adding ammonium paratungstate at the proportion of WO3 accounted 3~10% in the total quality of final titanium dioxide, stirring to mixing uniform;
5. Pressing leaching partial acid slurry by the diaphragm filter, and then send it to rotary kiln, raising the temperature up to 500-640℃ at rate of 20-60℃/h, nanosize titanium dioxide with tungsten which is special used as denitrification catalyst system.

Adding ammonium paratungstate into partial acid slurry, to get nanosize titanium dioxide with tungsten with higher activity, fluidity, honeycomb catalyst squeezed with smaller shrinkage rate for molding.

Tungsten Copper Composites Powder Prepared from Ammonium Paratungstate

Tungsten copper alloy is prepared by tungsten and copper, which belongs to a metal sweating material. Tungsten copper alloy has the properties of both tungsten and copper, with uniform microstructure and high temperature resistance, strength, density and resistance to arc erosion and so on. Tungsten/ copper alloy is used in fields of military and nuclear fusion because of the moderate electric and heat conduction it has.

Tungsten copper alloy

The preparation process of the tungsten copper alloy is generally prepared in the following five steps: preparing tungsten copper powder→mixed ingredients→pressing process→sintering and dissolution→cold working.
Using ammonium paratungstate and copper nitrate as raw material, improved traditional way to prepare tungsten copper composites powder -- Spray Drying Hydrogen Reduction Method, and reduce process of spray drying. And prepared the final product with only phase of tungsten and copper, also particles of tungsten will keep in the initial size.

The preparation processes are as follows:
1. Mixing water, copper nitrate, tartaric acid, ammonium paratungstate and citric acid according to a certain proportion, stirring under the temperature of 50 ~ 60℃for at least 5 hours, then get mixed liquor;
2. Adding polyethylene glycol to the liquor prepared step 1 and stirring under the temperature of 60~70℃ until it turns to gel;
3. placing the gel in 100 ~ 120℃ to dry for at least 12 hours, then get gel dried;
4. Arrange the dry gel orderly on 290 ~ 310℃ for 3.5 ~ 4.5 hours, then 540 ~ 560 ℃ for 4.5 ~ 5.5 hours, to obtain an intermediate product;
5. Reducing the intermediate product in reduction gas at 760~800℃for more than 3 hours, and tungsten copper composites powder prepared.

Online Testing Molybdenum Ion Concentration in Sodium Tungstate Solution

There’re many disadvantages of traditional manual testing the concentration of molybdenum ion in sodium tungstate solution. For example, it has poor reproducibility and it’s easy to produce precipitation. The operation is tedious and cost is high. This paper introduces using flow injection technology to combine with spectrophotometric method. Setting up an online inspection system of molybdenum ion and a series of optimization to the experimental conditions and experiment method greatly improves the stability and sensitivity. The continuous on-line analysis is realized. It can be applied in the online testing of molybdenum ion in sodium tungstate.
 
Experiment principle: when the sample and reagent produce chromogenic reaction, non-ferrous material is generated. Nonferrous material is current-carrying pushed through flow pool. Non-ferrous material absorbs the photons. Through the photoelectric cell, make the photon energy to convert into electrical signals. Load into the computer, according to the size of absorbance, concentration is detected. In the detection of molybdenum ion process, the influence of tungsten ion in sodium tungstate on testing molybdenum ion must be considered.

Spectrophotometer

Through the experiment we can draw the following conclusions:
1. The allocation of chromogenic reagents. Try to mix different concentrations of thiourea, potassium thiocyanate and copper sulfate solution according to different proportions and observe its stability. Results show that better preparation method is using the ratio of 1:1:1.2 to add chromogenic reagents.
2. The choice of concentrations of potassium thiocyanate. When the concentration of potassium thiocyanate solution is 250 g/L, the sensitivity is higher and the precipitation isn’t easy to appear. The result is satisfactory.
3. The choice of catalyst solubility. Copper ion has the catalytic reduction effect. It can accelerate the molybdenum reduction. It was found that when the copper sulfate solution concentration is  30 g/L-1, the result is best.
4. The choice of the reaction acidity. The results show that when the concentration of the acidity is 1:3, the effect is better.
5. The choice of concentration of reductant thiourea. When the concentration of reducing agent is 100 g/L, the effect is better.
 
To sum up, using the chromogenic reagents of experimental configuration and combining flow injection technique with spectrophotometric method can online test molybdenum ion concentration well. Configuring different reagents on this method can test different ion concentration conveniently and fast.

 

Sodium Tungstate Ionic Membrane Electrolytic Tanks

Ion membrane electrolysis method is also called membrane electrolyzer electrolytic method. It uses cation exchange membrane to divide unit electrolytic cell into the anode chamber and the cathode chamber to separate electrolytic products. Ionic membrane electrolysis method is a new technology developing on the basis of the ion exchange resin. Using the properties of ion exchange membrane passing through the negative ion and positive ion and allowing taking a charge ions and limiting the opposite charge ions can achieve the purpose of enrichment, desalination, purification, purification and electrochemical synthesis.
 
ionic membrane electrolytic tanks
The main disadvantages of the current tungsten metallurgy process are high acid and alkali consumption. hungarians have developed sodium tungstate ion membrane electrolysis process combined with solvent extraction. It can effectively reduce consumption of acid and alkali. Sodium tungstate ionic membrane electrolysis technology has good application prospect, but if for industrial application, low energy consumption of ionic membrane electrolyzer must be designed for industrial production. Through long-term research and practice, ionic membrane electrolytic tanks in chlor-alkali industry have made great development and important significance of designing sodium tungstate ionic membrane electrolyzer.
 
1. The plate electrode from distal cell:
Because the electrolyte is similar to water electrolyzer, they are all alkaline fluid. So process plastic plate electrode cell to simulate the water electrolyzer. It has carried on the exploration of sodium tungstate ion membrane electrolysis experiment. Test confirmed the possibility of using ionic membrane electrowinning extraction material liquid. Due to the slot on both ends of the plate electrodes embedded in tub, it’s unable to further shorten the pole pitch. So the relative unit energy consumption is higher, so it is necessary to improve tank structure. Although a vent in the tub, due to the smaller air chamber of the upper trough, gas is still not easy to discharge. Power consumption is higher.
2. The mesh electrode near polar distance electrolyzer:
First of all, the electric mixer can thin stagnation layer thickness and reduce energy consumption. And it can make the uniform flow distribution and effectively prevent the local acid. Secondly, using the pump electrolytic cell is feasible. It is possible to use plastic instead of metal, which is beneficial to save material. Finally, chlor-alkali electrolyzer was basically can be applied to sodium tungstate ion membrane electrolysis. The effect is better than any other electrolyzers.

 

Exploration on Mesoporous Tungsten Trioxide Electrocatalytic Property

spray dryingSpray drying method is a systematic method of drying technology that is used in material. After the thinner is atomized in the drying chamber, contacted with hot air, the moisture rapidly vaporized by mechanical action, dispersing them into very fine mist as the same particles (increasing the water evaporation area accelerate the drying process) .and making them contacted with hot air, we can find most of the water is removed in an instant, the material of the solid material dried to a powder. The method can directly make a solution, emulsion dried into powdery or granular products, which can be omitted and evaporated. Spray drying has a fast drying process that can be directly dried into a powder, it is easy to change dry conditions, and it avoids flying dust in the workshop; it can improve product purity, it has high production efficiency.

The preparation of hollow mesoporous tungsten trioxide microspheres (HMTTS) is based on spray drying and calcination, a further load on the surface of the active ingredient of palladium (Pd), which can obtain nano Pd / HMTTS composite catalyst. The morphology and crystal structure of the catalysts are characterized by X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM), etc. The result shows that, Pd nanoparticles are face-centered cubic crystal structure, evenly distributed in HMTTS surface. We Study Pd, HMTTS electrical properties of catalytic oxidation catalyst in formic acid solution using cyclic voltammetry and chronoamperometry, the results show Pd / HMTTS catalyst is higher than conventional tungsten trioxide palladium catalyst (Pd / WO3) of formic acid exhibits in electro-catalytic activity. It is beneficial for formic acid oxidation process occurs in the surface of the palladium because of HMTTS unique structure and surface properties and hydrogen spillover effect hollow mesoporous.

 

Nitrogen-Doped Impact on Tungsten Trioxide Structure

Doping is an important method to improve the efficiency of light energy conversion of photocatalytic material. Numerous of studies show that the rare earth and metal ions by doping can significantly enhance the catalytic activity of the photocatalyst, however, it may lead the stability of metal-doped catalysts thermal to decrease and the introduction of photo-generated electron and hole recombination centers to reduce its optical conversion efficiency. Some non-metal-doped semiconductor material may improve their stability, electrical conductivity, and pass through between the conductive and leave with the formation of "middle level" and to improve the material efficiency of absorption of visible light.Sol-gel - ammonia oxygen atmosphere firing method

Numerous of studies show that, the N-doped can significantly improve the absorption efficiency of TiO2, ZrO2, Ta2O5 and other semiconductor materials belong to visible light, the n-type semiconductor, the same can be improved by N-doped WO3-x of visible light absorption efficiency.

The nitrogen (N) doped tungsten trioxide photocatalyst (WO_ (3-x): N) is prepared by Sol-gel - ammonia oxygen atmosphere firing method. The structural properties of the samples were characterization and analysis by using SEM, XRD, XPS and DRS, comparing the experimental study of nitrogen doping on the tungsten trioxide photolysis aquatic oxygen catalytic activity. The results show that NH_3 / O_2 was mixed atmosphere at 500 ℃ , sintering it 3h , doping N, when N enters tungsten trioxide lattice, it does not change WO_ (3-x) polymorphs and morphology. WO_ (3-x ): N remains monoclinic crystal structure, and are a small amount of an unknown sample new phase that causes thinning size and lattice distortion increases while doping surface W ~ (4+) powder and increase the oxygen vacancy. Certain lattice defects and oxygen vacancies are in favor of catalyst response wavelength red shift. The rate of N average oxygen evolution reaches 66.8μmol / (L • g • h) under UV irradiation 12h, while the rate of photolysis under visible radiation water increase to 24.5% than non-doped sample.

 

Scheelite and Wolframite Mixture Ore and Shizhuyuan Method

Improvement of Shizhuyuan Method
In the national science and technology research of the 8th and the 9th Five-Year Plans, the joint research by the Shizhuyuan Nonferrous Metals Company, Beijing General Research Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Guangzhou Nonferrous Metal Research Institute, Changsha Nonferrous Metallurgy Design and Research Institute, and other units, is proposed comprehensive new technology beneficiation - Shizhuyuan Method with all float process as the basis and chelation collector flotation as the core, which is the combination of molybdenum and bismuth flotation, bismuth and sulfur mixed election, scheelite and wolframite mixture ore flotation, coarse-grained ore heating selection and wolframite slimes flotation.
 
Successful research of Shizhuyuan Method, made Shizhuyuan Nonferrous Metals Company instantly built and began production for two large-scale concentrators, so that this company became the tungsten ore business with the largest production scale of tungsten mine and the best economic benefits.
 
After ten years of research in science and technology formed the basis of Shizhuyuan Method, currently Shizhuyuan beneficiation technology have a major breakthrough, the first time that use "high gradient magnetic shunt scheelite and wolframite mixture ore - scheelite and wolframite mixture ore flotation respectively" magnetic - floating and floating - magnetic sorting of new technology to replace the original all float process technology, to achieve harmonious, efficient sorting of low-grade scheelite and wolframite mixture ore, and created favorable conditions for the next step of fluorite and garnet comprehensive recovery . Industrial production results showed that the process makes tungsten comprehensive recovery rate increase 5-10%.

scheelite and wolframite mixture ore

 

Detinning Process of APT Production- Controlling the Alkali Decomposition Conditions

Usually the alkali decomposition conditions for wolframite are: alkali concentration of 500 g / L, the base amount of the theoretical amount of 160, reaction time of 4h, each batch of wolframite 1 t. In the various process conditions of alkali decomposition, such as temperature, time and alkali concentration, the temperature has the greatest impact on the leaching rate of tin. In normal decomposition conditions, tin leaching rate increased with temperature increasing and the increase rate is much faster than the increase rate of tungsten leaching rate, the reason of which is the leaching reaction of tin is more inclined to thermodynamically controlled than tungsten. So the production often needs making a balance between the decomposition rate of tungsten requirements and product quality requirements of different minerals to determine the optimum reaction temperature. At this temperature, the low leaching degree of tin and high leaching rate of  tungsten achieves the best combination.
 
However, this detinning process is mainly carried out at high temperatures (160 ~ 170 ℃), because temperature changes have little effect on the leaching rate of tin at low decomposition temperature. Thus, for the atmospheric mechanical agitation leaching process of caustic soda, because the temperature is low (only 105 ~ 110 ℃), this detinning process is not meaningful then.

Tungsten Copper Electrode and Other Materials Comparison

Tungsten copper powder sintered material having high hardness, high density, high strength, wear resistance, adhesion, excellent electrical and thermal conductivity as well as sweating characteristics, making it ideally suited to withstand high stress resistance welding electrode matching, or as automatic submerged arc welding, carbon dioxide CO2 gas shielded arc welding tip conductive or conductive plate. Tungsten copper flash welding electrode and chromium-copper comparison as follow:

tungsten copper electrode








 

From the table we can see that tungsten copper chromium copper compared to flash welding electrode welding electrode flash at the same working hours, higher welding efficiency, the amount of wear smaller, better weld quality, lower cracking rate life more long, the application is more convenient, and therefore wide range of applications. Vertical automatic welding, soldering conditions when the thickness of 22-28mm, wire directly Φ2.4mm, conductive nozzle aperture when 2.8mm, tungsten, copper and chromium copper conductor conductive nozzle tip wear after welding is very different.

Tungsten copper conductive tip after welding 20m, the aperture remains the prototype, you can still continue to work, in contrast, chromium copper conductive soldering tip less than 2m, its conductivity unilateral eccentric bore wear, maximum diameter enlargement ratio of tungsten copper conductor increases 0.6mm, has been unable to proceed with the welding work. Therefore, resistance welding electrodes and welding conductor tungsten copper powder sintered material having a high hardness, high density, high strength, wear resistance, adhesion, excellent electrical and thermal conductivity and a series of advantages, which has a broad prospect.

New Technology of Tungsten Copper Electrode—Microwave Infiltration

Actually, microwave infiltration is one of new methods, which combines microwave sintering with traditional infiltration. It has many advantages, such as selective heating (the coupling ability of material and microwave, the ability of microwave absorption is related to the properties of itself, such as electrical conductivity, magnetic conductivity and dielectric constant, which will get diverse heating properties when the material is different in a given microwave field. ), volume heating (Each portion of the object in the portion of the material is heated after the heat acquired, so that the part of the material temperature rises.), non-thermal effect (It general refers to compared with traditional sintering under the same thermal dynamic conditions has remarkable superiority in physical, such as the active sintering of powder material and atomic diffusion rate.) , and uniform structure of infiltration processing. Therefore, microwave infiltration has higher speed of increasing temperature, shorter sintering time, higher energy utilization ratio and uniform structure or excellent properties of the products. Microwave infiltration of microwave sintering equipment is produced by DC magnetron microwave waveguide by introducing the heating chamber, the sample is placed in the cavity is heated sintering. The sketch of structure of the equipment as follow:

tungsten copper electrode

The major technical parameters of microwave sintering furnace includes work area, the highest working temperature, thermometric, methods, the range of infrared detection, the precision of temperature control, the out power of microwave, vacuum limit of furnace, the leaking of microwave. At present, the use of microwave sintering heating chamber includes a resonant and non-resonant two, while the cavity can be subdivided into single-mode and multi-mode resonant cavity resonator. Under the same electromagnetic power, single-mode resonant cavity having a stronger magnetic field strength is more suitable for low heating medium. The multimode resonator having multiple resonant modes, the electromagnetic field distribution is more uniform, the structure is relatively simple, suitable for a variety of heating load, the more it is difficult to accurately analyze the data.

 

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