Succinic Acid and Sodium Tungstate on Ni-W-P Alloy Coating Influence

Succinic acid is colorless crystal and decomposes at 235℃. Under reduced pressure distillation it can be sublimated. It’s soluble in water and slightly soluble in ethanol, ether and acetone. The important use of succinic acid is preparing five-membered heterocyclic compounds. It also can be used as a seasoning, preservatives, surfactants, and preventing the corrosion and pitting corrosion of metals in electroplating industry.
 
Succinic-AcidNi-P-W ternary alloy coating has excellent mechanical properties, wear resistance, corrosion resistance, and thermal stability. It can use in specific device instead of stainless steel. In addition, it is also a kind of excellent electrical contact material used to make thin film resistor. But traditional Ni-W-P coating has some defects. This paper reports using compound complexing agent to stabilize coating and adjusting the content of succinic acid and sodium tungstate to optimize the deposition rate of electroless plating.
 
Experimental methods: Low carbon steel as base material, make substrate pretreatment before plating. Prepare seven kinds of sample, nickel sulfate as the main salt, sodium hypophosphite as reducer, sodium citrate, sodium acetate and EDTA as compound complexing agent. Add succinic acid and sodium tungstate. Use distilled water to dissolve various reagents respectively. Add water to blend after mixing. Adjust pH value to 4.6 ~ 4.8, and heat in constant temperature heating tank. Hang substrate after the pretreatment in the plating solution for two hours.
 
The influence of Succinic acid and sodium tungstate on Ni-W-P alloy coating:
1. The impact on the coating deposition rate:
Succinic acid has an obvious promotion on the plating speed. But it doesn’t mean succinic acid content is bigger, the plating speed is faster. With the increase of the content of sodium tungstate, the coating deposition rate decreases. This may be because with the increase of concentration of sodium tungstate, phosphorus decreases.
2. The impact on the coating surface morphology:
With the increase of succinic acid content in the plating solution, cellular particle size decreases in plating. Increasing the content of sodium tungstate can improve the utilization rate of sodium hypophosphite so as to raise pinhole density on the surface of the coating.

Tungsten Copper Electrode—Explosive Powder Compaction (2/2)

Actually, direct explosion pressing method does not require a large investment in equipments and it has simple structure of device. The following picture is one of the common device of direct explosion pressing method in the domestic researches:

tungsten copper electrode

 

 

 

 

 








The powder was placed there end plugs in low-carbon steel or aluminum (initial density of 50%), processed and evacuated sealed tube covered with a suitable amount of uniform thickness and density of the explosives. After detonator ignition occurs at a constant velocity along the wall down the tube and the detonation powder compaction, its detonation velocity and pressure depends on the role of the type of explosive. However, there are some defects blocks out the industrialization and standardized production of explosive powder compaction process. The biggest factor is the high speed loading generated by explosive compaction molding, it is difficult to obtain effective management and control, on the other hand, the explosion parameter dependencies and to be pressed powder types is still in the study.

After explosive compaction billet annealing for 2 hours at 900 ℃ in a vacuum oven, and the aging process. Then Vickers hardness (HV) hardness detection sample, using the Archimedes method (comparison, ideological integration method) after detecting sintering density of the sample preparation, and then by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) observation of fracture morphology products. We can observe the stress distribution of the fracture surface and breaking patterns. Overall, the explosive powder compaction is the use of explosive shock wave generated by loading technology compacted powder, powder high speed friction and heat insulation under the shock adiabatic shear action, suggesting that local high temperature, so that the surface layer melted particles the purpose of metallurgical bonding, and compacting the powder achieved by powder mainly plastic deformation and fragmentation.

 

Scheelite Beneficiation Example

Scheelite occurs in contact metamorphic skarns; in high-temperature hydrothermal veins and greisen; less commonly in granite pegmatites. Temperature and pressure of formation is between 200 to 500 °C and from 200 to 1,500 bars. Typical mineral association includes cassiterite, wolframite, topaz, fluorite, apatite, tourmaline, quartz, grossular–andradite, diopside, vesuvianite and tremolite.
 
Scheelite usually occurs in tin-bearing veins; and is sometimes found in association with gold. Fine crystals have been obtained from Caldbeck Fells in Cumbria, Zinnwald/Cínovec and Elbogen in Bohemia, Guttannen in Switzerland, the Riesengebirge in Silesia, Dragoon Mountains in Arizona and elsewhere. At Trumbull in Connecticut and Kimpu-san in Japan large crystals of scheelite completely altered to wolframite have been found: those from Japan have been called “reinite.” It was mined until 1990 at King Island, Australia, Glenorchy in Central Otago and Macraes Flat in North Otago and also at The Golden Bar mine at Dead Horse Creek during World War 1 in Nelson, New Zealand. There is a high concentration of Scheelite in Northeast of Brazil, mainly in the Currais Novos mine in Rio Grande do Norte State.
 
A scheelite concentrator in Jiangxi handles with fine disseminated skarn scheelite, lead and zinc sulfide ore polymetallic ores. Twice hand-election and abandon waste after crushing ore, preconcentration for tungsten ore. Firstly after passing through the grinding sulfide ore flotation, comprehensive recovery of copper, lead, zinc sulfide ore flotation tailings into the scheelite flotation, roughing with collectors 731 and 733, with sodium carbonate and water glass as a modifier, using once coarse-triple sweep-once selection conducted coarse crystal scheelite flotation. Stirring at a higher concentrations of sodium silicate in a long time (about 40min) then a normal selection of scheelite, through once roughing- twice sweep-five times selection, get qualified scheelite concentrate, middlings returns.

Tungsten Copper Electrode—Explosive Powder Compaction (1/2)

Generally, tungsten copper consist of tungsten (W) and copper (Cu) is called psudoalloy, which has a big difference of melting point and immiscible. It uses powder metallurgy (PM) to fabricate porous tungsten skeleton and dipped, infiltrated in copper liquid or liquid-phase sintering after mixed powder compacting to achieve tungsten copper composite material. However, for tungsten copper W-Cu system, Tungsten and copper two-phase mutual infiltration is poor, tungsten copper in the liquid is almost insoluble occur, which makes it difficult to achieve the desired uniform organizational structure, and a high degree of densification.

Explosive powder compaction belong to an explosive molding, which is the use of high impact energy generated by the blast, the upcoming explosive chemical energy into mechanical energy, adiabatic compression of the powder, and instantly generate high temperature and pressure to achieve the densification of the powder material. In addition, the explosion process also includes explosive welding, explosive hardening, high-speed forging die and so on. Commonly used explosives are ammonium nitrate explosives, detonating cord, rubber explosives and TNT, etc.

Compared with common processing methods (stamping, hydraulic pressure), explosive powder compaction has many advantages, such as explosion is a very fast process, short duration of action (microsecond), high pressure, high speed of deformation, has fast melting and cooling property, which is beneficial for keeping the excellent properties of the powder. Therefore, it can be widely used in the powder compaction researches of composites with metal matrix, intermetallic compound, nano blocks and quasicrystals, ceramics and other metastable amorphous alloy.

Scheelite Beneficiation Process

Scheelite is a calcium tungstate mineral with the chemical formula CaWO4. It is an important ore of tungsten. Well-formed crystals are sought by collectors and are occasionally fashioned into gemstones when suitably free of flaws. Scheelite has been synthesized via the Czochralski process; the material produced may be used to imitate diamond, as a scintillator, or as a solid-state lasing medium. It was also used in radium paint in the same fashion as was zinc sulphide, and Thomas Edison invented a fluoroscope with a calcium tungstate-coated screen, making the images six times brighter that those with barium platinocyanide; the latter chemical allowed Röntgen to discover X-rays in early November 1895.
 
Scheelite beneficiation is based on flotation process.
Scheelite flotation generally consists of sulfide ore flotation, tungsten roughing and selection.
Principle process of sulfide ore flotation is similar to common sulfide ore flotation concentrators, the difference is the different component of lead, zinc, bismuth, copper and pyrite.
Sodium carbonate and sodium silicate are generally used as modifiers in scheelite roughing, flotation with fatty acids collector, some concentrators use chelate collectors.
Coarse-grained scheelite concentration technology currently consists of two categories, one is heating selection, the other one is normal flotation.
Heating selection is commonly uesd in the separation of scheelite and calcium gangue ores; normal flotation is commonly used in the separation of scheelite and siliceous gangue ores.
 
Process of scheelite recovery from tailings 
The new collector FX, low sodium silicate contents composite chemicals, column - machine combined process.
Indicators in 2010: When the WO3 containing of ore (molybdenum tailings) is averagely  0.06%-0.1%, the tailings grade is about 0.012%, the recovery is greater than 75%, WO3 containing of concentrate is 40%.
Scheelite

Ion-Exchange Method Determines Tungsten Trioxide Content

It is often difficult to achieve mutual separation because tungsten and molybdenum ionic radius close to the atomic structure of tungsten and molybdenum, and they are similar to chemical properties in minerals. There area many methods of separation: precipitation, extraction, ion exchange method and so on. These methods of separation are to smelt molybdenum tungsten and molybdenum. Among them, the precipitation method is the use of the separation of tungsten and molybdenum tungsten acid, its solubility in water and hydrochloric acid is far less thanthat in molybdic acid. Molybdic acid increases as the temperature rises, the solubility of this nature can not be completely removed.

ion-exchange methodIon-exchange method is a method of separation in the use of ion exchanging in the exchangeable groups in the solution of different ion-exchange capacity of ions. Two common methods are water softening and deionization method. Water softening is a lowering water hardness pre-treatment program, which is mainly used before reversing osmosis (RO) process.Tenderizer is way that a sodium ion exchanges two calcium ions or magnesium ions to soften water in spherical resin. The key of ion-exchange method is to choose the suitable ion exchangers, adsorption and elution conditions.

Experimental Procedure
1. Weighing 60g of citric acid dissolved in water and diluting to 100ml;
2. Weighing 0.3g of copper sulfate dissolved in water and diluting to 100ml;
3. Weighing 200g of citric acid, placing in 1000ml beaker, adding 400ml water until completely dissolving and adding 330ml of sulfuric acid 0.20g copper sulfate, diluting with water to 1000ml, mixing;
4. Weighing 0.1500g after 550 ℃ calcination of molybdenum trioxide, placing in 250ml beaker, adding an appropriate amount of sodium hydroxide solution, heating and dissolving completely, after cooling, and transferring to 1000ml volumetric flask with sodium hydroxide solution and mixing.

 

Colorimetry Determines Tungsten Trioxide in Tungsten Concentrate

ColorimetryColorimetry method is based on the color reaction to form colored compound, it is measured by comparing the colored substance solution or color depth to determine the content of the component. Colorimetry is an analysis of the color reaction of the basic requirements: the reaction should have a high sensitivity and selectivity, consisting of colored compound produced by the reaction that is constant and stable, it is the larger color difference and color agents. Selecting the appropriate color reaction and controlling the appropriate reaction conditions, which is the key to colorimetry analysis.

There are two commonly colorimetry: visual colorimetry and photoelectric colorimetry, visual colorimetry method is a commonly standard method, which uses different amounts of analyte standard solution in the exact same set of colorimetry tube. The sample solution is also the color under identical conditions, and the standard color gamut is visually identified, the amount of the standard solution can be contained, calculating and determining the content of the sample analytes.

The high levels of tungsten trioxide is determined generally by the use of photoelectric colorimetry, according to the situation of tungsten concentrate, which is based on selecting the visual colorimetry, and acidity, potassium thiocyanate, etc. The test of amount of titanium trichloride conditions is that weighing accurately 0.500 g sample of 2 g of sodium hydroxide flux of iron crucible, placing in a muffle furnace, the temperature is gradually raised to 85 ℃, heating it 25 to 30 minutes, removing to a pre-melted into a 300 ml beaker , heating the water to about 100 ml, which is immediately placed on a hot plate 2 a boil for 5 minutes, removing ,cooling, and washing out the iron orange vortex. The solution can be transferred into a 250-mL volumetric flask diluting the mark.

 

Hydrothermal Method Prepares Tungsten Trioxide Photoanode

Hydrothermal method is the scope of liquid chemical method. It means in chemical reaction, a sealed pressure vessel with water as a solvent, carried out at high temperature and pressure conditions. Hydrothermal reaction depends on the type of reaction that can be divided into hydrothermal oxidation, water and heat reduction, hydrothermal precipitation, hydrothermal synthesis, water hot solution, hydrothermal crystallization. So the hydrothermal method is the most popular method in crystallization.

Experimental Procedure
Hydrothermal methodThe polished clean tungsten sheet was placed in distilled water and ultrasonic cleaning in ethanol were 10min, after drying and controlling the temperature in a muffle furnace at 450 ℃, the tungsten trioxide layer is formed in the calcinations of 30min. Hydrothermal reaction solution of polyethylene glycol (300) 10% is prepared by volume of 0.02mol / L sodium tungstate solution, the solution was adjusted pH2.0 with 3mol / L hydrochloric acid. 25ml of the solution is placed in the Teflon reactor and the tungsten sheet vertically was placed in a pre-oxidized, the reaction temperature is controlled at 180 ℃ 6h. The reaction product was removed with distilled water soak about 10min, and repeating it three times to remove the product surface residue, and then the preparation of tungsten trioxide photoanode is completed after drying calcining at 550 ℃ 180min.

Conclusions
1. Hydrothermal preparation method can generate highly ordered nano-strip structure of tungsten surface, it can reach 1.5V 1.8mA / cm2in the photoanode of current;
2. a curve is made from oxidation of the tungsten film, corresponding to WO3 cubic phase in the oxidation process of 450 ℃ , the oxide layer will be formed on the surface of the tungsten sheet;
3. b curve is hydrothermal reaction product that is not calcined WO3, corresponding to the orthorhombic WO3;
4. c curve is the calcined WO3, corresponding to the monoclinic WO3, which shows three distinct peaks, the highest peak meter bar is vertically grown on the substrate, the height can reach 6.91 microns, which in shows excellent orientation role of tungsten oxide layer of the substrate with polyethylene glycol in the hydrothermal reaction of crystal growth.

Tungsten Alloy Recreational Diving Counterweights(2/2)

However, blindly increasing tungsten alloy counterweights to achieve the diving depth is unreasonable, excessive weight, although making the human’s body more easily dive, but negatively buoyant generated by tungsten alloy counterweights will become more difficult to control. Thus, when the diving to a certain depth and required for stay, the adequate, appropriate counterweights must be maintained to keep the neutral buoyancy of body. That is, in recreational diving, you can not blindly increase the tungsten alloy counterweights, but rationally using under the guidance of coaches or professionals.
 
In most cases the the tenth of your body's own weight is the tungsten alloy counterweights that we need or can carry in recreational diving, too much or too little weights will make diving experience becomes unsatisfactory. Because too little weights though will make people can more easily travel underwater in the recreational diving , but you can not dive to the desired depth of the seabed; on the contrary, excessive weight will affect the traveling speed and thus to make diving more difficult, and it is difficult to maintain a stable neutral buoyancy. In short, only the rational and scientific use of tungsten alloy counterweights can achieve satisfactory recreational diving experience, which also can give yourself a memorable underwater journey.
tungsten recreational diving counterweights

 

Tungsten Alloy Recreational Diving Counterweights(1/2)

It seems hard to talk about the exactly prevailing time of recreational diving all over the world, people’s yearning for the sea and the unknown seabed exploration activities are more and more frequent with the development of science and technology. Like the protagonist of the film "blue sky", which directed by the famous director Luc Besson, was eager to dive into the deep blue sea, and eager to get close with nature. However, due to limitations of the human physique, we can not dive into the seabed the same as the fishes and travel freely without the help of diving equipment. Because the underwater pressure will cause great oppression to human beings’ cardiopulmonary and the oppression will be greater with the increasing depth.
 
When you finished the diving equipment wearing and went into the sea, the weight of your own body and the weight of diving equipment can only let you dive to a certain depth, if you want to continue to dive, it will suffer from resistance generated by the underwater pressure. How to overcome this pressure to make their own can freely adjust the diving depth? The answer is the counterweights. Early recreational diving counterweights were mostly made of lead, but the toxic properties of lead would pollute the sea, which is not the situations that people want to see. Thus, non-toxic and environmental characteristics of tungsten alloy make it a good alternative to lead recreational diving and has become special material for recreational diving counterweights.
tungsten recreational diving counterweights

 

 

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