Tungsten Powder Made from Ammonium Paratungstate—One-step Reduction Method 3/3

Usually,APT at 500℃ can be completely removed from water and get into WO3 , this process seems not complex, but actually the key point at the second reduction step of preparation of tungsten powder. APT in different atmosphere calcination will produce oxides of different intermediate states, WO3 (yellow tungsten oxide), WO2.9 (blue tungsten oxide) and WO2.72(violet tungsten oxide). The three tungsten activity gradually increased in the order like this: yellow tungsten oxide→blue tungsten oxide→violet tungsten oxide. Generally, intermediate with high activity easy to get fine particle tungsten powder; on the contrary, we get coarse tungsten powder.
 
A great deal of hydrosphere will be produced in the reduction of tungsten powder from ammonium paratungstate, and they come from two aspects:
First one, also the majority one is water removed from APT in the process crystallization;
The second one takes a small part, water comes from the reduction of WO3 to blue tungsten oxide and violet tungsten oxide. Generally believed that the crystal rifted after dehydration and deamination which will help hydrogen enter the crystal, thus help the reduction of tungsten powder.
 
There are three factors influence the morphology of tungsten powder in the process of one-step reduction method.
First, temperature, hydrogen in the high volatility and temperature helps to produce coarse grain tungsten powder of complete crystal forms and uniform and dispersed.
Second, reduction time, effect on the size of tungsten powder, tungsten powder has a trend of growing up with the increasing hydrogen reduction time goes.
Third, shipping amount, the big boat loading cause depth of material becoming thicker, and then do harm to tungsten oxide and water vapor to diffusion and crystal growth in the reduction process. So, reduce the amount of shipping will help producing tungsten powder with uniform size.
 
4. Conclusions
Compared with traditional two-step reduction, one step reduction preparing tungsten powder basically gets the same grain from APT, and the size controllable. The products can meet quality requirements in the existing market.

 

 

High Polymer Tungsten Trioxide Preparation

Preparation of High Polymer Tungsten Trioxide
Preparing various samples at different sintering temperatures after the samples were prepared, than measuring different sets of samples according to voltammetry, impedance spectroscopy and dielectric spectroscopy curves. We can obtain micron tungsten trioxide nonlinear coefficient polymer composite samples by calculating the nonlinear coefficients of main sample by measured data. In the composite sample, the tungsten trioxide particles in the sample content has higher nonlinear coefficients, and the nonlinear coefficient of the sintered samples 250 ℃ sintering temperature is higher than the other samples, up to 98. When the organic matter content is higher than 80%, the sample becomes an insulator, the prepared tungsten trioxide polymer material is more stable.

high polymer tungsten trioxide preparation equipmentSample Analysis
The experimental methods commonly based on varistor methods, and calculating barrier trends, comparing barrier with nonlinear coefficient, typical sample made six-phase morphology and structural analysis, and comparing good and bad samples nonlinear function of the body as well as micro particles and nanoparticles composite sample, which shows the trends of barrier are consistent  with nonlinear coefficients.

Test results of morphology and electrical properties show that high resistance nonlinear crystal polymer material with an applied electric field tungsten trioxide samples resulting shift toward low-resistance crystalline phase, and it has a close relationship. The result of nonlinear preferred groups of typical sample with impedance spectroscopy show bias under the grain boundary resistance is not changed significantly Resistance is low because of its low resistance phase structure mainly monoclinic.
 

Carbon-Doped Tungsten Trioxide Exploration

As we all know, tungsten trioxide (WO3) is an important material and it is indispensable for us in life. It has a wide range of applications in the field of gas detection and photocatalysis. The special structures and morphology of tungsten trioxide determine their excellent performance. The preparation for the quasi one-dimensional structure of the carbon-doped tungsten trioxide nanofibers (C-dopedWO3) is based on template method as template, to explore the performance of carbon-doped tungsten trioxide Absorbent template method as a template prepared to quasi one-dimensional structure of the carbon-doped WO3 nanofibers (C-dopedWO3), which can improve the gas sensing performance and photocatalytic properties of the material.

the systematically study of carbon-doped tungsten trioxide performance based on the use of XRD, TEM, SEM, HRTEM, XPS, Raman spectra and other research samples by means of the analysis, which can find that there are the material selectivity and stability with acetone, and Methylene Blue as model pollutants investigats the photocatalytic activity of the material.

carbon-doped WO3Exploration results are as follows:
(1) The carbon-doped WO3 monoclinic phase under template prepared, the analysis of SEM, TEM, HRTEM and other means of testing shows: WO3-500 fiber diameter with the diameter of the ultrafine nanocrystals composed about 20-40nm 5-10μm, which contains a large number of pores and a hollow structure. The grain size increases by the calcination temperature. The key peaks of C1s XPS spectra of samples of WC 282.2eV appear Raman spectra of carbon into the G-peak, etc. The results show that doped WO3lattice of carbon atoms.

(2) In the test of different condition of different gases (such as acetone, methanol, ethanol, ammonia, etc.) of gas sensing of different operating conditions, we can find carbon-doped WO3 shows high selectivity and sensitivity to acetone gas. The minimum detectable concentration of materials can reach 0.1ppm and material optimum calcination temperature is determined as 500 ℃ at 300 ℃. The WO3-500 sensitivity of 5ppm acetone sample gas reaches 7.9; at 95% relative humidity conditions, the sensitivity of 5ppm acetone resistance remains 5.72. By repeating the gas sensing tests found to have long-term stability, H2S and other toxic gases can not lead to inactivation of sensitive material.

(3) Comparing with pure WO3 contrast, the WO3-500 degradation of methylene blue catalytic activity improves significantly. Under visible light irradiation conditions, WO3-500 and H2O2 Fenton system constructes within 120min of methylene blue degradation rate reaching 97.1%. The synergies of WO3-500 and H2O2 are to enhance the degradation rate of methylene blue and degradation rate. Carbon -doped WO3 catalyst has good stability and it is easily to separate from the degradation of the system, the catalyst reuse still shows high catalytic activity.

 

Gold-plating Process Of Tungsten Gold-plated ProductsⅡ

Tungsten gold-plated refers to draw support of some other ways, such as chemical methods or direct current effects of gold-plating process to make the tungsten products surface deposited a gold-plating layer. Its technical process mainly includes three aspects: gold-plating pretreatment, gold-plating and gold- plating after-treatment. The purpose of pre-treatment is to keep the products’ surface clean, which is the premise to guarantee the beautiful appearance of tungsten gold-plated products. As for the after-treatment, it is an important step that to eliminate the downside occurring in the gold-plating process and to ensure the integrity of the finished products. According to the difference of gold-plating solution, gold-plating can be divided into non-cyanide gold-plating, alkaline cyanide gold-plating, neutral cyanide gold-plating and acidic cyanide gold-plating. As mentioned above, because of the strong cathodic polarization and coverage performances of cyanide gold-plating, the integrated performances of products made of cyanide gold-plating are better than the non-cyanide gold-plating. Therefore, for tungsten gold-plated products, its main gold plating process also lies in cyanide gold-plating.
 
Although alkaline cyanide gold-plating solution has a strong cathodic polarization, but because of excessive amounts of highly toxic, cyanide would harm the human bodies, therefore it is not suitable for tungsten gold-plated. Compared with the alkaline cyanide, neutral and acidic cyanide gold-plating is more moderate,and has a good weldability, bright and smooth surface  with the low porosity. Moreover, the tungsten gold-plated products made of cyanide gold-plating solution has a high hardness, good wear resistance and bright surface color as well as the high appreciation value.
 
But gold-plating will cause environmental pollution, although the cyanide content of neutral and acidic cyanide gold-plating solution is low, but there are still toxic substances. Therefore, it’s necessary for tungsten gold-plated manufacturers to research and develop some new environmentally friendly gold-plating methods.
gold-plated Commemorative coin

 

Gold-plating Process Of Tungsten Gold-plated ProductsⅠ

Gold is a special reserve currency which is to be used to repay the debt, to promote and coordinate the national trade balance between the countries. Because of its excellent ductility and plasticity, in addition to exiting in the usual forms of gold bullion and gold blocks, gold can also be made of a number of exquisite handicrafts and fully loved by the people. But with the ups and downs of international situation, the declined gold price makes gold collectors gradually lost interest in it and turn their interests to the tungsten gold-plated collections. Tungsten gold-plated products are the high cost performance and high quality and cheap alternative collections which can well interested the expensive gold products.in collectibles.
 
Gold-plating process can be divided into electroless gold-plating and gold-plating. Electroless gold-plating is mainly used in the manufacture of semiconductors and printed circuit boards and plays an important role in the electronic plating. Whether it is a gold-plating or electroless gold-plating, both of them could be divided into non-cyanide gold-plating and cynide gold-plating. For now, the abrasion resistance, luster and adhesion of the products, made by the cyanide gold-plating, are better than the products made by non-cyanide gold-plating. The reason is that cyanide gold-plating has strong capability of cathodic polarization, dispersion and coverage. Since the existing essence of tungsten gold-plated products are to be used as collections and ornamental products, so the gold-plating process of tungsten gold-plated products mainly dependent on cyanide gold-plating, which will make the plating layers delicately and lightly with good corrosion resistance, abrasion resistance and good anti-tarnished capability.
gold-plated blocks

 

Tungsten Trioxide Damping Function on OLED

The organic light-emitting diode is known as laser electroluminescent display (Organic Light-Emitting Diode, OLED). The feature of OLED display technology is self-luminous, it is made by very thin coating of organic materials and glass substrates composed of organic material which emits light when current passes through. OLED display screen viewing angle is large, with power-saving features.

DC Magnetron Sputtering Method:
DC Magnetron Sputtering MethodWhen the voltage reaches 20V, the brightness of IWO-OLED (referred IWO) is 8791cd / m2, the brightness of IWO / WO3-OLED (referred IWO / WO3) is 16690cd / m2; when the voltage decreases to 19V, the maximum power efficiency IWO / WO3 devices is 1.581m / W. In contrast, for IWO device, when the current density increases, the luminous efficiency gradually increases, when the current density reaches 181.9mA / cm2, the luminous efficiency reaches a maximum of 4.83cd / A. For IWO / WO3 devices, when the voltage is 19V, luminous efficiency reaches the maximum 9.56cd / A, which is twice than that of the former. In short, in terms of the brightness of IWO / WO3-OLED, luminous efficiency and power efficiency has improved significantly.

Pulsed Plasma Deposition, PPD Method:
When the voltage reaches 20V, the brightness of IWO is 8791cd / m2, the brightness of IWO / WO3 is 17360cd / m2, its brightness is more than twice as light as the non-tungsten trioxide buffer layer devices, which shows adding to the buffer layer of tungsten trioxide indeed improving the OLED device emits light brightness. However, for the purposes of power efficiency IWO / WO3 device, it did not effectively improve because of the insertion of the tungsten trioxide. Luminous efficiency, IWO / WO3-OLED device was not as good IWO-OLED. Analysis shows, the performance of OLED device and the buffer layer are closely linked.

We analyze XRD and AFM characterization of the lattice structure of tungsten trioxide film, which can find prepared amorphous structure having a relatively flat surface. The use of tungsten trioxide films that prepared by two methods as OLED anode electrode, which has cushion work function.

 

Tungsten Minerals: Scheelite, Tungstite, Stolzite

In the mineralization, most majority of tungsten forms into oxides (tungstate) , rarely sulfide, no natural tungsten. Currently it’s found only about 20 kinds of tungsten ores and minerals containing tungsten in the crust.
 
Scheelite: 
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
 
Tungstite:
Tungstite is a hydrous tungsten oxide mineral with formula: WO3·H2O. It is a secondary mineral formed by the weathering of other tungsten containing minerals. It crystallizes in the orthorhombic system in translucent yellow to yellow green masses. It is clay-like with Mohs hardness of 2.5 and a specific gravity of 5.5.
It was first described in 1868 for an occurrence near Trumbull, Connecticut at the Hubbard Tungsten Mine at Long Hill.

Tungstite
 
Stolzite:
Stolzite is a mineral, a lead tungstate; with the formula PbWO4. It is similar to, and often associated with, wulfenite which is the same chemical formula except that the tungsten is replaced by molybdenum. Stolzite crystallizes in the tetragonal crystal system and is dimorphous with the monoclinic form raspite.
 
Lead tungstate crystals have the optical transparency of glass combined with much higher density (8.28 g/cm3 vs ~2.2 g/cm3 for fused silica). They are used as scintillators in particle physics because of the their short radiation length (0.89 cm), low Molière radius (2.2 cm), quick scintillation response, and radiation hardness. Lead tungstate crystals are used in the Compact Muon Solenoid's electromagnetic calorimeter.
 
It was first described in 1820 by August Breithaupt, who called it Scheelbleispath and then by François Sulpice Beudant in 1832, who called it scheelitine. In 1845, Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger coined the name stolzite for an occurrence in Krusne Hory (Erzgebirge), Czech Republic, naming it after Joseph Alexi Stolz of Teplice in Bohemia. It occurs in oxidized hydrothermal tungsten-lead ore deposits typically in association with raspite, cerussite, anglesite, pyromorphite and mimetite.

Stolzite

Effect of Molding Process on Tungsten Copper Electrode

The research shows the ideal structure of tungsten copper composite material has higher density, tungsten particles uniformly dispersed to form a continuous skeleton, and solidified around between copper tungsten particles (including space charge sintered base of the throat gap), a continuous distribution network, and the ideal organizational structure below shows tungsten-copper composite material.

Coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) is determined by tungsten skeleton. Copper with net structure is stable, which has high density and promote thermal conductivity (TC). Therefore, tungsten-copper composite material densification not only affect the strength of the material, but also directly or indirectly determine the number of other properties of the material, which makes critical study of the sintering process and the molding process of change. In addition, in the process of sintering, many process parameters plays an important role in the density of tungsten copper electrode, such as powder properties, the pressure, the temperature, heating/cooling rate, holding time, lubricant and so on.

tungsten copper electrode

 

Coated Cemented Carbide Types——Single-layer Coating

Since coated cemented carbide developed, coating types were diverse, such as single-layer coating, multi-element composite coating, gradient coating, nano coating, super-hard coating and soft coating.

1. Single-layer and multi-element composite coating

At present, titanium nitride (TiN) and titanium carbide (TiC) are the earliest and the most widely used, which has high hardness, excellent wear resistance. However, it is unavoidable that a big difference of modulus of elasticity and coefficient of thermal expansion between the matrix and the coating layer, which will decrease the binding force and residual stresses between them. In order to improve the comprehensive properties of tungsten carbide, adding some different kinds of elements to form multi-element coating layer. Ti (C,N) and TiAlN are the most common composite coating. In addition, there are some other elements can remarkably improve the properties of coating cemented carbide, such as Si element will increase the hardness and in case of the chemical diffusion, Zr, B, V and Hf elements will improve the wear resistance of material, Cr element will improve antioxidant property.

Take Ti (C,N) as an example, it has both of TiC and TiN coating advantages, which used in tungsten carbide cutting tools will remarkably improve the hardness and toughness, prevent the internal cracks diffusion and the tipping of tools. For coating layer, it decreases the inner stress and improves the binding force between coating layer and matrix. According to the consequence of turning experiment, compared with single-layer coating (TiC, TiN, Al2O3), composite coating layer Ti (C,N) has better tool face wear resistance and crater wear resistance, which is more suitable for common steel, alloy steel, stainless steel and iron casting machining by tungsten carbide cutting tools and the efficiency will be remarkably improved.

TiAlN composite coating layer has heat hardness and excellent antioxidant property and can be widely used in high-speed tungsten carbide cutting tools and cermet cutting tools. It mainly uses cathodic arc ion plating – physical vapor deposition, which has uniform structure, high density, high toughness, high micro hardness (increase 35%-76%) and suitable for high-speed steel, alloy steel and other high-performance materials high-speed milling and the service life is 3-4 times than TiN single-layer coating.

coated cemented carbide

 

Stirring Accelerate Ammonium Paratungstate Crystallization

Crystal growth is a process of heat and mass transfer, chemical and heat and mass transfer resistance mainly exists in the viscous flow near the crystal surface layer, thus increasing the speed of relative movement between solid and liquid can improve growth rate of the crystal. Increasing the relative speed between solid and liquid in an appropriate range can improve growth rate of crystal nucleus; however it will break the crystal when the speed reach a limit point. Stirring has a significant impact on evaporation and crystallization, because evaporation process is accompanied with ammonia loss, and stir ammonia could induce the nucleation.
 
Ammonium hydroxide solution is unstable, and the ammonium is easy to lose. When the heating and stirring tungstate solution, ammonium paratungstate come into being continuously with the volatilization of ammonia and water, at the same time, it makes the concentration of tungstate from un-saturation to super-saturation. Continue heating evaporation, crystal nucleus taking shape and growing into crystals in a certain size and shape with the ammonia atmosphere.
 
Stirring causes induction period shorten, fast stirring speed makes large whirlpool diameter and deep height, flows fast, increases the contact area of the solution and the pot wall and accelerate the heat exchange rate to promoting the reaction process. The super-saturation increases with the NH3 escaping out. At the same time, stirring causes diffusion velocity speeding up, and the width of metastable region narrower, △c smaller, thus inducing constant K decline. With stirring speed increasing, the control of crystal growth rate turns from diffusion transfer to surface reaction, the homogeneous and secondary nucleation of ammonium paratungstate affected by stirring enlarge continuously. Between them, effect on the secondary nucleation is particularly significant. Stirring can prevent aggregate formation, also it exacerbates crystal broken-up and secondary nucleation, affects ammonium paratungstate homogeneity from the opposite side.

 

 

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