North America Remained the Largest Tungsten Carbide Drill Bits Market

Tungsten carbide drill bits for Oil and Gas industry application market volume was 2,597 hundred units in 2012 and is expected to see a growth at 4.9% CAGR during 2013 - 2019. With continuous developments in materials, designs and technology for drill bits and rising worldwide exploration activities, drill bit market is expected to experience steady growth in the coming years.

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This report covers the market analysis for tungsten carbide drill bits such as roller cone and fixed cutters used in oil and gas industry. The stakeholders for this study include tungsten carbide drill bits manufacturers, players involved in Exploration and Production (E&P) activities.
The market overview section of the report demonstrates the market dynamics and trends such as the drivers, restraints and opportunities that influence the current nature and future status of this field. Impact factors such as market attractiveness analysis and Porter's five forces analysis have also been explained in the market overview section of the report, in order to give a thorough analysis of the overall competitive scenario in the global drill bits for oil and gas industry application market.

Few years back, advancements in drill bit technology moved at an accelerating pace as drilling engineers are continuously designing bits to drill efficiently with improved rates of penetration in terms of speed and durability. The growth of the drill bits market for oil and gas industry is primarily driven by technological advancements in drill bit designs and rising exploration activities worldwide. Rising demand for energy from both developed and developing economies is the major factor driving the global market for oilfield equipment such as field production machinery, drilling equipment and others. This increased world energy demand along with high oil and natural gas prices are fuelling investment in drilling across the globe. Moreover, offshore drilling activity is expected to encourage offshore exploration & production (E&P) activities in across the world. Thus, rising exploration and drilling activities worldwide are expected to create substantial demand for drill bits in the coming years.

The global tungsten carbide drill bits for oil and gas industry application market is categorized on the basis of drill bits type. Tungsten carbide drill bits for oil and gas industry application are broadly classified as roller cone and fixed cutters. The roller cone type further includes milled-tooth bits and tungsten carbide inserts. The types of fixed cutters studied in the report include polycrystalline diamond bits (PDC) and natural diamond bits. The market revenue and forecast for each product type has been provided for the period 2011 to 2019 in terms of USD million, along with the CAGR for the forecast period 2013 to 2019.
In terms of geographical distribution, the global tungsten carbide drill bits market has been classified into four regions, namely, North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest of the World. This section includes market revenue and forecast for the tungsten carbide drill bits for oil and gas industry application market in each regional market, in terms of USD million.

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Tungsten Heater Gets Good Prospects in the Second Half of the Year

At present, influenced by the brexit, global economy has been badly hit. In order to handle growth risks and uncertainties of global economic, it is estimated that the world's major countries will launch a new round of monetary easing. IMF (International Monetary Fund) has also called for central banks around the world to prepare to take action to increase liquidity in order to reduce economic volatility. A new round of monetary easing policies of central banks around the world will gradually lead to competitive devaluation of national currencies. As a result, supply of the global funds will become abundant. In addition, the brexit or trigger more countries exit from EU (European Union), and even European Union would disintegrate, that means the euro will disappear forever, which would bring tremendous shock to world's political, economic and currency pattern. Although the probability of this is very small, but as unpredictable uncertainties expected, it still exists, which would affect investment, and then become hidden power to promote the prices rise of non-ferrous and precious metals. Relatively loose and comfortable monetary policy can promote the new round of rising of prices of energy and non-ferrous metal, the stock market is also significantly warming. It is expected that due to the loose monetary policy and more fiscal policy, the second half of the year of Chinese non-ferrous metals demand will continue to grow.

Tungsten is one of non-ferrous metals, and overall environment of China's non-ferrous metals in the second half of the year would promote development of tungsten heater. However, China's huge production capacity will still persist, the supply will increase with the rise of prices, resulting in heavy market pressure, and brexit would attack the euro and pound sterling, so market participants also need a high degree of vigilance, country and enterprise should always pay attention to market dynamics.

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Halo Holographic Helmet Uses Tungsten Trioxide Electrochromic Film

halo holographic helmet uses tungsten trioxide electrochromic filmVirtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) are now leading the forefront of technology, what the surprises will be by the further combination of AR and VR? Recently, source pointed out that Halo holographic helmet has opened the official website pre-sale, and will deliver to the customers after the International Consumer Electronics Show in January 2017. It is reported that this holographic helmet can switch in a key between AR and VR, using the most advanced processor, and based on a whole new generation customization system, can achieve low latency display in the sensor; at the same time, it supports gesture recognition, without any external testing equipment to achieve SLAM, and supports real-time 3D modeling space. In addition, the key to switch between AR and VR of this holographic helmet in a key lies in the eyepiece glass with a special chemical materials sandwich, after conductive of the special sandwich of film, a reversible color change of light will occur, such as the use of tungsten trioxide electrochromic film will turn blue after the light irradiation.
 
The original state of tungsten trioxide electrochromic film appears in pale blue, the color gradually deepened after power, and the reason lies in tungsten bronze compound (MxWO3) is produced. Tungsten bronze is a tungsten-containing nonstoichiometric compound, it appearance looks like copper and has the chemically property of inert, its properties changed with the variety of M and value of x, which can produce properties changing of color, conductor or semiconductor and so on, such as when M = Na , x = 0.2, MxWO3 shows blue.
 
Tungsten trioxide is the most classic non-organic electrochromic material, since WO3 electrochromic film phenomenon has been found in 1969, people have committed to its study and gradually deepen its research. Electrochromic phenomenon is the chemical composition and the valence of the electrochromic material shows a reversible change under the applied electric field, and ultimately reflecting in the color changing; with this property, electrochromic film can be widely used in construction, automotive, aerospace and other fields, also it plays a role in energy-saving thermal control and so on.

 

Portugal Won European Cup, Tungstenors Watch

European Cup, the crazy game is not only crazy in competitors, but the world wide, so are staff in Tungsten Industry both China and International.

World CupJust finished campaign between Portugal and France is so intense and until 109 minutes for a winner. Edel picked off the bench Moutinho and passed beautiful footballs, threw off French defender, then kicked outside the area, ripped through the archery Lori guarded goal for Portugal, launched into winning lore ball and eventually won!

France and Portugal 0-0 after 90 minutes contending, the Portuguese began to force during overtime campaign, and frequently threaten French goal, but still not rewrite overtime halftime score. The 109 minutes, Portugal quick counterattack. Edel picked off the bench and the same for Moutinho in the middle of the straight after several French players against tightly to Coase Czerny.

Edel crossed outside the closed top 25 meters from the goal, a sudden force right foot volley. Eder shot but the ball affixed to run fast toward the lower left corner of the French goal. This shot is very decisive and accurate, adequate power and precise angle. Even Lori fell to the ground, tried to block, but could do nothing only watched the ball sighing.

With this extra time in the second half of Edel ball lore, the final 1-0 victory over hosts Portugal in France, winning the first champion. It is worth mentioning that, after simple treatment by team doctor, limped C Lo did not miss Eder's goal. C Luo was also excited rushed to celebrate with teammates for the vital lore ball. C Luo is so exiting and satisfying by the first time to bring the golden goal winner.

Watchers, tungstenors, in Tungsten Industry have been so nervous for a long time, together with the campaign. Whoever won, they are all the best. May someday there will be a Tungsten Cup, and it will be so wonderful and expected.

 

Risk Aversion Ups Gold Price, Making "Gold Substitute" More Popular

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Due to the increased risk aversion among people, the gold price, which had fallen three weeks, ups these days. The international gold price rose 2.37% to $1278.26 / oz per week, and is expected to exceed $3000. Whether gold can continue to maintain the current strong or not, the upcoming U.S. 

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US Congress Met Water Pollution, WO3 Photocatalyst Solves Lead Pollution

Congressional office in Washington, the capital of America has recently undergone an incident of lead in drinking water exceeded; on July 5th, Capitol Building Department announced that they will arrange blood lead levels detecting for the congressional members and staff for free. A week ago, congressional office has detected the excessive of the lead level of the drinking water, then the drinking water pool was suspended; It is reported that, at least a pregnant woman of the employee of Congress has drunk the “lead water", we knew that the lead is particularly harmful for the unborn fetus; previously, Flint, Michigan City was exposed the water pollution crisis, and dozens of children were detected lead levels excessive. June of this year, source has reported that the problem of lead contamination of drinking water of United States is very common, cheating has been taken to conceal the problem of excessive amount of lead in water in many places.

Pb and water
 
Lead, a toxic heavy metal, is the known toxic substances which recorded most in the book, some ancient books has recorded that the use of lead pipes conveying water is dangerous. However, there are still a lot of water pipes of some parts in homes and buildings are made of lead. These lead making water pipes are the main supply pipe or part of the pipeline which is connected to the residents of the home, thus part of lead will dissolve in the water to cause lead pollution.
 
In recent years, tungsten trioxide (WO3) as a photocatalyst material has caused great concern; WOwith semiconductor property, its photocatalytic reduction effect is shown to effectively solve the pollution problems of chromium, mercury, lead and other heavy metal ions. Especially, the WOwith nano particle, due to its large specific surface area, it can fully enhance the efficiency of the reaction. However, the pure tungsten trioxide is easy to occur the light corrosion, and with the low utilization of visible defects and difficult to obtain a stable light catalytic properties, therefore, the modification technologies of metal ion doping, such as yttrium (Y), praseodymium (Pr) and so on; non-metal-doped miscellaneous, such as C; semiconductor composite, WO3/ZnO, WO3-TiOect.; polyhydric doping are used to enhance its property. With the continuous researching on photocatalyst, tungsten trioxide photocatalyst will play a huge role in the lead pollution and other water contamination.

 

Tungsten Trioxide Photocatalyst Solves Mercury Pollution

In June, a primary school of Huayuan County of Hunan Province, China, occurred a serious mercury poisoning (Minamata disease) of many students, which resulted in 147 students urine mercury exceeded; its cause is a fifth-grade student took 50 ml of the remaining mercury in the wok of a waste workshop in a mineral water bottle to school, and gave it to the other students for playing. According to the source, this workshop was illegal constructed and operated unauthorized without Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and related procedures. For this accident, I am showing my deep sadness, someone innocent was suffered a serious injury because some unscrupulous manufacturers do not manage their hazardous substances.

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China as the largest country which uses and emissions most  in global mercury, and has faced with the tremendous pressure to reduce emissions of mercury reductions in the "global mercury instrument" negotiations. This year, on June 18th to 19th, "the second national mercury pollution control and monitoring technology seminar" held in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province of China, the main focus of the meeting lies in deeply discussing the hot spots and focus issues of the policy standards mercury pollution control and monitoring in the field of technical support, solutions, industry trends, monitoring system and management system, and so on; furthermore, it provided decision supporting to in facing with the mercury pollution problems of socio-economic development process.
 
Mercury is a quite rare element in the earth's crust, which is the only kind of liquid metal. Mercury pollution (Hg2+) is one of the major heavy metal pollutions in the water, which has lethal hazards on the human nervous system. Studies have shown that, in the photocatalytic reduction experiment of Hg2+ of tungsten trioxide photocatalyst, Hg2+ was strongly adsorbed on surface of tungsten trioxide, and its adsorption amount increased as the increasing of pH value. In addition, experiments found that the adsorbed Hg2+ by tungsten trioxide still exist in the form of oxidation states which means it won’t occur reduction. Thus, Hg2+ in the wastewater has been taken by the photocatalyst, to eliminate mercury pollution. In addition, the recovery of Hg2+ can be separated with the photocatalyst, and then through the certain supporting of technical to recycle the mercury, and to realize resources recycling.

 

Tungsten Copper Tube Type Divetor Component Developed Successfully

Chinese Academy of Sciences for the ITER plasma has developed through tungsten copper tube type divertor components small modules completed high heat load test on the specified test platform, six test modules submitted all through testing and certification. It indicates that Chinese scientists have already with capacities that developed tungsten copper tube type divertor components for ITER.

Divetor component is the necessary ways for tokamak discharge in the process of controlling impurities and fuel recycling; exhaust heat and particle flow and helium ash from the center of the plasma, which also are the most critical components of ITER device.

The design specifications of tungsten copper tube type structural component are to withstand high thermal loads irradiation of 5000 10MW / m2 and 300 20MW / m2. However, since the thermal expansion coefficient and elastic modulus with greatly difference between tungsten material and tungsten copper alloy heat sink materials, the surface of tungsten copper will in higher thermal stress when it in the process of preparation and application. So tungsten copper tube type components is too difficult to developing.

The test module through the 5000 series of 10MW / m2 and 1000 20MW / m2 heat load cycle electron beam irradiation, exceeding the requirements of ITER. Which approved the plasma tungsten copper divertor’s advanced technology development. ITER Director-General Bernard Bigot be given due recognition and appreciation.

 

Surface Morphology during Tungsten Electrode Operation

After 5 seconds arcing, observed tungsten electrode surface morphology found, the tip of electrode has many projections. And this is mainly because the tip affected by current and high-frequency the surface rudimental oxygen will react with tungsten to generate volatile tungsten oxide under heat effect and since arcing was carried out in an argon atmosphere, so the tungsten oxide which produced at the tip will take away by argon gas, leaving relatively clean tungsten grain. However, with arcing time increase, the tungsten which in the middle part of the tip tungsten will react with residual oxygen to produce tungsten oxide. And this tungsten oxide will bring to the top of tip which has higher temperature by argon flow. During the process, tungsten oxide decomposition occurs to form metal tungsten. Besides, tungsten deposition led to form the projection on the tip. However, this structure is prone to produce high frequency discharge and plasma. Not only tungsten and oxygen can react to produce gaseous tungsten oxide, but low-melting substance such as rare earth nitrate in tungsten electrode during arcing process will have diffusion, migration, volatilization and deposition, which is conducive to high-frequency arc starting and stable arcing.
 
After one minute arcing, observed morphology found due to longer arcing electrode material has undergone obvious recrystallization. The tungsten film which deposited at the before affected by heat will along the grain to growth and only new deposited tungsten film shows amorphous membranous tissue. In the one minute arcing, the tungsten electrode surface covered with typically equiaxed recrystallized structure tungsten film.
 
After 5 minutes arcing, the root of tip, due to the lower temperature so there is showing processing state fibrous tissue. In addition, compared the electrode tip morphology after five minutes arcing and one minute arcing found there is little change in appearance, indicating that arcing after one minute the electrode enters a relatively stable state and can stable work .
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5 Companies Fined More Than 3.5 Million Yuan, WO3 Desulfurization Catalyst Reduces Acid Rain

Recently, media reports said Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) of Yunnan Province have maken out the illegal administrative penalties of 5 electric powder enterprises for confiscating their illegal incomes, the total illegal incomes of more than 3.50 million. It is reported that the major reason of the five electric powder enterprises to be punished including that generated and outwardly supplied electricity during the outage of desulphurization facilities, related emission concentration index hourly average exceeds the limit but still requires enforcement of environmental price, and so on. In this regard, I express my deep sorrow, as well as have no more agree for the treatment of NDRC, how dare they generated power under the outage of desulphurization facilities? Today, the whole world is doing environmental protection work, and you commit a crime in spite of a law-enforcement campaign, anyone without you not to be punished?

tungsten trioxide and desulfurization catalyst
 
The pollution of sulfur dioxide has exceed the smoke pollution and become the first atmospheric pollutants, with the world’ industrialization continues to deepen. Flue gas desulfurization (FGD) is currently the world's only desulfurization method of large-scale commercial applications, and also the most effective and main technical means to control acid rain and sulfur dioxide pollution. Desulfurization tower is commonly used in desulfurization facilities, and the desulfurization catalyst is a core technology used in desulfurization project, the surface of WOdesulfurization catalyst has tension which can reduce the surface tension of limestone slurry and the critical nucleus radius, thereby strengthening the bisulfite oxidation precipitation of gypsum, to achieve the goal of sulfur dioxide emission reduction.
 
Tungsten trioxide (WO3) is an important intermediate product from tungsten concentrates to pure tungsten; the large amounts of WOare used in the production of pure tungsten, tungsten carbide, etc; In addition, as WO3has catalytic property, it can either as the main catalyst (photocatalyst), and also can be used for preparing denitrification, desulfurization catalyst. In the desulfurization catalyst, WOas a main active material which uniformly loading on the carrier, serve to reduce the desulfurization reaction activation energy, and also play the roles of anti vulcanization, anti-sintering of carrier, thereby enhance the desulfurization efficiency and achieve the goal of emission reduction.

 

 

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