Method for preparing high-density pure tungsten product through low-temperature sintering

Abstract

The invention provides a method for preparing a high-density special-shaped pure tungsten product through low-temperature sintering, and belongs to the technical field of powder injection molding. The method comprises the technological processes that an air flow mill is adopted for carrying out dispersing and staging treatment on commercially available high-purity tungsten powder, the treated powder and a bonding agent are evenly mixed for mixing, and even feed is obtained; the feed is subjected to injection molding to form a blank in a certain shape; and the formed blank is subjected to solvent degreasing and hot degreasing and then is sintered, and the tungsten product is obtained. Powder is subjected to dispersing and staging treatment through the air flow mill under the protective atmosphere, the powder is driven by gas to collide with each other and can be treated on a large scale, and no impurity is introduced; the particle size distribution of the treated powder becomes narrow, and the shape of particles becomes regular and is similar to a spherical shape; and loose-fitting tap density is increased, the loading amount of the injection-molded powder is correspondingly improved to 55%-70%, and the density of the pure tungsten product manufactured after sintering of the hydrogen atmosphere of 1,900 DEG C is higher than 96%.

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technical field [0001] The invention belongs to the technical field of powder injection molding and provides a method for preparing high-density pure tungsten products by low-temperature sintering. Background technique [0002] Metal tungsten has a high melting point (3410°C), high density (19.3g / cm 3 ), high strength and low expansion coefficient, occupy an important position in engineering applications such as defense electronics industry. Tungsten products are widely used in the fields of aerospace, atomic energy and high temperature. Due to the high hardness, high brittleness, poor conductivity and difficulty in cutting and processing of metal tungsten, traditional powder metallurgy methods cannot prepare thin-walled and complex-shaped tungsten products, and produce complex-shaped tungsten products. Parts will increase the processing cost. Powder injection molding is a new type of near-net powder forming technology formed by introducing modern plastic injection molding...

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Problems solved by technology

Due to the high melting point, the densification of tungsten requires a very high temperature, and its sintering temperature is often as high as 70%-80% of the melting point (above 2300 ° C), otherwise it will lead to problems such as low density and poor strength.

[0003] In order to solve the problem of sintering densification, mechanical alloying or adding active elements such as Fe and Ni can be used to obtain high-density tungsten products at lower temperatures, but the introduction of impurity elements has a bad impact on its performance. (Below 2000℃) Densification of tungsten is a difficult problem

The Chinese patent (ZL200510011617.4) introduces that after 2-12 hours of high-energy ball milling, coarse tungsten powder is ground to obtain high-activity raw material tungsten powder, which is sintered at 2100-2400°C to obtain denser tungsten parts, but ball milling is easy. Impurities are introduced, the treatment time is long, and it is difficult to remove powder agglomeration. After treatment, the sintering temperature of tungsten products with a density higher than 93% needs to be higher than 2100 ° C; Chinese patent (CN101623760A) discloses a tungsten-based alloy product. Micro-injection molding technology, the patent adds alloy elements such as iron and nickel, mixes various powders uniformly through ball milling, and uses powder injection molding technology to prepare miniature tungsten alloy products with a mass of less than 0.5g. The focus of this patent is to use micro-injection molding to Solve the forming problem of micro parts, add iron-nickel alloy elements to form liquid phase sintering to solve the problem of sintering densification, which belongs to the densification of tungsten-based alloys, and has nothing to do with the preparation of high-density pure tungsten products

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