153 results about "Uranium carbide" patented technology

The invention relates to a nuclear fuel cladding totally or partially made of a composite material with a ceramic matrix containing silicon carbide (SiC) fibers as a matrix reinforcement and an interphase layer provided between said matrix and said fibers, the matrix including at least one carbide selected from titanium carbide (TiC), zirconium carbide (ZrC), or ternary titanium silicon carbide (Ti₃SiC₂).

When irradiated and at temperatures of between 800° C. and 1200° C., said cladding can mechanically maintain the nuclear fuel within the cladding while enabling optimal thermal-energy transfer towards the coolant.

The invention also relates to a method for making the nuclear fuel cladding.

Molds are fabricated having a substrate of high density, high strength ultrafine grained isotropic graphite, and having a mold cavity coated with titanium carbide. The molds may be made by making the substrate (main body) of high density, high strength ultrafine grained isotropic graphite, by, for example, isostatic or vibrational molding, machining the substrate to form the mold cavity, and coating the mold cavity with titanium carbide via either chemical deposition or plasma assisted chemical vapor deposition, magnetron sputtering or sputtering. The molds may be used to make various metallic alloys such as nickel, cobalt and iron based superalloys, stainless steel alloys, titanium alloys and titanium aluminide alloys into engineering components by melting the alloys in a vacuum or under a low partial pressure of inert gas and subsequently casting the melt in the graphite molds under vacuum or low partial pressure of inert gas.

An improved radiation shielding material and storage systems for radioactive materials incorporating the same. The PYRolytic Uranium Compound (“PYRUC”) shielding material is preferably formed by heat and/or pressure treatment of a precursor material comprising microspheres of a uranium compound, such as uranium dioxide or uranium carbide, and a suitable binder. The PYRUC shielding material provides improved radiation shielding, thermal characteristic, cost and ease of use in comparison with other shielding materials. The shielding material can be used to form containment systems, container vessels, shielding structures, and containment storage areas, all of which can be used to house radioactive waste. The preferred shielding system is in the form of a container for storage, transportation, and disposal of radioactive waste. In addition, improved methods for preparing uranium dioxide and uranium carbide microspheres for use in the radiation shielding materials are also provided.

The invention belongs to the technical field of preparation of nano-functional materials, in particular to a method for preparing a nitrogen doped carbon nanotube three-dimensional composite materialby in-situ growth of a few layers of titanium carbide, immersing ternary layered Ti3AlC2 ceramic powder in hydrofluoric acid solution, heating and stirring, centrifugally cleaning with ultrapure waterand absolute ethanol, drying to obtain two-dimensional layered titanium carbide nano-powder, adding it into tetramethylammonium hydroxide solution, heating and stirring, centrifuging with deionized water to obtain a few layers of titanium carbide nano-sheet dispersion; Adding cobalt salt into a dispersion of a few layers of titanium carbide nano-sheets for reaction, adding dicyandiamide, heatingand stirring until dicyandiamide is completely dissolved, freezing, and freeze-drying to obtain precursor powder; Nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes (CNTs) three-dimensional composites were prepared by in-situ growth of a few layers of titanium carbide after grinding the precursor powder and heat treatment. A three-dimensional composite material is prepared by a simple pyrolysis method using a few layers of titanium carbide as a carrier, cobalt as a catalyst, dicyandiamide as a carbon and nitrogen source, and the electrochemical performance of the few layers of titanium carbide can be improved.

A method and a system for producing calcium carbide, the method including mixing powdery carbon-containing raw material with powdery calcium-containing raw material, and directly heating the mixture by combusting a part of carbon-containing raw material in an oxygen-containing atmosphere to produce calcium carbide. The carbon-containing raw material can be coal, semi-coke or coke, the calcium-containing raw material can be calcium carbonate, calcium oxide, calcium hydroxide or carbide slag. The system includes a raw material preheating unit, such as a fluidized bed or an entrained flow bed, and a reaction unit such as an entrained flow bed. By combustion of the by-product CO produced during the production of calcium carbide or auxiliary fuel in the air to preheat the raw materials to 500-1500° C., the carbon consumption and the oxygen consumption for the calcium carbide production can be reduced, and thus process energy consumption is further reduced.

The invention discloses a hard alloy, a hard alloy cutter bar and a manufacturing method thereof. The hard alloy comprises 80-90 parts by mass of tungsten carbide, 10-20 parts by mass of cobalt, 0.15-0.5 part by mass of tantalum carbide, 0.2-0.4 part by mass of chromium carbide and 0.1-0.3 part by mass of vanadium carbide. A cutter bar body (2) of a cutter bar made by the hard alloy is provided with a threaded hole (3) used for mounting a cutting tool (4). The manufacturing method of the cutter bar comprises the following steps of: adding the tungsten carbide, cobalt, chromium carbide, tantalum carbide and vanadium carbide into a ball mill according to the proportions of the ingredients, adding alcohol, mixing and grinding the ingredients, discharging, drying and sieving; adding a forming agent; pressing the ingredients to a blank; sintering the blank at a temperature of 1360-1450 DEG C to form the hard alloy cutter bar; conventionally polishing the surface of the hard alloy cutter bar; and electrosparking the tool bar and burning out the threaded hole.

The present invention discloses a high capacity lithium ion battery containing metal conductive substances. The battery comprises a positive electrode sheet, a negative electrode sheet, separation membranes, an electrolyte, a binder and a sealing material. A conductive substance of the positive electrode sheet comprises a metal carbide, a metal boride or a metal nitride. A conductive substance of the negative electrode sheet comprises a metal carbide, a metal boride or a metal nitride. The metal carbide is titanium carbonitride, tungsten carbide or titanium carbide, vanadium carbide, tantalum carbide, or a co-melting body of tungsten carbide and titanium carbide. The metal boride is a molybdenum boride, tungsten boride or vanadium boride. The metal nitride is titanium nitride, tungsten nitride or tantalum nitride. The conductive material of the positive electrode sheet further can contain powder metal, and the conductive material of the negative electrode sheet further can contain powdered metal, wherein the powdered metal is nickel powder, copper powder or chromium powder.

The invention provides a preparation method for promoting to sinter zirconium boride or zirconium carbide ceramics by using reaction aids. Two-phase sintering aids capable of being reacted, namely Zr powder and C powder, or Zr powder and B4C powder, are added, and a material is promoted to be compact and crystals of a matrix are inhibited from growing by zirconium carbide/zirconium boride second phase particles with higher sintering activity, which are generated through in-situ reaction between the sintering aids. The ZrB2 or ZrC-based bulk material prepared by the method has the relative density of over 97 percent, the room temperature bending strength of 500-800MPa, the fracture toughness of 3.5-6.5MPa.ml/2, and the hardness of 14-20GPa. The second phase generated through the in-situ reaction has the same melting point as the matrix, and the sintering acids cannot bring adverse effect to the high temperature mechanical properties of the material.

A corrosion resistant, electrically conductive, non-porous bipolar plate is made from titanium carbide for use in an eletrochemical device. The process involves blending titanium carbide powder with a suitable binder material, and molding the mixture, at an elevated temperature and pressure.

A polycrystalline cubic boron nitride compact which comprises greater than 75 volume % and not greater than 90 volume % cubic boron nitride particles, the cubic boron nitride particles comprising particles of at least two average particle sizes, and a binder phase constituting the balance of the compact and comprising at least one titanium compound selected from titanium boride, titanium nitride, titanium carbide and titanium carbonitride and at least one aluminium compound selected from aluminium oxide, aluminium boride, aluminium nitride, aluminium carbide and aluminium carbonitride.

The invention discloses a preparation method and application of uranium-based ternary carbide, and is used for overcoming the shortcomings of the uranium monocarbidc (UC) and uranium dioxide (UO2) nuclear fuels in the prior art on the aspects of melting point, heat conduction, irradiance resistance, and the like. The preparation method comprises the steps of processing mixing uranium carbide powder and transition metal carbide powder or mixing uranium dioxide powder and transition metal carbide powder and carbon powder, placing in a designed graphite jig, and allowing reactive sintering to obtain high-stability uranium-based ternary carbide. The uranium-based ternary carbide prepared by the preparation method of the invention has the characteristics of high melting point, high heat conductivity and good irradiation resistance, and can be used as an accident fault-tolerance nuclear fuel of a nuclear power station, or a nuclear fuel of a nuclear-powered rocket.

The paint for laser nanometer cermet alloying of metallurgical hot roller is compounded with boron carbide 40-70 wt%, tungsten carbide 15-30 wt%, titanium carbide 0-15 wt%, and chromium carbide 5-20 wt%. The optimized technological parameters of the present invention result in obviously solid solution strengthening effect and dispersion strengthening effect; the structure fining generates obvious alloy layer strengthening effect, raised toughness and plasticity; and the dispersion of the carbide can arrest the growth of crystalline grain to ensure the high heat stability of the alloy structure. Therefore, the roller will not be annealed and softened during high temperature rolling.

The invention discloses a method of utilizing microwave energy to prepare calcium carbide at low temperature. The method comprises the following steps of using coal as a carbon source, using limestone or lime as a calcium source, heating by the microwave energy, and reacting and synthesizing to form the calcium carbide, wherein the reaction temperature of the synthesized calcium carbide is 1300-2000 DEG C, the reaction pressure is 0.3-1.1atm, and the reaction time is 3-120min; primarily grinding the carbon source and the calcium source, mixing according to a ratio, and performing ultrafine treatment to obtain an ultrafine mixed material; heating to react and synthesizing to form the calcium carbide by utilizing the microwave energy. The method has the advantages that the coal and the limestone are directly used as the raw materials, are subjected to ultrafine crushing, and are heated and synthesized to form the calcium carbide by the microwave energy; by utilizing various coal types, two steps of the coking of raw coal and the high-temperature decomposing of the calcium carbonate to prepare the limestone are not needed, the synthesizing temperature of the calcium carbide is lowered, the production efficiency and mechanical degree of the calcium carbide are improved, and a byproduct of carbon monoxide can be used as a chemical raw material to produce other chemical products.

The invention discloses a preparation method of a molybdenum disulfide/titanium carbide composite material. The preparation method mainly comprises the following steps: adding a molybdenum source, a sulfur source and titanium carbide into a stainless steel reaction kettle in sequence according to a certain mass ratio, then stirring the molybdenum source, the sulfur source and the titanium carbidefor 10 to 30 min according to a filling volume of 60 percent, putting the mixture into the stainless steel reaction kettle, sealing the reaction kettle, placing the reaction kettle into a crucible furnace, heating the crucible furnace at 180 to 220 DEG C for 16 to 24 h, naturally cooling the reaction kettle to room temperature, and taking out the mixture; and washing the mixture with anhydrous ethanol, diluted hydrochloric acid and distilled water in sequence for three to six times, filtering the mixture, putting the obtained powder into a vacuum drying oven for vacuum drying at 60 DEG C for 12 h. According to the preparation method disclosed by the invention, the process is simple, and reaction conditions are mild; no surfactant is added; the repetitiveness is high, and the cost is low; the prepared molybdenum disulfide/titanium carbide composite material is excellent in electrochemical performance and excellent in rate performance and high in cycle stability and has important significance in the field of lithium ion batteries.

A lithium ion battery containing conducting materials comprises a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator, an electrolyte, adhesives and sealing materials. The conducting materials in the positive electrode comprise metal carbides, metal borides or metal nitrides. The conducting materials in the negative electrode comprise metal carbides, metal borides or metal nitrides. The metal carbide is titanium carbonitride, tungsten carbide or titanium carbide, vanadium carbide, tantalum carbide, and eutectic of tungsten carbide and titanium carbide. The metal boride is molybdenum boride, tungsten boride or vanadium boride. The metal nitride is titanium nitride, tungsten nitride or tantalum nitride. The conducting materials in the positive electrode may also comprise powdered metals. The conducting materials in the negative electrode comprise powdered metals. The powdered metal is nickel powder, copper powder or chromium powder.

The invention belongs to the field of manufacturing of hard alloys, in particular to a bicrystal gradient hard alloy cutter material and a preparation method thereof. The bicrystal gradient hard alloy cutter material adopts tungsten carbide, titanium carbide, cobalt, vanadium carbide, chromium carbide and polyvinylpyrrolidone as raw materials; five symmetric gradient layers are provided; each layer contains coarse-grain tungsten carbide and fine-grain tungsten carbide from surface to inside; the ratio of coarse-grain tungsten carbide to fine-grain tungsten carbide is increased; the ratio of titanium carbide is reduced; and the ratio of a binding phase is increased. The preparation method comprises the steps of: ball milling of a mixture-drying and screening-molding by pressing-vacuum hot press sintering. The preparation method is low in equipment investment, convenient for operation, high in material utilization rate and suitable for industrial production; and the prepared product has a surface for satisfying the requirements of double high (high wear resistance and high toughness), and in particular, is suitable for interrupted metal turning and milling.

The present invention discloses a composite impactor for percussion crushers, said impactor comprising a ferrous alloy at least partially reinforced with titanium carbide according to a defined geometry, in which said reinforced portion comprises an alternating macro-microstructure of millimetric areas concentrated with micrometric globular particles of titanium carbide separated by millimetric areas essentially free of micrometric globular particles of titanium carbide, said areas concentrated with micrometric globular particles of titanium carbide forming a microstructure in which the micrometric interstices between said globular particles are also filled by said ferrous alloy.

The invention discloses a manufacture method for a micropore wiredrawing die, which is characterized in that tungsten carbide (WC) is taken as a main material, an appropriate amount of titanium carbide (TaC) and cobalt (Co) are added, the weight percentage of tungsten carbide (WC), titanium carbide (TaC) and cobalt (Co) is (93-95 percent) : (1.5-1.8 percent) : (3.5-4.5 percent); and after mixing up the raw materials according to a proportion, wet grinding is carried out to enable the overall particle size of the ground mixed materials to be smaller than 2-3mu.m, then a spray drying formation agent is added to carry out spraying and drying, the materials are delivered into a compressive formation mould to be compressed and formed, a semi-finished product is manufactured, the formation agent is removed after the semi-finished product is inspected to be qualified, and finally the semi-finished product is sent to a sintering furnace to be sintered and formed, and the finish product of the micropore metal wiredrawing die is manufactured.

The invention discloses a preparation method of calcium carbide formed coke, which takes a plasma coal cracking solid product as a raw material and comprises the following steps of: (1) preprocessing: firstly, deashing the plasma coal cracking solid product and then carrying out devolatilization and carbonization to obtain coke powder with the ash content of no more than 9% and the volatile constituent of no more than 2%; (2) proportioning: taking powdery calcium hydroxide as an adhesive and mixing the coke powder and the powdery calcium hydroxide evenly to obtain a mixture; then, mixing the mixture and water to obtain a material; (3) forming: pressing and forming the material at room temperature to obtain a green-ball; and (4) solidifying the green-ball: stacking the green-ball into a solidification tank, introducing CO2 and solidifying; taking out of the tank and drying or airing to obtain the formed coke. The formed coke prepared by adopting the method can be used as a special carbon material for producing calcium carbide.

The invention relates to an iron oxide/titanium carbide composite cathode material and a preparation method thereof. The method comprises the following steps: dispersing titanium carbide in an organicsolution to form uniform titanium carbide dispersion liquid; then adding soluble ferric salt and polyvinylpyrrolidone in the titanium carbide dispersion liquid and stirring the materials to obtain mixed liquor A; dropping an urea solution in the mixed liquor A while stirring to obtain mixed liquor B; placing the mixed liquor B at the temperature of 80-200 DEG C and performing a hydrothermal reaction for 1-24 h, and performing steps of centrifugation, washing and drying on a reaction product to obtain the iron oxide/titanium carbide composite cathode material. The preparation technology is simple, a high temperature process is not required, energy consumption is low, the cycle performance of the iron oxide/titanium carbide composite cathode material is greatly increased, and the conductivity and capacity conservation rate are good.

The invention relates to zirconium carbide-zirconium diboride complex-phase ceramic powder synthesized through thermal explosion and a preparation method thereof. The ceramic powder is prepared from, by mass, 0%-30% of Al powder and 70%-100% of Zr powder and B4C powder, wherein the molar ratio of Zr to B4C is 3:1, and the sum of the mass percent of the components is 100%. The preparation method comprises the steps that the Al powder, the Zr powder and the B4C powder which are dried are fully mixed and then pressed into green blank blocks, a thermal explosion chemical reaction is conducted in an induction furnace which is vacuumized and then is full of Ar gas, and the ceramic powder is obtained. The ceramic powder and the preparation method thereof have the advantages that reacting is rapid, energy saving and cleanliness are achieved, and the product compounding degree is high; the product is a ceramic compound mainly containing ZrC powder and ZrB2 powder and can be directly applied as a zirconium carbide-zirconium diboride complex-phase ceramic powder material, the zirconium carbide-zirconium diboride complex-phase ceramic powder can be separated after other impurities in the compound are washed off through extraction, and then the single pure zirconium carbide or pure zirconium diboride ceramic powder can be obtained for application.

The invention discloses a method for preparing TiB2/TiC (titanium diboride/titanium carbide) ultrafine powder for surface spraying of an engine piston ring by means of high energy ball milling. The method includes the steps: (1) weighing Ti (titanium) powder and B4C (boron carbide) powder as powder materials, (2) weighing grinding balls, (3) placing the powder materials into a ball milling tank and then covering the powder materials with the grinding balls so as to press the upper surfaces of all the powder materials, (4) leading inert gas into the ball milling tank so as to exhaust air, and (5) performing ball milling. The method for mechanical alloying by means of high energy ball milling is used for in-situ synthesis of nanoscale metal ceramic composite TiB2/TiC powder, vacuum pumping and argon filling during in-situ synthesis do not need to be performed in a vacuum glove box, accordingly, operation procedures are simplified, production efficiency is improved, and the method is suitable for industrial production.

The invention provides a stirring head for friction stir welding and a fabrication method of the stirring head. The stirring head for friction stir welding comprises the following raw materials basedon percent by mass: 55-85% of tungsten powder, 5-15% of rhenium powder and 10-30% of zirconium carbide and/or hafnium carbide powder. The fabrication method of the stirring head for friction stir welding comprises the following steps of A, preparing matrix alloy powder; B conducting pressing and forming, specifically conducting pressing and forming on the matrix alloy powder obtained in the step Ato obtain a formed blank; C, performing high-temperature sintering, specifically sintering the formed blank in the step B to obtain a sintered blank; and D, performing hot isostatic pressure processing. By introducing elements such as rhenium, zirconium carbide and/or hafnium carbide into a tungsten matrix, the plasticity and the processability can be remarkably improved, and the zirconium carbide and/or hafnium carbide is distributed in the tungsten matrix in a diffusion way so as to achieve an effect of fine-grain strengthening; and meanwhile, a W-C chemical bond can be formed at an interface bonding position, so that the enhancement effect can be further improved.

The invention belongs to the field of comprehensive utilization of metallurgical resources and specifically relates to a method for preparing titanium carbide through carbon thermal reduction of titanium-contained blast furnace slag. The method comprises the following processing steps: (1) fine grinding; (2) material mixing; (3) reduction; (4) cooling; (5) acid leaching; (6) standing stratification; (7) washing with water and drying, so as to obtain the titanium carbide finally. The method has the highlights that a boron-contained compound is added for carbon thermal reduction, and acid leaching and standing stratification are performed on a reduction material, so that calcium, magnesium, aluminum, silicon, ion and the like in titanium and furnace slag are separated. According to the method, the problems of low extraction rate of titanium, low comprehensive utilization rate of the resources and the like existing in comprehensive utilization of the titanium-contained blast furnace slagcurrently are solved; the method has the advantages of being simple in process and high in extraction rate of the titanium, being environmentally friendly and efficient, etc. The prepared titanium carbide has excellent properties of high temperature resistance, abrasion resistance, high hardness and the like, can be widely used in high-grade, precision and advanced industries of aerospace, abrasion resistant refractory materials, alloys and the like, and has huge economic benefits.