Disclosure of Invention
Aiming at the problems in the prior art, the invention provides a method for recovering tungsten waste by adding CO2The method introduces a tungsten secondary resource recovery process as a carbon source, realizes the preparation of tungsten carbide products by efficiently recovering tungsten wastes with high quality in a short process, and is favorable for reducing CO in the air2And (4) content.
The invention adopts the following technical scheme:
the invention provides a method for recycling tungsten waste, which comprises the following steps: taking an alkali metal chloride molten salt system containing carbonate as an electrolyte, taking tungsten waste as a working electrode and taking a conductive plating part as an auxiliary electrode, and recovering the tungsten waste by adopting a molten salt electrolysis method; wherein CO is introduced2As a carbon source to be introduced into the electrolytic recovery process.
At present, inert gas is introduced into the waste tungsten materials recovered by a molten salt electrolysis method in the electrolysis process, so that the electrodes are protected from being oxidized, tungsten powder products are obtained after electrolysis, and tungsten carbide can be obtained by further processing, namely the most common utilization mode of tungsten. The invention breaks the fixed thinking and innovatively puts forward CO2Introducing tungsten as carbon source into a tungsten secondary resource recovery process, taking tungsten waste as a working electrode in a carbonate-containing alkali metal chloride molten salt medium, wherein when the tungsten waste is oxidized, tungsten is dissolved out in an ion form, and in the initial stage of electrolysisCarbonate in carbonate is reduced into carbon which is combined with tungsten ions to generate tungsten carbide, and simultaneously, CO is introduced2Gas is used as a carbon source, and is continuously supplemented into a molten salt system, so that sufficient carbon source and a tungsten source are combined in the system to generate WC. The invention realizes the reasonable and recovery of tungsten secondary resources, does not need to process tungsten powder into tungsten carbide by a complex method, can realize the recovery and preparation of high-performance tungsten carbide nanopowder by a short process, and utilizes CO in the process2As a carbon source, it helps to achieve the goal of carbon neutralization.
Further, the present invention introduces CO2As the carbon source, certain conditions need to be met: heating the molten salt electrolyte to 400-2350-1000ppm argon gas mixture with a gas inlet flow of 80-150ml/min, and starting electrolysis.
Further, the carbonate is Na2CO3、K2CO3And Li2CO3The carbonate accounts for 0.5-4% of the mass fraction of the alkali metal chloride.
Further, the alkali metal chloride is one or more of NaCl, KCl and LiCl.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the alkali chloride consists of NaCl and KCl in a molar ratio of 1: 1; the carbonate is Na2CO3The alkali metal chloride accounts for 1-3% of the mass fraction of the alkali metal chloride.
Further, the surface roughness of the conductive plated part is less than Ra 1.6, and the conductivity is more than 240S/cm.
Further, the molten salt electrolysis method is constant current electrolysis or constant potential electrolysis.
Specifically, in the constant current electrolysis process, the current density is 40-200 mA/cm2The electrolysis time is 1-9 h.
In the constant potential electrolysis process, the potential is 1.5-4V, and the electrolysis time is 1-4 h.
In the invention, the tungsten waste comprises waste tungsten alloy, tungsten electrodes, waste hard alloy, tungsten-containing catalyst and the like. Wherein the waste tungsten alloy is WNiMoFe alloy, and tungsten carbide powder can be obtained by recycling the waste tungsten alloy; the hard alloy is composed of tungsten carbide and binder phase cobalt, and the tungsten carbide-cobalt powder can be obtained by recycling waste hard alloy.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the method for recycling tungsten scrap comprises the following steps:
s1, polishing the tungsten rod to remove rust, cleaning and drying for later use;
s2, processing the conductive plating piece until the surface roughness is less than Ra 1.6, cleaning and drying for later use;
s3, mixing the raw materials of the molten salt electrolyte which is subjected to vacuum drying and dehydration in advance according to a ratio, opening a vacuum valve, heating to 200-300 ℃ under a vacuum condition, preserving heat for 2-4h, uniformly dissolving, and closing the vacuum valve after heat preservation is finished;
s4, heating the molten salt electrolyte to 400-2350-1000ppm argon gas mixture with the gas inlet flow of 80-150 ml/min;
s5, placing the auxiliary electrode and the working electrode in a molten salt electrolyte containing CO2In the atmosphere, a constant current (current density of 40-200 mA/cm) is carried out2) Or electrolyzing at a constant potential (the potential is 1.5-4V), cooling, taking out the working electrode and the auxiliary electrode, washing with water, centrifuging, drying and collecting the product in the reactor.
Wherein, the drying in the step S5 is forced air drying, the temperature is 50-60 ℃, and the drying time is 10-12 h.
The tungsten carbide powder prepared by the method has the purity of over 99 percent and can be used as a high-end product.
The invention provides a method for recycling tungsten waste, which innovatively uses CO2Introducing the carbon source into the recovery of tungsten secondary resource, taking tungsten waste as a working electrode and a conductive plating part as an auxiliary electrode in a carbonate-containing alkali metal chloride molten salt medium, dissolving out tungsten in the form of ions when the tungsten waste is oxidized, reducing carbonate in the initial stage of electrolysis into carbon and combining the carbon with the tungsten ions, and introducing CO simultaneously2Gas is used as a supplementary carbon source and is continuously input into a molten salt system,ensuring that sufficient carbon source and tungsten source are combined to generate WC in the system. The invention realizes the high-efficiency and high-quality recovery of the tungsten secondary resource and is beneficial to reducing the CO in the air2And (4) content.
Detailed Description
In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention clearer, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention are clearly and completely described below, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are a part of the embodiments of the present invention, but not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
Unless otherwise specified, the test reagents and materials used in the examples of the present invention are commercially available.
Unless otherwise specified, the technical means used in the examples of the present invention are conventional means well known to those skilled in the art.
Example 1
The embodiment provides a method for recycling waste tungsten alloy, which comprises the following specific steps:
s1, sequentially placing the tungsten alloy rod subjected to mechanical cutting and polishing treatment in alcohol and deionized water for ultrasonic cleaning, and drying for later use;
s2, mechanically grinding and polishing the surface of the conductive plated part until the surface is smooth, sequentially placing the conductive plated part in alcohol and deionized water for ultrasonic cleaning, and drying for later use;
s3, drying NaCl and KCl in a vacuum drying oven at 200 ℃ for 24 hours in advance, and dehydrating;
s4, weighing the dehydrated NaCl and KCl according to the molar ratio of 1:1, and adding Na accounting for 2% of the mass fraction of the chloride2CO3Putting the mixed salt into a resistance furnace, opening a vacuum valve, heating to 300 ℃ under a vacuum condition, preserving heat for 2 hours to obtain molten salt which is uniformly melted, and closing the vacuum valve after the heat preservation is finished;
s5, heating the molten salt electrolyte to 750 ℃, preserving heat for 2h, and introducing CO2350ppm of argon gas mixture, the gas inflow is 80 ml/min;
s6, placing the auxiliary electrode and the working electrode in a molten salt electrolyte, connecting an electrochemical workstation, and placing the electrochemical workstation in the electrolyte containing CO2In the atmosphere, a constant potential electrolysis technology is adopted, the voltage is set to be 2.4V, and electrolysis is carried out for 3 hours; during electrolysis, CO is detected in outlet gas2Reduced to 100ppm and containing product O2。
S7, after the electrolysis is finished, taking out the working electrode, sequentially carrying out ultrasonic cleaning in alcohol and deionized water, and then washing with clean water to remove the salt attached to the surface of the coating; and (3) washing the product obtained in the crucible with water, centrifuging, and drying by air blowing for 10 hours at the temperature of 60 ℃.
Fig. 1 is an XRD pattern of the WC powder obtained in this example, and it can be seen that the product contains no impurity phase other than the WC phase.
Example 2
The embodiment provides a method for recycling waste tungsten alloy, which comprises the following specific steps:
s1, sequentially placing the tungsten alloy rod subjected to mechanical cutting and polishing treatment in alcohol and deionized water for ultrasonic cleaning, and drying for later use;
s2, mechanically grinding and polishing the surface of the conductive plated part until the surface is smooth, sequentially placing the conductive plated part in alcohol and deionized water for ultrasonic cleaning, and drying for later use;
s3, drying NaCl and KCl in a vacuum drying oven at 200 ℃ for 24 hours in advance, and dehydrating;
s4, weighing the dehydrated NaCl and the dehydrated K according to the molar ratio of 1:1Cl, and then Na accounting for 2 percent of the mass fraction of the chlorine salt is added2CO3Putting the mixed salt into a resistance furnace, opening a vacuum valve, heating to 300 ℃ under a vacuum condition, preserving heat for 2 hours to obtain molten salt which is uniformly melted, and closing the vacuum valve after the heat preservation is finished;
s5, heating the molten salt electrolyte to 750 ℃, preserving heat for 2h, and introducing CO2550ppm argon gas mixture, with the gas inflow of 100 ml/min;
s6, placing the auxiliary electrode and the working electrode in a molten salt electrolyte, connecting an electrochemical workstation, and placing the electrochemical workstation in the electrolyte containing CO2In the atmosphere, constant current electrolysis technology is adopted, and the set voltage is 200mA/cm2Carrying out electrolysis for 5 hours; during electrolysis, CO is detected in outlet gas2The content was reduced to 300 ppm.
S7, after the electrolysis is finished, taking out the working electrode, sequentially carrying out ultrasonic cleaning in alcohol and deionized water, and then washing with clean water to remove the salt attached to the surface of the coating; and (3) washing the product obtained in the crucible with water, centrifuging, and drying by air blowing for 10 hours at the temperature of 60 ℃.
Fig. 2 is an XRD pattern of the WC powder prepared in this example, and it can be seen that the product contains no impurity phase other than the WC phase.
Example 3
The embodiment provides a method for recycling waste tungsten alloy, which comprises the following specific steps:
s1, sequentially placing the tungsten alloy rod subjected to mechanical cutting and polishing treatment in alcohol and deionized water for ultrasonic cleaning, and drying for later use;
s2, mechanically grinding and polishing the surface of the conductive plated part until the surface is smooth, sequentially placing the conductive plated part in alcohol and deionized water for ultrasonic cleaning, and drying for later use;
s3, drying LiCl and KCl in a vacuum drying oven at 200 ℃ for 24 hours in advance, and dehydrating;
s4, weighing the LiCl and the KCl after dehydration according to the molar ratio of 3:2, and then adding Li accounting for 2 percent of the mass fraction of the chloride2CO3Putting the mixed salt into a resistance furnace, opening a vacuum valve, and vacuumizingHeating to 300 ℃ under the condition, preserving heat for 2 hours to obtain molten salt which is uniformly melted, and closing a vacuum valve after heat preservation is finished;
s5, heating the molten salt electrolyte to 450 ℃, keeping the temperature for 2h, and introducing CO21000ppm of argon gas mixture, with the gas inflow rate of 150 ml/min;
s6, placing the auxiliary electrode and the working electrode in a molten salt electrolyte, connecting an electrochemical workstation, and placing the electrochemical workstation in the electrolyte containing CO2In the atmosphere, a constant current electrolysis technology is adopted, and the current is set to be 100mA/cm2Carrying out electrolysis for 7 hours; during electrolysis, CO is detected in outlet gas2The content was reduced to 600 ppm.
S7, after the electrolysis is finished, taking out the working electrode, sequentially carrying out ultrasonic cleaning in alcohol and deionized water, and then washing with clean water to remove the salt attached to the surface of the coating; and (3) washing the product obtained in the crucible with water, centrifuging, and drying by air blowing for 10 hours at the temperature of 60 ℃.
Fig. 3 is an XRD pattern of the WC powder prepared in this example, and it can be seen that the product contains no impurity phase other than the WC phase.
Comparative example 1
The comparative example provides a method for recycling waste tungsten alloy, which comprises the following specific steps:
s1, sequentially placing the waste tungsten alloy subjected to mechanical cutting and polishing treatment into alcohol and deionized water for ultrasonic cleaning, and drying for later use;
s2, mechanically grinding and polishing the surface of the conductive plated part until the surface is smooth, sequentially placing the conductive plated part in alcohol and deionized water for ultrasonic cleaning, and drying for later use;
s3, drying LiCl and KCl in a vacuum drying oven at 200 ℃ for 24 hours in advance, and dehydrating;
s4, weighing the LiCl and the KCl after dehydration according to the molar ratio of 1:1, and then adding Li accounting for 2 percent of the mass fraction of the chloride2CO3Putting the mixed salt into a resistance furnace, opening a vacuum valve, heating to 300 ℃ under a vacuum condition, preserving heat for 2 hours to obtain molten salt which is uniformly melted, and closing the vacuum valve after the heat preservation is finished;
s5, opening an air inlet valve, introducing high-purity argon, introducing 150ml/min of air inlet flow, and keeping the temperature for 2 hours after the temperature is raised to 450 ℃;
s6, placing the auxiliary electrode and the working electrode in a molten salt electrolyte, connecting an electrochemical workstation, and electrolyzing for 7 hours in an Ar atmosphere by adopting a constant potential electrolysis technology and setting the voltage to be 2.4V;
s7, after the electrolysis is finished, taking out the working electrode, sequentially carrying out ultrasonic cleaning in alcohol and deionized water, and then washing with clean water to remove the salt attached to the surface of the coating; and (3) washing the product obtained in the crucible with water, centrifuging, and drying by air blowing for 10 hours at the temperature of 60 ℃.
FIG. 4 is an XRD pattern of the powder obtained in this comparative example, and it can be seen that the content of lithium tungstate hydrate as an impurity phase is high in addition to the WC product phase because CO is not introduced during the electrolysis2Atmosphere, resulting in no supplemental source of carbonate in the molten salt.
Comparative example 2
The comparative example provides a method for recycling waste tungsten alloy, which comprises the following specific steps:
s1, sequentially placing the waste tungsten alloy subjected to mechanical cutting and polishing treatment into alcohol and deionized water for ultrasonic cleaning, and drying for later use;
s2, mechanically grinding and polishing the surface of the conductive plated part until the surface is smooth, sequentially placing the conductive plated part in alcohol and deionized water for ultrasonic cleaning, and drying for later use;
s3, drying LiCl and KCl in a vacuum drying oven at 200 ℃ for 24 hours in advance, and dehydrating;
s4, weighing the dehydrated LiCl and KCl according to the molar ratio of 1:1, putting the mixed salt into a resistance furnace, opening a vacuum valve, heating to 300 ℃ under the vacuum condition, preserving the heat for 2 hours to obtain uniformly melted molten salt, and closing the vacuum valve after the heat preservation is finished;
s5, opening an air inlet valve and introducing CO2800ppm argon gas mixture with the gas inflow rate of 100ml/min, and keeping the temperature for 2 hours after the temperature is raised to 450 ℃;
s6, auxiliary electrode and workingThe electrodes are placed in a molten salt electrolyte, connected to an electrochemical workstation, and contain CO2In the atmosphere, a constant potential electrolysis technology is adopted, the voltage is set to be 2.4V, and electrolysis is carried out for 7 hours;
s7, after the electrolysis is finished, taking out the working electrode, sequentially carrying out ultrasonic cleaning in alcohol and deionized water, and then washing with clean water to remove the salt attached to the surface of the coating; and (3) washing the product obtained in the crucible with water, centrifuging, and drying by air blowing for 10 hours at the temperature of 60 ℃.
FIG. 5 is an XRD pattern of the powder obtained in this comparative example, and it can be seen that the product is mainly tungsten powder and contains a certain amount of WC due to the absence of carbonate concentration in the initial molten salt system and the direct introduction of CO2Can not be dissolved in the molten salt well, and can not provide carbon source at the cathode.
In summary, the method for recycling tungsten waste provided by the invention is implemented by mixing CO2The method is used as a carbon source to introduce a tungsten secondary resource recovery process under appropriate conditions, realizes the high-efficiency and high-quality recovery of tungsten waste materials in a short process, and is favorable for reducing CO in the air2And (4) content.
Finally, it should be noted that: the above examples are only intended to illustrate the technical solution of the present invention, but not to limit it; although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that: the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments may still be modified, or some technical features may be equivalently replaced; and such modifications or substitutions do not depart from the spirit and scope of the corresponding technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention.