Tungsten Oxide

Tungsten powder is the basic raw material for making cemented carbide. Most of the cemented carbides in the market do not have much demand for the size of tungsten powder, but they have strict requirements for the particle size uniformity of tungsten powder. A new method of ammonium tungstate cyclic oxidation reduction method proposed in recent years for producing submicron tungsten powder, it is mainly through a number of ammonium tungstate - tungsten oxide circulation change, submicron tungsten powder and ultimately the average particle size. Therefore, we can also try to use circulating oxidation reduction method to help the common tungsten powder to achieve particle size rebalancing. It is necessary to prepare blue tungsten for reduction of tungsten powder because of the preparation of ordinary particle grade tungsten powder. The general process of ammonium tungstate cycle oxidation reduction method is: the special pure ammonium paratungstate in argon to slowly raise the temperatur...

After analysis using blue tungsten oxide to produce tungsten powder by cyclic oxidation found the tungsten powder particle size is small, and good performance. From the experimental data show that after the first reduction tungsten powder‘s specific surface area is 0.119m2 / g which is 1.95times to blue tungsten oxide’s. From this we can see that tungsten powder particle size is smaller than the blue tungsten oxide and distribution is more concentrated, but there is a certain amount of coarse particles of tungsten powder.  In the second reduction which is using obtained tungsten powder in the air restore to tungsten trioxide then using hydrogen to make the second reduction. And the tungsten powder which obtained from the second reduction is finer. Comparing tungsten powder of the first reduction and the second reduction find in the second reduction there has more fine tungsten powder than first reduction, its particle size distribution is more uniform, but there are a small nu...