Abstract:
A powdered admixture of a boron, carbon, nitrogen or silicon derivative of a first metal, e.g., tungsten carbide, and a source of a second metal, e.g., molybdenum subcarbide when the second metal is molybdenum, is, when subjected to densification conditions, partially reacted and converted to a hard, wear resistant material. Such a material, formed from an admixture of tungsten carbide and molybdenum subcarbide, contains tungsten monocarbide and at least one mixed tungsten/molybdenum carbide. This material has a Vickers hardness of at least about 2200 kg/mm2 measured using a 1 kg load. Articles formed from this material can be useful as, for example, nozzles in abrasive or nonabrasive waterjet cutting machines and various parts of wire drawing apparatus.
Abstract:
A vessel for quenching gases having a temperature in excess of 1100°C by contact with an aqueous corrosive liquid (30) comprising: an upper vessel wall portion (22) lined with a hot face material capable of withstanding hot dry gas at temperatures in excess of 1100°C; a lower vessel wall portion (35) in contact with an aqueous corrosive liquid (30); and a membrane wall portion (21) located within a vessel wall (35) proximate an anticipated liquid/gas interface level, the membrane wall having internal channels (26) for circulating a cooling fluid.
Abstract:
A process for preparing a dense, consolidated body (13') from a preform. The process requires compressing the preform (13) in a forging press (18) in an isostatic die assembly (15). The assembly (15) includes an open top (15'), ceramic-containing shell (18) and a pressure-transmitting medium (14) wherein the preform is placed in the shell and surrounded by the medium. The assembly and, hence, the preform are compressed under such conditions of temperature, time and pressure that dense, consolidated body of desired shape is formed. The process then requires recovering the body by separating the body from the fluid pressure-transmitting medium.
Abstract:
A process for reducing emissions of dioxins and furans in a stack gas from the incineration of organic materials, comprising: incinerating the organic material; adding one or more dioxine-reactive materials which are deposited on the flyash or on a supplemental particulate support optionally added upstream of an apparatus for removing flyash from the gaseous products of incineration prior to their emission in a stack gas, and which under the conditions prevailing in the apparatus will react with the dioxins in and from said gaseous products from said incineration step to produce one or more corresponding dioxin-derivative materials which are preferably substantially retained on the flyash or supplemental particulate support or both through the incinerator and which are periodically or continuously removed with said flyash and supplemental particulate support from the flyash/particulate removal apparatus, or in the alternative, adding the one or more dioxin-reactive materials via the addition of a particulate material including the one or more dioxin-reactive materials therein or thereon upstream of the flyash removal apparatus; and, maintaining the one or more dioxin-reactive materials in contact with the dioxins in sufficient concentrations and for a sufficient time to reduce the concentration of dioxins in and from said gaseous products through the formation of said dioxin-derivative materials.
Abstract:
A powdered admixture of a boron, carbon, nitrogen or silicon derivative of a first metal is combined with at least one other reactant that is selected from (a) a boron, carbon, nitrogen or silicon derivative of a second metal wherein the derivative differs from that of the first metal, (b) a source of a second metal and a source of a third metal, or (c) a source of the second metal and a densification promoting amount of an iron group metal, subjected to densification conditions (heat and pressure), partially reacted and converted to a hard, wear resistant material. The wear resistant material contains an amount of the first metal derivative as well as at least one material of varying stoichiometry that is the partial reaction product. The material may also contains residual, unreacted portions of components other than the first metal derivative. Articles formed from this material can be useful in wear resistant applications.
Abstract:
Preparation of spheroidal silica polymer beads which exhibit a uniform distribution of particle and pore size. Uniformly sized reactive mixture droplets formed by vibratory excitation of a laminar jet of reactive mixture material are polymerized in a continuous liquid medium.
Abstract:
A consolidated complex shaped article having a density of at least 95 percent of theoretical density is prepared by placing a plurality of separate bodies in an arrangement, such that each separate body is in contact with at least one other separate body to form an aggregate body and wherein at least one of the separate bodies is essentially dense. The material of each separate body is comprised of a ceramic, a cermet or a metal. The aggregate body is then consolidated at a consolidating temperature superatmospheric pressure and time at temperature and time at superatmospheric pressure sufficient to form a consolidated shaped article. In consolidating the aggregate body, the consolidating temperature is a temperature that fails to form a liquid within at least one separate body and the superatmospheric pressure is applied for at least a portion of the time at the consolidating temperature.
Abstract:
Procédé de production d'un corps dense consolidé (13') à partir d'une ébauche. Le procédé consiste à comprimer l'ébauche (13) dans une presse de forgeage (18) dans un ensemble à matrice isostatique (15). L'ensemble (15) comprend une coquille (18) à sommet ouvert (15') contenant une matière céramique, et un milieu de transmission de pression (14). L'ébauche est placée dans la coquille et est entourée par le milieu. L'ensemble et, par conséquent, l'ébauche sont comprimés pendant un temps donné à une température et à une pression prédéterminées, de manière à obtenir un corps dense consolidé présentant la forme désirée. Ce corps est ensuite séparé du milieu de transmission de pression.
Abstract:
Le rhénium sert d'unique métal liant lors de la préparation de métaux durs frittés à base de carbure de tungstène, de carbure de titane ou de carbure d'hafnium. Les métaux durs frittés ainsi obtenus trouvent des applications classiques telle que la fabrication d'outils coupants.
Abstract:
A process for preparing a dense, consolidated body (13') from a preform. The process requires compressing the preform (13) in a forging press (18) in an isostatic die assembly (15). The assembly (15) includes an open top (15'), ceramic-containing shell (18) and a pressure-transmitting medium (14) wherein the preform is placed in the shell and surrounded by the medium. The assembly and, hence, the preform are compressed under such conditions of temperature, time and pressure that dense, consolidated body of desired shape is formed. The process then requires recovering the body by separating the body from the fluid pressure-transmitting medium.