MORPHOLOGY AND ELEMENT COMPOSITION POWDER ALLOY POWDER VNZH-95, OBTAINED BY ELECTROEROSION DISPERSION IN KEROSIN

Abstract

Residence permits pseudo-alloys are used for the manufacture of cylinder parts, bushings, complex-shaped blanks with curved surfaces: gyroscope rotors, inertial masses, erosion-resistant electrodes, funnel for cumulative charges, biological protection from gamma radiation. Recycling of tungsten pseudo-alloys residence permit is relevant and necessary due to the shortage of tungsten. A promising method of processing waste into fine powders is the method of electroerosive dispersion (EED) that we have chosen. The purpose of the work is to study the morphology and elemental composition of the powder of the VNZh-95 pseudo-alloy obtained by electroerosive dispersion in kerosene. In order to process the waste of the W-Ni-Fe alloy into powder, we used waste in the form of chips from the core of the VNZh-95 pseudo-alloy (Ni ̶ 3.2-3.7, Fe ̶ 1.5-2.0, W ̶ the rest). Kerosene is used as a working fluid. The EED process was carried out on the installation for obtaining powders from conductive materials (patent for the invention of the Russian Federation No. 2449859). The process was carried out at a voltage on the electrodes of 100 ... 110 V, the capacitance of the discharge capacitors 50 μF and a pulse repetition rate of 120 ... 130 Hz. The microstructure of the samples (along the transverse section) was studied using a Quanta 200 3D electron-ion scanning microscope. The powder obtained by the EED method for waste of VNZh-95 alloy in kerosene consists of particles of regular spherical shape (or elliptical) and irregular shape (conglomerates). Microanalysis of particles of electroerosive powder of pseudo-alloy VNZh-95 was carried out using an EDAX energy-dispersive x-ray analyzer built into the Quanta 200 3D scanning electron microscope. As a result of studying the elemental composition of the VNZh-95 pseudo-alloy powder obtained by EED in kerosene, it was found that the main elements are tungsten, nickel, iron, carbon and oxygen.