Recycling of tools Scrap

Abstract

This research is to study the recycle process of hard materials, high hardness type, and cemented carbide produced by press forming and sintering process included cemented carbide mixed with tungsten carbide, cobalt, silicon, titanium and others. The research aims to recovery tungsten to use it again. It starts in cleaning and ball milling materials for resizing from length 12-25 mm., width 10-15 mm and thickness 2.5-8.0 mm., then disintegrated with the electric-chemical process, filtering metal powder, cleaning and drying. The result of dissolved materials with electricchemical process in 85% condensed HCl, 6-24 volts and 3-10 amperes. The solution heats up 180 degree Celsius is found that material will be 550 11m of W03, the same as usage of Phosphoric Solution. The result of the study in dissolved materials by using the conductor of electricity is found that usage of cobalt is the best to disintegrate tungsten carbide, better than tungsten carbide and stainless steel 10-15%. The result of this research is found that the best practice of tungsten carbide recovery is dissolved materials with electric-chemical process in not over 7N condensed HCl, 6.00 volts and 3.00 amperes. The metal powder will be almost 100% pure tungsten carbide and particle sized distribution is 34-360 11m. After ball milling for 24 hours, particle sized distribution is less than 60 11m compared with the imported metal powder. It is concluded that the recycle of cemented carbide into tungsten carbide powder qualified for sintering work and produced to the durable hard materials. It ensures that this research is useful for the related industry and the approach for production of tungsten carbide which was instead of the imported metal powder.