Patent Grant
7699926
The present application is a National Phase application based on International Application Number PCT/CN2005/000024, filed Jan. 7, 2005, which claims priority from, Chinese Application Number 200410021031.1, filed Jan. 8, 2004, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.
The present invention relates to a solution for passivating electro-galvanizing coat and hot-galvanizing, and more particularly to a chrome-free passivating solution replacing the passivating solution containing hexad chrome and trivalent chrome.
Electro-galvanizing coat or hot-galvanizing coat must be passivated to enhance the corrosion resistance and to achieve a decorative appearance. At present, passivation for electro-galvanizing coat and hot-galvanizing coat is generally conducted by using chromate passivating solution, with a simple passivating process and low cost, to greatly improve the corrosion resistance of galvanizing coat of steel piece. However, either passive film formed by means of chromate passivation or waste chromate passivating solution contains hexad chrome, which is seriously harmful for human healthy and environment protection. It has been clearly prescribed by Chinese government that the waste chromate passivating solution must be treated before being discharged out. Many industrial sectors both in the country and abroad such as automobile, electronics, home appliance etc. also have stipulated to prohibit hexad chrome from being contained in the galvanizing coat after a certain time limit, even trivalent chrome is also prohibited to be contained in the galvanizing coat in some enterprises. Therefore, tremendous efforts have been made to provide a chrome-free passivating method in which no chromate passivating solution need to be used. A chrome-free passivating solution has been disclosed in a China Patent Application No. 00114178, titled “Chrome-free passivating solution used for protecting galvanizing coat and its coating method”. The chrome-free passivating solution is prepared by “innocuous soluble molybdenate selected as inhibitor and innocuous water-soluble acrylic ester solution”. Although the passivating solution is chrome-free, it is unable to replace the conventional chromate passivating solution, because the passivating solution must be coated on clean surfaces of galvanized pieces to form surface resin coat rather than really passivating the galvanizing coat. It is impossible to use the conventional chromate passivating equipment for said chrome-free passivating solution of above-mentioned application, so investment cost for equipment will be increased. Furthermore, the surface resin coat easily flakes off from the galvanizing piece so as to decrease its corrosion resistance and surface decorative effect. So far, there is no real chrome-free passivating solution, which can replace the chromate passivating solution.
The objective of the present invention is to provide a chromate-free passivating solution, which can replace the conventional chromate passivating solution for being used in the process of passivating the galvanizing coat, with substantially the same corrosion resistance as that provided by hexad chrome passivating process.
To achieve the object of the present invention, the present invention provides a chrome-free passivating solution, each liter of said chrome-free passivating solution comprises the following components:
Said salt containing free element is a mixture of two kinds of salts containing free element, and the weight ratio between said two kinds of salts is in the range of 35˜45:1.
Said salt containing free element is a mixture of one salt containing free element and other inorganic salt with chrome-free, and the weight ratio between said two kinds of salts is in the range of 35˜45:1.
Said complexing agent is a mixture of three organic acids, and the weight ratio between three organic acids is 6:5:1.
Said complexing agent is a mixture of two organic acids and peroxide, and the weight ratio between two organic acids and peroxide is 6:5:1.
Said oxidation reducer is two inorganic acids, and the weight ratio between two inorganic acids is in the range of 7˜10:1.
Said salt containing free element is composed of titanium, manganese, and molybdenum.
Said organic acids include citric acid, tartaric acid, pyrophosphate acid, nitrilotriacetic acid, and compound containing 8˜28 oxygen atom, 4˜16 hydroxy and 2˜8 phosphoric acid.
Said inorganic acid consists of sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid and nitric acid.
The chrome-free passivating solution of the present invention is made with salts containing free element, complexing agent, oxidation reducer and water by according to a specific proportioning. Compared with the prior art, the present invention not only substantially solves the problem that noxious hexad and trivalent chromes are present in the galvanized coat of the conventional products and the conventional passivating solution, eliminates the harm of the hexad and trivalent chromes to human and environment, really replaces the chromate passivating solution containing hexad and trivalent chrome to complete the passivation of electro-galvanizing coat and hot-galvanizing coat, solves the problem that the surface resin coat easily flakes off, the corrosion resistance of galvanizing coat passivated to the present invention is better than the corrosion resistance by using the conventional blue-white passivating technology, and equal to that by using the color passivating technology, but also can be used with the conventional chromate passivating equipment so as to lower application cost of the passivating solution, and the processing conditions such as temperature, time for passivating process is substantially the same as that of conventional chromate passivation, so tremendous cost for training staff members personnel is saved. Thus, the present invention has great economic benefit and social benefit.
Following is the detailed description of the preferred embodiment.
Take 20 g of salts containing free element such as potassium permanganate, titanyl sulfate and ammonium molybdate, 38 g of complexing agent for example citric acid, 0.15 g of oxidation reducer such as sulfuric acid, and mix these materials with water to prepare one liter of passivating solution with pH value of 1-3. The passivation operating condition is the same as that of the conventional chromate passivating technology. Under the room temperature, the galvanizing coat is immerged in the passivating solution for 4-10 seconds, then rinsed, dried and baked to gradually form passive film with Cambridge blue and jade-green.
Take 3500 g of salts containing free element, which is a mixture of ammonium molybdate and potassium permanganate with the weight ratio 35:1, namely taking ammonium molybdate of 3402.78 g, and potassium permanganate of 97.22 g, and take 1800 g of complexing agent of tartaric acid, 5 g of oxidation reducer of hydrochloric acid, then mix these materials with water to obtain 100 liter of passivating solution with pH value of 1-3.
The passivation process is the same as the example 1.
Take 200 of salts containing free element, which is a mixture of ammonium molybdate and sodium silicate with the weight ratio 45:1, namely taking ammonium molybdate of 195.65 g, and sodium silicate of 4.35 g, and take 38 g of complexing agent of pyrophosphate acid, 1.5 g of oxidation reducer of nitric acid, then mix these materials with water to obtain 10 liter of passivating solution with pH value of 1-3.
The passivation process is the same as the example 1.
Take 3000 g of salt containing free element, which could be made in accordance with any proportioning described in the example 1, 2, or 3, 2000 g complexing agent, which is a mixture of three organic-acid of which includes citric acid, tartaric acid and diphosphoric with the weight ratio 6:5:1, namely 1000 g of citric acid, 833 g of tartaric acid, and 167 g of diphosphoric acid, take 7 g of oxidation reducer, which could be nitric acid, hydrochloric acid or sulfuric acid, and mix these materials with water to obtain 100 liters of passivating solution with pH value of 1-3.
The passivation process is the same as the example 1.
Take 2500 g of salts containing free element (the same as example 4), 2500 g of complexing agent, which is a mixture of two organic acid of which could be diphosphoric acid and sodium triglycollamate or compound containing 8˜28 oxygen atom, 4˜16 hydroxy and 2˜8 phosphoric acid, and peroxide with the weigh ratio 6:5:1, namely 1250 g of diphosphoric acid, 1042 g of sodium triglycollamate, 208 g of sodium peroxide, and take 5 g of oxidation reducer of which could be nitric acid, hydrochloric acid or sulfuric acid, and mix these materials with water to obtain 100 liters of passivating solution with pH value of 1-3.
The passivation process is the same as the example 1.
Take salts containing free element and complexing agent same as example 4 or 5, and the oxidation reducer is two inorganic acid such as sulfuric acid and hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid and nitric acid, hydrochloric acid and sulfuric acid with the weigh ratio in the range of 7˜10:1. Namely, if taking 5 g of oxidation reducer, one inorganic acid is of 0.625 g, the other is of 4.375 g; or one is of 0.45 g, the other is of 4.55 g. Then mix these materials with water to obtain 100 liters of passivating solution with pH value of 1-3.
The passivation process is the same as the example 1.
A multiple structure chrome-free passive film in the galvanizing coat is formed by salts containing transmition metal such as molybdenum, manganese and titanium, and complexing agent in the present invention reacting on the galvanizing coat. Through samples tests for the corrosion resistance of chromate-free passivating solution according to the present invention, it shows that the passivating technology is stable and practicable, and in accordance with standard completely.
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