US3043758A - Process of electrolytically pickling alloy steels - Google Patents

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US3043758A
US3043758A US828039A US82803959A US3043758A US 3043758 A US3043758 A US 3043758A US 828039 A US828039 A US 828039A US 82803959 A US82803959 A US 82803959A US 3043758 A US3043758 A US 3043758A
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    • C25ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PROCESSES; APPARATUS THEREFOR
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    • C23COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; CHEMICAL SURFACE TREATMENT; DIFFUSION TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATION OR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL; INHIBITING CORROSION OF METALLIC MATERIAL OR INCRUSTATION IN GENERAL
    • C23GCLEANING OR DE-GREASING OF METALLIC MATERIAL BY CHEMICAL METHODS OTHER THAN ELECTROLYSIS
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  • the present invention relates to the cleaning of metallic surfaces, particularly to the removal of scale and deposits from the surface of alloy steels by an electrolytic pickling treatment.
  • the baths in which the workpieces are electrolytically treated consist of mineral acids such as sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, nitric acid, or of Small amounts of hydrofluoric acid may be added to the bath.
  • the workpieces are alternatingly arranged as a cathode and as an anode in the electrolyte in which they are pickled and descaled.
  • the electrolytic treatment is followed by an immersion treatment of the workpieces in nitric acid, or nitric acid and hydrofluoric acid, in order to brighten the electrolytically treated metal surfaces.
  • the present invention relates to a process of the type described, in which the articles to be pickled are arranged as an anode or as an intermediate conductor in electrolytic baths which consist essentially of aqueous solutions of at least one neutral salt of the alkalies, including ammonium, and of mineral salts, e.g., sulfuric, nitric and hydrochloric acids, particularly of aqueous solutions of neutral sodium sulfate or sodium nitrate, the pH of the electrolyte being permanently maintained preferably between 1.0 and 7.0, and in which the oxides which represent the scale to be removed, which have been loosened up or only chemically changed by such electrolytic treatment, are completely detached from the metallic surface by a short immersion treatment in a mineral acid such as sulfuric acid, nitric acid or a mixatent G 3,M3,?53 Patented July It), 1952 ice 2 ture of nitric acid and hydrofluoric acid following the electrolytic treatment.
  • electrolytic baths consist essentially of aqueous solutions
  • the presumable reaction mechanism will be explained hereinafter with reference to an example of carrying out the electrolytic pickling process of the invention using an aqueous solution of neutral sodium sulfate as an electrolyte.
  • Electrolyte Aqueous solution of Na SO Process at the anode: Formation of H Fe (and the alloying constituents of the steel such as Ni, Cr) is transformed into the sulfate.
  • Free Na is formed first, which forms Na-OI-I with the H 0 present.
  • the process according to the invention has an additional advantage over the known processes.
  • the percompounds formed have a strong oxidizing activity. For this reason they passivate the steel articles treated and protect them from overpickling. As a result the steel itself is not attacked and the above-described advantage residing in the formation of satisfactory, almost glossy surfaces is obtained.
  • the persulfate-forming reaction represented by the formula in Table l is an equilibrium reaction. For this reason care must be taken that the reaction does not only proceed from left to right, to form persu'lfate, because in this case the electrolyte would assume an undesired alkalinity owing to the increasing production of NaOH. This can be avoided by carrying out the electrolysis at elevated temperatures in a range in which a decomposition of the persulfate in the sense of the reverse reaction can be expected with certainty so that the required pH- range of 1.0-7.0 is maintained also in continuous operation.
  • chlorides perchlorates, chromates, nitrites, sulfites, and nitrates.
  • the pH-value to be maintained according to the invention can be controlled, if desired, by an addition of small amounts of an acid, alkali or ammonium salt of a mineral acid, .e.g., a bisulfate, or by an addition of small amounts of a free mineral acid.
  • Example 1 Using 200 grams technically pure Epsom salts (magnesium sulfate) per liter, pH 7.0, a satisfactory pickling of a ferritic material was obtained within ten seconds by an anodic treatment at 76 C. and 6.0 amperes per square decimeter. A 25-second dip in 10% nitric acid at 40 C. was employed for brightening and passivating.
  • Epsom salts magnesium sulfate
  • Example 2 Using 165 grams technically pure Epsom salts per liter, pH 3.0, cathodic and anodic treatments at 25 seconds each at 85 C. and 9 amperes per square decimeter of austenitic strip material continuously fed as an intermediate conductor gave a loosely adherent scale, which had been entirely changed chemically and the major part of which was removed in the washing brush machine whereas the residue was easily detached in a usual mixed acid consisting of nitric acid and hydrofluoric acid.
  • the surface of the strip was not only entirely free of scale and clean White but showed a fine silky gloss, which cannot be obtained by any chemical or electrolytic acid pickle
  • Example 3 The same result was obtained on austenitic and ferritic materials when the Epsom salts were replaced by an equivalent amount of ammonium sulfate or potassium sulfate in processes analogous tosExample 1 or 2.
  • Example 4 Using 200 grams Epsom salts-F10 grams sodium fluoride, pH 3.0-7.0, cathodic and anodic treatments of 45 seconds each, at 90 C. and 10 amperes per square decimeter, of austenitic hot strip arranged as an intermediate conductor, caused the scale oxides to be sufficiently loosened up and to be chemically changed so that they dissolved spontaneously in the usual mixed acid. The surface was absolutely satisfactory microscopically and macroscopically.
  • Example 5 Using 250 grams common salt per liter at 90 C., alloy steels were satisfactorily pickled by a cathodic treatment of -40 seconds and an anodic treatment of 1060 seconds at current densities of 3-10 amperes, depending on the degree of scaling. A subsequent immersion in HNO or mixed acid brightens the treated surfaces.
  • the chlorides of ammonium and potassium act like common salt.
  • the precipitated iron hydroxide is green ferrous hydroxide.
  • Example 6 Using 200 grants ammonium chloride and 200 grams ammonium sulfate per liter, pH 3.0, the pickling is carried out as in Example 5 with the difference that brown ferric hydroxide is obtained. To avoid ammonia losses it is suitable to maintain the electrolyte at a weakly acid reaction between pH 1.0 and 4.0. This can be accomplished simply by a continual dropwise addition of sulfuric acid during the pickling operation.
  • Process for electrolytically pickling a stainless steel article which comprises the steps of subjecting said article as the anode to the action of a direct electric current in an electrolyte consisting essentially of an aqueous solution of at least one neutral salt selected from the group consisting of the chloride, sulfate and nitrate of an alkali metal including ammonium, at a current density between about 6 and about 10 amperes per square decimeter for a period of about 10 to seconds, the pH of said electrolyte being maintained between 1.0 and 7.0, and then dipping said article in a solution of a mineral acid selected from the group consisting of sulfuric, nitric, and hydrofluoric acid, and mixtures of nitric and hydrofluoric acids.
  • an electrolyte consisting essentially of an aqueous solution of at least one neutral salt selected from the group consisting of the chloride, sulfate and nitrate of an alkali metal including ammonium, at a current density between about 6 and about
  • the bath additionally contains from about 0.1 to about 50 grams per liter of a compound selected from the group consisting of an alkali metalfluoride, chloride, perchlorate, chromate, nitrite, sulfite and nitrate.
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