US3586524A - Consolidation of formations by electroless metal plating process - Google Patents

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US3586524A
US3586524A US840826A US3586524DA US3586524A US 3586524 A US3586524 A US 3586524A US 840826 A US840826 A US 840826A US 3586524D A US3586524D A US 3586524DA US 3586524 A US3586524 A US 3586524A
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  • a sulfimide such as saccharin is unique in its capability of providing competent metal coatings where alkaline solutions are used at relatively low temperatures.
  • the metal plating of subterranean earth formations may be used to disperse and implant metal to be used as catalysts, activators, property indicators, etc. In the latter operations it may be advantageous to form deposits which crack and expose large surface areas of metal.
  • the present invention involves the discovery that in an electroless metal plating at a given temperature the degree of competency of the coating is uniquely responsive to the rate of reaction of the plating solution at the given temperature. This discovery is contrary to what would be expected from the effects from strain-reducing additives in electrolytic metal plating. It can be utilized to form highly competent, or incompetent, coatings at the option of the operator, Moderately cracked coatings can be formed by diluting a solution having a relatively high rate of reaction with a solvent such as 2-ethoxyethanol (Cellosolve), dioxane, glycerol, etc. Highly cracked coatings can be formed by diluting such a solution with a lower .alcohol such as isopropanol.
  • a solvent such as 2-ethoxyethanol (Cellosolve), dioxane, glycerol, etc.
  • Highly cracked coatings can be formed by diluting such a solution with a lower .alcohol such as isopropanol.
  • the activator solutions can be any of the activator solutions described in U.S. Pats. 3,393,737; 3,438,440 or 3,43 8,441 and include stannous chloride and/ or palladium chloride solutions which may contain hydrazine and which solutions can be buffered with Weak organic acids and their salts. Preferred activator solutions are shown in Tables 1 and 2.
  • the metal plating solutions can also include the compositions described in'the above-mentioned patents provided they are modified by the reaction rate modifier and anti-stress and cracking controller of the prevention invention; namely, by the vaddition of a small amount and sufficient to control reaction rate of an organic sulfimide compound, said compound containing therein at least one fi E ON i fi CO2 5 2 m n 02: 5233328 o 23:5 82 m ES ERvEEPv when E 32 32% p wc n o D can H $56 3b33- 2 EE EB 23: v5 8 298, s 3 8 83 m m figs?
  • NiC1T6H1O grams/l 34 8 NiS O4 6H O grams/1- NaHzPOrHzO. grams/1 29.4% NHa, cc./l NHlCl, grams/l Na glycolate, grams/l Na succlnatefiH O grams/ 70% glycolic acid, cc./l NaOH, grams/l 2O,CC-/l 860 860 827 865 805 NiSO4-6HzO,grams/l 42.0 42.0 42.0 43.0 43.0 N tlP02'Hz0,gTamS/1 38.0 38.0 38.0 46.3 46.3 (Nfinzsol, grams/1.- 79.0 79.0 40.0 80.0 80.0 29.4% N113, 05.11.... 52.0 52.0 115 53.0 53.0 SaccharimgramS/L. 10 10 10 8.0
  • Saccharin also changes the relative importance of side reactions, giving slightly less H production (not noted in Table 4) and more acid production, which lowers the pH in spent solution (see runs 17 and 18).
  • This effect of saccharin on hydrogen production may indicate that saccharin plays a role in the stress-relieving reaction by causing some H+ to form (assumed to be a fast reaction) instead of H gas (assumed to be a slow one) from the chemisorbed H on the metal. Also, this may be the mechanism by which saccharin slows down the overall deposition reaction.
  • the metal plating process of this invention can be modified by any of the methodsdescribed in the above patents on the subject as well as in copending applications Ser. No. 850,253 filed Aug. 14, 1969 and Ser. No. 835,- 243 filed June 20, 1969 wherein spacer and backflush fluids are employed for this process of consolidating formations.
  • This invention provides a uniquely advantageous way of avoiding problems encountered in consolidating incompetent subterranean reservoir formations. It is also useful in controlling the competency of substantially any coating deposited by electroless metal plating from an alkaline plating solution on substantially any material. It
  • the plating is particularly useful where the plating is effected by flowing a plurality of pore volumes of activating and plating solutions through a permeable non-catalytic material, such as a permeable earth formation, a permeable mass and/ or structure of plastic, metal, or the like material that is non-catalytic to such a metal deposition, etc.
  • the plating can be efiected in order to improve the strength or stability of a granular material and/or an intergranular cementing material within a mass of granular material and/or to plug or reduce the permeability of such a mass or permeable structure, to bond catalytic and/or conductive metal within such a mass or structure, to bond other materials into such a mass or structure, etc.
  • a method of consolidating an incompetent formation comprising treating the formation with an activating solution and thereafter treating the activated formation with a basic metal plating solution containing a small amount of an organic sulfimide until the formation is consolidated into a crack-resistant, water-resistant formation.
  • the activating solution is a palladium halide solution and the metal plating solution is a basic nickel halide solution containing saccharin.
  • activating solution is a palladium chloride solution containing a buffering agent and the nickel containing solution is a basic nickel chloride solution.
  • a method of depositing metal on a solid material comprising contacting the solid material with an activating solution followed by treating said activated solid material with an electroless basic metal plating solution containing a small amount of an organic sulfimide until metal is deposited on the solid material.
  • the activating solution is a palladium halide solution and the metal plating solution is a nickel halide solution containing saccharin.

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