Carbonyl metallurgy

Carbonyl metallurgy

Carbonyl Metallurgy is used to manufacture products of iron, nickel, steel and other metals. Coatings are produced by vapor plating using metal carbonyl vapors. Carbonyls are metal - ligand complexes where carbon monoxide is bonded in a pendant ligand structure to individual atoms of metals such as iron and nickel.

Iron carbonyl is stable as iron pentacarbonyl, where five carbon monoxide molecules are pendantly bonded to the iron atom, while nickel carbonyl is stable as nickel tetracarbonyl, which has four carbon monoxide molecules pendantly bonded to the nickel atom. Both can be formed by the exposure of the powered metal to carbon monoxide gas at temperatures of around 75 degrees Celsius. Both the metal carbonyls decompose near 175 degrees Celsius, resulting in a vapor plated metallic coating. The thickness of the vapor plated deposit can be increased to desired thicknesses by controlling the amount of metal carbonyl used and the duration of the plating process.

INCO - International Nickel of Canada produces over 100 million pounds of nickel metal annually by the carbonyl process. The carbonyl process has been used to produce molds in custom shapes for industry. Such molds have been used in plastic molding and other manufacturing techniques.William Jenkin developed many of the techniques and procedures used in carbonyl metallurgy. Carbonyl metallurgy is useful as a low temperature metal coating technique that may well find many applications in the future.

ee also

* Chemical vapor deposition

Further reading

* Iron recovery and steel manufacture using carbonyl chemistry - http://www.space-mining.com/IRONRECOVERY.htm
* Beneficiation of asteroidal iron by carbonyl metallurgy - http://www.space-mining.com/beneficiation.html
* William Jenkin inventor of numerous carbonyl processes - http://www.sitereviewboard.com/reviews-wc/wcjenkin-com-cache.html
* Preparation of Iron Carbonyl - http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/7276220-description.html
* Preparation of metallic shaped bodies - http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5802437-claims.html


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