Niobium powder was made from potassium heptafluoroniobite () as the raw material using sodium (Na) as a reducing agent based on the hunter process. The apparatus for the experiment was designed and built specifically for the present study. The niobium particle size greatly increased as the reduction temperature increased from to . The particle size was fairly uniform, varying from to depending on the reduction temperatures. The niobium powder morphology and particle size are very sensitive to a reaction temperature in the metallothermic reduction process. The yield of niobium powder increased from 55% to 80% with a increasing a reaction temperature.

This research was performed to evaluate heavy metal leaching characteristics of the sludge from paper mill process with sintering temperature. Heavy metal leaching of the sludge was characterized with Korean Leaching Test and Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure. The test sludge was composed of 70.72% of moisture, 9.5% of volatile solids and 9.76% of fixed solids. As a result of XRF analysis, Fe was the highest inorganic element in approximately 83%, which implies the recycling possibility of the sludge in reuse of Fenton chemicals and artificial lightweight aggregate. Leaching of heavy metals from sintered sludge was lower than the dry ones. However, there was no significant difference in leaching characteristics between the sludges sintered at 350℃ and 650℃. Zn and Fe were leached more greatly in TCLP and KLT methods respectively.

In the conventional metallothermic reduction (MR) process for obtaining tantalum powder in batch-type operation. it is difficult to control morphology and location of deposits. On the other hand, a electronically mediated reaction (EMR) process is capable to overcome these difficulties and has a merit of continuous process, but it has the defect that the reduction yield is poor. MR-EMR combination process is a method that is able to overcome demerits of MR and EMR process. In this study, a MR-EMR combination process has been applied to the production of tantalum powder by sodium reduction of TaF. The total charge passed through external circuit and average particle size (FSSS) were increased with increasing reduction temperature. The proportion of fine particle (-325 mesh) was decreased with increasing reduction temperature. The yield was improved from 65% to 74% with increasing reduction temperature. Considering the charge, impurities, morphology, particle size and yield, an reduction temperature of 1,123 K was found to be optimum temperature for MR-EMR combination process.s.

In this paper, we proposed the optimal process conditions on the electro-gilding process. The responses are plating thickness and Sn proportion. The factors are temperature, current density, and addition. We minimized the total number of experiments based

화염가수분해증착법에 의해 형성된 0.1μm크기의 soot를 실리콘 기판위에 형성하여 1325˚C에서 2시간 동안 고밀화과정후 투명한 후막을 얻을 수 있었다. 고밀화 열처리는 탈수과정, 재배열 과정, 그리고 고밀화 과정으로 구성되었다. 고밀화 공정후의 두께 수축률은 초기 soot의 96%정도였으며, 급속한 두께의 감소는 950˚C부터 시작되었으며, 본격적인 고밀화가 시작되는 온도는 1250˚C임을 알 수 있었다. soot의 TGA와 DTA를 이용한 열분석 결과 탈수과정에 의하여 9/wt%의 질량감소와 1250˚C이상에서 인(P)의 증발에 의한 2wt%의 질량감소를 관찰하였다. DTA곡선에서는 500˚C, 570˚C. 1258˚C에서 흡열반응 피크를 나타내는데, 이는 B2O3, P2O5 등의 도펀트들의 melting과 실리카 입자사이의 기공이 소멸되면서 입자간의 열전도도의 증가에 의해 나타난 것으로 판단된다.