CN212217092U

CN212217092U - Atomizing of neodymium iron boron magnetic compounding additive adds device

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Publication number: CN212217092U
Application number: CN202021903696.6U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 翟玉龙; 吕思晶; 赵大军; 翟晓晨; 丁开鸿
Original assignee: Yantai Shougang Magnetic Materials Inc
Current assignee: Yantai Dongxing magnetic material Co.,Ltd.
Priority date: 2020-09-03
Filing date: 2020-09-03
Publication date: 2020-12-25
Anticipated expiration: 2030-09-03

Abstract

The utility model provides an atomizing of neodymium iron boron magnetic compounding additive adds device. The device comprises a storage barrel, a weighing barrel, a control system, a connecting rod, a plugging piece and a powder container, wherein the storage barrel is in flexible connection with the weighing barrel, the weighing barrel is connected with the control system through a weighing sensor, the weighing barrel is connected with the powder container through the connecting rod, the plugging piece is arranged at the opening of the powder container, the connecting rod penetrates through the plugging piece and extends into the powder container, when the device is used for adding, an adding device is not in direct contact with the powder, and a connecting part air replacement process is introduced, so that oxidation caused by contact of oxygen and the powder in the process of adding additives to the neodymium iron boron powder, caking and blockage of the powder at an adding port can be effectively avoided, and the device is simple to use, clean and maintain; meanwhile, atomized additive liquid drops are directly sprayed on the powder during adding, the powder cannot be sprayed on the inner wall of the container to cause powder caking on the wall of the tank, and the accuracy of the additive amount and the mixing uniformity are improved.

Description

Atomizing of neodymium iron boron magnetic compounding additive adds device

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a sintering neodymium iron boron processing technology field specifically is the atomizing of neodymium iron boron magnetic compounding additive and adds the device.

Background

The novel permanent magnet neodymium iron boron magnet is a third-generation rare earth material appearing in 1983, has excellent magnetic property and relatively low price, and has attracted attention in the fields of energy conservation and environmental protection, new energy, automobiles, robots and the like in recent years. At present, the general technological process of sintering the neodymium iron boron magnet is as follows: the method comprises the following steps of thin strip (SC throwing sheet) → hydrogen crushing → powder making → magnetic field forming → (isostatic pressing) → vacuum sintering → heat treatment, wherein the powder making process further comprises mixing before powder making, powder making and mixing after powder making, additives are added in the mixing process, the additives are mainly ester compounds, the uniformity of the mixing process in the industry is generally evaluated by the content of C introduced by the additives, and the specific process is as follows:

1) mixing before milling, generally adding an antioxidant (grinding aid) to improve milling efficiency, and mainly acting mechanism: the fluidity of the particles is improved, the formation of secondary particles is prevented, and the surface energy of the material is reduced after the material is adsorbed on the surface, so that the crack propagation can be accelerated, and the grindability of the material is improved; the existing adding method generally pours the additive into the powder container by a funnel at the position of an opening ball valve, and the method has the following defects: firstly, when the ball valve is opened during adding, a small part of air can contact with powder to cause oxidation, which is not beneficial to improving the performance; secondly, the additive is concentrated after being added and needs a long time to be mixed uniformly; powder is stored at the ball valve adding port and is combined with the additive to be hardened and agglomerated in the material mixing process, so that the blockage is easy and the cleaning is not easy;

2) mixing after milling, generally adding a lubricant, mainly aiming at improving the orientation degree in the forming process and improving the magnetic property, wherein the mixing after milling generally comprises the following process routes: firstly, mixing in a powder receiving tank for 3-4 hours generally, and the filling rate is 60-80 percent generally; adding a lubricant into the powder receiving tank, premixing for 1-2h, and putting two or more tanks into a V-shaped mixer for mixing; thirdly, putting the powder in the powder receiving tank into a high-shear mixer, adding a lubricant into an opening above the mixer for mixing, wherein the mixing time is short and is generally within 0.5 h; and fourthly, in addition, the relatively advanced process in Japan is to directly connect the high-shearing force mixer in series to the powder making equipment to realize on-line mixing. The lubricant is added by a powder receiving tank or an opening of a mixer body in the mixing process, and the defects in mixing before powder making are overcome.

In the patent with publication No. CN 108480648A, the side wall of the powder receiving tank is perforated and the additive is atomized while receiving materials in a fluid pump conveying mode, although the mixing uniformity is improved, the additive hole is contacted with powder in the mixing process, the powder is easy to block and is inconvenient to clean, and the risk of powder oxidation caused by air leakage of the powder receiving tank due to the perforated hole is increased; the patent with the publication number of CN 202367198U is that a box-packed tooling is arranged above a powder tank, an antioxidant is added in the form of 10-200 micropores on a bottom plate, and the addition amount of the antioxidant is very small, but the area of the bottom plate of the tooling is large, the antioxidant remains more, the additive can flow onto the wall of the tank in the adding process, powder can adhere to the wall of the tank and is not easy to fall off in the mixing process, and the actual addition amount of the additive and the mixing uniformity of the additive are influenced certainly; the patent with the technical publication number of CN 104399995A in the department of Aike mentions that the additive is added in a form that a chemical adding port is arranged on a feed port channel of an airflow mill and the chemical adding port is atomized by high-pressure gas and added into the feed port channel, because the proportion ratio of the actual additive is very low, the actual flow control is difficult, the intermittent adding mode is generally adopted, a nozzle in a powder channel is easy to block, and the use of the high-pressure gas has potential safety hazards.

Disclosure of Invention

The utility model aims at overcoming the not enough of above-mentioned prior art, and provide the atomized liquid of neodymium iron boron magnetic powder compounding additive and add the device. By adopting the device of the utility model, the adding device is not in direct contact with the powder, and the air replacement process of the connecting part is introduced, so that the oxidation caused by the contact of oxygen and the powder in the process of adding additives into the neodymium iron boron powder, the caking and the blockage of the powder at the adding port can be effectively avoided, and the use, the cleaning and the maintenance are simple; meanwhile, atomized additive liquid drops are directly sprayed on the powder during adding, and the atomized additive liquid drops cannot be sprayed on the inner wall of the container to cause powder to agglomerate on the wall of the tank, so that the accuracy of the additive amount and the mixing uniformity are improved; compared with the traditional one-time funnel adding mode, the method can effectively avoid the local oxidation of the powder, is beneficial to obtaining the high-performance magnet with uniform C content, and shortens the powder mixing period.

The utility model provides an atomized liquid adding device for neodymium iron boron magnetic powder mixing materials, which comprises a storage barrel 1 for storing additives, wherein the upper cover of the storage barrel 1 is provided with a sealing ring for sealing, a filter screen 9 for filtering impurities is arranged inside the storage barrel 1, and preferably, the size of the filter screen is 60-100 meshes; the opening of the storage barrel 1 is provided with a first electromagnetic valve 10, the outlet of the conical bottom of the storage barrel 1 is provided with a second electromagnetic valve 11 and is in flexible connection with a weighing barrel 2 used for weighing the additive, the weighing barrel is provided with a weighing sensor 12, and the weighing sensor 12 is electrically connected with a control system 3 used for setting the weight of the additive; the weighing barrel is simultaneously connected with a third electromagnetic valve 13 connected with the connecting rod 4, a fourth electromagnetic valve 14 used for exhausting and a fifth electromagnetic valve 15 connected with an air source; connecting rod 4 stretches into in the powder container 6 through the trompil of blind flange 5, the one end that the powder container was connected to connecting rod 4 is provided with quick-operation joint 17, pipeline 18, can adjust the total length of connecting rod 4 through quick-operation joint 17, specifically adjust the height that the connecting rod stretches into in the powder container through the pipeline 18 of connecting different length, make the fluid atomization shower nozzle 19 that is located the pipeline 18 end satisfy the required distance requirement of spraying, the blind flange has two replacement openings, an air replacement for the replacement space between powder container mouth and the blind flange comes out, avoid oxygen and powder contact, and with clamp 7 and powder container 6 sealing connection for the blind flange.

Furthermore, the outlet of the storage barrel 1 is connected with the inlet of the weighing barrel 2 through flexible connection, so that the operation of the storage barrel 1 does not influence the weighing of the weighing barrel 2; specifically, an outlet of the storage barrel 1 is connected with a first electromagnetic valve 10, then a first sleeve 8-1 extends into a second sleeve 8-2 with a larger diameter, a silica gel hose 8 is wrapped outside the first sleeve and the second sleeve, the first sleeve is connected with the first electromagnetic valve 10, the second sleeve is connected with a second electromagnetic valve 11, and the second electromagnetic valve 11 is connected with an inlet of the weighing barrel 2.

The connecting rod 4 is arranged for introducing powder into the powder container 6, the connecting rod 4 is provided with a quick joint 17, the connecting rod 4 is divided into two parts through the quick joint 17, one part is connected with an outlet pipeline of the weighing barrel and can be conveniently disassembled and cleaned, the other part is not provided with a pipeline 18 and extends into the powder container, the tail end of the connecting rod is connected with the fluid atomization nozzle, and the length of the connecting rod 4 is determined by the height of the powder in the powder container 6 and the spraying coverage angle of the fluid atomization nozzle together, so that the atomized additive can cover the powder to the maximum extent.

The utility model provides a neodymium iron boron powder that C content deviation is little, the powder is the powder behind the jet mill powder, adopts the utility model discloses used device and method obtain, and powder and ester additive misce bene are at powder container different positions 8 point sample C content standard deviation below 20ppm, and the biggest minimum deviation is below 80 ppm.

The utility model provides a neodymium iron boron magnet which is formed by pressing and sintering the powder obtained by the device and the method used by the utility model, the C content deviation of the sintered neodymium iron boron magnet is small, the standard deviation of the C content deviation of a single magnet billet is below 20ppm, and the deviation is below 50 ppm; 13 points at different positions of the sintering furnace are sampled, and the standard deviation of the content of C is below 30ppm, and the deviation is below 100 ppm.

Compared with the prior art, the utility model discloses an useful part lies in:

1. the adding port is separated from the powder, the adding port is not in contact with the powder, nitrogen or argon is introduced into the space at the opening of the powder container for replacement and evacuation before adding, the reduction of magnetic performance and the reduction of mechanical performance caused by the oxidation of the powder are avoided, the yield of the magnet is improved, meanwhile, the powder cannot block the adding port and the atomizing nozzle, the cleaning and the maintenance are simple, and the additive residue is less.

2. The mixing uniformity of the powder and the additive is higher than that of the traditional adding mode, the content deviation of C is small, a high-performance magnet can be obtained, the two-stage mixed materials after the powder preparation and mixing are combined into a first-stage mixed material, and the period is obviously shortened.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a blind flange configuration;

fig. 3 is the structural diagram of the sintered nd-fe-b magnet slice of the present invention.

Description of the labeling: 1. The device comprises a storage barrel, 2, a weighing barrel, 3, a control system, 4, a connecting rod, 5, a blind flange, 5-1, a replacement opening, 5-2, a third valve, 6, a powder container, 7, a clamp, 8, a silica gel hose, 8-1, a first sleeve, 8-2, a second sleeve, 9, a filter screen, 10, a first electromagnetic valve, 11, a second electromagnetic valve, 12, a weighing sensor, 13, a third electromagnetic valve, 14, a fourth electromagnetic valve, 15, a fifth electromagnetic valve, 16, a handle, 17, a quick connector, 18, a pipeline, 19, a fluid atomization nozzle, 20, an opening of the powder container, 21 and a butterfly valve.

Detailed Description

For a better understanding and practice, the following detailed description of the embodiments is given in conjunction with the accompanying drawings; the illustrated embodiment is only used for explaining the present invention, and the illustrated device structure picture only represents the basic structure of the present invention, and does not limit the scope of the present invention.

The device of the utility model comprises a storage barrel with a filter screen inside, a weighing barrel connected with the bottom of the storage barrel through flexible connection, a weighing sensor fixed on one side of the weighing barrel, and an additive weighed according to a set weight; connecting rod, fluid atomization shower nozzle are connected to the weighing bucket to and the blind flange of being connected with the powder container, the powder container of this application chooses for use as jar body connect powder jar or blendor, and the blind flange is provided with 3 exports, and 2 are used for the replacement, and 1 is put the connecting rod. When the additive is added, firstly, the blind flange and the tank opening of the powder receiving tank or the feeding port of the mixer are added with a sealing gasket and connected by a clamp, a butterfly valve is arranged in the opening of the powder receiving tank or the mixer, a replacement space is formed at the connecting part between the blind flange and the butterfly valve, air in the connecting part is replaced by nitrogen or argon, then the connecting rod is inserted into the powder receiving tank or the mixer for a certain depth, the additive weighed in the additive weighing tank is atomized and added to the powder container through air pressure, and the powder and the additive are mixed uniformly. The additive is mainly an ester compound, neodymium iron boron powder with small C content deviation can be obtained by adopting the device and the method, and the additive and the powder are mixed more uniformly; meanwhile, the additive is separated from the tank body in the additive adding process, so that the conditions of powder oxidation and additive port blockage caused by the addition of the additive in the tank body are effectively avoided, the powder oxidation is favorably avoided, the mechanical property of the magnet is improved, and the consistency of the magnetic property is improved; compared with the traditional funnel one-time adding mode, the additive and the powder are mixed more uniformly, the powder mixing period can be effectively shortened, the phenomena of uneven mixing and particle agglomeration can be avoided, and the funnel has high practical value. The electromagnetic valves in the application are electrically connected with the control system, the weighing sensors are also electrically connected with the control system, and the control system can be realized by adopting conventional methods in the field and is not described in detail.

The utility model discloses utilize the atomizing to add the device and carry out the atomizing of additive and add, the additive is the liquid additive, and concrete addition method is as follows:

a. the additive addition amount is set through the control system 3, the first electromagnetic valve 10 and the second electromagnetic valve 11 are controlled to be opened, the weighing of the additives is started, and when the set weight is reached, the first electromagnetic valve 10 and the second electromagnetic valve 11 are closed.

b. Connecting a blind flange 5 with a powder container 6 by using a hoop 7, connecting a nitrogen or argon gas source, opening two replacement ball valves on the blind flange, and replacing the space above the blind flange and the opening of the powder container for 1 minute;

c. opening a butterfly valve 21 of the powder container, opening a third valve on the blind flange 5, and probing the connecting rod 4 into the powder container through the third valve and keeping replacement;

d. the additive is atomized and added through the control system 3, at the moment, the second electromagnetic valve 11 and the fourth electromagnetic valve 14 are closed, the third electromagnetic valve 13 and the fifth electromagnetic valve 15 are opened, and the additive is atomized and added to the surface of the powder in the powder container through air pressure;

e. after the addition is completed, the connecting rod 4 is taken out, the butterfly valve 21 of the powder container is closed, and the blind flange 5 and the replacement gas source are removed.

The mixing process of the neodymium iron boron magnetic powder comprises the following specific steps:

1. mixing the powder before milling, adding the additive into a powder tank according to the steps a-e in the method, mixing in a three-dimensional mixer, preferably, mixing for 1-1.5 hours, and then putting into an airflow mill for milling.

2. After the powder preparation is finished, according to the steps a-e in the method, the powder is processed and then added again, the additive is added in an atomizing mode and mixed in a mixer, wherein the mixer can be a three-dimensional mixer (a mixing powder tank), a V-shaped mixer (powder is put in and mixed), and a high-shearing mixer, and the mixing time is preferably 2-3.5h, 2-4h and 20-25min respectively.

Example 1

Powder jar before the powder process, 360kg adopt the utility model discloses the device atomizes and goes up three-dimensional blendor after adding the antioxidant and mix 1.5h, 8 test C content deviations of powder process sample.

Example 2

Batch weight 700kg, powder 2 jar after the powder process drop into V type blendor, adopt the device is by V type blendor dog-house atomizing add behind the emollient compounding 4h, get 8 powder sample test C content deviations according to the order during the suppression.

Example 3

Batch weight 700kg, powder 2 jar after the powder process drop into V type blendor, adopt the device is by V type blendor dog-house atomizing add behind the emollient 4h magnetic field compression moulding, sintering, and the sintering is gone out the stove and is followed interior upper and lower three-layer bight and edge center, body center (cuboid summit, edge center and center) 13 blanks of sample, test C content deviation in the stove.

Example 4

Batch weight 700kg, powder 2 jar after the powder process drop into V type blendor, adopt the device is by V type blendor dog-house atomizing add behind the emollient 4h magnetic field compression moulding, sintering, and the sample of drawing a furnace of sintering is by the upper to lower section of single blank according to figure 3, test C content deviation.

Comparative example 1

The powder material tank is one before the powder process, 360kg, the same amount of additive is once introduced by a funnel from the opening of the upper conical wall of the powder material tank in a conventional mode, the mixture is mixed for 1.5h by a three-dimensional mixer, and 8 samples are taken in the powder process to test the content deviation of C.

Comparative example 2

The batch weight is 700kg, the powder after powder preparation is premixed in a powder receiving tank for 1.5h according to the conventional process flow, then 2 tanks of powder are put into a V-shaped mixer for mixing for 4h, and 8 powder samples are taken in sequence during pressing to test the content deviation of C.

Comparative example 3

The batch weight is 700kg, the powder after powder preparation is premixed in a powder receiving tank for 1.5h according to the conventional process flow, then 2 tanks of powder are put into a V-shaped mixer to be mixed for 4h, then the mixture is pressed, molded and sintered in a magnetic field, 13 blanks are sampled from the corner, edge center and body center (the top, edge center and center of a cuboid) of the upper layer, the middle layer and the lower layer in the furnace after sintering, and the content deviation of C is tested.

Comparative example 4

The batch weight is 700kg, the powder after powder preparation is premixed in a powder receiving tank for 1.5h according to the conventional process flow, then 2 tanks of powder are put into a V-shaped mixer to be mixed for 4h, then the mixture is pressed, molded and sintered in a magnetic field, a single blank is cut into pieces from top to bottom according to a graph 3 after the powder is discharged from a furnace and sampled, and the content deviation of C is tested.

The deviation results of the content test in the above examples 1 to 4 and comparative examples 1 to 4 are shown in the following tables 1 to 4:

table 1 shows the results of 8 samples for testing the deviation of C content during the milling process in example 1 and comparative example 1.

TABLE 1

Table 2 shows the results of sequentially sampling 8 test C content deviations when pressing example 2 and comparative example 2.

TABLE 2

Table 3 shows the results of measuring the deviation of C content in the sintered body taken from the furnace in the case of example 3 and comparative example 3 from the corner and edge centers of the upper, middle and lower three layers, and the body center (the apex, edge center, and center of the rectangular parallelepiped) in the furnace by 13 samples.

TABLE 3

Table 4 shows the results of testing the deviation of the C content in the sintered tapping samples of example 4 and comparative example 4 by slicing the single ingot from top to bottom according to fig. 3.

TABLE 4

The statistical calculation of the deviations of the above examples and comparative examples is shown in Table 5:

TABLE 5

Comparative example 1, mix before the powder process, adopt this utility model affiliated apparatus and method to atomize the batch that adds the lubricant, under the same mixing time, the standard deviation of C content standard deviation 11ppm of comparative example 1, the range is 30ppm, and the example is 7ppm respectively, 23ppm, and the deviation is littleer, more even, and further, on the basis of keeping current homogeneity, can consider to reduce mixing time in order to reduce production cycle.

Comparative example 2, comparative example 2 mix after the powder process, adopt this utility model affiliated device and method to atomize at V type blendor dog-house and add the batch of emollient, cancelled the process of one-level compounding, and the C content standard deviation of final compounding, range difference are 17ppm, 48ppm respectively, are obviously superior to conventional comparative example 2's 48ppm, 147ppm, have both reduced manual operation and have shortened production cycle, and compounding homogeneity also improves simultaneously.

Compared with the embodiment 3 and the comparative example 3, the embodiment 4 and the comparative example 4, the neodymium iron boron magnet pressed and sintered by the powder obtained by the device has better consistency of the C content of the magnet in a single blank and the C content deviation of the whole furnace than the magnet obtained by the conventional process, and is favorable for obtaining the magnet with good consistency.

In addition, the magnet yield in the production is counted, and the defect of magnet foreign matter mixing caused by powder oxidation is reduced to 0.07 percent from 0.15 percent before the introduction of the process.

In conclusion, the device and the method are adopted to mix the neodymium-iron-boron powder and the additive, the adding port of the device is separated from the powder and does not contact with the powder, and the air replacement process of the connecting part is introduced, so that the reduction of magnetic property and mechanical property caused by the oxidation of the powder is effectively avoided, the yield of the magnet is improved, meanwhile, the powder cannot block the adding port and the atomizing nozzle, the cleaning and the maintenance are simple, and the additive residue is less; in addition, the mixing uniformity of the powder and the additive is higher than that of the traditional adding mode, the content deviation of the powder C is small, the consistency of the content of the magnet C is high, the uniform, stable and good-consistency neodymium iron boron magnet can be obtained, the mixed secondary mixed materials after powder preparation are combined into the primary mixed materials, and the period is obviously shortened.

The above examples are only for illustrating the specific embodiments of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the present invention. All modifications, replacements and the like according to the content and thought of the utility model are within the protection scope of the utility model.

Claims

1. Device is added in atomizing of neodymium iron boron magnetic compounding additive, its characterized in that:

including depositing bucket (1), weighing bucket (2), control system (3), connecting rod (4), shutoff piece, powder container (6), wherein, deposit and be the flexible coupling between bucket (1) and weighing bucket (2), weighing bucket (2) are through weighing sensor (12) connection control system (3), link to each other through connecting rod (4) between weighing bucket (2) and powder container (6), set up the shutoff piece at powder container (6) opening, connecting rod (4) pass shutoff piece (5) stretch into in powder container (6), the end-to-end connection of connecting rod (4) has fluid atomization shower nozzle (18).

2. An atomizing and adding device for neodymium iron boron magnetic powder mixing material additive according to claim 1, characterized in that:

deposit the feed inlet department of bucket (1) and be provided with the sealing washer, the discharge gate sets up to the toper form, deposits bucket (1) inside and is provided with filter screen (9) that are used for filtering impurity, and the filter screen is 60-100 meshes, the flexible coupling includes first sleeve pipe (8-1), second sleeve pipe (8-2), silica gel hose (8), first sleeve pipe top with deposit and be connected through first solenoid valve (10) between bucket (1), be connected through second solenoid valve (11) between second sleeve pipe bottom and the weighing bucket (2), inside first sleeve pipe bottom stretched into second sleeve pipe top, at first sleeve pipe and the outside cover of second sleeve pipe have silica gel hose (8).

3. An atomizing and adding device for neodymium iron boron magnetic powder mixing material additive according to claim 2, characterized in that:

the weighing barrel (2) is provided with a third electromagnetic valve (13) connected with the connecting rod (4), a fourth electromagnetic valve (14) used for exhausting and a fifth electromagnetic valve (15) connected with an air source.

4. An atomizing and adding device for neodymium iron boron magnetic powder mixing material additive according to claim 3, characterized in that:

the plugging piece is a blind flange (5), the blind flange (5) is connected with a powder container (6) in a sealing mode through a clamp (7), two replacement openings are formed in the blind flange (5) and used for containing a replacement ball valve, a butterfly valve (21) is arranged in a feeding hole of the powder container (6), and a replacement space is formed between the blind flange (5) and the butterfly valve (21).

5. A neodymium iron boron magnetic powder obtained according to any one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that: the neodymium iron boron powder is powder after being milled into powder by an airflow mill, the powder and the ester additive are uniformly mixed, the standard deviation of the content of C in the powder is below 20ppm, and the maximum minimum deviation is below 80 ppm.

6. A neodymium iron boron magnet obtained by pressing and sintering the powder obtained according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the standard deviation of the C content of a single blank of the sintered neodymium iron boron magnet formed by the powder after being milled by airflow is below 20ppm, and the deviation is below 50 ppm; 13 points at different positions of the sintering furnace are sampled, and the standard deviation of the content of C is below 30ppm, and the deviation is below 100 ppm.