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JPRS-UMS-92-003

16 March 1992 NONFERROUS METALS, ALLOYS, BRAZES, SOLDERS

Cu + 0.01 mg/g Ag, a regenerated anion exchanger then containing only 1.1 mg/g Fe + 0.1 mg/g Zn + 0.1 mg/g Au. Electrolysis produces an extract which contains typically 82.76 % Au in the Au-Ag alloy, 9.94 % Au in the regenerated anion exchanger + 0.06 % Au in the residual electrolyte + 7.34 % Au in the slag. Hydrometallurgical reprocessing of the slag for extraction of gold from it involves crushing and grinding it to the -0.1 mm grain size fraction, leaching with water at 80-90°C for 32 h followed by cyaniding the cake with 2 g/dm³ NaCN for 48 h, and leaching with sulfuric acid at 90°C for 1 h followed by cyaniding the cake with 1.5 g/dm³ NaCN for 48 h. Up to 92 % Au can be thus extracted from the slag. Figures 2; tables 2.

Producing Silicon Single Crystals With Uniformly Distributed Oxygen

927D0030FMoscow TSYETNYYE METALLY in Russian No 6, Jun 91 pp 48-50

[Article by Z.A. Salnik, Ye.S. Lcvshin, and Yu.A. Mik-lyayev, Perm Chemical Apparatus Manufacturing Plant (PKhMZ)

UDC 669.782

[Abstract] The process of growing Silicon single crystals by the rotating crucible method for intemal getters in fabrication of VLSI circuits is described, the speed of rotation being varied as the crystal grows so as to ensure optimum oxygen content and its most nearly uniform distribution over the crystal volume. In an experimental study of this proposed process two batches of Si(100) and Si( 111) single crystals 105 mm in diameter were grown while being doped with boron or phosphorus in standard crucibles: “Redmet" (Rare Metal)-15 crucible 270 mm in diameter and “Redmet" (Rare Metal)-30 crucible 330 mm in diameter. The crucibles were charged with 15-22 kg of Silicon melt, the speed of their rotation then being varied by a KM 111 microprocessor in accordance with a special control program. An analysis of oxygen distribution histograms reveals a highly uniform (within 10 %) axial oxygen concentration profile in 600-900 mm long grown single crystals. A statistical analysis of point-by-point electrical resistance (conductance) readings takcn with an ASR-100C tester and indicating the radial spreadout of oxygen reveal a highly microuniform (within 4.5 %) radial oxygen concentration profile in crystals annealed at 430°C temperaturę for 75 h. Getters grown by this process are now used with success in production of VLSI circuits by either bipolar or MOS technology. Figures 3; references 4.

Electroiyzer for Carnallite With Wider Separation Zonę Between Products of Electrolysis

927D0030E Moscow TSYETNYYE METALLY in Russian No 6, Jun 91 pp 44-45

[Article by P.A. Donskikh, V.A. Kolesnikov, and D.F. Rakipov, BT Metallurgical Combine]

UDC 669.721

[Abstract) An electroiyzer for carnallite has been built with a 65 mm wide distance between graphitized anodes and 50-60 mm thick cathode plates, all electrodes being mountcd equally high above the bottom pan for current feed from below. Such a construction is to ensure a morę nearly complete separation of the two gaseous and liquid phases, with a resulting reduction of magnesium and chlorine losses. Such an electroiyzer was tested in standard operation over a 25.5-month period, after which interelectrode distance was found to have become 100-110 mm long. The thickness of the anodic graphite layer on the cast iron core had in this time decreased from the original 150 mm to not less than 65 mm, corresponding to 1.5-1.7 mm/month and thus lower than the normal ratę of graphite consumption on each side. Two such electolyzers of the new version were subsequently tested over a 21-month period for both magnesium yield and energy consumption at a 0.225 A/cm² current density in an electrolyte with an electrical conductivity of 1.73 S. The voltage drop across the electrolyte had incrcased in time owing to the increase of the interelectrode distance only, calculations based on the experimental data indicating that the voltage drop duc to dissolution of anodic iron and a consequently poorer iron-graphiye is negli-gible. Figures 1; tables 1.

Results of Test Performed on Model of Cooler for Anodes of Magnesium Electroiyzer

927D0030D Moscow TSYETNYYE METALLY in Russian No 6, Jun 91 pp 41-44

[Article by V.F. Yalovoy, A.M. Sizonenko, M.M. Niko-layev, L.A. Orlova, and T.K. Kolesnik, Titanium Insti-tute of UKT Metallurgical Combine]

UDC 669.721

[Abstract] A magnesium electroiyzer with evaporative water cooling of the anodę assembly has been designed, and the water-vapor mixture entering a separator drum from which the water is pumpcd back into an array of jackets. These jackets, an array of semicylindrical tubes, are produced by lengthwise cutting cylindrical Steel tubes in half (300 m long tubing for one electroiyzer) and welding the half-tubes with high-quality seams to a Steel base. A gage pressure of 0.5 MPa and water temperaturę of 158°C are maintained in the system. A simple model of such a cooler was built and tested for design and performance evaluation, a 645 mm-long and 150 mm-widc graphitized piąte on top of a helical electric heatcr simulating the anodę assembly with current leads on top and a 2.5 mm thick Steel U-tube 32 mm in diameter encapsulated in an Al-Mg alloy pot on top of that piąte simulating the cooler. Heat transfer from piąte to cooler above it was improved by filling three 315 mm-deep and 40 mm-wide vertical holes drilled into the 340 mm-high piąte with an Al-Mg alloy. The heater underneath the piąte was thermally insulated with diatomite brick so as to minimize heat leakage into the surrounding air. The