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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 1992
Filed:
Sep. 19, 1991
Joseph A Megy, Corvallis, OR (US);
Other;
Abstract
A clean refractory metal SWARF particle product is made from refractory metal SWARF. The SWARF particles are produced with coolant at a temperature of less than 650.degree. C. to prevent formation of refractory metal oxides and nitrides. The SWARF particles are comminuted to reduce the particle size of theh SWARF slivers and to liberate residual coolant. The comminuted SWARF slivers are washed with a displacement wash to remove the bulk of the coolant and subject to a counter-current wash to remove substantially all of the coolant components to produce clean SWARF particles. The clean SWARF particles can be pressed into briquettes and sintered at elevated pressures or mixed with an alkali metal refractory metal halide salt, pressed at elevated pressures into SWARF/salt briquettes and dried. The briquettes are non-pyrophoric.