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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 14, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Andreas Lackner, Reutte/Tirol, AT;
Andreas Filzwieser, Zeltweg, AT;
Assignee:
Plansee Tizit Aktiengesellschaft, Tirol, AT;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C01B 3/134 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C01B 3/134 ;
Abstract
The invention concerns a gas carburizing method for production of fine-grained tungsten carbide (WC) powder in installations for fluidized bed reaction starting from free-flowing tungsten or tungsten oxide-containing powder with an average particle size d >10 &mgr;m in a single process step with a specific process temperature and process gas mixture with a carbon activity <1 and as close as possible to 1. The method is suitable for particularly economical WC production on an industrial scale.