Amir Karimzadeh Behnami, Arman Hoseinpur, Masoud Sakaki, Mohammad Sh. Bafghi,  and Kazumichi Yanagisawa, Synthesis of WC powder through microwave heating of WO3-C mixture, Int. J. Miner. Metall. Mater., 24(2017), No. 2, pp. 202-207. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12613-017-1396-3
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Amir Karimzadeh Behnami, Arman Hoseinpur, Masoud Sakaki, Mohammad Sh. Bafghi,  and Kazumichi Yanagisawa, Synthesis of WC powder through microwave heating of WO3-C mixture, Int. J. Miner. Metall. Mater., 24(2017), No. 2, pp. 202-207. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12613-017-1396-3
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Synthesis of WC powder through microwave heating of WO3-C mixture

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    Masoud Sakaki    E-mail: masoudsakaki79@gmail.com

  • Received: 23 June 2016Revised: 6 September 2016Accepted: 12 September 2016
  • A simple, easy, and low-cost process for the fabrication of tungsten carbide (WC) powder through microwave heating of WO3-C mixtures was developed. Thermodynamic calculations and experimental investigations were carried out for WO3-C and W-C systems, and a formation mechanism was proposed. In the results, for the synthesis of WC, the use of over stoichiometric amount of C together with a specially assembled experimental setup (which effectively retains heat in the system) is necessary. The WC powder is successfully obtained by heating WO3:5C mixture for 900s in a domestic microwave oven.
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