Nickel carbonyl technological advances and market prospects

Jun 25
00:03

2013

David Yvon

David Yvon

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Use carbonyl can produce high purity nickel pellets, metal powder, alloy powder, powder coating, foam nickel and nano-nickel powder and other products.

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Due to the special structure state products produced by carbonyl with excellent physical and chemical characteristics,Nickel carbonyl technological advances and market prospects Articles so they are the important raw materials in many areas, especially in high-tech industry. Carbonyl is a process of refining nickel, simple, low energy consumption, high extraction rate, also conducive to the enrichment of precious metals, is a no waste environmental technology. Pyrolysis nickel carbonyl, can be prepared a variety of products with different properties, different shapes, such as zero-dimensional materials (nm, micron powder material), one-dimensional material (needle and filamentary materials), two-dimensional material (film material) and three-dimensional materials (nickel-pill, coating, gradient and hollow materials) and so on. Due to special structural state nickel products prepared by carbonyl with excellent physical and chemical properties, is an important raw material in many fields, especially in high-tech industry, so the market prospect is very broad. Moreover, as technology advances, especially today's rapid development of nanotechnology, it is foreseeable that the demand of nickel carbonyl and products will increase significantly.

According to the statistics of the international nickel market in recent years, the consumption volume of a variety of nickel carbonyl products which produced by carbonyl is about 13 to 15 million tons, accounting for almost 17% of the average amount of nickel consumption in the world. In recent years, with the energy, communications technology and the continuous development of the family car, nickel carbonyl products showed a rapid upward trend, annual growth rate is about 10%. In addition, the world’s nickel carbonyl products market has been monopolized by the International Nickel Company, the international market price of nickel carbonyl also become a monopoly price. In recent years, despite the large fluctuations of the nickel price, but nickel carbonyl powder prices have been stable at 12,000 to $ 13,000 per ton.

Chinese nickel carbonyl powder currently is only produced by Nuclear Corporation. Design capacity is 500 tons of nickel carbonyl powder. However, due to various reasons, it has not been possible up to production. The main products are nickel carbonyl powder, powder coated and nickel carbonyl --- alloy powders, mainly for military use, China's nickel carbonyl products are now mainly rely on imports. According to Chinese electronics, energy and powder metallurgy market research, nickel carbonyl powder consumption growth is very rapid, only in 1999, Chinese nickel-metal hydride battery industry was imported nickel carbonyl powder up to 2200 tons, and still fast grow with 20% annual growth rate, in 2004, Chinese nickel carbonyl powder consumption was up to 3000 ~ 3500 tons, nickel foam consumption was around 800 tons. In addition, the nickel-pill which mainly used in steel and chemical raw materials production, because the demand of stainless steel expanded and the material properties requirements increased, the annual consumption can up to 5,000 tons. And with the new technology, new materials continuous developing, especially meet high-performance capabilities and structural materials needs, such as nickel inner electrode MLCC, PTC thermistor, production and application of high-performance carbide, etc., in 2005, the requires of sub-micron (nanometer) ultrafine nickel powder was reached hundreds of tons.

Source:http://www.mhcmp.com