Serpentine Tribotechnical Composition «Saranovsky». Preparation and Comparative Tests

In the last 30 years, the use of non-traditional tribotechnical materials has been expanding to effectively restore the functionality of worn-out friction units of various kinds, especially in Russia, Finland, Japan, Germany and China. Development of [1- 6] and approbation [7-18], for example, mineral tribomaterials is expanding especially in Russia, and the overall diversity of tribomaterials (more than 200) is known in many countries of Europe, Asia, Africa, America. But in 2000, Russia moved Nano diamond triboactive [19], and in 2015 – there are Nano-sized carbon fibers (Russia).

Among the tribomaterials for repair without disassembly powders of serpentine group are particularly attractive due to the ease of preparation, application and efficiency. Their origin occurred in St. Petersburg in the 80-ies. [1,3,5], justification for use – in Institute Mechanobr [3], IMASH RAS [2], in many other research institutes, and the first experience in NPIF «Enion – Baltika», SPC «Ruspromremont» [13], NPTC «SUPRO-TEK», in dozens of other civil and military organizations of Russia, Japan, Finland, China, France, Germany, Egypt, Greece and other countries [7-18].

In the Nano center of GOSNITI, studies of serpentine «repairreduction compounds» or friction geo-modifiers (CFG) were also conducted and more than 5,000 tribo-tests of 80 compounds were conducted [16,17].

Purpose of work

One study in GOSNITI had the objective of creating a stable Mineralogy and tribologist repair-recovery composition from waste products of mining enterprises.

Materials, devices and equipment used

As raw materials used flotation waste mining plant of Russia. The primary ore consists (according to the research Institute of the Russian Federation «Giredmet», Russia), 95% of chrome - spin elide-an industrial source of chromium and silicate, represented by serpentine, developed by pyroxene and rarely by olivine. And waste flotation on the chrome minerals (according to the same research Institute) consist mainly of mineral lisarditega bastita by orthopyroxene and appareling Lizardite {Mg3[Si2O5](OH)4}. The waste could be a bit of chlorite, calcite and garnet with lesser content of chrome spinel (Mg,Fe)(Cr,Al,Fe,Ti)2O4.

In the preparation of triboactive in the Nano center GOSNITI used:

• electric Cabinet SNOL (up to 350 °C) for heat treatment of the initial powder,

• vibration screen «Analizzete 3Pro» (sieve 20, 25, 32, 40 and 100 microns) for powder classification,

• ball planetary mill «ACTIVATOR 2SL» for powder activation (powder 70g, steel balls 15mm - 10 pieces, 10mm-20 pieces. and 6mm - the rest up to 350 g.; duration of grinding 5 and 10 min.),

• inverted metallographic microscope «OLIMPUS GX 51» to control the fractionation composition of the powders of the original and processed,

• Х-Ray diffractometer XRD 6000 with a library of spectra «ICDD» to determine the phase composition of the initial and processed powders,

• tribometer TRB-S-DE with steel tribological pair «fingerdisk » in the mineral engine oil quality classes the SS API and SAE 30 viscosity (manufacturer Russia) in the mode of stepwise loading up to a pressure of 218 MPa, sliding speed 1m/s, the friction path of 1500m.

Preparation and testing of triboactive «Saranovsky»

The initial powder on a sieve of 1mm was cleaned, dried for an hour at 105 °C, fractionated on a sieve of 100 μm of a vibrating screen, subjected to grinding on a mill and repeated fractionation on a sieve of 40 μm. The type of the obtained powder from the vibrating screen is shown in Figure 1, and the microphotography of its particles is shown in Figure 2.

The resulting properties of the tribotechnical composition of the «Saranovsky»

According to X-Ray phase analysis, the powder is a particle of the mineral Lyzardite - the main tribotechnical component of serpentine. Its crystals are formed in the mono clinic system. The color of the crushed powder is gray-yellow, the density is 2550 kg / m3, the hardness on the mineralogical scale is 2.5.

Figure 2 shows, that a large fraction of the particles has a size of 1-5 microns, but there are rare agglomerates up to 40 microns. The average particle size is 2.3 μm. As for 30-year-old practice, and on the other on a tribotechnical composition of the optimum particle size of 1-25 microns [2,10], tribalistic «Sarnowskу» for fractional composition is satisfactory.

The speeches of participants of the conference in RUSNANO 15.01.2009 and according to some publications [2,5,7,10] chromium compounds to a tribotechnical composition to be harmful. Therefore, powders before and after grinding were subjected to diffractometry (Figure 3).

It was found, that of all the substances, when searching in the main volumes of the ICDD library, there are no chromium compounds in the CFG «Saranovsky», and, in the sequence of their concentration, revealed:

• Mg3[Si2O5](OH)4 - Aluminum Iron Magnesium Si, Lisardite-1T - basic mineral of serpentine group;

• Ni3[Si2O5] (OH)4 - Nickel Silicate Hydroxide, Pecoraite - 2Mc1 - secondary serpentine group mineral, as an impurity;

• [Ni5, Al4O11] ∙18H2O – Nickel Aluminum Oxide Hydroxide-other impurity. It should be noted, that in parallel, the investigated CFG from Limited liability company «STANRUS» for «Wl-technology» [8] represented a mixture of more than 12 minerals, of which 2 - do not belong to the serpentine group minerals, 6 - are represented by aluminum hydro silicates, one is a jelly hydro silicate, one is a hydro silicate of mixed composition (iron, magnesium and aluminum) and only one is a hydro silicate of magnesium: Mg3[Si2O5](OH)4 – Magnesium Silicate Сlinochrysotil.

Comparative tribotechnical tests of СFG «Saranovsky»

The test results of several tribo-compositions are shown in Figure 4.

Tribo-tests showed high load and antifriction efficiency of the oil Mobil, apparently, one of the best in the world, the coincidence of antifriction properties of the compositions CNT and MS-20, presumably similar in preparation. Good antifriction properties confirmed nano diamond compositions CARATs. And CFG «Sarnowsky» revealed the best of serpentine and brings tribologist Russia’s engine oil М-10Г2К SS class in the API, to the highest tribological properties of the oil company Mobil.

The mechanism of formation of serpentine by triboactive coatings are not academically not received. Their carbon films, diamond-like carbon (DLС) films, after the publication of the article-report of Chinese researchers [20], for the first time on 15.01.2009 at the conference in the companies «RUSNANO», was presented by scientist-biologist Pavlov O.G. Early versions about the nature of such coatings by the formation of cermet’s, natural film sliding mirrors, diffusion of ionic components of powders in the friction surface and their unusual transformation to a depth of 1mm, as well as by micro metallurgical processes, formation of iron carbides. contradictory and do not correspond to the composition of coatings. However, the mechanism of formation of carbon tribocoatings from CFG in Pavlov’s publications is not yet presented.

It generalizes the well-known domestic [1,3-9,11,15,18], foreign [20-28] and identified [17] features locus-coatings. It is a high hardness (HV 1100-1850 kgf/cm2 [4]), resistance to etching solution of nitric acid [8], orange-gold color, coloring with fatsoluble dye SUDAN-B [15], resistance 10-12 Ohm/cm, carbon content up to 90 % [20], the absence of СFG in the coating of the initial components [20], mirror purity (Ra ≈0.07 μm [20]), damage by electricity, transparency, acceleration of formation with the introduction of carbon black at the suggestion of Pavlov O.G., further build-up and without CFG, and even dry.

Foreign studies on the creation and analysis of the properties of carbon tribotechnical coatings (Diamond-Like Carbon Films) [21-23], as well as a complex (24 articles) of their comprehensive studies [24] are analyzed. Studies of coatings based on compounds of car-bon atoms with hydrogen [25], carboxylic [26,27], diamond [28] coatings are also taken into account. But the main attention was paid to the studies of coatings from serpentine compositions, conducted in the tribology laboratory of Beijing Tsinghua University [20].

From the analysis of the data of all studies, it is assumed that at the beginning, when grinding СFG particles, their physical activation, physical and chemical transformations take place [17], they clean the friction surfaces and open the juvenile surfaces of crystals on them with the abrasive action of minerals. Further, as identified in n limited liability company «Lyubimov and the company» [15], the crystal is created of mineral stalagmite base (Figure 5), and on it, with the possible involvement tribalism [4], are Carbonatite (sp3) and tribological polymerization [20-24] components of the environment in the creation of a CFG coating.. In it, carbides, oxides and iron hydroxides are interspersed with wear products [20]. The calculated coating thickness according to Lyubimov D.N. 600 μm, and in the practice of company «Enion-Baltika» to 1000 microns.

We believe, that the increase in carbon-containing CFG coating, even in the subsequent absence of CFG, is due to the triboactivation of surfaces [3], as well as the extraordinary chemical activity of carbon atoms with their uncompensated surface bonds, the possibilities of sp1, sp2, sp3 hybridization [6], chemisorption of hydrocarbons of lubrication, and when working on dry interfaces – according to the Institute of mechanics problems Russian Academy of Sciences, even carbon dioxide from the environment.

This, apparently, is confirmed by the pioneers of CFG (Pavlov O.G., Sokol S.A.) the fact of accelerating the growth of coatings at the input powder’s blacksmith soot, the formation of the same carbon family of diamond-like films and CFG coatings nondiamond compositions and nanocarbon fibers produced in Russia, where the surfaces are formed tribar chain Me-C-C-C.

When CFG treatment from the exhaust tract of the internal combustion engine is increased steam and water (up to 1.5 liters for 5-10 minutes). This can be explained by the destruction of water-oil sludge in the exhaust tract of the ice by activated exhaust gases from the burned components of the CFG.

In the Tambov state University of VNIITiN was performed 250- hour performance tests triboactive «Sarnowsky» in diesel engines of tractors MTZ-82, MTZ-1221и DT-75M. It was established the total reduction of fuel consumption of tractors at 5-8 %, of the waste engine oil by 10-12 %, and the opacity of exhaust gases by 8-15 %. But most importantly - the iron content in motor oils decreased compared to the content in the previous period of work, also 250 hours, by 20-25 %. This indicated really anti-wear property of triboactive and increase of service life of the tested diesel engines, which once again confirmed the known from the beginning of 90- ies. [6-8,10,12-14,16-18] the effectiveness of CFG-technology.

The research results give reason to believe that CFG «Sarnowsky» from industrial waste containing major mineral Lizardite 1T, tribological satisfactory, and the possibility of creating a tribotechnical composition and the broad use of it from industrial waste is confirmed. The resulting CFG can be used to restore of efficiency of worn-out internal combustion engines, power transmissions.

The hypothesis of formation of the repair coating mating friction may assume: triboactivation particles CFG, the opening of their juvenile surfaces of the crystals, physicochemical transformations and creation juvenile mineral surfaces stalagmite structures, and on it, with the possible involvement tribalism, the passage of carbonization and tribological polymerization of the components of a tribological environment. After removal of triboactive a further increase in coatings because of their own triboactivation and reactions of the extraordinary properties of carbon atoms.

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