The increasing need of REY has been observed in industries such as catalyst industry, metallurgy, military, health and renewable energy resources. REY such as Ce, Nd, Y, and Eu has a prominent evidence to improve material properties such as high electropositive, good conductivity and renewable energy. Due to this increasing need of REY, exploration of alternative source has been conducted. One of the promising alternative sources is coal fly ash. The conventional method to recover REY from coal fly ash using inorganic acids is harmful to the environment. Thus, the exploration of REY extraction from coal fly ash using organic acid has been proposed in this study. The leaching agent was acetic acid applied for all operating condition. Regarding to the mineralization of REY in the form of siliceous minerals (non-magnetic coal fly ash). Silicate digestion was conducted using sodium hydroxide 8 M with solid-to-liquid of 25% to decompose the siliceous mineral. Further, the REY bound siliceous mineral will change to REY(OH)3. Temperature as one of the operating conditions was varied. The maximum recovery of leaching 20.58 %, 43.53 %, 17.38%, 40.96 %, 18.45 % and 32.74 % were achieved for Ce, Dy, La, Nd, Y and Yb respectively at temperature of 90 0C pH 1.74 and 120 minutes. For some metals, increasing the temperature higher than 70 0C does not provide any significant effect for REY recovery such as La and Ce.
Metal casting with investment casting method is metal casting which has the ability to produce accurate parts and has a controlled fineness. Current technological developments are very influential in the development of investment casting. One of them has been found mold-lay filament as a substitute for wax, which is now wax is one of the main components in investment casting process. Mold-lay filament is printed using a 3D Printer machine. In this study, the wax in the investment casting process was replaced by a mold-lay filament with the specifications 0.75kg / 0.55 lb of 1.75mm MOLDLAY filament, prints at temperatures of 170-180 ° C. The result show that mold-lay flutes are also able to come out well from slurry molds, but require more time than wax, this is because one of the plastic mold-lay compositions, which takes a long time for the moldlay fillment to come out of the mold. Further research suggestions are needed further testing in terms of roughness of the product with moldlay filament and compared with wax. This will also see if there are any remaining moldlay filaments from the mold.
To understand the morphology of the coercivity enhancement by heat treatment, a commercial sintered NdFeB-type permanent magnet is annealed, and the coercivity is measured by Permagraph. It is shown that the coercivity is increased compared to the initial. Observation by X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) analysis and Scanning Electron Microscope-Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (SEM-EDS) is then conducted. The XRD result shows the amount of NdFeB content in the NdFeB-type permanent magnet is increased after heat treatment. The more significant amount of NdFeB content causes higher coercivity. The maximum coercivity, 19 kOe, is achieved at 850 °C of heat treatment temperature, where the NdFeB content is at the highest amount. Microstructural characterizations using SEM-EDS show that at 850 °C of heat treatment temperature, the iron (Fe) content in the grain boundaries is the lowest. It causes higher coercivity. This is due to the magnetically decoupled between NdFeB grains. The decoupling magnet of the NdFeB grains is affected by the Fe content in the grain boundaries. High-temperature heat treatment at 900 and 1050 °C led to the decomposition of NdFeB content in the grains and increased the Fe content in the grain boundaries, which resulted in a substantial reduction of magnetic coercivity.
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