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Thursday
• Course Detail
Design and fabrication of electroless nickel facilities:
- Electroless nickel plating tanks -- pros and cons
- Anodic passivation systems
- Different operating methods -- pros and cons
- What has and has not worked in the past
Composite electroless nickel coatings:
- Teflon and fluorocarbon composites
- SiC and diamond composites
- How they are applied
- Physical and mechanical properties
- Hardness and wear properties
Pretreatment for unusual alloys and non-metals:
- Processes for high alloys
- Processes for non-catalytic alloys
- Processes for light and heavy metals
- Ammoniacal baths for many unusual alloys
- Processes for plastics
- Processes for ceramics
Quality control testing for electroless nickel coatings:
- Different methods for testing coatings
- When to use them
- Where to use them
Effect of the substrate on EN deposits:
- How defects in substrates cause defects in the EN coating
Effect of bath age on EN baths and coatings:
- How EN baths contaminate themselves and how this effects the resulting coating
Stripping of electroless nickel deposits:
- Comparison to corrosion
- Different methods available
- High versus low phosphorus coatings
- Effect of heat treatment
Waste treatment of electroless nickel solutions:
- Avoid waste treatment as much as possible
- Different techniques used in the industry
- Regenerative techniques for prolonging bath life
Post treatments for electroless nickel:
- Different treatments for electroless nickel coatings
Cost of electroless nickel coatings:
- How to calculate it
- Theoretical cost versus actual cost
Problem solving panel:
- Typical problems and how they were solved
- Problems suggested by the participants
