Degreasing Process and Method of Aluminum Alloy
The chemical activity of metal aluminum is very high. It is quickly oxidized in the air to generate a layer of natural oxide layer. This layer of natural oxide layer has a certain protective effect on aluminum, but if you want to do passivation treatment or coating (painting, powder spraying) treatment, the oxide layer must be removed first to ensure the uniformity and integrity of the passivation film.
Aluminum alloy chemical degreasing can be used in alkaline degreasing and acidic degreasing, but also through sandblasting or rolling treatment to achieve the purpose of degreasing and descaling.
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Alkaline degreasing of aluminum alloy generally uses M-265 weak alkaline alloy degreasing agent. Strong alkaline degreasing will cause corrosion, blackening and ash hanging on aluminum alloy. Alkaline degreasing cannot remove the oxide layer on the surface of aluminum alloy. If alkaline degreasing is used, the surface oxide layer needs to be removed through acid activation (also known as surface adjustment, light emission and neutralization) before passivation in the post-process, otherwise a complete passivation film cannot be formed, the absence of a complete passivation film has a significant impact on coating adhesion and salt spray testing.
Aluminum alloy can also use acidic degreasing, through the M-267 of acidic degreasing agent to complete, can achieve the effect of degreasing and descaling. The choice of aluminum acid degreasing agent should distinguish between aluminum profile and cast aluminum. Different materials and formulas will be different. Cast aluminum is easy to be discolored, blackened or gray.
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In the casting process of cast aluminum workpiece, a small amount of mold release agent should be added to the mold, and paraffin wax will be contained in the low-grade remover. Therefore, in addition to general oil stains, there may also be waxy oil stains on the surface of cast aluminum workpiece. At this time, only ordinary alkaline oil removal or acid oil removal cannot be cleaned.
in addition to the preparation of oil liquid method:
Method 1: Degreasing Powder + Degreasing Agent (4-5% each)-Two-component
Method 2: Oil removal additive + oil removal agent (4-5% each)-two-component
Method 3: single component degreasing powder (use ratio 4-6%)-single component
Method 4: Single-component degreaser (6-8%)-Single-component
Method 5: aluminum acid degreasing agent (use ratio 5-6%)-single component
Passivation treatment process and method of aluminum alloy
Passivation process type
◆ Hexavalent chromium passivation: can generate colorless transparent passivation film or golden yellow passivation film
◆ Trivalent chromium passivation: passivation film color will change with different aluminum alloy materials, from colorless-light blue-gray-color passivation film
◆ Aluminum chromium-free passivation agent: it can generate colorless transparent passivation film or color passivation film, and it will also change the appearance color of passivation film with different aluminum alloy materials and models.
Description of the use of different passivation processes
(1) hexavalent chromium, trivalent chromium, chromium-free passivation can be used for paint, powder pretreatment passivation.
(2) The bare film after hexavalent chromium passivation and trivalent chromium passivation can be directly used as the final anti-corrosion layer; the corrosion resistance of the bare film of aluminum chromium-free passivation film is not as good as that of hexavalent or trivalent chromium passivation, and is more used for pre-coating treatment.
(3) Comparison of salt spray test time
A, trivalent chromium and hexavalent chromium passivation film:
The salt spray test time for bare film of aluminum plate/aluminum profile can reach 100 hours, and the salt spray test time for coating after coating can reach 1000 hours. Cast aluminum may be reduced to a certain extent due to different aluminum ingot types and impurity contents.
B, aluminum chromium-free passivator:
The salt spray test time for bare film of aluminum plate/aluminum profile can reach 72 hours, and the salt spray test time for coating after coating can reach 1000 hours. Cast aluminum may be reduced to a certain extent due to different aluminum ingot types and impurity contents.
C. The salt spray resistance time of the coating after coating is also related to the quality of the coating and the thickness of the coating. The coating thickness requirements are: more than 60um for powder coating and more than 20um for paint coating.
D, salt spray test conditions: 5% sodium chloride neutral salt spray, 35 ℃