RSE “National Center on Complex Processing of Mineral Raw Materials of the Republic of Kazakhstan”, Almaty, Kazakhstan:

E. A. Mazulevsky, Candidate of Chemical Sciences, Head of the Laboratory of Pure Chemicals, e-mail: mazulevskiy123@mail.ru
F. A. Berdikulova, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Director of the R&D Department, e-mail: pheruza_b@mail.ru
T. V. Kovzalenko, Junior Researcher at the Laboratory of Pure Chemicals
N. M. Seidakhmetova^*, PhD, Senior researcher of the Department of Scientific Research, e-mail: erkej@mail.ru

*Correspondence author.

The paper presents the results of studies of fine-grained tungstic acid synthesis and research of tungsten trioxide obtained from it. A literature analysis was performed and the direction of the study was formulated. A method of precipitation of tungstic acid from sodium tungstate solutions by hydrochloric acid solution has been proposed. To produce tungstic acid, a continuous operation unit that provided the required draining rates of sodium tungstate and hydrochloric acid solutions, the temperature of draining solutions and their concentrations, was created. The dependence of the specific surface of the obtained tungstic acid on the concentration of the used hydrochloric acid was investigated, and the optimum concentration of hydrochloric acid at 430 grams per liter was determined. Using the mathematical method of simplex-planning experiments, the effect of three parameters on the specific surface area of tungstic acid — the concentration of sodium tungstate solution, the ratio of volume rates of drained solutions, and the temperature of drained solutions, was investigated. The following, close to optimum parameters have been received: concentration of sodium tungstate solution of 35–40 grams per liter, ratio of concentrated (430 g/l) hydrochloric acid to the volume of sodium tungstate solution is (1.9–2.0):1, temperature of solutions is 15–20 °С. Tungstic acid with a specific surface area of 60 m²/gram was obtained. It is determined that for the preparation of tungsten trioxide with a high specific surface area, the heating rate of tungsten acid in its drying must be 40–50 degrees per hour and the final drying temperature must be equal to 400 °C. Figures illustrating the dependence of the specific surface of the obtained tungstic acid on the concentration of sodium tungstate solution, the ratio of the volume velocities of the drained solutions and the temperature of the drained solutions are presented.

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