Steel wire cleaning using cold plasma

Current galvanizing process used hydrochloric acid to remove oxide layer and mild acidic bath to remove oil on metal wire surface. These cleaning processes are compulsory before steel wire coated with zinc. These chemicals cleaning technique cause ecological harm and produce toxic waste. To consider...

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Main Authors: Zainal, Muhamad Nor Firdaus, Redzuan, Norizah, Misnal, Mohd. Fadthul Ikmal, Ahmad, Norhayati, Raja Ibrahim, Raja Kamarulzaman
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2020
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Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/92027/1/MuhamadNorFirdaus2020_SteelWireCleaningusingColdPlasma.pdf
http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/92027/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/884/1/012118
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Summary:Current galvanizing process used hydrochloric acid to remove oxide layer and mild acidic bath to remove oil on metal wire surface. These cleaning processes are compulsory before steel wire coated with zinc. These chemicals cleaning technique cause ecological harm and produce toxic waste. To consider of minimizing these problems, cold plasma was introduced for metal wire cleaning. Previous research already proves that cold plasma capable to remove oil by using dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) and remove oxide layer on copper by using RF plasma discharge. Therefore, in this research, the same plasma discharge system that is DBD was used to remove oil and oxide layer on steel wire. 8kV of voltage and air was used to generate plasma. By using copper and steel wire as electrode, it can remove oil around 82% and oxide layer around 54%.