Efficiency in Barrel Plating |
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| Authors: | D R Gabe H K Tse |
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| Affiliation: | Dept of Materials Engineering and Design, University of Technology, Loughborough |
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| Abstract: | Barrel efficiencies have been measured for the electroplating of three sizes of wire nails in a small plating barrel in nickel, zinc, and copper sulphate and pyrophosphate solutions. The results have shown that the barrel efficiency is affected by the effective current density, speed of barrel rotation, type of solution, type of load and degree of volume loading but not by the coating thickness. The reproducibility was best for copper pyrophosphate while zinc had the highest and nickel the lowest cathode current efficiency. |
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| Keywords: | Laser-Enhanced Electroless Plating Electroless Palladium Plating Additive Lead Ion |
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