Effect of nitric hydrofluoric acid treatment on brazing of alumina ceramics and pure titanium

Kinsho, Michikazu; Kamiya, Junichiro; Abe, Kazuhiko*; Nakamura, Tomaru*

Proceedings of 10th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC '19) (Internet), p.4161 - 4163, 2019/06

https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2019-THPTS026

Alumina ceramics vacuum chamber which is used for the 3GeV rapid-cycling synchrotron (RCS) in J-PARC is composed of alumina duct, titanium (Ti) flanges and Ti sleeves. Before brazing the alumina duct and the Ti sleeves, the Ti sleeves were treated with nitric hydrofluoric acid. The purpose of this study is to clear the effect of this treatment for titanium material. It was cleared by SEM observation that the roughness of the titanium material after the nitric hydrofluoric acid treatment becomes big. It was also measured that the thickness of oxide film on surface of the titanium material was 12.7 nm before treatment and 6.0 nm after treatment. It became clear that both the clearing of oxide layer on the alumina ceramics and the vacuum condition of the vacuum heating furnace were important for brazing between alumina ceramics and pure titanium.