Global Patent Index - EP 0313114 B1

EP 0313114 B1 19910502 - PROCESS FOR OBTAINING PHOSPHATE COATINGS

Title (en)

PROCESS FOR OBTAINING PHOSPHATE COATINGS

Publication

EP 0313114 B1 19910502 (DE)

Application

EP 88201763 A 19880818

Priority

DE 3735538 A 19871021

Abstract (en)

[origin: EP0313114A1] In a process for obtaining phosphate coatings on metal surfaces consisting at least partially of iron or steel by means of phosphating solutions, which contain layer-forming cations and are operated on the iron side, wherein the content of iron (II) ions is limited by oxidation with oxygen-containing gases and precipitation of iron phosphate, the oxidation is carried out, in order to accelerate the oxidation of the iron(II) ions, at a temperature of at most 50 DEG C in the presence of microorganisms which oxidise iron(II), especially of Thiobacillus species, such as the strain Thiobacillus ferrooxidans. It is particularly advantageous here to branch a part stream of the phosphating solution off from the phosphating vessel and to carry out the oxidation and iron phosphate separation in a zone divided off from the phosphating zone, in particular in a column provided with packing, charged with oxygen-containing gas from below and operated with upward flow.

IPC 1-7

C23C 22/10; C23C 22/73

IPC 8 full level

C23C 22/07 (2006.01); C23C 22/10 (2006.01); C23C 22/73 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP)

C23C 22/10 (2013.01); C23C 22/73 (2013.01)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

DE

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 0313114 A1 19890426; EP 0313114 B1 19910502; DE 3735538 A1 19890503; DE 3862635 D1 19910606; JP H01152281 A 19890614

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 88201763 A 19880818; DE 3735538 A 19871021; DE 3862635 T 19880818; JP 26169288 A 19881019