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Alkaline copper plating and Rochelle Salt Issues



Q. How can I treat my alkaline copper batch which was contaminated with phospho copper?

RAFFY EUSEBIO
- CAVITE, Philippines
July 21, 2024


A. Hi Raffy,
As always, the fewer words in the question, the more abstract and difficult to answer.

I'm reading it that you are operating a rochelle salt copper cyanide plating bath, and it not plating properly in some respect, but someone accidentally added a small amount of pyrophosphate copper to it, so your assumption is that the phosphorous is the reason why ... but it is a home-brew so no advice is available from a supplier? I do not have any actual experience with resolving this problem, and hopefully a reader will come along who does :-)
Meanwhile, activated carbon does exhibit the ability to remove phosphorous, simply due to its huge surface area. Aquariums use ferric oxide to remove trace amounts of phosphorous. It is probably not removable via ion exchange. Again though, phosphorous comes in many forms and variations, so your actual situation may be critical towards receiving proper advice.

Luck & Regards,

ted_yosem
Ted Mooney, P.E. RET
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey




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How to determine the rochelle salt this on eBay or Amazon [affil links] concentration of an alkaline copper plating bath

Oscar Villalobos
plating shop employee - Guadalajara. jalisco, Mexico
February 6, 2009



The following is a method from page 105 of Analysis of Electroplating and Related Solutions [on Amazon, ... on AbeBooks affil links] by Parker and Langford (4th edition):

pipette [pipettes on eBay or Amazon [affil links] a 5 ml sample into a 250 ml beaker [beakers on eBay or Amazon [affil links] and add 5 ml concentrated hydrochloric acid. Boil to destroy cyanides and drive off hydrochloric acid. Do not evaporate to dryness. Cool, add 2 grams zinc dust this on eBay or Amazon [affil links] and allow to react for about 30 minutes stirring occasionally. Filter through a 41 or 31 paper and ash with water. To the filtrate in a 250 ml Phillips beader add 1 gram of manganese sulphate, 10 ml of 25% sulfuric acid and then exactly 50 ml of N/10 potassium permanganate this on eBay or Amazon [affil links] . Heat at 80-90 deg C, but do not boil for approx. 30 minutes. Coll to room temperature and add 3 grams of potassium iodide then titrate the liberated iodine with N/10 sodium thiosulphate this on eBay or Amazon [affil links] to the normal starch end point. The ml potassium permanganate minus the mls sodium thiosulphate gives the permanganate used in the oxidation since the two solutions are equiv.

ml N/10 KMnO4 x .9375 = g/l COOK.CHOH.CHOH.COONa.4H20

I wish for you to note that the above procedure, in my opinion should be performed under an adequate exhaust hood and that all proper safety precautions should be observed.

Gene Packman
process supplier - Great Neck, New York


See page 456 of the 2007 Metal Finishing Guidebook. The last analysis is for Rochelle salt (potassium-sodium tartrate).

Kurt Sammons
- Inman, South Carolina




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