Unmatched Strength With Premium SiC Tube
SiC tube is widely recognized for its strength, hardness, and corrosion resistance properties – all qualities which allow it to withstand high temperatures and harsh environments with ease.
This results in extended lifespan and unmatched performance, making this material ideal for wafer boat tube applications in semiconductor/PV production environments. These qualities also make this an excellent option when coated silicon wafers need to be carried to diffusion furnaces for coating purposes.
Superior Corrosion Resistance
Silicon carbide is an ideal material choice for tube applications requiring high resistance to corrosion, wear and thermal shock. Withstanding even highly aggressive chemicals without discolouration or degradation – silicon carbide’s durability makes it a viable choice in metal smelting, oil refining, paper production and aerospace engineering applications.
As it provides superior abrasion resistance and chemical inertness, ceramic fiber insulation makes an excellent material choice for lining furnaces and kilns. Furthermore, its durability extends component and equipment lifecycles significantly and decreases maintenance costs over time.
Silicon carbide’s low coefficient of thermal expansion enables it to remain structurally sound during extreme temperature swings, thus decreasing risk and improving reliability. Due to these characteristics and others, sic tubes have become invaluable assets in industries as diverse as chemical processing, military hardware production and aircraft assembly. Manufacturers provide safety data sheets (SDSs) detailing risks, handling and disposal procedures as well as first aid procedures – taking this advice is key for worker protection.
High Mechanical Hardness
Most people have an intuitive grasp of hardness, even if they cannot give a precise definition. Hardness measures the resistance of materials to indentation or scratching and is determined primarily by internal structures in its particles that comprise it.
Strength is determined by how a material is loaded; it measures its ability to withstand compression by resisting bending, shearing, and other forces such as shear deformation and shear forces. Yield and tensile strengths can provide measures of its strength.
Silicon carbide furnace tubes are essential elements of ceramic sintering kilns, heating compacted metal powders to high temperatures that cause solid-state diffusion resulting in dense ceramic parts. Our silicon carbide tubes are manufactured to exact dimensional tolerances to fit within existing diffusion equipment perfectly while offering excellent thermal shock resistance, adapting quickly to rapid temperature fluctuations without losing structural integrity.
High Flexural Strength
Hexoloy SiC tubes feature exceptional mechanical hardness that helps them withstand extreme stresses caused by abrasion and impact, providing added protection in applications like slurry pumps and peristaltic pumps where high pressure and velocity could result in damage to components. This feature makes Hexoloy SiC tube ideal for high pressure environments that could otherwise result in irreparable damage.
Sintered silicon carbide plates are used extensively in nuclear reactors for both cladding and gasketing to protect from explosive damage during an accident, due to their strong, durable, corrosion resistant qualities and resistance against both gases and metals. Therefore they form an essential part of nuclear power industry operations.
Ceramic kilns use this material to ensure even heat distribution and produce high-quality end products, while powder metallurgy employs it to heat compacted metal powders to sintering temperatures that lead to solid-state diffusion and create strong metal parts. Heliostats and solar power systems use it too – to convert concentrated solar energy into thermal energy for use as heating.
Excellent Thermal Shock Resistance
Premium SiC is distinguished by its exceptional chemical purity and lack of grain boundary impurities, enabling it to maintain strength up to 1600degC temperatures without warping or expanding significantly. Furthermore, it exhibits excellent thermal conductivity and low thermal expansion.
SiC is ideal for use as wafer tray supports and paddles in semiconductor furnaces to help protect fragile silicon wafers during heating and cooling cycles, helping prevent degradation to them during this crucial process.
Ceramic heat exchangers are resistant to erosion and can withstand higher acid flow velocities than metal exchangers, enabling them to safely process more corrosive fluids without risk. Furthermore, ceramic exchangers have higher temperature ratings which results in greater thermal efficiency.
Silicon carbide ceramic linings protect pumps, valves, bearings, grinder drums and more against metal wear-induced failures by providing excellent wear resistance with long equipment life spans and reduced downtime and maintenance costs.