Nitride Bonded Silicon Carbide

Nitride-bonded silicon carbide (NBSC) is an indispensable material in materials science, boasting ideal thermal, mechanical, and chemical properties that enable efficiency, durability, and performance in engineering applications. Its wide application has made NBSC an industry benchmark.

Wear resistance of NBSC is greatest in light soil with loose sand grains, where its wear resistance can reach 1.2 times that of special steels for construction projects or nine times greater than padding weld in heavy soil.

High Temperature Strength

Nitride-bonded silicon carbide can retain its strength and structural integrity at elevated temperatures thanks to the secure bond formed between its grains and nitride particles, and thermal conductivity improvement provided by this phase – ultimately helping reduce power losses by providing better thermal control of power lines.

Nitride-bonded silicon carbide’s exceptional temperature resistance makes it a prime candidate for applications that demand materials withstanding prolonged exposure to extreme heat levels, such as in applications that involve prolonged contact with hot surfaces. Nitride bonded silicon carbide also has greater ability than other materials to resist oxidation at higher temperatures, meaning greater corrosion protection in oxidizing environments.

Nitride-bonded silicon carbide was demonstrated to exhibit outstanding abrasive wear resistance under different soil conditions during abrasive wear tests, comparable to steels commonly used to make parts working soil mass such as Fe-Cr-Nb padding weld and 38GSA steel types, yet superior only against impact abrasive wear in light soil conditions.

Nitride-bonded silicon carbide’s wear resistance is enhanced by its very low porosity and tough surface, while it boasts exceptional thermal shock resistance allowing rapid temperature fluctuations without cracking or fracture. As such, nitride bonded silicon carbide makes an excellent material choice for blast furnace parts like the belly, bosh or tuyere that require heavy-duty wear resistance such as these.

Extreme Hardness

Silicon carbide is one of the hardest materials known to man. It is highly resistant to wear and abrasion from hard particles, making it ideal for use as an abrasive-resistant material in construction projects. Furthermore, silicon carbide possesses excellent chemical stability as well as temperature strength at high temperatures as well as strong acid resistance properties that make it suitable for acid resistant solutions.

Nitride Bonded Silicon Carbide (NBSiC) is created through a process known as “nitridation.” A mixture of silicon carbide powder and nitrogen-containing compounds such as silicon nitride or ammonia is heated at high temperatures in an environment rich in nitrogen; this causes it to react with silicon found in SiC grains, creating an invisible bonding layer between grains called silicon nitride that bonds them all together into dense and mechanically strong material.

Nitride-bonded silicon carbide’s wear resistance depends on the grain size distribution of soil grains. Its effectiveness in light soils is particularly impressive, where its wear rate is much less intensive than special steel parts for working soil mass and even less than C+ Cr+ Nb padding welds.

NBSiC stands out with an exceptionally low coefficient of friction, enabling it to reduce load requirements when moving a given quantity of material while conserving energy and saving costs in the process. This property makes NBSiC an excellent refractory material suitable for iron and steel production, nonferrous metal smelting, machine manufacturing, waste incineration and other industries.

Excellent Wear Resistance

Silicon carbide is an exceptionally hard engineering material with a Mohs rating approaching that of diamond, making it highly resistant to wear-and-tear, acids and alkalis, thermal shock resistance, low specific weight and excellent thermal shock resistance, making it suitable for use in high temperature applications.

The results of the wear test demonstrated that sintered nitride-bonded silicon carbide exhibits excellent wear properties and is highly resistant to brittle cracking in abrasive soil masses. The most intensive wear occurred in light soil with loose grains of sand scratching its friction surfaces; its wear resistance in medium and heavy soils was significantly higher than XAR 600 steel or F-61 padding weld in terms of both wear resistance and cost savings.

Nitride-bonded silicon carbide bricks feature exceptional wear resistance and abrasion resistance, making them an excellent choice as furnace lining materials. Their outstanding wear resistance makes NBSC bricks suitable for iron and steel production smelting as well as non-ferrous metal smelting, machinery manufacturing and waste incineration industries as high temperature furnace materials; used as blast furnace body, waist and belly liners respectively. In addition, these strong bricks resist corrosion from acids, alkalies and various molten metals NBSC bricks boast outstanding corrosion resistance against acids while remaining extremely stable while offering thermal conductivity properties along with strength at temperatures exceeding 1000 degrees C!

Chemically Inert

Nitride-bonded silicon carbide is chemically inert, making it resistant to corrosion even at higher temperatures – an attribute which makes it particularly desirable in applications like aluminium melting pot side walls, blast furnace lower stacks and kiln furniture.

NB SiC corrosion resistance is determined by its chemical reaction between silicon nitride and silicon carbide particles. During the firing process, a film of silicon nitride forms on top of solid silicon carbide particles; although this may serve to stop some reactions it usually doesn’t as gaps and cracks provide opportunities for nitrogen gas penetration into these films and reacting with solid or liquid silicon via reaction reactions.

At each stage of the reaction-sintering process, silicon nitride particles filling gaps between coarse grains of silicon carbide grains are filled by silicon nitride particles to decrease porosity and increase density, leading to less porosity and increasing density while simultaneously increasing weight due to Reaction 1’s positive volume effect three; also contributing is increased concentrations of silicon nitride (Figure 11a).

Nitride-bonded silicon carbide not only boasts superior mechanical properties, but it also exhibits outstanding thermal stability and oxidation resistance – qualities which make it suitable for use across a range of application conditions – including the production of cutting tools, bearings, nozzles as well as refractory elements in copper metallurgy, gas turbine engines and kiln furniture production.