Silicon Nitride Tube
Silicon Nitride Tube
Purity: ≥99%
Diameter: customized
- Custom sizes and standard sizes in stock
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- Competitive Price
Silicon nitride tube combines high hardness, strong mechanical strength, and excellent thermal shock resistance, allowing it to perform well under demanding conditions. Its low thermal expansion and chemical stability make it ideal for use in high-temperature furnaces, chemical processing, and industrial equipment that requires durability and long service life. As a leading supplier and manufacturer of premium silicon nitride products, Shanghai Yuepeng can supply high-quality silicon nitride tubes with various specifications and competitive prices, offering customized solutions to meet specific requirements.
Silicon Nitride Tube Data Sheet
| Reference Code: | HM2567 |
| Purity: | ≥99% |
| Color: | Black |
| Chemical Formula: | Si3N4 |
| Material Grades: | HMSN1000, HMSN2000, HMSN3000, HMSN4000 |
| Density: | 3.20 g/cm3 |
| Dimension: | customized |
Silicon Nitride Tube Description
Silicon nitride tube is a dense ceramic component known for its lightweight structure and superior resistance to wear and corrosion. It maintains high performance in chemically aggressive and high-speed flow environments, making it suitable for thermocouple protection, fluid transport, and insulation in energy systems. Its reliable insulation and structural properties make it a trusted choice in advanced manufacturing.
Silicon Nitride Tube Features
- High Wear Resistance: Silicon nitride tubes are highly resistant to abrasion and erosion, ensuring a longer lifespan even in demanding environments.
- Excellent Thermal Stability: These tubes can withstand extreme temperatures without deformation, making them ideal for high-temperature applications.
- Chemical Resistance: Silicon nitride offers outstanding resistance to acids, alkalis, and other corrosive substances, ensuring durability in harsh chemical environments.
- Low Thermal Expansion: With a low thermal expansion coefficient, silicon nitride tubes can endure rapid temperature changes without cracking or warping.
- High Strength: Despite being lightweight, silicon nitride tubes possess excellent mechanical strength and can handle high pressures and stresses.
Silicon Nitride Tube Applications
- Thermocouple Protection Tubes: Silicon nitride tubes are widely used to protect thermocouples in molten metal measurement due to their excellent thermal shock resistance and non-wetting behavior with most metals.
- High-Temperature Furnaces: These tubes serve as structural or insulating components in industrial furnaces, offering long service life under repeated heating and cooling cycles.
- Semiconductor and Electronic Equipment: Silicon nitride tubes are applied in semiconductor manufacturing processes for their chemical inertness, electrical insulation, and high-temperature stability.
- Automotive and Aerospace Systems: Used in engine components and exhaust systems, silicon nitride tubes can withstand high temperatures, oxidation, and mechanical stress while maintaining strength and precision.
- Chemical and Corrosive Environments: Thanks to their strong resistance to acids, alkalis, and corrosion, silicon nitride tubes are ideal for use in chemical reactors, heat exchangers, and fluid transport systems.
Semiconductor Manufacturing
High-Temperature Furnaces
Automotive Industry
Electrochemical Applications
Silicon Nitride Material Properties
Silicon Nitride Material Grades
HMSN1000 is produced through a gas over-pressure sintering technique, which is widely recognized for enabling the manufacture of high-strength silicon nitride parts with intricate shapes. The process starts with a silicon nitride powder blend that includes sintering additives—such as yttria, magnesium oxide, or alumina—to create a liquid phase during sintering, as well as binders to enhance the structural integrity of the pre-sintered form. After shaping the powder into the desired geometry and performing any necessary green machining, the components are densified in a nitrogen-pressurized furnace. This environment ensures proper consolidation while minimizing material loss due to evaporation or decomposition of silicon, nitrogen, and the additive elements.
Common Uses
- Components for aerospace systems
- Rolling and sliding elements in bearing units
- High-durability parts for internal combustion engines
- Tools and accessories for casting and metal processing
- Structural parts in mechanical assemblies
- Biocompatible elements for medical devices
HMSN2000 is manufactured using a hot pressing technique, where silicon nitride powder is compacted under high pressure and elevated temperature simultaneously. This method relies on specialized equipment, including precision dies and uniaxial presses. The result is a dense ceramic with outstanding strength and durability. However, the process is best suited for forming basic geometries due to the limitations of the equipment. Since components cannot be machined in the pre-sintered (green) state, all post-processing must be done through diamond grinding, which is both time-consuming and costly. As a result, this method is generally reserved for small-scale production of straightforward parts where premium material performance is required.
Common Uses
- Structural parts in aircraft and spacecraft systems
- Equipment and piping components in chemical processing industries
- Friction-resistant elements for engines
- Tools and wear parts used in metal casting environments
- Load-bearing and precision parts in industrial machinery
- Specialized pieces in medical and dental instruments
HMSN3000 utilizes the Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP) process, where silicon nitride powder is compacted under both high pressure and high temperature. The material is placed in a chamber that is pressurized with inert gas, subjecting the component to uniform pressure from all sides at up to 2000 bar while it is simultaneously heated. This method helps to remove any residual porosity or defects during the sintering process, resulting in a material with a density close to its theoretical maximum. While HIP significantly improves the mechanical properties, durability, and overall reliability of the material, the high cost and complexity of the process limit its use to highly specialized applications.
Common Uses
- Components for aerospace and defense industries
- Precision bearing applications, especially in high-performance environments
- Equipment and components in chemical processing and industrial plants
- Engine parts subjected to extreme wear and thermal stress
- Foundry tools and wear-resistant components
- High-performance parts for mechanical engineering systems
- Medical components requiring high strength and biocompatibility
HMSN4000 is produced through an extruded gas over-pressure sintering process, where silicon nitride powder is blended with sintering additives, such as yttria, magnesium oxide, and/or alumina, to facilitate liquid-phase sintering. Additionally, binders are incorporated to enhance the mechanical properties of the green ceramic structure. The extrusion process helps form the material into the desired shape, and the parts are then subjected to gas over-pressure sintering in a controlled environment. This method ensures uniform density and superior mechanical performance, making it ideal for high-performance applications.
Common Uses
- Aerospace industry components
- Bearings used in high-performance machinery
- Equipment for chemical plants and industrial processing
- Wear-resistant parts for engines
- Components used in foundry operations
- Parts for mechanical engineering systems
- Medical-grade components for high-precision instruments
Silicon Nitride Ceramic Machining
Silicon nitride can be machined in green, biscuit, or fully sintered forms, each with different machining properties. In green or biscuit states, it is easier to shape into complex forms, but the material shrinks about 20% during sintering, affecting dimensional accuracy. For tight tolerances, fully sintered silicon nitride must be machined using diamond tools, a precise but costly process due to the material’s hardness and toughness.
Machining Methods and Considerations:
- Green or Biscuit Machining: Easier to machine into complex shapes but lacks final dimensional accuracy.
- Sintering Shrinkage: The material shrinks approximately 20% during the sintering process, affecting post-sintering dimensions.
- Tight Tolerances: For precise dimensions, post-sintered material must be machined using diamond tools.
- Diamond Grinding: This technique involves the use of diamond-coated tools or wheels to abrade the material and achieve the desired shape.
- Cost and Time: Machining fully dense silicon nitride is a slow, expensive process due to the hardness and toughness of the material.
Silicon Nitride Ceramic Packaging
Silicon Nitride Ceramic products are typically packaged in vacuum-sealed bags to prevent moisture or contamination and wrapped with foam to cushion vibrations and impacts during transport, ensuring the quality of the products in their original condition.
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