As a professional stellite alloy manufacturer, we offer different kinds of stellite products, including Stellite Alloy 3, stellite 4, stellite 6, stellite 12, stellite 20 etc, in this article we will intorduce for you.
Stellite alloy is a range of cobalt-chromium alloys designed for wear resistance. It may also contain tungsten or molybdenum and a small but important amount of carbon.
Applications of Stellite Alloy
Typical applications include saw teeth, hardfacing, and acid-resistant machine parts. Stellite was a major improvement in the production of poppet valves and valve seats for the valves, particularly exhaust valves, of internal combustion engines. By reducing their erosion from hot gases, the interval between maintenance and re-grinding of their seats was dramatically lengthened.
While Stellite remains the material of choice for certain internal parts in industrial process valves (valve seat hardfacing), its use has been discouraged in nuclear power plants. In piping that can communicate with the reactor, tiny amounts of Stellite would be released into the process fluid and eventually enter the reactor.
Properties of Stellite Alloy
Stellite is a family of completely non-magnetic and corrosion-resistant Stellite Alloy 12 of various compositions that have been optimised for different uses. Stellite alloys display outstanding hardness and toughness, and are also usually very resistant to corrosion. Stellite alloys are so hard that they are very difficult to machine, and anything made from them is, as a result, very expensive. Typically, a Stellite part is precisely cast so that only minimal machining is necessary.
