Zirconium Carbide Powder

Zirconium Carbide Powder Description

Zirconium carbide (ZrC) is a gray metallic powder with a cubic system structure. With high wear resistance, high melting point, perfect corrosion resistance, and high-temperature resistance.

Zirconium carbide (ZrC) powder is usually applied to thermal surfacing techniques, such as powder welding, oxyacetylene spraying or overlaying, HVOF/HAFA spraying, plasma transferred arc (PTA) overlaying, plasma spraying, laser overlaying, and induction melting overlaying.

Zirconium carbide (ZrC) powder is also widely used in oil exploration, aerospace, mine excavation, machinery tools, marine facilities, and other fields. As a hardness material, zirconium carbide powder is widely used in the cutting tool and steel industry as well as in the additive to fine the WC cemented carbide crystal to improve the property of alloy. ZrC also has good oxidation resistance and thermal conductivity.

Zirconium carbide (ZrC) powder is also used as an abrasive in metal cladding, cermets, incandescent filaments and cutting tools. The mixture of zirconium carbide and tantalum carbide is an important cermet material. Hafnium-free zirconium carbide and niobium carbide can be used as refractory coatings in nuclear reactors.

Zirconium carbide is used extensively as coating of uranium dioxide and thorium dioxide particles of nuclear fuel. The coating is usually deposited by thermal chemical vapor deposition in a fluidized bed reactor.

Zirconium Carbide Powder Chemical Composition

Zirconium Carbide Powder Applications and Related Industries

● Thermal surfacing techniques, such as powder welding, flame spraying, plasma spraying, HVOF (high velocity oxy-fuel)

● Oil exploration

● Aerospace

● Mine excavation

● Machinery tools

● Marine facilities

● Wear-resistant parts and components of the feed screw, aero-engine, fan blade, turbine blade, pump case, and cutting tools, etc

● Chemical Vapor Deposition for thin film coating

● Additive for hardmetals

● Additive in powder metallurgy (TZM Titanium-Zirconium-Molybdenum)

● Moderator in solid fuel propellant

Chemical Identifiers

Zirconium Carbide Powder Properties (Theoretical)

Zirconium Carbide Powder Health & Safety Information