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Meet Corrosion Challenges: Nickel Alloys

This document discusses nickel alloys and their resistance to corrosion. It focuses on alloy 825, the G and C alloy families, and several others. Alloy 825 provides improved resistance to aqueous corrosion and other corrosive media compared to alloy 800, due to additions of molybdenum, copper, and titanium. These alloys are useful for handling corrosive environments in chemical processes, petrochemical plants, and other industries due to their resistance to reducing environments and stress corrosion cracking. The document examines the characteristics, alloying elements, strengths, limitations, and applications of these alloys.

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Meet Corrosion Challenges: Nickel Alloys

This document discusses nickel alloys and their resistance to corrosion. It focuses on alloy 825, the G and C alloy families, and several others. Alloy 825 provides improved resistance to aqueous corrosion and other corrosive media compared to alloy 800, due to additions of molybdenum, copper, and titanium. These alloys are useful for handling corrosive environments in chemical processes, petrochemical plants, and other industries due to their resistance to reducing environments and stress corrosion cracking. The document examines the characteristics, alloying elements, strengths, limitations, and applications of these alloys.

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NICKEL

Nickel and nickel alloys have useful re-


sistance to a wide variety of corrosive
environments encountered in various
industrial processes. This report is

ALLOYS
based on a paper presented at the
NACE Corrosion 2001 conference in
March in Houston, Texas.
Part II of this two-part series covers

Meet Corrosion Challenges alloy 825, the G and C families of


PART TWO alloys, and several others.
dling the corrosive environments of chemical
D.C.Agarwal* process, petrochemical, marine, pulp and paper,
Krupp VDM Technologies agrichemicals, oil and gas, heat treat, energy con-
Houston, Texas version, and many other industries. Improved
melting and thermo-mechanical process innova-

T
he latter half of the 20th century saw a tions, together with a better fundamental under-
phenomenal growth in the development standing of the role of these alloying elements and
of nickel-base corrosion resistant alloys, their physical metallurgy, were key factors in the
primarily due to the excellent metallur- development of binary, ternary, and other complex
gical compatibility of nickel with alloying elements nickel alloy systems.
such as chromium, molybdenum, cobalt, iron, This article continues the discussion of nickel al-
copper, tantalum, tungsten, and nitrogen. These el- loys that was begun in the June article. It covers
ements impart unique and very specific corrosion- alloy 825, the “G” family alloys, 6Mo alloys, Alloy
resistant and high-temperature properties for han- 20, and the “C” family of alloys. It presents their
*Member of ASM International major characteristics, the effects of alloying
elements, and their strengths,
limitations, and applications.

Alloy 825
Alloy 825 is a modification of
alloy 800 with an addition of
molybdenum (3%), copper (2%),
and titanium (0.9%). These ele-
ments provide improved resis-
tance to aqueous corrosion and
a wide variety of other corrosive
media. Its high nickel content of
about 42% provides excellent re-
sistance to chloride-ion stress
corrosion cracking when tested
in boiling magnesium chloride
solutions. This alloy has been an
upgrade to the 300 series stain-
less steels, for which localized
corrosion and stress corrosion
cracking has been a problem.
The high nickel, in conjunction
with the higher molybdenum
and copper, provides good re-
sistance to reducing environ-
ments such as those containing
sulfuric and phosphoric acids.
Laboratory test results and ser-
vice experience have confirmed
This pressure vessel is made of alloy 59 to handle very severe corrosive media containing fluorides and the useful resistance of alloy 825
chlorides during production of various agrichemicals for Bayer AG, Germany. in boiling solutions of sulfuric

48 ADVANCED MATERIALS & PROCESSES/AUGUST 2001

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