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Hydraulic Cylinders Coatings

Hydraulic cylinders often fail due to corrosion of the piston rod surface, which can be mitigated by using ceramic coated piston rods that enhance corrosion resistance. Various coating types, including hard chrome, nickel phosphorus, nitriding, and ceramic options like chromium oxide and tungsten carbide, provide different benefits such as increased hardness, wear resistance, and corrosion protection. The effectiveness of these coatings is influenced not only by the final layer material but also by the bond layer beneath it.

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Hydraulic Cylinders Coatings

Hydraulic cylinders often fail due to corrosion of the piston rod surface, which can be mitigated by using ceramic coated piston rods that enhance corrosion resistance. Various coating types, including hard chrome, nickel phosphorus, nitriding, and ceramic options like chromium oxide and tungsten carbide, provide different benefits such as increased hardness, wear resistance, and corrosion protection. The effectiveness of these coatings is influenced not only by the final layer material but also by the bond layer beneath it.

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Hydraulic Cylinders Coating

Introduction
Corrosion of the piston rod surface is one of the main reasons for hydraulic cylinder
failure. Once the piston rod surface is corroded replacing seals with new ones is just a
temporary relief. Hydraulic cylinders with ceramic coated piston rods have enhanced
corrosion resistance properties against corrosive elements present in the environment.
Coating types:
Metallic coating:
1. Hard chrome. (Almost is used at our application).
Most popular coating for hydraulic cylinders and it has many benefits as below
✓ Increased Hardness
✓ Low Friction
✓ Wear Resistance
✓ Corrosion Resistance

2. Nickel Phosphorus
The properties of coating are depended at phosphorus content and it is used at many
applications such as marine equipment and material handling (hydraulic cylinders).
3. Nitriding
this process forms hard nitride compounds, significantly boosting surface hardness
and wear resistance, and can also improve corrosion resistance. While nitriding is less
common than hard chrome plating for hydraulic cylinder rod.
Ceramic coating:

1. Chromium oxide

chrome oxide coating benefits are wear resistance to abrasive grains, hard surfaces,
particle erosion and withstands corrosive chemical environments
2. Aluminum oxide
Coatings for a wide range of applications. Also known as (beta ceramic) aluminum
oxide is very hard, and naturally provides a passivation layer on coated material that
prevents weathering and environmental corrosion.
3. Tungsten carbide
Tungsten carbide coatings are highly durable surface treatments, usually applied via
HVOF (High Velocity Oxy-Fuel) thermal spray, it has excellent wear resistance, and
good corrosion protection, it is used in hydraulic cylinders coating and pump
components.
4. Titanium nitride
Titanium nitride commonly applied via physical vapor deposition (PVD). It provides
a hardness, wear resistant with a distinctive gold color, and low friction and good
corrosion resistance.

Category Examples Approx. Corrosion Pitting Erosion Relative Brittle or Ductile


Hardness Resistance Resistance Resistance Cost
(HV)
Generally, less
brittle than
ceramic coatings
Hard chrome some can be
Nickel Phosphorus 500– moderately
Metallic Good Good Good Moderate
Nitriding 1000 HV ductile (such as
Ni-P).
Hard chrome can
be somewhat
brittle if thick.
Chromium oxide Very Good Very Good Very Good to Generally brittle
Aluminum oxide to Excellent to Excellent Excellent
1100–
Ceramic Tungsten carbide High
2000 HV
Titanium nitride

Note:
The coating doesn’t depend only on final layer material but it also depends on the
bond layer as some companies have tables for bond layers and final layers of coating
and how each layer can effect on coating properties.

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