What are the areas of application of plasma?

Plasma is mainly used in the following 3 areas.

①Plasma smelting: used for smelting materials that are difficult to smelt by ordinary methods, such as zirconium (Zr), titanium (Ti), tantalum (Ta), niobium (Nb), vanadium (V), tungsten (W) and other metals with high melting points; it is also used to simplify the process, for example, to obtain Zr, Mo, Ta and Ti by plasma directly from ZrCl, MoS, TaO and TiCl, respectively. Plasma melting fast curing method can be developed hard high melting point powder, such as tungsten carbide - cobalt, Mo - Co, Mo - Ti-Zr - C and other powders Plasma smelting has the advantage of good consistency of the product composition and microstructure can be exempted from the pollution of the container material.

② plasma spraying: many parts of the equipment should be able to wear-resistant corrosion-resistant, high-temperature resistance, for which the need to spray a layer of its surface with special properties of the material. With plasma deposition fast curing method can be sprayed into the hot plasma special material powder melting, and sprayed onto the substrate (parts), so that it quickly cooled, cured, forming a close to the net structure of the surface layer, which can greatly improve the quality of spraying.

3 plasma welding: can be used to weld steel, alloy steel; aluminum, copper, titanium and other alloys. Characterized by a flat weld, can be reprocessed without oxide impurities, welding speed. For cutting steel, aluminum and its alloys, cutting thickness.