What are the advantages of ceramic nozzles?
Ceramic materials surround us in our everyday life. We mainly know ceramic as used in pottery or glass. However, ceramic is also an excellent material for spray nozzles due to its mechanical properties.
IKEUCHI produces full ceramic nozzles and ceramic nozzle tips from advanced ceramics. Thanks to its manufacturing process, advanced ceramic is known to be as stable and electrically conductive as metals.
Advantages of ceramic nozzles
- Highly wear resistance
- Chemical resistance
- High rigidity
- Lighter than metallic materials
Wear resistance of ceramic nozzles
As an example, the graph on the right shows the flow rate increase in spraying with nozzles of different materials as they wear while spraying an aqueous clay solution for 100 hours. The bigger the wear, the greater the flow rate waste and associated costs.
When spraying a slurry liquid for 100 hours
- Test nozzle: Flat spray
- Spray pressure: 0.28 MPa
- Liquid type: Kaolin clay water solution liquid with 6wt%
- Spraying time: 100 hours
- Wear resistance of the ceramic nozzle
Chemical resistance of ceramic nozzles
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