Alumina Tiles – Ultimate Protection for Your Surfaces
World-class, wear-resistant high alumina ceramic tiles are now available to protect surfaces in even the most demanding processing environments. Their precision CNC manufacturing allows installation and maintenance to take place with ease.
Alumina is an engineered ceramic that offers diamond-hard hardness and superior mechanical strength, as well as exceptional corrosion resistance, thermal conductivity and more.
Abrasion Resistance
Alumina ceramics are extremely hard and 12-times more wear-resistant than steel, requiring no lubricant to protect from abrasive wear and tear. Their low friction allows them to function without needing constant relubrication – providing another method for minimizing wear-and-tear. As such, these hard and wear-resistant materials make Alumina ceramics suitable for industrial applications like conveying systems, bulk material handling systems, as well as pipelining applications.
Ceramics that can withstand corrosion make these ceramics ideal for electric power plants, metallurgical operations, coal handling facilities and petroleum refineries. Furthermore, these kiln and furnace lining materials are widely used in high temperature chemical processing operations.
This study’s goal was to assess the thermal efficiency of laser surface treatment on alumina ceramic tiles. Results demonstrated that they can absorb laser heat effectively and evenly distribute it across their surface. Temperature and stress fields on irradiated surfaces could also be predicted with two different laser powers, while impact-abrasive tests with 25% ZTA performed best under severe corundum and steel ball conditions.
Corrosion Resistance
Alumina is an extremely resilient material, offering resistance against minerals, chemicals and other forms of corrosion. As such, it makes an excellent material choice for surfaces exposed to sliding abrasion, like chutes and hoppers.
Ceramic fiber stands up well against acids such as sulfuric and hydrochloric acids, making it an excellent choice for furnaces and kilns.
Studies have demonstrated that alumina has superior chemical resistance compared to many other technical ceramics, making it an excellent way to protect surfaces from wear and corrosion.
Alumina’s microstructure and chemistry allow it to provide exceptional stability in high-temperature environments, especially compared to metals which feature large defect sides which contribute to localized thermal erosion. Alumina also features tight striation depth levels which prevent thermal erosion, leading to smooth surfaces which require minimal maintenance while cutting downtime significantly. IPS Ceramics provides world-class alumina tiles and liners in various sizes and thicknesses to meet your application needs.
High Temperature Resistance
Alumina is an exceptionally durable material, maintaining its strength even in high-temperature environments. Furthermore, its chemical inertness makes it resistant to erosion by acids, alkalis and salt solutions.
Uniaxial 4-point bending tests conducted at elevated temperatures were utilized to study the fracture behavior of monolithic textured alumina samples and laminates with embedded textured layers, including crack deflection along weak basal grain boundaries in monolithic samples, leading to transition from brittleness toward damage-tolerant behavior at higher temperatures. Conversely, laminates’ loss of compressive residual stresses offsets this textured effect and provided excellent damage resistance at room temperatures.
These properties make alumina ceramics the ideal choice for industrial applications where both wear and corrosion are an issue, such as kilns and furnaces in high-temperature processing environments or pipe lining to protect steel from corrosion or wear. Alumina ceramics have proven themselves over the years in various settings around the world including use in pipes to protect steel from corrosion or wear as well as protecting from erosion in various settings including kilns.
Thermal Conductivity
Alumina is an excellent electrical insulator that prevents electricity from flowing freely, increasing resistance with purity. Furthermore, it’s an incredibly strong material which can resist thermal shock. All this makes alumina an excellent choice for applications such as security door components or grinder-resistant plates that need to withstand wear-and-tear.
This material is non-reactive, making it an excellent choice for producing ceramic abrasion resistant parts that can withstand harsh environments like chemically active industrial areas. Furthermore, its salt and solvent resistance provide extra protection to parts and components from surface and structural damage.
Alumina can be formed into different products through various techniques, including dry pressing, cold isostatic press, injection molding and casting. Our production capabilities allow us to craft parts in various shapes and sizes suitable for diverse industries including EV Battery Components, Research Laboratories and Surgical Applications. At 1000degC dry pressed alumina has an average density of 3.965g/cm3 while by adding zirconia it can achieve even higher densities while increasing corrosion resistance.