Alloy 59
UNS No. N06059
Alloy 59 is a nickel-chromium-molybdenum alloy, which has particularly low concentrations of carbon and silica and is characterized by excellent corrosion resistance as well as high strength.
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Characteristics of Alloy 59
- Excellent resistance against a multitude of corrosive media under oxidizing and reducing conditions.
- Outstanding resistance against chloride-induced pitting and crevice corrosion, as well as resistance against stress corrosion cracking.
- Excellent resistance in mineral acids such as nitric, phosphoric, sulfuric and salt acids, but especially against sulphur/salt acid mixtures
Applications of Alloy 59
- Plant components for organic chemistry processes with media containing chloride, especially where catalytic systems on chloride basis are used.
- Multi-purpose plants in the chemicals industry
- Plant parts in active substance preparation and the pharmaceuticals industry
- Scrubber, heat exchangers, flaps, ventilators and agitators for flue gas desulfurization (FGD) in fossil fuel power plants and waste combustion plants
- SO2-washers for ship diesel engines
- Components for seawater and concentrated brines
- Equipment and components for geothermal energy and acid gas applications
- Reactors for acetic acids and acetic anhydrides
- Reactors for hydrofluoric acid
- Sulfuric acid coolers
- Tubes in geothermal power plants
- Components for flue gas desulfurization
