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Alloy for hot chlorine service

Alloy for hot chlorine service

Alloy for hot chlorine service

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I need an alloy option for a 400C dry chlorine service.  Pressure is low <50 psig.  Application is as a melting tank and reactor for a molten metal reaction.   Reactor design temperature is probably 450C or better.   
Any ideas.   The reactor is small maybe 10 gallons so exotic alloys are acceptable.

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StoneCold

RE: Alloy for hot chlorine service

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Application is as a melting tank and reactor for a molten metal reaction.

What type of molten metal????

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Reactor design temperature is probably 450C or better.

Need a maximum reactor temperature for design. ...Or better... does not cut it.  
 

RE: Alloy for hot chlorine service

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metengr
Not to be coy but the metal is from the same family as lead, and has similar characteristics.  So it is not a sodium or lithium type metal.

Design temperature is 450 deg C.  

Once the reactor metalurgy is determined the next challange will be how do you valve off a molten metal at the bottom of the reactor to get small quantities out of the reactor???  

RE: Alloy for hot chlorine service

Valves that use a tapered plug that rises and falls might be best.
Picking an alloy to handle the metal will be the trick.
If this is really dry, like -80C dew point dry, then you don't have much concern for regular corrosion mechanisms.  Just make sure that it never gets exposed to the air.

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