Table 3: CFCC Industrial Teams' Fiber Requirements
TEAM REQUIREMENTS:
1) Allied Signal
- PI/TEL: Harry Yeh, (310) 512-5634
- Fibers/rienforcements: carbon
- Application Temperature: 650°C (1200°F)
- Key Issue: provides self-lubrication
2) Alzeta
- PI/TEL: John Sullivan, (408) 7272-8282
- Fibers/rienforcements: Nextel, Nicalon
- Application Temperature: 1000°C (1830°F)
- Key Issue: cost , long term stability
3) Amercom
- PI/TEL: Jim Bird, (818) 407-4785
- Fibers/rienforcements: NextelTM, Nicalon
- Application Temperature: 1260°C (2300°F)
- Key Issue: high-temperature properties and stability
cost
4) B&W
- PI/TEL: Rich Goettler, (804) 522-6418
- Fibers/rienforcements: NextelTM 610
- Application Temperature: 1100-1200°C (2000-2200°F)
- Key Issue: creep resistance [< 10-9/s @ 70 MPa and
1200°C] handleability, fiber roughness
5) Dow Chemical
- PI/TEL: Dave Magely, (517) 636-7300
- Fibers/rienforcements: Nicalon, NextelTM 550, Tyranno,
HPZ
- Application Temperature: 750-1000°C (1400-1830°F)
- Key Issue: creep resistance [< 10-9/s @ 70 MPa and
1200°C] handleability, fiber roughness
6) Dow Corning
- PI/TEL: Andy Szweda, (517) 496-4558
- Fibers/rienforcements: Nicalon, DC SiC Adv. Fiber
- Application Temperature: to 1400°C (2550°F)
- Key Issue: low temperature applications: cost, e.g.
order of magnitude reduction for Nicalon, $35/lb vs. $350/lb;
high temperature applications: properties, long term stability;
- *NOTE: Willing to pay same $250/lb for good fibers.
7) DuPont Lanxide
- PI/TEL: Dan Halbert , (302) 456-6579
- Fibers/rienforcements: Nicalon
- Application Temperature: to 1400°C (2550°F)
- Key Issue: high temperature properties and stability
availability/quantity/cost handleability
8) DuPont Lanxide
- PI/TEL: Jim Weddell , (302) 733-8008
- Fibers/rienforcements: Nicalon
- Application Temperature: to 1400°C (2550°F)
- Key Issue: high temperature properties and stability
cost, handleability - small diameter
9) GE
- PI/TEL: Krishan Luthra, (518) 387-6348
- Fibers/rienforcements: Textron Monofilament
- Application Temperature: 1025-1130°C (1900-2100°F)
- Key Issue: strength [300 ksi/2100 MPa], creep resistant
[0.5 x 10-10/s]
10) Textron
- PI/TEL: Bruce Thomson, (508) 454-5488
- Fibers/rienforcements: Textron Monofilament
- Application Temperature: 1250°C (2300°F)
- Key Issue: high temperature properties and stability
cost reduction desirable but not imperative
Nicalon, Nippon Carbon, Tokyo, Japan
Tyranno, Ub Industries, Japan
Nextel, 3M Corporation, St. Paul, MN
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