Thermocouple Tubes
Hexoloy® sintered alpha silicon carbide from Saint-Gobain Ceramics, Structural Ceramics, is an ideal material for high performance thermowell and thermocouple protection tubes. The hardest commercially available material, Hexoloy SiC provides a wide range of superior properties including:
- Excellent thermal shock resistance
- Non-wetted by non-ferrous molten metals - Aluminum, Cu, Zn, Brass, etc.
- Universal corrosion resistance
- High thermal conductivity equal to stainless steel and 5 times alumina
- High temperature strength - won’t slump at 3000°F even under load
- Exceptional wear resistance - 50% harder than tungsten carbide
