Stainless Steel 347/347H Round Bar Advantages and Disadvantages
Advantages:
- Strong corrosion resistance: both stainless steel bars contain niobium elements, which can effectively eliminate carbide precipitation, thus improving their resistance to intergranular corrosion.
- Excellent mechanical properties: they have high creep and stress fracture properties, and can maintain good mechanical properties in high temperature environments.
- Ease of machining and welding: both stainless steel bars are easy to machine and weld in standard shop fabrication practices, making them highly productive in the manufacturing process.
Disadvantages:
- Higher cost: as these two types of stainless steel bars contain more alloying elements, their manufacturing cost is relatively high.
- Higher requirements for welding process: as they contain more alloying elements, the requirements for welding process are also relatively high, requiring specific welding methods and techniques
Stainless Steel 347/347H Round Bar Application
It is widely used in heat exchangers, superheater tubes, reheater tubes, steam tubes, and equipment and components in high-temperature environments, such as refineries, chemical plants, high-temperature furnaces, and heat exchangers in the petroleum, chemical, synthetic fibre, food, and paper industries.