Salt Bath Special Applications
Special Applications that take advantage of salt bath characteristics include:
- Heating of uranium and uranium alloys for extrusion or rolling processes that would oxidize in other mediums.
- Melting of magnesium - salt provides a floating barrier against oxidation.
- Heating of stainless for forging, extrusion, or annealing.
- Grain orientation treatments, such as magnetic quenching of magnetic alloys.
- Solution treating for aluminum alloys.
- Malleableizing for cast parts.
- Austempering for ductile iron castings.
- Curing of plastic coatings.
- Heat treating of Zirconium metal and alloys.
See some companies that have used special applications: