Journal
PLASMA CHEMISTRY AND PLASMA PROCESSING
Volume 40, Issue 6, Pages 1525-1537Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11090-020-10103-0
Keywords
Plasma nitriding; Non-thermal transferred arc; N-2; H(2)plasma; Atmospheric pressure
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11875295, 11535003]
- National Key RAMP
- D Program of China [2019YFC0119000]
- Provincial Science and Technology Major Project of Anhui Province [17030801035]
- Key Program of 13th five-year plan, CASHIPS [KP-2017-25]
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In the paper, a novel metal surface nitriding method is presented by using an atmospheric pressure non-thermal transferred arc plasma technique. In the N-2/H(2)plasma nitriding process, the surface of stainless-steel is treated by the arc root, which shows an irregular movement in a circle-like zone with about 5 mm diameter observed by high speed camera. The discharge has characteristics of high voltage and low current, and the gas temperature of the arc column plasma is only about 2900 K determined by the diatomic molecule N-2(+)(B-2 sigma u+-> X-2 sigma g+) fitting method. It is found that the NH radical production in plasma plays an important role in the nitriding process. The thickness of nitrided layer can reach 60 mu m after processing of 120 min under the optimal experimental conditions. The surface hardness of stainless-steel increased from 220 to about 1200 HV0.1(Vickers hardness under the force of 0.1 kg) after plasma treatment. The treating saturation time for stainless-steel surface hardness reaching to 1200 HV(0.1)is around 9 min.
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