Cooling Helium-Based Process Gas for 3D Metal Printing
A company specializing in laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) metal printing required a sanitary-type shell & tube heat exchanger to cool Helium-based process gas used in their advanced 3D printing process. The process gas, Helistar A1025, is a critical mixture comprising of 90% Helium, 7.5% Argon, 2.5% CO2. The solution needed to meet the precise cooling requirements of the printing operation, cooling the process gas from 110°C down to 20°C.
Optimizing Cooling for Highly Corrosive Process Fluids
A customer needed a heat exchanger solution to enhance the cooling process of various acids and bases to counteract the heat generated by process equipment such as pumps and reactors.
SilcoTalk: How CVD Coatings Improve Jet Fuel Oxidation in Additively Manufactured Parts with Dr. Min Yuan
Dr. Min Yuan interviews co-authors of Applied Thermal Engineering paper, Jet Fuel Oxidation on Conventionally and Additively Manufactured Steel Tubes, to discuss their research and how SilcoTek CVD coatings played a part in their success.
Inert Coatings for Inconel® Oil and Gas Sampling Equipment
Specialty alloys still need SilcoNert® and Dursan® coatings to ensure sample stability and prevent adsorption of tracelevel sulfur and mercury compounds onto metal surfaces.
Game-Changing Coatings for Improving Pharmaceutical and Biopharmaceutical Processes
This presentation offers a brief overview of SilcoTek's coating process and highlights our coating solutions available for pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical processes.
The Effect of Passivation on Long-term HCl Corrosion Performance on Three SilcoTek Coatings
The purpose of this TI is to study the impact of substrate passivation before coating on the long-term HCl corrosion performance of three SilcoTek coatings.
Specialty Coatings to Reduce Corrosion in Scrubber Components
In this paper, we present data for specialty coatings that significantly reduce the corrosion rate of metal scrubber parts. (Samsung Austin Semiconductor)
Breakthroughs in Material Compatibility of Inert Coatings for Sampling and Analytical Systems
SilcoTek's Clay Smith's presentation highlights the significance of coatings like SilcoNert in ensuring the reliability and accuracy of analytical systems, especially in the context of evolving technical and regulatory needs.
This presentation explains how and why Siltride CVD technology was developed, what makes Siltride different and the data explaining how it could solve your surface problems, and how our customers are reacting to their success with Siltride, including a case study with Samsung.
SilcoTek's Nik Snyder explains how and why Siltride CVD technology was developed, what makes Siltride different and the data explaining how it could solve your surface problems, and how our customers are reacting to their success with Siltride, including a case study with Samsung.
Issues with Metals in Nucleotide Based Pharmaceutical Production
This TI will discuss a brief history and background of nucleotide therapeutics, how metals can negatively impact their production, and how Dursan can help alleviate these issues.
Improving Mercury Detection with Equinor in Europe’s Largest Methanol Production Plant
This case study details how SilcoTek helped one of the largest imternational energy companies in the world, Wood, to ensure accurate mercury analysis in Europe's largest methanol plant amid tight deadlines to re-0pen the plant.
This technical insight provides an overview of SilcoTek's coating processes, emphasizing the unique nature of the Notak surface modification, which binds molecules to the substrate surface, forming an ultra-thin layer.
SilcoTek's Dursan coating underwent an electrostatic safety test by Dekra Testing. No discharge or charge transfer was observed, confirming its safety according to IEC standards. The coating is considered electrostatically safe on metallic substrates with the specified thickness.
Improve Analytical Results with Metal-Free HPLC Components
LCGC® Webcast partnered with SilcoTek's Dr. Jesse Bischof, who discusses the advantages of bioinert equipment used for analytical gas chromotography applications. He demonstrates how Dursan prevents metal ion leaching in a variety of solvents. Preventing metal ions from interacting with chromatography results in better analysis.
SilcoTek® offers coatings for a variety of industries and an even wider variety of applications. We often are asked “how porous are your coatings?” The short answer is “they are not porous”, but the long answer will be described here.
Enhance Process Sampling Accuracy and Safety with SilcoTek Coatings and SENSOR Sampling Systems
SilcoTek partnered with SOR Controls Group to provide metal ion leaching and corrosion solutions for their customers interested in coated sampling systems. By providing a cost-efficient and quick solution, SilcoTek was the perfect match for their sampling system problems.
Inertness comparison of electropolished and non-electropolished 316 surfaces with coated and non-coated variants
This TI compares the chemical inertness of electropolished (EP) stainless steel tubing without coating to SilcoNert 2000-coated, non-electropolished tubing using gas chromatography.
This TI reports the results of pin-on-disk wear tests of five SilcoTek® coatings: Silcolloy® 1000, Dursan®, SiltrideSM, RD13 and RD14, along with uncoated control samples.
Inert CVD Coating Comparison: Does the Supplier Matter?
Inert CVD Coating Comparison: Does the Supplier Matter? Are all “inert” silicon-based CVD coatings the same? According to the data, the answer is an emphatic no. If our 30+ year reputation isn’t enough, the objective studies in this literature prove that when quality and performance really matter, SilcoTek® is the only trusted source for the most inert coatings available.
Dursan’s Successful Integration Into a Customized Mold System
The aim of this paper was to develop a mass-production capable and cost effective manufacturing process for polymer films with multifunctional surfaces. This TI is an executive summary of a proceeding from euspen’s 22nd International Conference & Exhibition held in Geneva in May and June of 2022.
An inert flow path is mandatory in modern HPLC analysis in order to manage the complex and reactive samples commonly used in today’s fast-paced analytical world. Modern LC systems feature an array of materials including costly alloys and polymers like PEEK to achieve inertness, but these materials come with their own set of limitations.
Improving Corrosion Resistance of PVC Molds with Dursan® Coating Technology
SilcoTek® coatings are used in a variety of applications for altering surface energy and providing corrosion protection. In this case study, the customer experienced problems with their stainless steel molds including release complications and mold corrosion.
Spacecraft Atmosphere Monitor (S.A.M.): SilcoTek® helping humans get to the moon again
The Spacecraft Atmosphere Monitor (S.A.M.) system is designed to monitor the atmosphere within the spacecraft to ensure the astronauts are not breathing harmful chemical compounds. This TI walks through the system’s past, present, and future with SilcoTek.
Ensuring Accurate Analysis in a Process Mass Spectrometer with SilcoNert® 2000
When building a process mass spectrometer sampling system for a customer, Control Analytics, Inc. turned to SilcoTek® to ensure they produce the most reliable and accurate system.
Ensuring Reliable and Repeatable Testing of BTEX Compounds with SilcoNert® 2000
SilcoTek® is proud to work together with Smith Analytical to ensure they can provide their customer with a high quality and reliable analytical system.
Turner Designs Hydrocarbon Instruments Inc. found that SilcoTek® coatings met their customer’s need for a low cost corrosion resistant coating able to stand up to harsh environments found in oil and gas exploration.
Preventing Corrosion and Contamination in Samsung Scrubbers Systems with Siltride
When Samsung reached out concerning corrosion in their gas abatement systems (exhaust scrubbers), SilcoTek® jumped at the opportunity to help them create a game-changing system.
What's the Advantage of Preheating my Stainless Steel Parts for Coating Service?
SilcoTek® recommends customers who use coated stainless-steel parts in high temperature applications (over 450°C) to preheat the parts prior to sending them in for coating. This recommendation was based primarily on the knowledge of metal sensitization but lacked actual data support. This technical insight provides experimental data to show when and how preheating before coating may benefit high temperature applications.
Surface preparation is an important factor in providing a durable, long lasting coating. Learn how to prepare stainless steel surfaces by removing rust contamination.
Learn how to achieve better bioanalytical results with SilcoTek® coatings. Our coatings e-book will discuss how Dursan® and other CVD coatings improve material performance and how inert coatings are ideal for bioanalytical and medical diagnostic applications.
Troubleshooting and Protecting the Sampling System
Get our tips and strategies for solving industrial sampling problems. Learn how to solve sample cylinder inertness problems and sample transfer problems while improving sample transfer reliability in process and analytical systems.
Learn how to sample and test successfully in challenging environments. Manage moisture, corrosion and reactive compounds with inert coatings for your instrumentation and sampling systems while getting reliable and accurate results.
SilcoTek®’s Optimized Coating Process for Aluminum and Other Metals
SilcoTek® has an optimized process for coating Aluminum parts in order to ensure the same quality coating that is always provided by SilcoTek on other substrates. Learn about our SP12 process.
Will bending SilcoTek® treated tubing affect chemical inertness? Learn about the recommended tubing bend radii to ensure an inert surface throughout the tube.
SilcoTek® is helping OEM and end-users in the packaging equipment market to minimize the need for costly part replacement and production line downtime using our Dursan® coating technology.
Learn how SilcoTek® is helping customers in the plastics molding industry solve their surface problems successfully by using our Dursan® coating technology on their metal molds.
SilcoTek® coatings are used to improve detection of contaminants in hydrogen production flow paths, helping to prevent catalyst damage and improving production efficiency.
SilcoTek®’s Dursan® technology improves corrosion resistance while reducing protein carryover and contamination. Dursan® has been rigorously tested to ensure proper performance and to earn an NSF Certification and a USP Class VI Certification.
SilcoTek® coatings for medical devices and diagnostic instruments prevent flow path contamination, corrosion and carryover. Our coatings reduce test failures and false positive errors.
Learn how SilcoTek® high purity coatings can improve the performance of your products and process. Get coating performance data and see how our high purity silicon coatings improve stainless steel surfaces.
Improved Vacuum System Throughput, Inertness, and Corrosion Resistance
See how SilcoTek® Coatings improve vacuum pump down performance, reduce outgassing, improve hydrophobicity and corrosion resistance of vacuum and UHV components.
Learn about how our coatings are applied to your products. Take an informative walk through the coating process and learn how to improve your products.
Leveraging the SilcoTek® Partner Network to Make Your Coating Process Easy
Learn how to make the most out of our partner network and make buying and using our coatings easier. Learn how to become a partner to increase part quality and sales.
Learn how SilcoTek® is helping customers in the medical device and diagnostics industry to solve their component surface problems successfully by using our Dursan® coating technology.
LC instruments benefit from coatings like Dursan® by improving flow path bio inertness, creating an iron free surface, and preventing unwanted protein interaction with the flow path surface.
Improve Reliability and Accuracy of Sulfur, Mercury and NOx Sampling and Analysis Equipment
A review of how silicon coating improve the reliability and accuracy of sampling systems used in sulfur, mercury, NOx, and ammonia testing in exhaust, CEMS, and flare gas streams.
Get corrosion resistance data on a wide range of coatings and materials. See how SilcoTek® coatings can improve the corrosion resistance of your products by 10x or more.
Learn how to ensure your sampling system always delivers maximum reliability. This e-book contains tips on how to improve product performance with inert coatings and how to improve surface performance over passivation.
This e-book features tips about how to improve your analytical sampling system. The e-book features signs your analytical system is not performing optimally and how to tell if a flow path is inert (and why it matters).
A comprehensive overview of SilcoTek® and its patented CVD coating process. Questions about how we can improve the performance of parts? What markets we serve? Ideal applications for using our coatings? This e-book answers your questions.
Biomass Waste to Jet Fuels: How Dursan® Assists in Making New Sustainable Fuels
This Technical Insight will explore a recent publication that investigates kinetics and reactor design for the ketonization process and where Dursan® can aid in better conversion rates.
Technical Insight: Dursan®’s Use in the Food and Beverage Industry: A Walk Through of the Beer Brewing Process
In this Technical Insight we will focus on what a coating could potentially do in the food and beverage industry if metal ions can be blocked from entering the product.
Technical Insight: Dursan® Process Achieves USP Class VI Certification
This Technical Insight will discuss the details of this test, and the results of an investigation into samples that were coated with Dursan® and subjected to Class VI testing.
Use of Inert CVD Coating for Protein, Corrosion, and Moisture Resistance in Bioanalysis Applications
This paper will introduce Dursan® [1, 2], a siliconoxygen-carbon (carboxysilicon) coating that provides biochemical inertness, a low affinity for adsorbing proteins and other bio-molecules, corrosion resistance, and low energy properties to stainless steel and other substrates.
This paper explores mitigating thermal stability problems, where a single-tube heat exchanger is used to assess thermal-oxidative and pyrolytic deposition from high temperature jet fuels.
Mechanical testing of Coated, Uncoated, and Thermal Treated 316 SS
This Technical Insight studies metallurgical testing of tensile strength, impact resistance and hardness on untreated 316 stainless steel, Dursan® coated 316 stainless, and 316 stainless exposed to the Dursan heat profile under a nitrogen atmosphere.
This Technical insight will discuss the impact of anodization and hard anodization on aluminum surface finish, and how they may affect the success of SilcoTek®’s coating processes.
Technical Insight: SilcoTek® Protective Coatings in a Venusian (Pure Supercritical CO2) Atmosphere
This Technical Insight discusses NASA's efforts to study coatings for protection against supercritical CO2 atmospheres found in nuclear plants or in a Venusian atmosphere.
This Technical Insight is a summary of findings on the effect of autoclave exposure on various surfaces offered by Silcotek®, using contact angles, thickness, and FT-IR spectroscopy as characterization methods.
This Technical Insight provides information about brazing and soldering as well as guidelines for treating brazed or soldered parts with SilcoTek®’s chemical vapor deposition coating process.
Characterization of Novel Carboxysilane Depositions on Stainless Steel Substrates
This presentation highlights the performance of Dursan® coated surfaces in various applications including moisture analysis, inertness, and corrosion resistance.
This white paper aims to provide a brief introduction of different materials characterization techniques available to SilcoTek®, both in-house and through Penn State University, to give our customers a glimpse of the possibilities.
Impact of Substrate Imperfections on the Appearance of SilcoTek®’s Coatings
This whitepaper discusses the various types of surface defects that contribute to an imperfect coating appearance, and how SilcoTek® may or may not be able to improve the appearances on these parts.
A Comparison of Coatings Used to Enhance the Moisture Performance of Analyzer Flow Paths
This paper will review test data and recommend coating compatibility for moisture and moisture related adsorptive effects in continuous emission monitor (CEM) flow paths.
Technical Insight: Relative Response Time When Measuring Moisture Content in a Sample Stream
This report will determine relative response times of commercial 316L SS tubing, electropolished 316L SS tubing, and SilcoNert®-coated electropolished 316L SS tubing for the transmission of sample streams containing low concentrations of moisture.
This report will evaluate and discuss the significance of contact angle data for two different liquids on a variety of SilcoTek® surfaces. SilcoNert® 2000, SilcoKlean®, Silcolloy®, Dursan® and a Dursan-based prototype will be highlighted.
Technical Insight: Relative Response Time of TrueTube™ When Measuring Moisture Content in a Sample Stream
This Technical Insight will determine relative response times of commercial 316L SS tubing, electropolished 316L SS tubing, and SilcoNert® coated electropolished 316L SS tubing for the transmission of sample streams containing low concentrations of moisture.
Comparative Analysis of Tekmar 3000 and 3100 Purge and Trap Sample Concentrators
A comprehensive study is performed of SilcoTek® coated and uncoated surfaces utilized on both the Tekmar 3100 and Tekmar 3000 Sample Concentrators and the results are compared.
Technical Insight: Characterizing the Performance of Surface Modifications that Enhance Sensitivity, Reliability, Reproducbility and Accuracy of Analytical Instruments
This Technical Insight presents laboratory corrosion and chemical inertness test results of SilcoTek®’s CVD coatings, and evaluates their performance in environments common to the petrochemical, refining and offshore industries.
Mass Transport in Sample Transport Lines Adsorption Desorption Effects And Their Influence On Process Analytical Measurement
This paper will discuss theoretical and practical analysis of factors and design guidelines used to minimize sample loss and adsorption in analytical sampling systems.
Technical Insight: Enhance Sensitivity, Reliability, Reproducbility and Accuracy of Analytical Instruments
This paper presents laboratory corrosion and chemical inertness test results of SilcoTek®’s CVD coatings, and evaluates their performance in environments common to the petrochemical, refining and offshore industries.
Technical Insight: Iodine Vapor Exposure Testing of SilcoTek® Coatings
NASA has developed an experiment to study the interaction between iodine and a variety of common spacecraft materials. In their tests, they have included Silcolloy® and Dursan®-coated coupons for evaluation.
Presentation: The Use of Coatings to Improve Reliability for Ammonia
This presentation discusses multiple design factors to maximize system performance and reliability. Including surface inertness in ammonia sampling and other applications.
Improving Ammonia Reference Standards with Inert Coatings
In this report, researchers tested a number of different cylinder types by performing a series of decant tests at the 100 and 10 µmol/mol levels. They showed that adsorption of ammonia molecules on cylinder walls was minimised when the internal surfaces of stainless steel cylinders were passivated using the SilcoNert 2000® treatment.
This paper discusses development of an arsine gas, selenium (as hydrogen selenide), and mercury (as elemental mercury) Analytical Method for Reducing Flue Gas Environments. A sampling protocol will be developed including sample-conditioning solutions that will convert the desired species into a form suitable for CEMs.
Presentation: Comparision of Surface Composition on Stability of Mercury Transfer and Holding
This presentation will discuss the need for inert system components when testing mercury. Prevent mercury loss and surface adsorption during holding and transfer.
This whitepaper presents data from two separate analytical and chemical bench tests, designed to first measure baseline mercury mass and concentrations and then quantify the subsequent reductions from chemical processes as measured primarily by atomic fluorescence spectrometry.
Presentation: Evaluation of System Surfaces in Low Level Sulfur Analysis
An overview of coating performance for sulfur analysis, active compound analysis, corrosion resistance, moisture resistance, UHV, and anti-coking applications.
Performance of Total Sulfur Analysis in Refinery Flare Vent Gas Systems
This paper will discuss the method to extract and sample the process stream with minimal loss or adsorption of the analyte and provide data for on-line total sulfur and HHV analysis.
Technical Insight: Organic Solvent Metal Ion Leaching, C-22 Hastelloy
In this Technical Insight we investigate the corrosion and metal contamination of C-22 in pure methanol and the impact that SilcoTek® coatings have on this corrosion.
Improving The Reliability of Analytical And Sampling Systems in Corrosive Environments
This paper presents laboratory corrosion and chemical inertness test results of SilcoTek®’s CVD coatings, and evaluates their performance in environments common to hydrocarbon processing.
