What is Monel K500 used for?
Monel Alloy K-500
Gnee Steel's popular Monel K-500 is a unique nickel-copper super alloy that offers many of the benefits of Monel 400 while offering increased strength and hardness. These improvements are primarily due to two factors:
The addition of aluminum and titanium to the already strong nickel-copper matrix increases strength and hardness
Material strength and hardness are further enhanced by age hardening
While Monel K-500 has a wide range of uses, it is particularly popular in a number of areas, including:
Chemical industry (valves and pumps)
Papermaking (scrapers and scrapers)
Oil and gas (pump shafts, drill collars and instruments, impellers and valves)
Electronic components and sensors
Monel K-500 is composed of:
63% Nickel (plus cobalt)
0.25% Carbon
1.5% Manganese
2% Iron
Copper 27-33%
Aluminum 2.30-3.15%
Titanium 0.35-0.85%
Monel K-500 is also known for its ease of fabrication compared to other superalloys, and the fact that it is essentially non-magnetic, even at cryogenic temperatures. It is available in the most popular forms, including:
Bars and rods (hot worked and cold drawn)
Sheets (cold rolled)
Strip (cold rolled, annealed, spring tempered)
Seamless tubes (cold drawn, annealed, annealed and aged, drawn, drawn and aged)
Sheets (hot worked)
Wire, cold drawn (annealed, annealed and aged, spring tempered, spring tempered aged)
