Study of Glass-Ceramic Coating on the SUS430 Stainless Steel Plate with High Temperature Oxidation Resistance

Abstract

Currently, the ceramic inner container draws great attention in the field of induction heating pot. Based on the traditional roll-forming process for ceramic pot, a new kind process was proposed to fabricate ceramic inner container and synchronously embed stainless steel plate by one-step high temperature sintering. The key technology for this process is to avoid the oxidation of SUS430 stainless steel plate during the high temperature sintering for a longtime by coating a glass-ceramic layer. In this research, the glass-ceramic coating with excellent high temperature oxidation resistance was optimized. The influences of ZrO2 content in the coating slurry on the high temperature oxidation resistance and thermal shock resistance of SUS430 stainless steel plate with glass-ceramic coating were studied. Meanwhile, the coatings were characterized by Scanning Electron Microscopy, X-ray Diffraction and Thermal Expansion Analysis. The experimental results showed that the glass-ceramic coating was smooth and had excellent thermal shock resistance when the addition of ZrO2 reached 15wt%. The mass gain of the SUS430 stainless steel plate with glass-ceramic coating was only 0.453% after sintering at 1300°C for 10h in air atmosphere, which was less one percent than that of SUS430 stainless steel plate under the same sintering condition.