How Much Fluoride Is A Problem for Titanium Equipment?

It is well known that reactive metals like Titanium can be damaged by Fluorides or Hydrofluoric Acid. But there are Fluorides in everything, including municipal water. How much Fluoride is really a problem? Like most things in life, the answer is, “It depends”. This blog post gets into those details to provide some guidance on what variables matter when determining whether equipment has the potential to be damaged by low levels of Fluorides.

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Titanium Grades Used in the CPI

Titanium can seem confusing at first. There are 40 grades of titanium and it’s not clear why you’d use one over another. Fortunately, there are only a handful (seven) that are the most important to get a handle on for the chemical process industry and understanding where they all fit relative to each other is actually pretty simple. The purpose of this document is to talk about those 7 grades, what applications they are used for in general terms, and the reasons they are different. Click here to continue reading the blog post “Titanium Grades Used in the CPI”.