Can polytetrafluoroethylene be dissolved by Freon?
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I have a question for everyone. I designed a compressor pipeline in which ball valves made of polytetrafluoroethylene are used; fluorine gas flows through this pipeline. The workshop asked me whether polytetrafluoroethylene could be dissolved by fluorine gas. I wonder if anyone has encountered this problem
Polytetrafluoroethylene has extremely strong corrosion resistance! However, it is not resistant to high temperatures, and it exhibits cold flow under high pressure.
The tetrafluoroethylene production plant uses the hydrosteam-diluted cracking method with dichlorodifluoromethane (HCFC-22) to produce tetrafluoroethylene (TFE), which is then converted into polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) through polymerization, condensation, separation, and drying processes. The main raw material is F-22 (Freon-22), which is used to produce monomers through cracking; these monomers are then polymerized to form PTFE, which is therefore resistant to Freon.
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