Use
of furnace atmospheres based on Methanol cracing has
become widely acceptable as alternative to Endo-gas
generators for many applications like carburizing, carbonitriding,
annealing and hardening. However, dissociated methanol
must be used with Nitrogen gas from the point of view
of safety. Here Nitrogen gas is used as a carrier gas
which reduces consumption of methanol. Cracking process
at temperatures above 750oC is as under:
CH3OH=2H2
+ CO |