Knowde Enhanced TDS
Identification & Functionality
- Chemical Family
- Polymer Name
- Plastics & Elastomers Functions
- Technologies
Features & Benefits
- Materials Features
- Mechanical Properties
- Excellent high temperature mechanical properties
- High levels of strength and stiffness at very high temperatures
- Flexural modulus of 5 GPa and flexural strength of 100 MPa at 250°C for AF804
Applications & Uses
- Applications
- Plastics & Elastomers End Uses
- Applications
- Logging tools
- Seals and backup rings
- Connectors
- Compressor components
- Pumps (surface and submersible)
- Plugs and packers
- Composites
- Cables and wireline
- Tubes and pipes
- Insulating components
- Chemical Resistance
- Excellent chemical resistance to hydrocarbons, bases, acids, organic and inorganic reagents even at high temperatures
- AF800 PEEK materials are not subject to explosive decompression following high pressure exposure to oil field gasses
- Exceptional hydrolysis resistance. AF800 PEEK components retain a high level of mechanical properties when continuously conditioned in water or brine at elevated temperatures and pressures
- Wear Resistance
- Excellent friction and wear properties
- Specially formulated tribological grades which exhibit outstanding wear resistance over wide ranges of pressure, velocity, temperature and counterface roughness
- Excellent resistance to abrasion in sand slurry environments
Properties
- Physical Properties
- Electrical Properties
| Value | Units | Test Method / Conditions | |
| Tensile strength | 100.0 | MPa | ISO 527 |
| Elongation at break | 100.0 | % | ISO 527 |
| Secant modulus | 3.6 | GPa | ISO 527 |
| Flexural strength | 131.0 | MPa | ISO 178 |
| Flexural modulus | 3.9 | GPa | ISO 178 |
| Izod impact strength (notched) | 6.4 | kJ/m2 | ISO 180 |
| Hardness (Rockwell) | 126.0 | R | ASTM D785 |
| Thermal expansion | 4.7 | 10-5/°C | ASTM D696 |
| Limiting oxygen index | 35.0 | % | — |
| Density | 1.32 | g/cm3 | ISO 1183 |
| HDT | 152.0 | °C | ISO |
| RTI | 260.0 | °C | UL 746B |
| Glass transition | 143.0 | °C | DSC |
| Melting point | 343.0 | °C | DSC |
| Value | Units | Test Method / Conditions | |
| Dielectric strength (50 μm film) | 190.0 | kV/mm | — |
| Comparative tracking index | 150.0 | V | — |
| Excellent electrical insulation properties | min. 200 | °C | — |
Technical Details & Test Data
- Resistance
