Dear Rao, One thing for sure is Nitrogen is used as a purging gas for welding duplex/super duplex stainless steels. Nitrogen is nonflammable and does not support combustion and is slightly lighter than air. Nitrogen is inert except at arc welding temperatures where it will react with some materials like Aluminium, Magnesium and Titanium. Personally I have not tried on Nickel based alloys but you can give a try. I dont see any harm to weld a test coupon, check for mechanical and corrosion properties if its come out to be ok, you can use it on you job. As regards nitrogen purity, the AWS A5.32 Specification for Welding Shielding Gases specifies minimum nitrogen purity of 99.9% and maximum dew point of the gas as -51 Deg.C. The AWS classification for this gas is SG-N. This AWS A5.32 is for shielding gas, how ever you can take it as a guidance for selecting your purging gas. Excess nitrogen in the order of 5% and above in the shielding gas (usually with Argon) can erode the tungsten electrode. If you purge with nitrogen and an open root there should be no issue of nitrogen contamination of the tungsten electrode provided the purging pressure is not excessive. The argon flow from the GTAW torch as shielding gas will protect the tungsten electrode. Regards, Praveen Alavandar --- On Wed, 2/23/11, P.Rao <vasantharao2009@rediffmail.com> wrote:
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