Development of High Performance Valve Seat Insert Materials for Gas Engines

  • Kawata, Hideaki (520, Minoridai, Matsudo-shi, Chiba, 270-2295 JAPAN) ;
  • Maki, Kunio (520, Minoridai, Matsudo-shi, Chiba, 270-2295 JAPAN)
  • Published : 2006.09.24

Abstract

Sintered materials have been applied widely in Valve Seat Inserts (VSI). The amount of wear on VSIs increases when used in gas (LPG, CNG) engines because of their dry environments. In this paper, two newly developed high performance VSI materials for gas engines are introduced. These materials applied new techniques, which are both high performance hard particle and new distribution method of solid lubricant, to increase wear resistance.

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