The invention discloses a
gas plasma sulfurizing process, which belongs to the technical field of
surface heat treatment. In the process, a steel workpiece is placed in a sealed sulfurizing furnace with direct-current
high voltage and high vacuum, then an appropriate amount of carrier gasses such as
hydrogen gas,
argon gas,
ammonia gas and the like, and
hydrogen sulfide are introduced into the furnace to form a sulfurizing
atmosphere. Those gases are split into
plasma states of
nitrogen,
hydrogen,
argon and
sulfur after entering the sulfurizing furnace and
dash against the surface of the steel workpiece positioned on a negative plate to ensure that the temperature of the workpiece is raised, wherein
sulfur ions infiltrate into the surface of a component to form
ferrous sulfide which covers the whole surface of the component to fulfill the aim of sulfurizing. The process has the advantages of no
pollution, low cost and high sulfurizing quality, overcomes the defects of serious
pollution and high cost of the conventional electrolytic sulfurizing, and also overcomes the defect of low quality of
plasma sulfurizing performed by using
solid sulfur on the market at present. Through sulfurizing treatment, the mechanical life of a mechanical workpiece can be improved by 2 to 3 times, and the process has obvious economical and
social benefits and extensive development prospect when applied to an automobiles, a
train, a wind-driven generators, a
petroleum machinery and a rolling
machine.