Hot corrosion resistance of air plasma sprayed ceramic Sm2SrAl2O7 (SSA) thermal barrier coatings in simulated gas turbine environments

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (15) ◽  
pp. 17695-17708 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Baskaran ◽  
Shashi Bhushan Arya
Author(s):  
M. H. Habibi ◽  
Li Wang ◽  
Shengmin Guo

Thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) are frequently used on hot section components in gas turbines. Rare-earth zirconate ceramics used as thermal barrier coatings have attracted increasing interest in recent years due to their distinctly lower thermal conductivity than common TBC material; Yttria stabilized zirconia (YSZ). This paper investigates the hot corrosion resistance of composite YSZ+Gd2Zr2O7 and Gd2Zr2O7 coating, in Na2SO4+V2O5 at 1050°C. Chemical interaction is found to be the major corrosive mechanism for the deterioration of these coatings. Characterizations using X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscope (SEM) indicate that the reaction between NaVO3 and Y2O3 in YSZ produces YVO4 and leads to the transformation of tetragonal ZrO2 to monoclinic ZrO2. Then For the Gd2Zr2O7+YSZ composite coating, by the formation of GdVO4, the amount of YVO4 formed on the YSZ+Gd2Zr2O7 composite coating is significantly reduced, thus the amount of monoclinic phase in the TBC coating is substantially reduced. Comparing to YSZ, under a high temperature of 1050°C, Gd2Zr2O7 is more stable, both thermally and chemically, So Gd2Zr2O7 exhibits a better hot corrosion resistance than YSZ+Gd2Zr2O7 composite coating.


Author(s):  
Yao Wang ◽  
Pei-feng Hsu ◽  
Yingsang Wu

Abstract Thermal barrier coatings are widely used in gas turbines to protect the gas turbine metal components against very high combustion product temperature. To improve energy efficiency, higher combustion temperatures are needed. A limiting factor at present is the stability under extreme and prolonged heating of thermal barrier coatings. The coatings are typically made by the air plasma sprayed process in which fine particles of yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) are melted or partially melted and ejected from plasma jet at high speed onto the bond coated substrate metal. With increasing combustion temperature and pressure in the modern gas turbine engines radiative heat transfer is becoming an important portion of the overall heat transfer in the thermal barrier coating. This study has demonstrated that the commonly used Kubelka-Munk method in the radiative property reduction from the measured transmittance and reflectance spectra of YSZ coatings will incur inaccurate result when the coating optical thickness is not sufficiently large. An alternative method — the discrete ordinates method with the asymmetric spherical ring angular quadrature — is used instead. The absorption and scattering coefficients of air plasma sprayed YSZ films are determined over the wavelength range from 1 to 2.6 μm at room temperature. Over this near infrared wavelength range, the scattering coefficient decreases with the increasing wavelength and the absorption coefficient is very small overall. The pore size distributions before and after the 50-hr temperature gradient, thermal cycling are compared. The sintering effect as well as the crack growth will impact the coating radiative properties. These results point to a clear need for better understanding of the radiative heat transfer process, which includes the microstructure-property relationship, progressive changes of the radiative properties with the operation condition and time.


2021 ◽  
Vol 206 ◽  
pp. 116649
Author(s):  
Xun Zhang ◽  
Alan C.F. Cocks ◽  
Yoshifumi Okajima ◽  
Kazuma Takeno ◽  
Taiji Torigoe

2007 ◽  
Vol 14 (05) ◽  
pp. 935-943 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. YANG ◽  
Y. C. ZHOU ◽  
W. G. MAO ◽  
Q. X. LIU

In this paper, the impedance spectroscopy technique was employed to examine nondestructively the isothermal oxidation of air plasma sprayed (APS) thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) in air at 800°C. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) were also used to characterize the microstructure evolution of TBCs. After oxidation, the thermally grown oxide (TGO), which was mainly composed of alumina as confirmed by EDX, formed at the upper ceramic coat/bond coat interface, the lower bond coat/substrate interface, and the bond coat. Impedance diagrams obtained from impedance measurements at room temperature were analyzed according to the equivalent circuit model proposed for the TBCs. Various observed electrical responses relating to the growth of oxides and the sintering of YSZ were explained by simulating the impedance spectra of the TBCs.


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