Abstract
The present study investigates the high-temperature corrosion behavior of plasma-coated boiler steel for 1000 h in a 110-MW water tube boiler, which had encountered severe corrosion and the tube failure. The coating was carried out by alumina and MWCNTs (multiwalled carbon nanotubes)-reinforced alumina composite powders. The uncoated and coated steel substrates were hung at a platen superheater at 900 °C. After the exposure, thermogravimetric analysis was carried out to evaluate the kinetics of corrosion. XRD, SEM, TEM and EDS analysis was carried out to evaluate the corrosion products at the end of the cyclic high-temperature corrosion. The present research work concludes that CNT-reinforced alumina coatings (4.0 wt.% CNT + Al2O3 coating) have decreased the corrosion rate to 30.72 mpy, which was 113.53 mpy for conventional alumina coatings and 376.96 mpy for bare T11 boiler steel in the boiler environment. This manuscript submits the failure of tube at the platen superheater, exposure conditions and the analysis of the coated and uncoated samples of the steel tubes.
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Goyal, R., Sidhu, B.S. & Chawla, V. Hot Corrosion Performance of Plasma-Sprayed Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube–Al2O3 Composite Coatings in a Coal-Fired Boiler at 900 °C. J. of Materi Eng and Perform 29, 5738–5749 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-020-05070-8
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