Although material wastage by combined erosion-corrosion attack is well-known in a variety of commercial high-temperature processes like coal gasifiers, stationary and flying gas turbines, fluidized bed combustion, industrial furnaces and other high-temperature heat-treatment furnaces, less information is available on material-related parameters and low velocity environments typical for industrial furnaces.

Consequently the aim of the present paper is to introduce a newly developed erosion-corrosion testing facility enabling investigations in a wide range of velocities and to provide first test results on the influence of alloying elements with special emphasis on the oxide forming elements like chromium, aluminum and silicon on erosion-corrosion resistance. Six alloys 600H, 690, 800H, 602CA, 45TM and Ni3Al were tested in order to find a ranking in the combined erosion-corrosion environment.

The experimental test results reveal that the mechanism of metal degradation under combined erosion-corrosion attack at low particle velocities is dominated by metal wastage by removal of oxide scales with subsequent regrowth by oxidation. The resistance of the alloys against erosion-corrosion increased with increasing aluminum content. Independent of the particle velocities, the nickel aluminide showed the best performance followed by alloy 602CA and the iron-base alloy 800H.

Subject
Materials, Erosion resistance, Nickel based alloys, Chromia, Chromium, Inspection, Furnaces, Oxide scales, Erosion, Aluminum alloys, Erosion corrosion, Alloys, Oxidation
Keywords:
Erosion, Oxidation, Ni-base alloys, Fe-base alloys, Alumina scale, Alloy 602CA, Alloy 45TM, UNS # N06025, UNS # N06045
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1994
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