Coatings for Coal-Fired Environments

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Coatings for Coal-Fired Environments: New materials, ideas, and concepts are required to significantly improve performance and reduce the costs of existing advanced power systems or to enable the development of new systems and capabilities for coal combustion and coal gasification, gas separations, hydrogen storage, high-temperature fuel cells, and advanced turbine systems. Materials' issues are related to operation in the hostile conditions created when fossil fuels are converted to energy. These conditions include high temperatures, elevated pressures, pressure oscillations, corrosive environments (oxidizing or reducing conditions, gaseous alkali, chloride or sulfur-containing species), surface coating or fouling, and high particulate loading. Applications which fit the following description should be submitted under this funding opportunity title of Coatings for Coal-Fired Environments (DE-PS26-04NT41898-02). Coatings with superior corrosion resistance in oxidizing, sulfidizing, carburizing and water-containing environments are needed to sustain the life of advanced energy systems. They are of particular interest for improving the corrosion resistance of Fe- and Ni-base alloys to achieve higher operating temperatures in fossil energy systems where sulfur and water vapor can cause severe oxidation problems. For optimum utilization of new coatings, one needs sufficient data about their potential benefits in terms of lifetime and applicable environments. In order to address that issue, model coatings need to be fabricated for corrosion testing and diffusion studies aimed at developing a comprehensive lifetime evaluation approach for the coatings. At least one ferritic and one austenitic alloy should be selected as substrate materials for study. Additionally, nickel-based superalloys are also of interest.