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Effect of Hot-Dip Aluminizing on High-Temperature Corrosion of Fe-Cr Steels

Tuesday, 15 May 2018
Ballroom 6ABC (Washington State Convention Center)

ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

Hot-dip aluminizing is a simple, cost-effective diffusion coating technique that can coat aluminum on diverse substrates with complicated shapes. It is carried out by dipping the substrate into molten Al bath for a certain period, and pulling out of the bath into the air. The employed substrates were mostly carbon steels, low alloyed steels, Fe-(Si, Cr) alloys. During hot-dipping, inter-diffusion between the steel substrate and molten Al occurs to produces the Al-rich topcoat, the outer FeAl3 layer, and the inner Fe2Al5 layer. The property of these aluminized layers depends on various hot-dipping parameters such as bath composition, time, temperature, and substrate. In this study, hot-dipping was performed on Fe-Cr alloys, and the corrosion behavior of aluminized Fe-Cr alloys at high temperatures was studied. The corrosion tests were performed in air, SO2-containing atmospheres, and H2S-containing atmospheres. Hot-dip aluminizing was found as an effective coating technique, which could form protective α-Al2O3 scales not only in air but also in (SO2, H2S)-containing aggressive corrosive environments due to high thermodynamic stability of Al2O3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. This work was supported by the project “Development of the High-Efficiency Low-Emission Future Energy Production Technology (EO15580)” of National Research Council of Science & Technology (NST) grant by the Korea government (MSIP) (No. CRC-15-07-KIER).