Rare Earth Oxide Coatings to Decrease High Temperature.pdf

Materials Research, Vol. 7, No. 1, 135-139, 2004. © 2004 Vol. 7, No. 1, 2004 Rare Earth Oxide Coatings to Decrease High Temperature Degradation of Chromia Forming Alloys 135 Rare Earth Oxide Coatings to Decrease High Temperature Degradation of Chromia Forming Alloys Stela Maria de Carvalho Fernandes, Lalgudi Venkataraman Ramanathan* Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares Travessa R-400, Cidade Universitária O5422-970 São Paulo – SP, Brazil Received: September 2, 2002; Revised: September 4, 2002 The addition of small quantities of reactive elements such as rare earths (RE) to chromia or alumina forming alloys improves the high temperature oxidation resistance. Traditionally, these elements are alloying additions or are added as oxides to form a dispersion. The alloys can also be coated with RE oxides. Several methods can be used to coat alloy substrates with RE oxides and the sol-gel process is considered to be quite efficient, as it generates the very small oxide particles. This paper presents the influence of surface coatings of Ce, La, Pr, and Y oxide gels on the oxida- tion behavior of an Fe-20Cr alloy at 1000 °C. The morphology of the rare earth (RE) oxide coat- ings varied with the nature of RE. The oxidation rate of RE oxide coated Fe-20Cr was signifi- cantly less than that of the uncoated alloy. The extent of