TC4钛合金在溴化锂溶液中的空泡腐蚀研究-材料物理与化学专业论文.docxVIP

PAGE PAGE VI Abstract Aqueous lithium bromide is widely used as an absorption working fluid in recent years. Because it has lots of excellent characteristics, such as high thermal efficiency, low energy consumption and zero discharge, lithium bromide has gradually taken place of Freon to be the choice for refrigerator and heat exchanger. However, cavitation phenomenon would occur due to the change of pressure of lithium bromide solution while LiBr-Refrigeratory is running. Since high concentration LiBr solution is an aggressive medium, the metal materials which contact with the medium will suffer from serious cavitation corrosion, such as stainless steel, carbon steel, copper and copper alloy, etc. It will directly affect the equipment life and reliability. Therefore, it is important to choose a metal material to be applied in LiBr-Refrigeratory which has good cavitation resistance. In this paper, cavitation corrosion process was simulated by ultrasonic cavitation test machine. The cavitation corrosion behavior and mechanism of TC4 alloy and inhibiting effect of NaNO2 in 55% LiBr solution were disscussed through cumulative loss test, microhardness test, residual stress test, electrochemical measurement. In addition, the microstructure and morphology were observed by means of SEM, AFM, three-dimensional video microscope. The results revealed that TC4 alloy has good ability to resist cavitation corrosion,. The cumulative mass loss after 8h cavitation test in 55% LiBr solution was only 6.86mg, the process of cavitation can be divided into two periods: incubation period and rise period. During the first period(3h), there is little mass loss, and mechanical impact of cavitation caused the surface layer of metal to plastically deform, micro-cracks and pits began to generate on the surface of titanium alloy, microhardness increased rapidly and reached a maximum at the end of the incubation period and then dropped gradually, The mass loss increased rapidly when the cavit