High temperature oxidation in steam
CME team's high temperature atmospheric pressure steam oxidation rig can operate up to 1100◦ C for several thousand hours to test candidate coatings in flowing steam. Ultra supercritical (USC) power plants will operate at steam temperatures beyond 700 ◦ C and we are developing high Cr based coatings for oxidation protection of steam turbines. The steam oxidation data is used to develop lifetime models of the coatings.
Steam oxidation of Ni50Cr coating after 750 h at 700 C