High Temperature Oxidation & Hot Corrosion
- Oxidation investigation methods including continuous and discontinuous methods
- Thermodynamic principles in studies of oxidation at high temperatures
- Review the oxidation rate laws including linear rate law, parabolic rate law and logarithmic rate law
- P-type and n-type semiconductors
- Parabolic oxidation mechanism and Wagner theory
- Logarithmic oxidation mechanism
- Linear oxidation mechanism
- Oxidation factors
- Pure metals oxidation including metals forming single-layer scale, multi-layer scale, volatile scale, brittle scale and catastrophic oxidation.
- Oxidation of alloys including internal oxidation, transition from internal to external oxidation, effects of impurities on the metal oxidation, oxidation of Ni-Cr and Fe-Cr alloys.
- Hot corrosion and acidic and basic fluxing
- Vanadic corrosion and Fuel ash corrosion
- Sulfidation at high temperature
- Carburizing at high temperatures, metal dusting and methods for carburizing control
- Nitridation at high temperatures
- Halogenization at high temperatures
- Hot corrosion control and thermal barrier coating
- Mechanical aspects of high temperature oxidation