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Alumina coatings on Ni-based superalloys: the impact of annealing on heavy oil fouling

Fellipy Samuel Rocha, Etienne Bousser, Marwan Azzi, Fadila Khelfaoui, Luc Vernhes, Gregory Scott Patience, Jolanta-Ewa Sapieha and Ludvik Martinu

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As the sweet crude oil reserves decline, refiners must treat sulfur-rich heavy oil, requiring harsher operating conditions, which are detrimental to process equipment. Application of coatings on critical components protects surfaces against sulfidation, corrosion, and fouling, extends the equipment's lifetime, and reduces the frequency of costly turnarounds. In the present work, we coated Inconel 625 and Inconel 718 substrates with amorphous alumina thin films at room temperature using reactive RF magnetron sputtering. Annealing of the deposited coatings at 800, 900, and 1000 °C increased hardness, improved adhesion, and generated crystalline polymorphs, predominantly γ-Al2O3 at lower temperatures, while α-Al2O3 was present at 1000 °C. The annealed substrates formed thermally grown oxides (TGOs), which interacted with the alumina coatings. The TGOs followed grain boundaries in the case of IN718 and a crater-like pattern on IN625. Annealed substrate precipitates generated columnar-like protrusions responsible for inducing crack propagation, which exhibited TGO formation. After 2 h exposure to heavy oil (containing 0.06 g g−1 sulfur) at 450°C and 11.3 MPa the as-deposited amorphous alumina presented no clear sign of adherent fouling, while the 1000°C annealed crystalline alumina surfaces presented evidence of fouling.

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magnetron reactive sputtering; thin film; Ni-based alloy; alumina annealing; mechanical properties; heavy oil fouling and sulfidation

Subjects: 1800 Chemical engineering > 1800 Chemical engineering
3100 Physics > 3100 Physics
Department: Department of Chemical Engineering
Department of Engineering Physics
Research Center: (CM)² - Centre for Characterization and Microscopy of Materials
Funders: NSERC / CRSNG, Prima Quebec, Velan Inc.
Grant number: ALLRP 576758 - 22, R24-13-003
PolyPublie URL: https://publications.polymtl.ca/59173/
Journal Title: Surface & Coatings Technology (vol. 493, no. part 2)
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.surfcoat.2024.131266
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfcoat.2024.131266
Date Deposited: 18 Sep 2024 13:27
Last Modified: 25 Sep 2024 19:39
Cite in APA 7: Samuel Rocha, F., Bousser, E., Azzi, M., Khelfaoui, F., Vernhes, L., Patience, G. S., Sapieha, J.-E., & Martinu, L. (2024). Alumina coatings on Ni-based superalloys: the impact of annealing on heavy oil fouling. Surface & Coatings Technology, 493(part 2), 131266 (13 pages). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfcoat.2024.131266

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