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Ferritic steels with Cr-contents up to 13 wt. % are used as building components in combustion based power plants. These materials are subject to aggressive corrosion caused by the reaction of the steel with highly corrosive gases under high temperatures up to 620°C. Detailed knowledge about corrosion mechanisms regarding the attack of gaseous sulfur dioxide have a significant influence and are not entirely understood. The reaction with SO2 can be seen as two simultaneous processes; oxidation and sulfidation. Especially in the initial state, these processes are more kinetically controlled than thermodynamically. However, a detailed knowledge is a key aspect to understand the complex high temperature corrosion of high alloyed steels with a variety of alloying components ageing under combustion gases with a variety of gas components such as CO2, O2, N2, or SO2/SO3, and to better predict altering of building components and inspection intervals. To get more information about corrosion mechanisms in general and the simultaneous process of oxidation and sulfidation under SO2, initial stadia of the corrosion mechanism have to be studied. In order to minimize and control the free parameters of the corrosion procedure, simplified systems with model alloys and simplified gas compositions are a feasible tool.
The current presentation will deal with the initial stages of high temperature corrosion on Fe-Cr model alloys under SO2+Ar atmospheres. Experiments took place using an infra-red light furnace with higher heating and cooling rates compared to regular tubular furnaces to preserve the high temperature phase distribution. Pure Fe, Fe with 2 wt. % and 13 wt. % Cr were used and aged for time scales between 30s < t < 6h under 0.5% SO2 and 99.5% Ar. Specific positions on each sample were marked with Vickers indentations and the crystal orientations were analyzed using ‘Electron Backscatter Diffraction’ (EBSD) to get the orientation of the ferrite grains in advance. After the corrosion experiment, the same positions were analyzed again using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and electron microprobe analysis (EMPA) to correlate the crystal orientation with the corrosion product and the elemental distribution. Further, cross sections of the samples were prepared to analyze the phase distribution in depth. Even though Cr and Fe form a solid solution in the crystal lattice, a significant difference in oxide island growth was observed for orientation dependent corrosion on different Fe-Cr alloys.
Ferritic-martensitic high temperature alloys are used as building components for different power plant technologies. Depending on the type of fuel, the used power plant materials are exposed to different temperatures and reactive atmospheres containing e.g. CO2, O2, or SO2. Despite the sulfur chemistry is commonly present as an impurity in fossil or bio fuels; its role in high temperature corrosion is not entirely understood. During high temperature corrosion, high-alloyed steels often show sulfur precipitates with the ignoble alloy component(s) along grain boundaries within the base material. Sulfur precipitates are known to seriously influence the mechanical properties of the building component. In the case of VM12 and T92 steels, sulfur phases penetrate the base material along grain boundaries during the corrosion under oxyfuel atmosphere up to 20 µm within the first 960h (Fig. 1a). Figure 1a shows the oxide scale and (Cr, Mn, Fe)xSy grain boundary precipitates in the base material for a T92 steel aged for 960h under oxyfuel atmosphere. Figure 1b shows a thin oxide scale with nodules and also sulfur precipitates of (Fe, Cr)xSy along grain boundaries of the base material for a Fe13Cr model alloy aged for 24h under SO2 atmospheres. After 24h, sulfur precipitates already reached a depth of ca. 15 µm.
The present work shows the corrosion behavior of Fe-Cr model alloys with Cr-contents similar to technical steels up to 13 wt%, aged under oxyfuel (27H2O/60CO2/1SO2/10N2/2O2) and SO2 atmospheres in the temperature range of 550 °C < T < 700 °C and for different time scales between 24 h < t < 960 h. During aging, the reactive gases were added when the experimental temperature was reached. To focus on the reaction of the intended elements Fe, Cr, S, and O, model alloys of high purity are used. Transport depths of sulfur and the nucleation of the precipitates are discussed for both, model alloys and technical steels.
In Kraftwerkstechnologien verwendete ferritische Fe-Cr-Stähle sind verschiedensten Temperaturen, Prozessdrücken und aggressiven, zum Teil schwefelhaltigen Verbrennungsgasen ausgesetzt, die zu Korrosion führen. Noch ungeklärt ist die Rolle der entstehenden Sulfide in der schützenden Oxidschicht und deren Auswirkung auf die Lebensdauer der Bauteile. Unsere Arbeit zeigt Korrosionsmechanismen ausgewählter Fe-Cr-Modelllegierungen unter Ar-SO2 Atmosphäre für verschiedene Zeitskalen. Der Focus dabei liegt auf Kurzzeitexperimenten (12h ≤ t ≤ 250h), um die initialen Stadien der Schwefelkorrosion zu untersuchen.
Ferritic-martensitic Fe-Cr alloys are widely utilised as materials for high temperature applications such as super heater tubes in coal, biomass or co-fired power plants. Various corrosive gases are produced in combustion processes, but especially SO2 is known to cause catastrophic application failure. In order to understand the effect of orientation and grain size of the alloy on the initial corrosion processes we analysed metal coupons of Fe-Cr- alloys (2-13 wt. % Cr) by electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD) before and after exposure to SO2 containing atmospheres in 650°C for short time spans (2 min – 12 h). An infra red heated furnace with integrated water-cooling was used for the ageing procedures to conduct short time experiments and to keep the reaction products in a ‘frozen’ state.
EBSD characterization of oxides formed on the surface of the alloys showed a topotactic relationship between grain orientation of the alloys and the oxides. With increasing scale thickness this relation diminishes possibly due to lattice strain. There appears to be no correlation between oxide growth and absolute, initial orientation, grain size, or the quality of polishing. An initially topotactic relationship between scale and steel had been already described for the formation of magnetite in hot steam environments, indicating that the initial corrosion mechanisms are mainly depending on the presence of Oxygen, and not changed by the presence of Sulphur. However, Sulphur is incorporated into the oxide scale in the low Cr alloy, and mainly observable in the inner corrosion zone for the higher alloyed material. Furthermore, oxides formed directly on grain boundaries in higher Cr alloyed materials are enriched in Cr compared to oxides on grain faces.