Fundamentals of
High Temperature Corrosion




Last actualisation: 05.11.2019

 

Semester: Winter, Course for EXCHANGE STUDENTS


LECTURES


Lecture 0: Introductory meeting

Lecture 1: Thermodynamics of high temperature corrosion processes

Lecture 2: Methods of studying metal oxidation kinetics

Lecture 3: Methods of studying the corrosion process mechanism

Lecture 4: Methods of studying scale morphology chemical and phase composition

Lecture 5: Oxidation of pure metals

Lecture 6: Wagner theory of metal oxidation

Lecture 7: Scale transport properties

Lecture 8: Dissociation mechanism of scale growth on metals

Lecture 9: Hauffe-Wagner theory

Lecture 10: Oxidation of alloys

Lecture 11: Sulphidation of metallic materials

Lecture 12: Corrosion in carbon containing atmospheres

Lecture 13: High temperature corrosion in multicomponent aggresive environments

Lecture 14: High temperature corrosion of engine valves

Lecture 15: Degradation of tungsten carbide

Lecture 16: Problems of Nb ore processing

Lecture 17: Oxidation resistant high temperature coatings



LABORATORY EXERCISES


Instruction 1: Temperature and pressure dependence of the oxidation rate of metals

Instruction 2: Oxidation under thermal shock conditions

Instruction 3: Marker technique

Instruction 4: Catastrophic oxidation in the presence of liquid euthectics

Instruction 5: Determination of the chemical diffusion coefficient of predominant point defects in oxides