EP3090075B1 - Hot corrosion-protected article and manufacture method therefor - Google Patents
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- the disclosure relates to gas turbines. More particularly, the disclosure relates to protective coatings for hot section components.
- An exemplary gas turbine is discussed in the context of a gas turbine engine used for aircraft propulsion.
- Such an engine has a core gaspath passing sequentially through one or more compressor sections for compressing ingested air, a combustor section for combusting the compressed air and an introduced fuel to generate high pressure/temperature combustion gases, and one or more turbine sections for extracting work from the combustion gases to drive the compressor sections.
- the turbine sections also drive a fan which, in turn drives air along a flowpath bypassing the core flowpath.
- Exemplary turbine sections are axial turbines wherein flow passes through one or more stages of rotating blades interspersed with stationary vanes or counter-rotating blades.
- the blades of a given stage may be unitarily formed with or mounted to the periphery of a disk.
- the disks of each section may be mounted to co-rotate with each other and any compressor section driven thereby.
- Exemplary compressor sections are also axial, although centrifugal compressors and turbines are also known.
- Engine components e.g., combustor panels, vanes, blades, disks, air seals, and the like
- Engine components e.g., combustor panels, vanes, blades, disks, air seals, and the like
- Engine components are particularly subject to corrosion and erosion. Additionally, due to temperature increase with sequential stages of compression, the higher pressure portions of the compressor sections may be subject to significant operational heating.
- Exemplary substrate materials include a number of cast or powdermetallurgical (PM) forged nickel-based superalloys and/or cobalt-based superalloys.
- PM cast or powdermetallurgical
- the centrifugal loading to which disks are exposed makes disks a particular area of concern for substrate materials.
- Thermal barrier coating (TBC) systems have been developed for hot section components.
- Typical such systems have one or more insulative ceramic layers (e.g., zirconia-based such as yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) and/or gadolinia-stabilized zirconia (GSZ)).
- YSZ yttria-stabilized zirconia
- GSZ gadolinia-stabilized zirconia
- Such coatings may be used in combination with metallic bondcoats.
- temperatures may be sufficiently lower than directly in the gaspath (e.g., to which airfoils are exposed) that the insulative benefit of ceramic TBC may be traded for improved hot corrosion protection of a metallic coating system.
- EP 1930467 describes an environmental coating suitable for use on turbine components such as turbine disks and turbine seal elements, formed of alloys susceptible to oxidation and hot corrosion.
- US 2005/058848 describes a zinc-diffused nickel alloy coating for corrosion and heat protection and to a method for forming such a coating.
- One aspect of the disclosure involves a coated article comprising a nickel-based superalloy substrate and a coating system atop the substrate.
- the coating system has a nickel-based first layer and a chromium-based second layer atop the first layer, wherein the first layer is essentially pure nickel and the second layer is essentially pure chromium.
- a further embodiment may additionally and/or alternatively include the substrate being a powder metallurgical substrate.
- a further embodiment may additionally and/or alternatively include the coated article being a turbine engine disk.
- a further embodiment may additionally and/or alternatively include the first layer having a characteristic thickness T 1 of 13 micrometers to 51 micrometers and the second layer having a characteristic thickness T 2 of 13 micrometers to 51 micrometers.
- a further embodiment may additionally and/or alternatively include the coating system consisting of said first layer and said second layer.
- a further embodiment may additionally and/or alternatively include the coating system lacking a ceramic layer.
- a further embodiment includes a method for manufacturing the coated article comprising a nickel-based superalloy substrate; and a coating system atop the substrate and comprising a nickel-based first layer; and a chromium-based second layer atop the first layer.
- the method comprises: plating the first layer; and electroplating the second layer, wherein the plating of the first layer is plating of nickel; and electroplating of the second layer is electroplating of chromium.
- a further embodiment may additionally and/or alternatively include the first layer plating being electroplating.
- a further embodiment may additionally and/or alternatively include forming the substrate by forging of a powder metallurgical material.
- a further embodiment includes a method for using the coated article.
- the method comprises: installing the article in a gas turbine engine; and running the gas turbine engine to heat the article.
- FIG. 1 shows a gas turbine engine disk assembly 20 including a disk 22 and a plurality of blades 24.
- the disk is generally annular, extending from an inboard bore or hub 26 at a central aperture to an outboard rim 28.
- a relatively thin web 30 is radially between the bore 26 and rim 28.
- the periphery of the rim 28 has a circumferential array of engagement features 32 (e.g., dovetail slots) for engaging complementary features 34 of the blades 24.
- the disk and blades may be a unitary structure (e.g., so-called "integrally bladed" rotors or disks).
- the disk 22 may be formed by a powder metallurgical forging process (e.g., as is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 6,521,175 ).
- the elemental components of the alloy are mixed (e.g., as individual components of refined purity or alloys thereof).
- the mixture is melted sufficiently to eliminate component segregation.
- the melted mixture is atomized to form droplets of molten metal.
- the atomized droplets are cooled to solidify into powder particles.
- the powder may be screened to restrict the ranges of powder particle sizes allowed.
- the powder is put into a container.
- the container of powder is consolidated in a multi-step process involving compression and heating.
- the resulting consolidated powder then has essentially the full density of the alloy without the chemical segregation typical of larger castings.
- a blank of the consolidated powder may be forged at appropriate temperatures and deformation constraints to provide a forging with the basic disk profile.
- the forging is then heat treated in a multi-step process involving high temperature heating followed by a rapid cooling process or quench.
- the quench for the heat treatment may also form strengthening precipitates (e.g., gamma prime and eta phases) of a desired distribution of sizes and desired volume percentages.
- Subsequent heat treatments are used to modify these distributions to produce the requisite mechanical properties of the manufactured forging.
- the increased grain size is associated with good high-temperature creep-resistance and decreased rate of crack growth during the service of the manufactured forging.
- the heat treated forging is then subject to machining of the final profile and the slots.
- FIG. 2 schematically shows a section of the disk (e.g., along a rim portion such as an outer diameter (OD) surface or a front surface or a rear surface).
- the disk has a forged PM substrate 100 as discussed above.
- a coating system 102 lies atop the substrate and has an overall thickness T.
- the exemplary coating system comprises a lower or inner/inboard first layer 104 (e.g., atop a surface 106 of the substrate) and an upper or outer/outboard second layer 108 (e.g., atop a surface 110 of the first layer).
- the respective first and second layers have thicknesses T 1 and T 2 .
- An exemplary surface 112 of the second layer is exposed and, thus, it does not bear any further coating layer (namely, a ceramic TBC).
- Exemplary T 1 is 6.0 micrometers to 50 micrometers, more narrowly 6.0 micrometers to 25 micrometers or 6.0 micrometers to 15.0 micrometers.
- Exemplary T 2 is 6.0 micrometers to 50 micrometers, more narrowly 6.0 micrometers to 25 micrometers or 10.0 micrometers to 20.0 micrometers.
- the second layer provides corrosion resistance.
- the second layer consists essentially of chromium (e.g., offering equivalent performance to pure chromium).
- the first layer With a second layer material that is relatively brittle, the first layer provides a relatively ductile interface with the substrate to prevent cracks in the second layer from propagating into the substrate.
- the first layer consists essentially of nickel (e.g., offering equivalent performance to pure nickel).
- one or both layers may be pure or relatively pure chromium and nickel, respectively but may be subject to some diffusion with each other or the substrate.
- An exemplary process for depositing the first layer is plating (e.g., electroless or electroplating). This may be applied directly to the machined substrate to build to the thickness T 1 .
- plating e.g., electroless or electroplating
- the second layer is deposited by electroplating. This is applied directly to the first layer (e.g., after any washing) to build to the thickness T 2 .
- Exemplary electroplating is disclosed in US Patent Application Publication 2013/0220819 entitled "Electrodeposition of Chromium from Trivalent Chromium Using Modulated Electric Fields". Such use of a trivalent chromium bath avoids toxicity concerns of hexavalent chromium.
- FIG. 3 is a micrograph of an exemplary such two layer coating system 102.
- the lower layer 104 is directly atop the substrate and is thinner than the upper layer 104 (e.g. about 15% to 33% of the upper layer thickness).
- FIG. 4 shows a baseline MCrAlY.
- a dark boundary 122 is seen between the two layers. This is a very thin gap that appears to have been created during the sectioning/mounting process for generating the micrograph. Also, it is seen that, compared to the MCrAlY, there is a lower degree of apparent interdiffusion with the substrate. Finally, it is seen that, compared to the MCrAlY, there is a lower degree of apparent surface roughness of the exposed coating surface.
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Description
- The disclosure relates to gas turbines. More particularly, the disclosure relates to protective coatings for hot section components.
- An exemplary gas turbine is discussed in the context of a gas turbine engine used for aircraft propulsion. Such an engine has a core gaspath passing sequentially through one or more compressor sections for compressing ingested air, a combustor section for combusting the compressed air and an introduced fuel to generate high pressure/temperature combustion gases, and one or more turbine sections for extracting work from the combustion gases to drive the compressor sections. With an exemplary turbofan engine, the turbine sections also drive a fan which, in turn drives air along a flowpath bypassing the core flowpath. Exemplary turbine sections are axial turbines wherein flow passes through one or more stages of rotating blades interspersed with stationary vanes or counter-rotating blades. The blades of a given stage may be unitarily formed with or mounted to the periphery of a disk. The disks of each section may be mounted to co-rotate with each other and any compressor section driven thereby. Exemplary compressor sections are also axial, although centrifugal compressors and turbines are also known.
- Engine components (e.g., combustor panels, vanes, blades, disks, air seals, and the like) exposed to the combustion gases and heat are particularly subject to corrosion and erosion. Additionally, due to temperature increase with sequential stages of compression, the higher pressure portions of the compressor sections may be subject to significant operational heating.
- A variety of substrate materials and protective coatings have been developed for these components. Exemplary substrate materials include a number of cast or powdermetallurgical (PM) forged nickel-based superalloys and/or cobalt-based superalloys. The centrifugal loading to which disks are exposed makes disks a particular area of concern for substrate materials.
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US Patent 6,521,175 of Mourer, et al., issued February 18, 2003 , and entitled "Superalloy optimized for high-temperature performance in high-pressure turbine disks" discloses an advanced nickel-base superalloy for powder metallurgical (PM) manufacture of turbine disks. More recent alloys have been proposed inUS Patent 8,147,749, of Reynolds, issued April 3, 2012 , and entitled "Superalloy compositions, articles, and methods of manufacture" andUS Patent Application Publications 2013/0209265A1 and2013/0209266A1, both of Reynolds, et al., published August 15, 2013 and entitled "Superalloy Compositions, Articles, and Methods of Manufacture". - Thermal barrier coating (TBC) systems have been developed for hot section components. Typical such systems have one or more insulative ceramic layers (e.g., zirconia-based such as yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) and/or gadolinia-stabilized zirconia (GSZ)). Such coatings may be used in combination with metallic bondcoats.
- On disks and certain areas of certain other components, it may be impractical or unnecessary to apply a ceramic TBC. For example, at disk rims and portions inboard thereof temperatures may be sufficiently lower than directly in the gaspath (e.g., to which airfoils are exposed) that the insulative benefit of ceramic TBC may be traded for improved hot corrosion protection of a metallic coating system.
- As gas turbine operating temperatures new engine designs continue to increase relative to their predecessors, high pressure compressor disks and high pressure turbine disks are entering into a temperature regime where deposit-induced hot corrosion (even in the absence of direct exposure to combustion gas) presents a substantial durability risk. While these components (or at least some relevant portions thereof) are not exposed to combustion gas (e.g., are not directly along the core gaspath and may be partially isolated therefrom by seals and the like), deposits can develop as a result of ingestion of particulate matter from the atmosphere. In addition, substantial concentrations of SO2 gas, which is known to exacerbate hot corrosion attack, can be present in the atmosphere in certain regions of the world. Hot corrosion is most severe in geographic regions which have elevated levels of airborne particulate matter and gaseous pollution, man-made or otherwise.
- There are also substantial problems when aircraft operate in coastal regions, because ingested sea salt can also result in severe hot corrosion attack. The polycrystalline Ni-base superalloys of typical turbine and compressor disks do not have sufficient hot corrosion resistance. Thus there is an increasing need for disks (and certain legacy components) to have hot corrosion-resistant coatings in order to meet life requirements. In addition to providing hot corrosion resistance, these coatings are advantageously designed such that debits to low cycle fatigue are minimal. This can be accomplished by developing coatings that are either ductile or only loosely adherent to the superalloy substrate.
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US Patent 4,346,137, of Hecht, issued August 24, 1982 , and entitled "High temperature fatigue oxidation resistant coating on superalloy substrate" discloses an MCrAlY TBC bondcoat which may be used as underplatform blade coating without. -
US Patent Application Publication 2010/0009092 A1, of Tryon et al., published January 14, 2010 and entitled "Economic Oxidation and Fatigue Resistant Metallic Coating" discloses another MCrAlY TBC bondcoat. -
US Patent 8,124,246, of Tolpygo, issued February 28, 2012 , and entitled "Coated Components and Methods of Fabricating Coated Components and Coated Turbine Disks" discloses use of sequential diffusion coating of chromium and noble metal on such a superalloy disk. -
EP 1930467 describes an environmental coating suitable for use on turbine components such as turbine disks and turbine seal elements, formed of alloys susceptible to oxidation and hot corrosion. -
US 2005/058848 describes a zinc-diffused nickel alloy coating for corrosion and heat protection and to a method for forming such a coating. - One aspect of the disclosure involves a coated article comprising a nickel-based superalloy substrate and a coating system atop the substrate. The coating system has a nickel-based first layer and a chromium-based second layer atop the first layer, wherein the first layer is essentially pure nickel and the second layer is essentially pure chromium.
- A further embodiment may additionally and/or alternatively include the substrate being a powder metallurgical substrate.
- A further embodiment may additionally and/or alternatively include the coated article being a turbine engine disk.
- A further embodiment may additionally and/or alternatively include the first layer having a characteristic thickness T1 of 13 micrometers to 51 micrometers and the second layer having a characteristic thickness T2 of 13 micrometers to 51 micrometers.
- A further embodiment may additionally and/or alternatively include the coating system consisting of said first layer and said second layer.
- A further embodiment may additionally and/or alternatively include the coating system lacking a ceramic layer.
- A further embodiment includes a method for manufacturing the coated article comprising a nickel-based superalloy substrate; and a coating system atop the substrate and comprising a nickel-based first layer; and a chromium-based second layer atop the first layer. The method comprises: plating the first layer; and electroplating the second layer, wherein the plating of the first layer is plating of nickel; and electroplating of the second layer is electroplating of chromium.
- A further embodiment may additionally and/or alternatively include the first layer plating being electroplating.
- A further embodiment may additionally and/or alternatively include forming the substrate by forging of a powder metallurgical material.
- A further embodiment includes a method for using the coated article. The method comprises: installing the article in a gas turbine engine; and running the gas turbine engine to heat the article.
- The details of one or more embodiments are set forth in the accompanying drawings and the description below. Other features, objects, and advantages will be apparent from the description and drawings, and from the claims.
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FIG. 1 is an exploded partial view of a gas turbine engine turbine disk assembly. -
FIG. 2 is a schematic sectional view of a surface region of the disk showing a substrate and coating. -
FIG. 3 is a photomicrograph of a section of the substrate and coating. -
FIG. 4 is a photomicrograph of a section of a substrate and a prior art MCrAlY overlay coating. - Like reference numbers and designations in the various drawings indicate like elements.
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FIG. 1 shows a gas turbineengine disk assembly 20 including adisk 22 and a plurality ofblades 24. The disk is generally annular, extending from an inboard bore orhub 26 at a central aperture to anoutboard rim 28. A relativelythin web 30 is radially between thebore 26 andrim 28. The periphery of therim 28 has a circumferential array of engagement features 32 (e.g., dovetail slots) for engagingcomplementary features 34 of theblades 24. In other embodiments, the disk and blades may be a unitary structure (e.g., so-called "integrally bladed" rotors or disks). - The
disk 22 may be formed by a powder metallurgical forging process (e.g., as is disclosed inU.S. Pat. No. 6,521,175 ). In an exemplary process, the elemental components of the alloy are mixed (e.g., as individual components of refined purity or alloys thereof). The mixture is melted sufficiently to eliminate component segregation. The melted mixture is atomized to form droplets of molten metal. The atomized droplets are cooled to solidify into powder particles. The powder may be screened to restrict the ranges of powder particle sizes allowed. The powder is put into a container. The container of powder is consolidated in a multi-step process involving compression and heating. The resulting consolidated powder then has essentially the full density of the alloy without the chemical segregation typical of larger castings. A blank of the consolidated powder may be forged at appropriate temperatures and deformation constraints to provide a forging with the basic disk profile. The forging is then heat treated in a multi-step process involving high temperature heating followed by a rapid cooling process or quench. The quench for the heat treatment may also form strengthening precipitates (e.g., gamma prime and eta phases) of a desired distribution of sizes and desired volume percentages. Subsequent heat treatments are used to modify these distributions to produce the requisite mechanical properties of the manufactured forging. The increased grain size is associated with good high-temperature creep-resistance and decreased rate of crack growth during the service of the manufactured forging. The heat treated forging is then subject to machining of the final profile and the slots. -
FIG. 2 schematically shows a section of the disk (e.g., along a rim portion such as an outer diameter (OD) surface or a front surface or a rear surface). The disk has a forgedPM substrate 100 as discussed above. Acoating system 102 lies atop the substrate and has an overall thickness T. The exemplary coating system comprises a lower or inner/inboard first layer 104 (e.g., atop asurface 106 of the substrate) and an upper or outer/outboard second layer 108 (e.g., atop asurface 110 of the first layer). The respective first and second layers have thicknesses T1 and T2. Anexemplary surface 112 of the second layer is exposed and, thus, it does not bear any further coating layer (namely, a ceramic TBC). - Exemplary T1 is 6.0 micrometers to 50 micrometers, more narrowly 6.0 micrometers to 25 micrometers or 6.0 micrometers to 15.0 micrometers. Exemplary T2 is 6.0 micrometers to 50 micrometers, more narrowly 6.0 micrometers to 25 micrometers or 10.0 micrometers to 20.0 micrometers.
- In operation, the second layer provides corrosion resistance. The second layer consists essentially of chromium (e.g., offering equivalent performance to pure chromium). With a second layer material that is relatively brittle, the first layer provides a relatively ductile interface with the substrate to prevent cracks in the second layer from propagating into the substrate. The first layer consists essentially of nickel (e.g., offering equivalent performance to pure nickel). As applied, one or both layers may be pure or relatively pure chromium and nickel, respectively but may be subject to some diffusion with each other or the substrate.
- An exemplary process for depositing the first layer is plating (e.g., electroless or electroplating). This may be applied directly to the machined substrate to build to the thickness T1.
- The second layer is deposited by electroplating. This is applied directly to the first layer (e.g., after any washing) to build to the thickness T2. Exemplary electroplating is disclosed in
US Patent Application Publication 2013/0220819 entitled "Electrodeposition of Chromium from Trivalent Chromium Using Modulated Electric Fields". Such use of a trivalent chromium bath avoids toxicity concerns of hexavalent chromium. -
FIG. 3 is a micrograph of an exemplary such twolayer coating system 102. Thelower layer 104 is directly atop the substrate and is thinner than the upper layer 104 (e.g. about 15% to 33% of the upper layer thickness). For comparison,FIG. 4 shows a baseline MCrAlY. Several things appear. First, it is seen thatcracks 120 in theupper layer 108 normal to the surface (outer surfaces lower layer 104. The lower layer ductility, is believed to help avoid such crack propagation. In operation, thesecracks 120 may effectively seal up with a protective Cr2O3 scale during exposure which may add to robustness and protection. - Second, a
dark boundary 122 is seen between the two layers. This is a very thin gap that appears to have been created during the sectioning/mounting process for generating the micrograph. Also, it is seen that, compared to the MCrAlY, there is a lower degree of apparent interdiffusion with the substrate. Finally, it is seen that, compared to the MCrAlY, there is a lower degree of apparent surface roughness of the exposed coating surface.
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- A coated article (22) comprising:a nickel-based superalloy substrate (100); anda coating system (102) atop the substrate and comprising:a nickel-based first layer (104); anda chromium-based second layer (108) atop the first layer, wherein:the first layer is essentially pure nickel; andthe second layer is essentially pure chromium.
- The coated article of claim 1 wherein:
the substrate is a powder metallurgical substrate. - The coated article of claim 1 or claim 2 being a turbine engine disk.
- The coated article of any preceding claim wherein:the first layer has a characteristic thickness T1 of 13 micrometers to 51 micrometers; andthe second layer has a characteristic thickness T2 of 13 micrometers to 51 micrometers.
- The coated article of any preceding claim wherein:
the coating system consists of said first layer and said second layer. - The coated article of any one of claims 1-4 wherein:
the coating system lacks a ceramic layer. - A method for using the coated article of any of claims 1-6, the method comprising:installing the article in a gas turbine engine; andrunning the gas turbine engine to heat the article.
- A method for manufacturing a coated article comprising:a nickel-based superalloy substrate (100); anda coating system (102) atop the substrate and comprising:and the electroplating of the second layer is electroplating of chromium.a nickel-based first layer (104); anda chromium-based second layer (108) atop the first layer, the method comprising:plating the first layer; andelectroplating the second layer,wherein the plating of the first layer is plating of nickel;
- The method of claim 8 wherein:
the first layer plating is electroplating. - The method of claim 8 or claim 9, further comprising:
forming the substrate by forging of a powder metallurgical material. - The method of any of claims 8-10 wherein:the first layer has a characteristic thickness of 13 micrometers to 51 micrometers; andthe second layer has a characteristic thickness of 13 micrometers to 51 micrometers.
- The method of any of claims 8-11 wherein:
the coating system consists of said first layer and said second layer. - The method of any of claims 8-11 wherein the coating system of the coated article lacks a ceramic layer.
- The method of any of claims 8-13 wherein the coated article is a turbine engine disk.
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