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- the present invention relates generally to the protective coating art and is more particularly concerned with a new diffusion-coating method of providing oxidation resistant aluminum alloy coatings on nickel-base superalloy bodies, and with a novel composition for use in carrying out that method.
- the charge material will desirably be of substantially smaller particle size than that heretofore preferred in practice, and will comprise a relatively small proportion of the diffusion-coating bed, being admixed with an inexpensive inert material such as alumina so that sticking of the sintered charge is prevented and the cost of the charge is reduced to the point that the economic necessity of recovery and reuse is eliminated.
- this invention consists in the step of heating a nickel-base superalloy article to be provided with a protective coating to the temperature range of 900 to 1, 100C in the presence of hydrogen, an aluminum source and a halide carrier in particulate form. More specifically, this process includes as additional and preliminary steps the mixing of the aluminum source and carrier in the form of minus 100- mesh particle size to provide a bed and the placing of the superalloy article to be coated by the diffusion coating process within that bed.
- the carrier is sodium fluoride or ammonium fluoride and the aluminum source is FeAl Fe Al or FeAl or a mixture thereof.
- the aluminum source and carrier of minus 325-mesh size are admixed with alumina of similar particle size to provide a diffusion-coating bed made up of from five to 40 percent of the aluminum source, from 0.1 to 0.4 percent carrier and from about 60 to percent alumina.
- my invention concept in general terms takes the form of a substantially uniform mixture of minus IOO-mesh size fines of alumina, aluminum source and halide carrier in which the aluminum source comprises from 5 to 40 percent of the mixture and the carrier is present in amount from 0.1 to 0.4 percent, the balance being alumina.
- the aluminum source is FeAI Fe- Al or FeAl and is present in amounts of about 40 percent in the case of either FeAl or Fe Al and about eight per cent in the case of FeAl
- the carrier is preferably ammonium fluoride or sodium fluoride and is present in the mixture in amount about 0.2 percent.
- the process is conducted at a temperature from 900C to 1,100C with l,050C at present representing the best practice of the invention.
- the results which are obtained in using temperatures outside this range, and particularly below the lower end of it, are not as consistently good as usually desired, while temperatures above the upper end of the range do not afford a sufficient advantage of greater diffusion-coating rates or efficiencies to warrant the increased equipment and operating costs.
- any convenient halide or halide mixture may be used in this process.
- ammonium halide or an alkali metal halide a convenient halide or halide mixture
- Another halide such as aluminum chloride or aluminum fluoride may be used although it is neither as economical or easy to use as the corresponding ammonium or sodium or potassium salts.
- the thickness of the diffusion coating produced in accordance with this process will depend mainly upon the temperature at which the process is carried out and the length of the diffusion-coating period. Because of the high degree of uniformity of the resulting diffusion coatings and the freedom of these coatings from breaks and flaws, I prefer to limit their thickness to a total of 10 to microns. Coatings of such thickness will provide oxidation resistance to the extent that only much thicker coatings of the prior art afford, and there is normally no significant advantage in prolonging the process to obtain diffusion coatings of such greater thickness.
- aluminide diffusion coatings on a number of nickel and nickel-base superalloy articles using ammonium fluoride or sodium fluoride as the carrier and FeAI or Fe Al or FeAl as the aluminum source or charge material.
- alumina was used as an inert filler to make up a treating bed consisting of a substantially uniform mixture of about 0.2 percent of carrier, from eight to 40 percent charge alloy and balance alumina, all of particle size of minus IOO-mesh and in several instances minus 325-mesh.
- the treating temperature was maintained substantially constant in every case for a full three-hour period and in most runs was l.050C.
- the articles to be coated were buried in the bed contained in a box-like retort, then the retort was flushed with pure, dry hydrogen (dew point approximating 80C) and closed to maintain a hydrogen atmosphere substantially free from air throughout the treating period.
- the retort was then brought to temperature in an electric oven and furnace-cooled beginning at a time 3 hours later. Thereafter, the nickel or nickelbase superalloy parts were removed from the retort and examined with the results set forth in the following tables:
- the coating on the test specimen was uniform in thickness and consisted of nickel aluminides of aluminum content decreasing with depth in the coating. Bonding of the coating consequently was consistently good and the coatings were all continuous and hole-free and resistant to oxidation at elevated temperature. The gain in weight in all cases is attributable to the deposition of aluminum which is in contrast to the prior art practice of carrying out the diffusion-coating operation in such a way as to codeposit iron and aluminum.
- the hydrogen pressure within the retort before the heating step is begun is not critical in terms of this diffusion-coating method and neither is the presence in the bed of an excess of carrier.
- the diffusion-coating method of providing an aluminum-containing, oxidation-resistant protective coating on a nickel-base superalloy article which comprises the steps of providing a diffusion-coating bed of a mixture of-l00 mesh size particles of from 5 to 40 percent of an aluminum source and from 0.1 to 0.4 per cent ofa halide carrier and from about 60 to percent of a filler material said aluminum source being selected from the group consisting of FeAl I e- A1 and FeAl and mixtures thereof and said halide carrier being selected from the group consisting of ammonium fluoride, aluminum chloride and sodium fluoride. embedding the superalloy articles in the diffusion-coating bed, flushing the bed with hydrogen, and heating the bed and article therein to 900 to 1,100C while maintaining a hydrogen atmosphere in the bed until a coating of the desired thickness has been formed on the article.
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Abstract
A nickel-base superalloy article is provided with an oxidationresistant coating by heating it to 1,050*C for 3 hours in a bed consisting of a mixture of fine particles of FeAl3 (40%), NH4F (0.2%) and Al2O3 under a hydrogen atmosphere.
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filtrate States Patent 11 1 1111 3,37,901 Seyboit 1 Sept. 24, 1974 [54] DIFFUSION-COATING OF NICKEL-BASE 3,257,230 6/1966 Wachtell 117 107.2 R OY ICL 3,415,676 12/1968 Nishi et a1 117/107.2 3,436,249 4/1969 Lambert et a1. 117/130 Inventor: Alan Seybolt, Ballston p NY 3,544,348 12/1970 Boone 117/1072 P 3,677,789 7/1972 Bungardt et a1. 117/130 [73] Assgnee' g ggg gg fi e 3,771,974 11 1973 Itakura et a1. 117/107.2 P
[22] Filed: Aug. 21, 1970 Primary Examiner-Charles E. Van Horn Assistant Examiner-J. W. Massie [21] Appl' 66069 Attorney, Agent, or FirmCharles T. Watts; Joseph T.
Cohen; Jerome C. Squillaro [52] US. (31..., 117/107.2 P, 106/1, 117/131 [51] Int. Cl. C23c 9/02 [58] Field of Search 117/107.2 P, 130, 131; [57] T 106/62, 1 A nlckel-base superalloy arttcle 1s provlded wtth an oxidation-resistant coating by heating it to 1,050C for 5 References Cited 3 hours in a bed consisting of a mixture of fine parti- UNITED STATES PATENTS cles of FeAl (40%), NH F (0.2%) and A1 0 under a hydrogen atmosphere. 3,096,160 7/1963 Puyear 117/107.2 X 3,163,553 12/1964 Commanday et a1 117/107.2 X 10 Claims, N0 Drawings DIFFUSION-COATING OF NICKEL-BASE SUPERALLOY ARTICLES The present invention relates generally to the protective coating art and is more particularly concerned with a new diffusion-coating method of providing oxidation resistant aluminum alloy coatings on nickel-base superalloy bodies, and with a novel composition for use in carrying out that method.
It has been known for some time in the art that by a diffusion coating operation protective coatings can be provided on superalloy components of gas turbine engines and similar parts intended for service in corrosive atmospheres at high temperatures. Thus, an article to be coated is heated in a bed of charge material and a suitable carrier in particulate form until a coating of the desired thickness has been formed over the surface of the article to be protected. Finely-divided aluminum fluoride may serve as the carrier while the charge material is an iron-base alloy containing 19 to 35 percent aluminum, which codeposits with the iron and diffuses into the surface of the superalloy article producing a smooth and bright coating of good oxidation and erosion resistance. Such coatings, however, must be comparatively thick to provide the protection desired and consequently are relatively expensive to produce and are not readily applicable to articles having close dimensional tolerances.
I have discovered that the protection afforded by such coatings can be obtained with different and much thinner coatings which can be produced much more rapidly and economically than those of the prior art. The diffusion coating technique can therefore now be extended to high-precision articles such as jet engine blades. Further, I have found that contrary to the prior art teachings, it is unnecessary to codeposit iron and aluminum to avoid either coating irregularity or corrosion of the workpiece, and it is also not necessary to employ as the coating source or charge material an alloy of iron and aluminum containing substantially less aluminum than iron. In fact, it is essential to the new results of this invention that the charge material contain 50 percent to 60 percent of aluminum and that the process be carried out in the presence of hydrogen, which I believe performs a carrier function. Additionally, I have found that the charge material will desirably be of substantially smaller particle size than that heretofore preferred in practice, and will comprise a relatively small proportion of the diffusion-coating bed, being admixed with an inexpensive inert material such as alumina so that sticking of the sintered charge is prevented and the cost of the charge is reduced to the point that the economic necessity of recovery and reuse is eliminated.
The present invention is based upon these discoveries and has both composition and method aspects. Defined most broadly in method terms, this invention consists in the step of heating a nickel-base superalloy article to be provided with a protective coating to the temperature range of 900 to 1, 100C in the presence of hydrogen, an aluminum source and a halide carrier in particulate form. More specifically, this process includes as additional and preliminary steps the mixing of the aluminum source and carrier in the form of minus 100- mesh particle size to provide a bed and the placing of the superalloy article to be coated by the diffusion coating process within that bed. Preferably, the carrier is sodium fluoride or ammonium fluoride and the aluminum source is FeAl Fe Al or FeAl or a mixture thereof. Also preferably, the aluminum source and carrier of minus 325-mesh size are admixed with alumina of similar particle size to provide a diffusion-coating bed made up of from five to 40 percent of the aluminum source, from 0.1 to 0.4 percent carrier and from about 60 to percent alumina.
In its compositional aspects, my invention concept in general terms takes the form of a substantially uniform mixture of minus IOO-mesh size fines of alumina, aluminum source and halide carrier in which the aluminum source comprises from 5 to 40 percent of the mixture and the carrier is present in amount from 0.1 to 0.4 percent, the balance being alumina. In my preferred practice, however, the aluminum source is FeAI Fe- Al or FeAl and is present in amounts of about 40 percent in the case of either FeAl or Fe Al and about eight per cent in the case of FeAl Also, in these compositions or mixtures, the carrier is preferably ammonium fluoride or sodium fluoride and is present in the mixture in amount about 0.2 percent.
As indicated above, the process is conducted at a temperature from 900C to 1,100C with l,050C at present representing the best practice of the invention. The results which are obtained in using temperatures outside this range, and particularly below the lower end of it, are not as consistently good as usually desired, while temperatures above the upper end of the range do not afford a sufficient advantage of greater diffusion-coating rates or efficiencies to warrant the increased equipment and operating costs.
As the activator or carrier material of the system, any convenient halide or halide mixture may be used in this process. As a practical matter, however, I prefer to use either ammonium halide or an alkali metal halide. Another halide such as aluminum chloride or aluminum fluoride may be used although it is neither as economical or easy to use as the corresponding ammonium or sodium or potassium salts.
The thickness of the diffusion coating produced in accordance with this process will depend mainly upon the temperature at which the process is carried out and the length of the diffusion-coating period. Because of the high degree of uniformity of the resulting diffusion coatings and the freedom of these coatings from breaks and flaws, I prefer to limit their thickness to a total of 10 to microns. Coatings of such thickness will provide oxidation resistance to the extent that only much thicker coatings of the prior art afford, and there is normally no significant advantage in prolonging the process to obtain diffusion coatings of such greater thickness.
In actual experiments conducted in accordance with the best present practice of this invention, I have produced aluminide diffusion coatings on a number of nickel and nickel-base superalloy articles using ammonium fluoride or sodium fluoride as the carrier and FeAI or Fe Al or FeAl as the aluminum source or charge material. In every run, alumina was used as an inert filler to make up a treating bed consisting of a substantially uniform mixture of about 0.2 percent of carrier, from eight to 40 percent charge alloy and balance alumina, all of particle size of minus IOO-mesh and in several instances minus 325-mesh. The treating temperature was maintained substantially constant in every case for a full three-hour period and in most runs was l.050C. The articles to be coated were buried in the bed contained in a box-like retort, then the retort was flushed with pure, dry hydrogen (dew point approximating 80C) and closed to maintain a hydrogen atmosphere substantially free from air throughout the treating period. The retort was then brought to temperature in an electric oven and furnace-cooled beginning at a time 3 hours later. Thereafter, the nickel or nickelbase superalloy parts were removed from the retort and examined with the results set forth in the following tables:
TABLE I Charg Alloy Run Alloy Charge Particle No. Coated Carrier Alloy Size 3760 Ni .2% NH F 40% FeAl 325 3771 i do. 40% Fe Al 325 3795 Superalloy do. 40% FeAl 325 MM246 3833 MMZ46 do. 40% Fe Al 325 3839 Rene 80 do. 40% FeAl lO 3865 do. do. 4.0% FeAl 100 3867 do. do. 80% FeAL, l00 3868 do. do. 16.0% FeAl 100 3871 do. do. do. l00 3892 do 2% Nl-LC] 8.0% FeAl -l00 3894 do .23% NaF do. 100 3910 do 2% NH F do. l00 3912 do. do. do. -l00 3918 do do. 8.0% Fe Al 325 3919 do do. 32.0% Fe Al, 325 3935 do. do 80% FeAl -325 TABLE II Coating Time Thickness Unit wt. gain Run No. "C (Hours) (Microns) Mg/Cnt 3760 1050 3 43 7.5 3771 do. do. 40 6.0 3795 850 do. 38 3.0 3833 1050 do. 53 6.0 3839 950 do. 3l 3.8 3865 1050 do. 20 2.2 3867 do. do. 30 3.0 3868 do. do. 35 3.4 3871 do. do. 31 3.5 3892 do. do. 34 3.7 3894 do. do. 37 3.8 3910 950 do. 24 3.0 3912 1050 do. 39 4.2 3918 do. do. 36 3.7 3919 do. do. 39 4.2 3935 do. do. 41 3.6
lnevery instance the coating on the test specimen was uniform in thickness and consisted of nickel aluminides of aluminum content decreasing with depth in the coating. Bonding of the coating consequently was consistently good and the coatings were all continuous and hole-free and resistant to oxidation at elevated temperature. The gain in weight in all cases is attributable to the deposition of aluminum which is in contrast to the prior art practice of carrying out the diffusion-coating operation in such a way as to codeposit iron and aluminum.
The hydrogen pressure within the retort before the heating step is begun is not critical in terms of this diffusion-coating method and neither is the presence in the bed of an excess of carrier. However. in order to avoid the development of undesirably high gas pressures during the high-temperature stage of the process, I prefer to limit the carrier to less than one per cent of the bed and to limit the initial hydrogen pressure in the retort to 10 psi gauge pressure.
in the specification and the appended claims whenever proportions or percentages are stated. it is with reference to the weight basis. Also, reference is to the Tyler Standard Screens in all practice size descriptions.
What 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the united States is:
1. The diffusion-coating method of providing an aluminum-containing, oxidation-resistant protective coating on a nickel-base superalloy article which comprises the steps of providing a diffusion-coating bed of a mixture of-l00 mesh size particles of from 5 to 40 percent of an aluminum source and from 0.1 to 0.4 per cent ofa halide carrier and from about 60 to percent of a filler material said aluminum source being selected from the group consisting of FeAl I e- A1 and FeAl and mixtures thereof and said halide carrier being selected from the group consisting of ammonium fluoride, aluminum chloride and sodium fluoride. embedding the superalloy articles in the diffusion-coating bed, flushing the bed with hydrogen, and heating the bed and article therein to 900 to 1,100C while maintaining a hydrogen atmosphere in the bed until a coating of the desired thickness has been formed on the article.
2. The method of claim 1 in which the said source is FeAl 3. The method of claim 1 in which the carrier is sodium fluoride.
4. The method of claim 1 in which the carrier is ammonium fluoride.
5. The method of claim 1 in which the aluminum source is Fe Al 6. The method of claim 1 in which the aluminum source is FeAl;;.
7. The method of claim 1 in which the aluminum source is a mixture of FeAl Fe Al and FeAl:,.
8. For use in the diffusion-coating of a nickelbase superalloy article a substantially uniform mixture of minus l00-mesh size fines of alumina, an aluminum source selected from the group consisting of FeAl Fe- Al and and FeAl and mixtures thereof, and a halide carrier selected from the group consisting of ammo nium fluoride, ammonium chloride, and sodium fluoride, the aluminum source being present in the mixture in amount of from live to 40 percent, the said carrier being in amount from 0.l to 0.4 percent and the alumina constituting the balance of the mixture.
9. The mixture of claim 8 in which the aluminum source is FeAlwhich amounts to 40 percent of the mixture, and in which the carrier is ammonium fluoride amounting to 0.2 percent of the mixture.
10. The mixture of claim 8 in which the aluminum source is FeAl amounting to eight percent of the mixture and the carrier is sodium fluoride amounting to about 0.2 percent of the mixture.
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- 2. The method of claim 1 in which the said source is FeAl2.
- 3. The method of claim 1 in which the carrier is sodium fluoride.
- 4. The method of claim 1 in which the carrier is ammonium fluoride.
- 5. The method of claim 1 in which the aluminum source is Fe2Al5.
- 6. The method of claim 1 in which the aluminum source is FeAl3.
- 7. The method of claim 1 in which the aluminum source is a mixture of FeAl2, Fe2Al5 and FeAl3.
- 8. For use in the diffusion-coating of a nickelbase superalloy article a substantially uniform mixture of minus 100-mesh size fines of alumina, an aluminum source selected from the group consisting of FeAl2, Fe2Al5 and and FeAl3 and mixtures thereof, and a halide carrier selected from the group consisting of ammonium fluoride, ammonium chloride, and sodium fluoride, the aluminum source being present in the mixture in amount of from five to 40 percent, the said carrier being in amount from 0.1 to 0.4 percent and the alumina constituting the balance of the mixture.
- 9. The mixture of claim 8 in which the aluminum source is FeAl2 which amounts to 40 percent of the mixture, and in which the carrier is ammonium fluoride amounting to 0.2 percent of the mixture.
- 10. The mixture of claim 8 in which the aluminum source is FeAl3 amounting to eight percent of the mixture and the carrier is sodium fluoride amounting to about 0.2 percent of the mixture.
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