WO2014035413A1 - Revêtements de protection internes pour substrats poreux - Google Patents

Revêtements de protection internes pour substrats poreux Download PDF

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WO2014035413A1
WO2014035413A1 PCT/US2012/053309 US2012053309W WO2014035413A1 WO 2014035413 A1 WO2014035413 A1 WO 2014035413A1 US 2012053309 W US2012053309 W US 2012053309W WO 2014035413 A1 WO2014035413 A1 WO 2014035413A1
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  • This invention relates to a method to place internal coatings for substrates with open pores and more particularly relates to a method to place metal oxide based coatings applied to porous advanced materials for use at high temperatures or in corrosive environments.
  • advanced high performance materials must remain stable and retain structural integrity over a wide range of environmental and temperature conditions.
  • Many such advanced performance materials contain, or are attached to, a surface substrate containing open pores and channels, which act as a thermal or corrosion barrier with respect to underlying materials.
  • Examples of use of such high performance materials include components incorporated into turbine engines such as used in aircraft, aerospace, and energy and power generation applications. In such a turbine, hot combustion gasses contact components such as rotors, turbine blades, vessels, and shrouds.
  • Other applications of high performance materials include ceramics, ceramic matrix composites (CMC), plasma-sprayed ceramic coatings, and refractories.
  • CMC ceramic matrix composites
  • porous surface material may be metallic or ceramic.
  • An example of such an article is an external coating of a porous material on an underlying metallic or ceramic material.
  • Typical porous industrial articles contain open pore channels of varying sizes (dimensions of several micrometers down to nanometers in pore diameter) and geometries. These open pore channels often compromise the chemical, mechanical, and electrical properties of these articles.
  • An aspect of this invention is an internal coating within a pore structure that can provide environmental protection and can maintain or improve the chemical, mechanical, and electrical properties of such articles
  • Specific applications of high performance materials or substrates useful in this invention include, but are not limited to, thermal barrier coatings, thermal protection systems, radiation shielding systems, heat rejection systems, lightweight thermally stable structural members and systems for active or passive functionality, environmental barrier coatings and systems, anodized metals, metallurgical overlay coatings, plasma spray coatings, ceramic metal composite coatings, electron beam physical vapor deposition derived coatings, and slurry coatings.
  • Articles embodying these applications may include, but not limited to, refractory ceramics and composites, turbine engine components, exhaust or airframe components, and other aerospace or utility land-based power generation turbine hardware.
  • a purpose and function of these high performance materials is based in the high stability of the materials to harsh environments such as to extremely high temperatures that may be above 500°C, typically above 800°C, and especially above 1000 °C.
  • Typical harsh environments include an oxidizing, reducing, high temperature, or vacuum atmosphere, and additional atmospheric components such as water (vapor or liquid), and common atmospheric contaminants such as dust, dirt, sand, ash, fuel additives/contaminants or biofuel derivatives, and various organic compounds.
  • porous ceramic materials or coatings used at elevated temperatures for extended periods may experience sintering in which pores coalesce. Such sintering may result in variation of thermal insulation properties and additional stress that may degrade the integrity of the material.
  • Pore coalescence is the accumulation of multiple pores to a common proximity and subsequent union of the pores to form a lesser number of larger pores. This process is favored when the mobility of pores within a material is sufficiently high to allow the pores to accumulate in proximity to one another; the joining step then will occur quickly once the proximity of neighboring pores is sufficient. This process can be substantially impeded through increased bonding within the bulk of a material, which can be accomplished through heat-treating or reaction-based doping processes.
  • a grain is an amount of material that exhibits a consistent phase and crystal structure orientation over some finite scale, typically on the order of 10 nanometers to 100 ⁇ , and often referred to as a crystallite.
  • Polycrystalline materials are comprised of a multitude of small grains. Grains comprise all ordered materials, including ceramics, metals, and many polymers.
  • Grain growth is the process of the joining of multiple small grains, which are in proximity to one another to form a lower number of larger grains. This process is favored when grain boundary mobility is sufficiently high to allow grain boundaries to impinge into neighboring grains. Grain growth processes decrease porosity and impart mechanical stresses into the bulk of the material, which often have detrimental consequences, often resulting in the destruction of intentionally engineered material architectures and stress fields.
  • porous materials that experience corrosion and sintering at high temperatures include refractory materials, such as used in steel manufacture or used in furnaces, kilns, reactors, or incinerators.
  • a typical refractory is a metal oxide such as oxides of aluminum, magnesium, calcium, titanium, zirconium, and chromium.
  • Other refractory materials include silica, silicon carbide, and graphite.
  • a refractory material may contain mixtures of refractories.
  • a thermal barrier coating may be prepared from a ceramic material, such as a chemically (metal oxide) stabilized zirconia.
  • a ceramic material such as a chemically (metal oxide) stabilized zirconia.
  • chemically stabilized zirconia include yttria-stabilized zirconia, scandia-stabilized zirconia, calcia- stabilized zirconia, magnesia-stabilized zirconia, and combinations thereof.
  • the thermal barrier coating of choice typically, is an yttria-stabilized zirconia ceramic coating.
  • a representative yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) thermal barrier coating usually contains about 7 wt.% yttria and about 93 wt.% zirconia.
  • the thickness of the thermal barrier coating depends upon the metal part or component it is deposited on, but is usually in the range of from about 0.5 to about 2 millimeters (typically 0.1 to 1 mm) thick for high temperature gas turbine engine
  • thermal barrier coatings (TBC's) often are coated onto various surfaces of the turbine components to insulate the components from the high temperatures in the hot gas path.
  • TBC's are an increasingly important component in current and future gas turbine engine designs because of the higher operating temperatures in gas turbine engines.
  • turbine engine parts and components for which such thermal barrier coatings are desirable include turbine blades and vanes, turbine shrouds, buckets, nozzles, combustion liners and deflectors, and the like.
  • These thermal barrier coatings typically are deposited onto a metal substrate (or more typically onto a bond coat layer on the metal substrate for better adherence) from which the part or component is formed.
  • the TBC reduces heat flow and limits the operating temperature experienced by such metal parts and components.
  • a suitable metal substrate typically is a metal alloy such as a nickel-, cobalt-, and/or iron-based alloy (e.g., a high temperature super alloy).
  • thermal barrier coatings on metal substrates such as for turbine engine components
  • these coatings still are susceptible to various types of damage, including objects ingested by an engine, erosion, oxidation, and attack from environmental contaminants.
  • other properties of the thermal barrier coating can be adversely impacted.
  • the composition and crystalline microstructure of a thermal barrier coating such as those prepared from yttria-stabilized zirconia, can be modified to impart to the coating an improved reduction in thermal conductivity, especially as the coating ages over time.
  • such modifications also can unintentionally interfere with desired spallation resistance, especially at the higher temperatures that most turbine components experience.
  • the thermal barrier coating can become more susceptible to damage due to the impact of, for example, objects and debris ingested by the engine and passing through a turbine sections thereof. Such impact damage eventually can cause spallation and loss of the thermal barrier coating.
  • a common reactant for thermal barrier coatings is a calcium aluminosilicate-based glassy material, which is found as a constituent in sand and dust.
  • the starting sand and dust material is found commonly in the atmosphere in areas around the world, and may be ingested into turbine engines on aircraft as well as stationary power generating equipment.
  • Solidified CMAS causes stresses to build within the thermal barrier coating, leading to partial or complete delamination and spalling of the coating material and, thus partial or complete loss of the thermal protection provided to the underlying metal substrate of the part or component.
  • Pores, channels, or other cavities that are infiltrated by such molten environmental contaminants can be created by environmental damage or even the normal wear and tear that results during the operation of the engine.
  • the porous structure of pores, channels, or other cavities in the thermal barrier coating surface more typically is the result of processes by which the thermal barrier coating is deposited onto the underlying bond coat layer-metal substrate.
  • thermal barrier coatings that are deposited by air plasma spray techniques tend to create a sponge-like porous structure of open pores in at least the surface of the coating.
  • thermal barrier coatings that are deposited by physical (e.g., chemical) vapor deposition techniques tend to create a porous structure comprising a series of columnar grooves, crevices or channels in at least the surface of the coating.
  • This porous structure can be important in the ability of these thermal barrier coatings to tolerate strains occurring during thermal cycling and to reduce stresses due to the differences between the coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) of the coating and the CTE of the underlying bond coat layer/substrate.
  • CTE coefficient of thermal expansion
  • CMAS mitigation coatings often are needed for gas turbine operation above 1200 °C. Many turbine engines operate in this temperature regime. Without CMAS mitigation, functionality of a TBC often is compromised, and the component may fail.
  • Coatings of alumina have been used to mitigate CMAS attack; however, this approach has not been successful largely due to poor distribution of alumina throughout the porous network. Addition of alumina to the CMAS increases its melting point, thereby arresting its molten flow and, consequently, its degrading effect. Thus, in this case, the alumina acts as a sacrificial layer to arrest further flow or degradation, which effectively protects the substrate from CMAS attack.
  • porous ceramic coatings and materials are designed to retain porosity to exploit mechanical properties (toughness), low density (e.g., in aerospace/transportation), filtration, and thermal insulation; however, these porous coatings are prone to environmental degradation.
  • Porous ceramic materials and composites also may exhibit lower mechanical strengths compared to their higher density counterparts. Such lower strengths are partially attributable to micro-scale flaws (on pore walls or interiors) contained within porous microstructures.
  • the internal coatings of the present invention may heal such flaws and provide an improvement in mechanical strength and toughness of the porous substrate material.
  • External porous coatings, such as thermal barrier or insulation coatings on a structure also are subject to severe erosion in harsh environments. Internal pore coatings of this invention may improve performance of these external coatings under erosion conditions.
  • Anodized aluminum is commonly used in many consumer and industrial products to impart corrosion protection.
  • anodized aluminum has a thin amorphous alumina surface that contains micro-scale open porosity that serves as pathways for moisture, salt, or other environmental contaminants to penetrate and attack the underlying non-anodized metal.
  • micro-scale open porosity serves as pathways for moisture, salt, or other environmental contaminants to penetrate and attack the underlying non-anodized metal.
  • Porous materials and coatings also are used as dielectric materials or to provide electrical insulation in many use applications. Presence of open pore channels often may compromise the durability of the materials over time due to ingress of environmental species that alter the electrical properties either by the presence of such species or through reaction with pore walls. There is a need for a system that creates long term stability during operation and service of porous materials to maintain their designed electrical properties.
  • these coatings have high cost and may not be suitable for large complex- shaped components, and such coatings may not have an ability to infiltrate fine pores without adversely affecting TBC properties such as strain tolerance. Further, this technique may not be suitable for use in the field or for repair. Slurry-based systems to deposit alumina-based films into a porous substrate may not be suitable to deposit conformal films on pore walls or may not penetrate very small pores or uniformly infiltrate through the depth of the porous substrate and, thus, may not provide adequate environmental protection. Presently, there are no practical methods of depositing clear, low viscosity, high yield solutions to form good quality alumina- based films onto pore walls of a porous substrate.
  • This invention provides a solution to providing an internal coating of a porous substrate to form a superior environmental protection system, that further is capable of maintaining or improving chemical, mechanical, and electrical properties without significantly affecting desirable properties of a porous advanced material.
  • a pore wall barrier internal coating and selective blocking of mesopores may be created without having a detrimental effect on the design properties of such materials.
  • a material contains a porous substrate containing open pores and channels that are internally coated with at least one layer of phosphorus-containing alumina.
  • Such material is formed by infiltrating a porous material one or more times at or near atmospheric pressure with a non-colloidal, low-viscosity liquid coating precursor, drying, and curing the coating precursor to form a continuous phosphorus-containing alumina layer within pores of the material.
  • Typical high performance materials useful in this invention are based on a porous (non-fully dense) structure.
  • the architecture of these materials may be designed for the application for which the advanced material will be used, such as providing a sufficiently low thermal conductivity structure joined to another material to permit use of other materials at elevated thermal or radiation conditions.
  • Pore structures typically dominate the proportion of free surface area of these materials, with common surface area proportions that are associated with pores alone being 90% or higher, often 98% or above, depending on the overall material thickness and roughness of the externally free surface of the bulk material structure.
  • pores including open and closed pores within high performance materials serve various purposes, and can be the result of intentional processes to achieve pore formation, or unintentional processes that result from methods of forming or creating the materials.
  • a function of the pores typically includes increasing mechanical toughness (e.g., resistance to fracture propagation under dynamic loading), decrease in weight, and increase in resistance to thermal conduction and fatigue at elevated temperatures during service.
  • Presence of pores in advanced materials in extreme temperature environments is critical for effective performance, and maintaining the designed pore structure is paramount to the determination of the effectiveness and useful lifetime of those materials during normal operation.
  • protection and maintenance of the initially designed pore microstructure is important in order to achieve the design function for such advanced materials over a sufficient useful lifetime.
  • Porous substrates that are subject to extreme temperature variation during service are subject to stress fracture.
  • stress fracture may be caused by thermal expansion and contraction of a porous material due to thermal cycling in service.
  • a porous substrate is coated with a material that passivates the surface of the substrate (typically referred to as a topcoat)
  • repeated expansion and contractions of the underlying porous substrate may cause cracks in the surface coating or the surface may be subject to erosive or abrasive conditions in a service environment which compromises the integrity of the topcoat. Cracks in a surface coating will expose the underlying porous substrate to environmental conditions such as heat, contaminants, and oxidizing gases, which may degrade the substrate properties.
  • coating interior surfaces of a porous material in accordance with this invention will not be subject to degradation from such thermal stresses..
  • Pores are macroscopic-scale voids in a material characterized by an internal surface area interfacing with a gaseous environment. Pores are inherently unstable in a thermodynamic sense because the internal surface area contains stored potential energy that, when driven off, creates a more stable material (i.e., having less stored energy). Prevailing mechanisms for pore deterioration include sintering, grain growth, chemical reaction based pore obliteration, and pore coalescence, the driving force of which is minimization of overall energy through reduction in surface energy through pore eradication.
  • Elevated temperatures applied to a porous material promotes pore deterioration because the activation energy required for such destructive process is reduced in proportion to the temperature increase, which is a particularly challenging issue for advanced materials used at high temperatures.
  • a conformal coating applied to inner surfaces of open pores resists sintering and thereby promotes retention of the original pore structure, which provides durable performance in use at elevated temperature or under other environmental conditions.
  • An aspect of this invention is forming a thin, protective layer of a phosphorus-enriched alumina or phospho-alumina onto the interior surfaces of a porous material with open porosity (i.e., having pores in open communication with the exterior surface of the material).
  • An effect of such interior layer (or a combination of sublayers) is to provide protection against harsh environmental conditions that would cause corrosion or oxidation of the material.
  • a further benefit of such interior coating layers is to maintain physical or mechanical properties of the material such as thermal conductivity, stress crack resistance, electrical properties, and weight reduction. Depending on the specific use of the material, some benefits may be more advantageous than others in practice. For example, maintenance of weight reduction may be more important than thermal conductivity in some applications.
  • porous materials with interior coatings produced through this invention may demonstrate one or more other advantageous properties such as maintenance of stress crack resistance and corrosion inhibition.
  • Typical porous material substrates useful in this invention are shaped articles formed from substances such as a metal, metal oxide, refractory, ceramic, or ceramic matrix materials. These articles are solid inorganic materials that contain structures with internal pore spaces or channels that are in open communication to the exterior surface of the material. Porous substrates include a ceramic material or coating, a ceramic matrix composite, or a metal or metal alloy. Typical porous substrate materials used in this invention typically are metal oxides and carbide/nitrides (ceramics), but may include elemental materials such as metals and carbon (graphite), as well as composite materials from carbon, metal, or particulate or fiber-reinforced metal or ceramic composites and metallic foams.
  • suitable porous substrates suitable for use in this invention may be inorganic or organic structures that contain open pores and that are stable at curing temperatures used to form the phospho alumina internal coatings of this invention.
  • a benefit of the invention is a protective barrier coating within a porous structure (such as a barrier against oxidation or other corrosion) which is securely bonded to the interior surfaces of the substrate and which remains an effective barrier coating after prolonged environmental exposures such as prolonged exposure to high temperature in an oxidative environment.
  • Typical harsh environmental conditions to which coated substrates of this invention may be exposed include temperatures above 800 °C, typically above 1000 °C and may exceed 1200 °C and further exposure to corrosive materials such as gases, including but not limited to, oxygen, water vapor, hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and other chemical substances such as molten CMAS.
  • Typical internally coated porous materials on substrates formed in accordance with this invention are expected to maintain corrosion resistance for hundreds to thousands of hours at high temperature oxidizing conditions.
  • alumina in the form of phospho- alumina coating is distributed more uniformly throughout the porous network, thus providing a "local" source of alumina to CMAS for more effective protection.
  • CMAS flows through the pore channels, CMAS interacts with phospho-alumina, whereby alumina content in CMAS is increased which raises the melting point of the CMAS-containing mixture, thus arresting further flow.
  • This effect is particularly important in mesopores because mesopores comprise the bulk of open porosity surface area in YSZ TBCs and hence the importance of coating mesopores.
  • Porous material substrates useful in this invention typically contain pores with interior channels that have communication to the surface of the substrate. Such channels may be interconnected and may contain additional pore structures, all of which form a part of a porous substrate material containing pores.
  • the interior pores may have varying widths or sizes and typically may range from 5 micrometers (5 ⁇ ) or more to 30 nanometers (nm) or less. These pores typically have an irregular cross-section with diameters measured as mean (average) diameters.
  • porous substrates useful in this invention contain an open pore network (i.e., with open communication with the surface) with channels with diameters of up to 2 micrometers, typically up to 1 micrometer, many times up to 200 nm or up to 100 nm.
  • Some pore channels usually have diameters greater than 2 nm (typically greater than 4 nm) and may have diameters of 30 nm or less, and may be up to 50 nm.
  • Typical pore networks have channels ranging from 200 nm to 20 nm with a majority of the channel volume in channels having diameters of 30 to 100 nm.
  • micropores have diameters less than 2 nm
  • mesopores have diameters ranging from 2 to 50 nm
  • “macropores” have diameters ranging from 50 to 1000 nm (1 ⁇ ) (although as used in this invention a macropore is considered to range up to 2000 nm (2 ⁇ )).
  • a typical suitable porous substrate material useful in this invention contains a substrate containing an open pore network with a combination of mesopores and macropores.
  • a substrate material also may contain pores with mean pore diameters up to 3 or up to 5 micrometers.
  • Pore volume or porosity may be measured by the Archimedes displacement method. Pore volume and surface area may be measured using the BET technique or other suitable techniques such as helium pycnometry.
  • Pores contained in porous materials useful in this invention refer to pores and interconnected channels, which typically form a complex web of internal spaces or voids of varying dimensions and form. Typical forms of pores are extended tubes and spaces of varying dimension and cross-sectional shape connected in a network.
  • a porous material with open pores contains pores with open communication with the surface of the material.
  • the terms "pores", “channels”, or “pore channels” may not necessarily be descriptive of the actual shape of the internal porous structure of a porous material, but are used to describe the network of internal spaces contained in such materials and collectively described as pores.
  • main channels may be 2 to 0.1 micrometers (2000 to 100 nm) in mean diameter, there may be very fine pore channels connected to such main channels that have mean diameter dimensions of less than 50 or less than 20 nanometers.
  • the pore volume and surface area represented by the mesopores may be as great or greater than the pore volume and surface area represented by the macropores.
  • protection of the mesopores from environmental degradation is important to maintaining the desired beneficial physical properties of such porous materials.
  • internal pore volume typically may be at least 1 % of the gross volume of the substrate and may be up to 60% or more of the gross volume.
  • the internal pore volume is at least 5 or 10% of the gross volume and may be up to 40 or 50% of the gross volume.
  • the ratio of mesopores to macropores typically may range from 1 to 10 to 1000 to 1 .
  • mesopores constitute 25% or more of the surface area of the substrate and may range up to 75%or up to 99% or up to 99.99% of the surface area and may be 30 to 60% of the surface area.
  • mesopores may constitute 25% or more of the porosity of the substrate and range up to 75%, or up to 99% or up to 99.99% of the measured porosity and may be 30 to 70% of the measured porosity.
  • substantial porosity of internally coated substrates is maintained.
  • Many substrates useful as high performance materials have open-cell porosity, which can be measured as average pore volume. Because such porosity is important to the usefulness of such high performance materials (such as heat barriers), a coating that functions to protect the substrate against oxidative degradation should not significantly affect the porous character of the substrate.
  • 75% (on a volumetric basis) 90%, or more of measured porosity is retained based on an uncoated substrate.
  • a superior internal coating is thin (typically less than 2 micrometers, preferably less than 1 micrometers, more preferably less than 0.5 micrometer) and is able to coat surfaces within pores of a substrate and protect all surfaces of a porous material against oxidative degradation at extreme operating conditions experienced by such substrate including temperature and moisture and contaminant concentrations.
  • maintenance of porosity or weight gain after coating refers to the top segment of a porous material, which may be up to 5 mm thick.
  • a refractory material e.g., a brick
  • the porous substrate may be substantially thinner such as in TBC's and CMC's.
  • a high performance porous material containing open pores is internally coated with a continuous layer of a phosphorus- containing alumina according to this invention to an extent that open or interconnected porosity of the coated substrate is at least 90%, preferably at least 95% and typically at least 98% or more, of the porosity of an uncoated substrate.
  • larger interior spaces within a substrate that are accessible only by smaller channels may be coated with one or more layers of phosphorus-containing alumina. This is in contrast with conventional coating systems in which such large interior spaces could not be reached by an external coating.
  • a substrate may contain large open surface pits or cracks that could be coated with an external coating, but smaller mesopores or macropores connected to such pits or cracks would not be coated in a conventional system, but these smaller open pores and channels may be coated internally using this invention.
  • multiple layers of phospho-alumina are deposited on internal surfaces of a porous substrate. Creation of such layers is a result of multiple treatments of the precursor solution at or near atomospheric pressure conditions. Although observation of separate layers in the internal structure is difficult, the thickness of the resulting deposited material increases as the number of layers increase. As used in this invention, a layer is the resulting deposit of a phospho-alumina precursor solution under the conditions described in this invention. Due to the irregular surfaces within a porous substrate, multiple deposits of phospho- alumina layers may not form a uniform layer structure. [0043] In a further aspect of this invention the internal coating of a porous material remains stable up to 800 °C and preferably up to 1000 °C or more. That is, the internal coating retains compositional integrity and remains crack-free at elevated temperatures. However, in some uses materials of this invention may not be used at high temperatures or under extreme environmental conditions.
  • An aspect of this invention is coating interior surfaces of an open porous material such that environmental contaminants cannot penetrate through size constrictions in open channels and preserve interior porosity and thermal conductivity properties.
  • the number of sublayers of the phospho-alumina applied in accordance with this invention may be optimized to form a suitable porous structure protected from environmental attack but preserving desired physical properties.
  • Another aspect of this invention is to enable partial or full coating or blockage of very fine (e.g. mesopores) pore channels ( ⁇ 50 nm) by repetitive coating application that allows for preferential percolation of the chemical solution precursor into the pores.
  • very fine pores e.g. mesopores
  • substantially all (and typically more than 98%) pores having mean diameters less than 50 nm (and typically less than 30 nm) are coated or blocked by a phosphorus-containing alumina material.
  • Repeated internal coatings of this invention may form a fluid (gas or liquid) diffusion barrier through filling pore or channel constriction points in the porous material.
  • Creating such a constricted, filled barrier may not be uniform throughout (i.e., may be mostly present near the surface of the substrate, e.g., top -200 ⁇ ) the substrate, but will be sufficient to form a functional fluid diffusion barrier.
  • Forming a fluid barrier with the process of this invention also demonstrates ability to form repeated internal coated layers in a substrate pursuant to other aspects of the invention.
  • a further aspect of the invention is to use a chemical precursor solution that preferentially wets the pore walls and yields a dense coating that serves as an effective diffusion barrier along the pore walls and also imparts resistance against sintering or grain growth. Also, the coating provides moisture resistance.
  • a further additional aspect of this invention is to enable deposition of predominantly alumina coatings on pore walls by use of specialized formulations, whereby phosphorous content is added to improve film forming or wetting characteristics of the coating material.
  • An additional aspect of the invention is to enable deep penetration of the phospho-alumina coating into the substrate such that any erosion or abrasion of substrate surfaces during service or use (such as in turbine shrouds rubbing against blades in gas turbine engines) will not eliminate protection, which will be preserved based on the internal coating deep within the porous substrate.
  • Another aspect of the invention is to improve or enhance mechanical strengths of substrate materials and their reliability through sealing of internal flaws induced during processing, such as in refractory linings, advanced ceramic monoliths (e.g., silicon carbide, silicon nitride, mullite, alumina, and combinations thereof), ceramic coatings, and ceramic matrix composites.
  • advanced ceramic monoliths e.g., silicon carbide, silicon nitride, mullite, alumina, and combinations thereof
  • ceramic coatings e.g., silicon coatings, and ceramic matrix composites.
  • This invention also may be used in pack diffusion based coatings; monolithic ceramics; metal fiber composites and mesh; metallic/ceramic foam or scaffold materials; ceramic, metallic, glassy, or organic micropores; microballoons, microbubbles, microporous insulation, including porous silica and alumina/garnet based gel materials; and ceramic, metallic, glassy/semi-polymeric composites.
  • a material with open porosity may not necessarily be permeable to fluids.
  • Another aspect of this invention is sealing or decreased permeation of fluids (liquids and gases) through porous materials that have been coated internally according to this invention.
  • fluids include molten salts, organic media, jet fuels, water vapor, air, oxygen, carbon monoxide, hydrogen, fuel contaminant vapors, and other species typically found in fuel or coal combustion environments.
  • An aspect of this invention is an interior-coated open porous material formed by contacting the porous material with a non-colloidal, low-viscosity liquid coating precursor that allows permeation of the liquid into the open pores and channels of the material. It is believed that infiltration of the non-colloidal, low- viscosity liquid coating precursor forms a liquid film onto the interior walls of the porous substrate, which may be 5 nm to 250 nm (preferably 10 to 100 nm) thick.
  • such low viscosity precursor solution also has a high concentration of phosphorus-containing alumina material. Thus, the solution will yield a greater amount of solids after drying and curing.
  • This high solids yield precursor solution minimizes the number of repetitive applications of the solution which reduces processing costs and potential risks associated with part/component rejection for these expensive advanced materials.
  • Such solids yields typically range are at least 100g/L (i.e. will produce at least 10 wt% solids based on the precursor solution) and may range to 300g/L or above for alumina coating compositions.
  • a high solids yield solution has a low viscosity of less than 100 cSt, typically less than 50 cSt, more typically less than 30 cSt, and more preferably less than 20 cSt.
  • the pores are in open communication with the exterior surface of the material.
  • liquid precursor is infiltrated into the interior pore and channel system.
  • An inert gas may be used to flush out residual oxygen in a porous material.
  • the total pressure during infiltration is maintained at or near atmospheric pressure.
  • the total pressure is maintained at less than 1 bar over atmospheric pressure and more than 0.8 bar less than atmospheric pressure.
  • a typical total pressure used in the infiltration process of this invention is 1 ⁇ 0.5 bar and more typically 1 ⁇ 0.2 bar, absolute.
  • liquid precursor infiltration solution is allowed to flow into pore openings of a porous substrate by maintaining a continuous liquid contact of the surface of the porous material such that liquid precursor migrates into the pore system to form an interior liquid film onto the surface of the interior pores and channels.
  • a porous material may be immersed or bathed in liquid precursor such that some or all of the pore openings on the surface remain covered by liquid precursor for a time sufficient for such migration.
  • liquid precursor is sprayed continuously or semi-continuously onto a surface of a porous material such that some or all of the pore openings on the surface remain covered by liquid precursor for a time sufficient for liquid precursor migration into the pore structure.
  • continuous contact of liquid precursor to a porous surface may be performed by maintaining such contact with a saturated cloth, sponge, or similar material for a sufficient time for liquid migration into the pore structure.
  • immersion or continuous contact of the surface with liquid precursor of at least about 5 minutes, typically at least 10-15 minutes, and may be at least 20 minutes or longer as needed to permit such migration.
  • Such continuous contact is distinct from mere brushing, flowing, dipping, or spraying of a liquid onto a surface in which there is insufficient time to permit liquid migration into the interior pore structure.
  • Layers of phosphorus-enriched aluminas or phospho-aluminas used this invention may be made typically by forming a sol-gel containing oxides of aluminum to which oxides of phosphorus are incorporated, which is cured by heating to a temperature sufficient to form a phospho-alumina.
  • sol-gel coating precursor materials typically are formed in a non-aqueous liquid such as an alcohol and not under strong acid conditions (pH >2).
  • a typical low viscosity, non-colloidal (i.e., clear, non-cloudy) solution of precursor material useful in this invention is formed by combining an aluminum salt in alcoholic solution with an alcoholic solution of a phosphate ester or precursor of a phosphate ester.
  • a typically suitable alcohol solvent is a Ci-C 4 monohydroxy alcohol including methanol, ethanol, n-propanol, iso- propanol, n-butanol, 2-butanol, and t-butanol and combinations thereof. Methanol, ethanol, or combinations thereof are preferred.
  • alcohol solutions of an aluminum salt such as aluminum nitrate or aluminum acetate
  • a phosphorus oxide such as phosphorus pentoxide (P2O 5 ) or phosphorus oxide ester are combined in aluminum to phosphorus atomic ratios suitable for creating a desired layer of material. It is believed that an alcohol solution of a phosphorus pentoxide results in an ester of a phosphorus oxide or phosphate.
  • the liquid precursor is a non-colloidal solution of the phospho-alumina precursor in an alcohol solvent.
  • concentration of a phospho-alumina precursor liquid is at least about 1 molar (M) and typically is 1 .5 M or above and may range up to 3 M or above wherein molarity/concentration is the number of moles of Al per liter of solution.
  • a typical phospho-alumina precursor is 1 to 2.75 M and preferably 1 .5 to 2.5 M.
  • Use of lower phospho-alumina precursor concentrations typically requires additional coatings, which may be inefficient.
  • the coating materials are halide free. Examples of phosphorus-alumina coating systems are described in U.S. Patents 6,036,762, 6,461 ,415, 7,31 1 ,944, 7,678,465, 7,682,700, all incorporated by reference herein.
  • a typically useful phospho-alumina precursor coating solution has an aluminum to phosphorus atomic ratio at least 0.5:1 and may range up to 20:1 , or above.
  • Typical phospho-alumina precursors have an aluminum-to-phosphorus atomic ratio at least 1 :1 and usually at least 2:1 , and preferably at least 4:1 .
  • Such typical precursors may have an aluminum-to-phosphorus atomic ratio up to 15:1 and preferably up to 10:1 .
  • the principal structural components of the phospho-alumina precursor solutions useful for the layers used in this invention appear to be complexes that contain AI-O-AI linkages.
  • the internal structure of the precursor materials is such that [PO 4 ] groups appear to be linked to [AIO 4 ] groups, which in turn are linked to [ ⁇ ] groups.
  • these materials contain tetrahedral aluminum coordination together with "distorted" octahedral aluminum, the intensity of which distortion increases with increases in excess aluminum content. This is unlike exclusive tetrahedral coordination for aluminum observed in crystalline polymorphs of AIPO 4 .
  • Typical phospho-aluminas useful in this invention may contain AI-O-AI linkages and may contain [PO 4 ] tetrahedra groups linked to [AIO 4 ] tetrahedra groups, which in turn are linked to [ ⁇ ] octahedral groups. These phospho-aluminas therefore are distinct from aluminophosphate polymorphs that exist in tetrahedral coordination.
  • Phospho-aluminas or otherwise described as phosphorus-enriched or phosphorus-containing aluminas, in which the Al/P atomic ratio is less than about 12, typically less than about 10, usually less than about 8, useful in this invention typically are substantially amorphous and such amorphous character may be determined by X-ray diffraction (XRD) spectra.
  • XRD X-ray diffraction
  • a substantially amorphous material does not exhibit specific XRD peaks, which can be attributed to lattice parameters of a crystalline structure.
  • phosphorus-enriched aluminas in which the Al/P atomic ratio is more than 6 may convert partially or fully to crystalline alumina polymorphs upon high temperature exposures over long term. Despite this transformation, in the case of CMAS attack, the partially or fully transformed alumina will remain effective as a sacrificial layer to arrest CMAS flow and further TBC degradation.
  • a liquid coating precursor suitable for use in this invention should have a viscosity sufficiently low to permit permeation (i.e., near complete infiltration) of the liquid into the interior pore and channel system at or near atmospheric pressure.
  • the liquid precursor is an alcohol solution, such as methanol or ethanol, and has a kinematic viscosity of below 150 centistokes (cSt), usually below 100 CSt, typically below 60 cSt, and preferably below 50 cSt, below 30 cSt or below 20 cSt.
  • a preferable solution contains ethanol or methanol and has a viscosity below 35 cSt.
  • the low viscosity liquid should have low surface tension to facilitate infiltration into fine channels and pores.
  • viscosity may be measured according to ASTM D446.
  • one or more layers of a modified alumina material are deposited upon the side surfaces of interior channels of a porous substrate.
  • the side surfaces of the channels are coated without blocking or filling channels having diameters of more than 30-50 nm.
  • most of the channels are open and are in open communication with the surface. This retains properties of the porous substrate such as thermal barrier protection and stress fracture resistance.
  • each sublayer is 1 to 50 nm thick, such that as layers are built up, small mesopores (e.g. 30 nm or less in average diameter) channels may be completely filled may be blocked at narrow channel constrictions. However, the remaining coated channels have a pore volume sufficient to maintain beneficial properties of the porous material.
  • an internal coating layer of this invention typically is at least 5 nm (usually at least 10 nm or at least 20 nm) and may be up to 500 nm, preferably up to 300 nm, and typically up to 100 nm thick.
  • a typical thickness range for an internal coating layer (including sublayers) is 10 to 300 nm.
  • Application of multiple sublayers of phospho-alumina in accordance with this invention is preferable to form an advantageous conformal interior protective coating layer within a porous material.
  • a porous material typically, at least two coating applications are used and many times up to ten to twenty sublayers or more of phospho-alumina composition may be used. Typical useful applications use two to five sublayers of phospho-alumina composition.
  • the open porous material is treated as described by applying a low viscosity liquid precursor to the material exterior at or near atmospheric pressure. After the liquid precursor has formed an interior surface coating within the porous material, the material is dried and cured to form a phospho-alumina sublayer. This process may be repeated to form multiple sublayers of phospho-alumina composition.
  • Sublayers of phospho- alumina composition useful in this invention may have different Al/P ratios.
  • a particular advantage of multiple layer application is to allow percolation of coating liquid into extremely fine pore channels. Although two repetitive cycles of coating application does not appear to infiltrate very fine channels (which typically are less than 50 nm and may be less than 30 nm), five layers of coating appear to fill the very fine channels completely as indicated by transmission electron microscopy for the columnar pore channels in a TBC coating. Without wishing to be bound by any theory, it is postulated that percolation of low-viscosity liquid precursor coating solution upon multiple applications of coating solution restricts segments in larger pore channels until sufficient internal pressure is obtained to force such coating liquid into the very fine channels. This effect may be based on the fact that pore channel sizes are not uniform in the porous body.
  • a pore channel may have a maximum 2-micrometer diameter in many segments of the channel, but may contain constrictions of less than 100 nm in certain locations. This is typical, for example, in polymer infiltrate pyrolysis (PIP) used in fabrication of ceramic matrix composites.
  • PIP polymer infiltrate pyrolysis
  • the "constriction" points within a pore channel are further reduced, which fundamentally alters the percolation of the precursor coating solution during a subsequent infiltration step.
  • the presence of such constrictions during a subsequent infiltration results in increased internal pressure at the entrance of such fine channels, which directs infiltration of the coating solution into the fine channels.
  • the invention is applicable to ceramic coatings produced by other techniques, including but not limited to, vacuum plasma spray (VPS), High Velocity Oxy Fuel (HVOF), and electron beam physical vapor deposition (EBPVD).
  • VPS vacuum plasma spray
  • HVOF High Velocity Oxy Fuel
  • EBPVD electron beam physical vapor deposition
  • An aspect of this invention is a porous substrate in which macropores are internally coated, and mesopores are substantially (e.g. >50%) filled or blocked, with phosphorus-containing alumina described in this invention.
  • constrictions within the pore and channel system in the porous substrate are blocked, which transforms an open pore system into a partially closed pore system.
  • the density of the porous substrate may not change significantly ( ⁇ 10%, typically ⁇ 5%, preferably ⁇ 1 %) after application of internal coating. This may be observed by measuring weight gain (or density) of a porous substrate after internal coating in accordance with this invention.
  • a phosphorus-containing alumina coating of this invention in some applications may be repeated multiple times, until the mesopore porosity of the TBC system is reduced to less than 5%, representing more than 20 applications of the aluminum phosphate coating.
  • the goal of applying the coating using this approach of combining a thermally stable amorphous aluminum phosphate coating material made from a low viscosity precursor and a infiltration coating process targeted at specific internal substrate pore sizes is to use an infiltration process repeatedly to apply the coating material in a stepwise fashion of successive layers until the substrate's fine pore channels/structures are lined with the coating material or nearly filled with the coating material, without significant impact to the inherent strain tolerance of the substrate, with curing or setting of the coating done between each layer for coating stability purposes.
  • a porous material e.g., fused silica or silicon nitride
  • pore or channel constrictions within the substrate are effectively blocked such that fluid (liquid or gas) permeation through the substrate is blocked, although the substrate material may continue to have a degree of open porosity.
  • the amount of remaining open porosity after treatment according to this invention typically may be at least 30%, 40% or 50% of an untreated substrate.
  • a porous material is bonded to another substrate material to form a composite or laminated structure.
  • the exterior porous material may act as a protective structure to the underlying substrate.
  • Typical underlying substrates are metals and bonded porous materials are oxides.
  • a bondcoat may be applied between a metal substrate and a porous substrate.
  • the internally coated porous substrate material will protect the underlying material from environmental attack such as oxidation.
  • Thermally grown oxide (TGO) present underneath TBC coatings, formed from oxidation of underlying bondcoat alloys can induce interfacial stresses that leads to delamination or TBC failure. This is further exasperated by interface roughening or rumpling of TGO as it grows.
  • the exterior porous material may be of any suitable thickness, which provides an adequate protective layer to the underlying substrate. Typical thermal barrier coatings are 0.1 to 2 millimeters, although the porous material may be thinner or thicker depending upon specific use.
  • composition of the advanced high performance materials useful in applications of this invention is chosen based on the functional need required of the material, but is most strongly influenced by the environmental conditions described above and the ability of the material to withstand the environment.
  • carbon is an excellent thermal material for heat management applications, because carbon can conduct large quantities of heat for removal in large thermal load applications.
  • carbon is susceptible to extremely rapid oxidation, carbon is not useful in oxidizing environments and cannot be used in pure form.
  • Other materials substituted for carbon in high temperature oxidizing conditions typically are heavier, not as good thermal conductors, and not as easy to form or machine as pure carbon (such as graphite).
  • additional substituted material is required to meet the functional effectiveness of carbon, which impacts cost and weight restrictions.
  • Use of an interior coating as described in this invention preserves the physical and mechanical properties of a material (such as thermal conductivity) without significant impact on weight.
  • a preferable interior layer (which may have more than one sublayers) of phospho-alumina within a porous material in this invention conforms to the interior surfaces of the material.
  • the phospho-alumina is continuous throughout the interior surface and is substantially crack free to the extent that the underlying substrate material (such as a metal) is not exposed to harsh environmental conditions during use.
  • the phospho-alumina layer has low oxygen permeability and thus functions as an oxidation protection barrier. Further, this layer is a barrier to chemical reactions that cause corrosion of the porous material and underlying substrates.
  • a sol-gel composition containing oxides of aluminum and phosphorus is dried typically at a mild elevated temperature (usually 60 to 200 °C) or reduced pressure to remove volatile organics, and then cured by heating to at least the melting temperature of the resulting mixture for a time sufficient to form a flowable fluid.
  • Such fluid state may form a film or layer within the internal pores of a substrate having a substantially uniform (typically ⁇ 10% variation) phospho-alumina composition throughout the sublayer and which layers conform to the internal surfaces of the pores.
  • Typical curing temperatures useful in this invention are at least 350 °C, usually above 400 °C and preferably above 500 °C and may range up to 900 °C or more.
  • a suitable curing temperature is below the disintegration temperature of the materials.
  • a suitable curing time may be a few minutes and typically may range from 5 minutes to up to 3 hours or more. Drying and curing may be conducted in one continuous step.
  • an aluminum-phosphorus precursor solution of this invention may be applied to a suitable substrate as described and dried, but not cured.
  • a coated substrate may be incorporated into a component, which may be subject to high temperature conditions during service. If such conditions become higher than the melting temperature of the uncured coating, the coating will be transformed into a phospho-alumina as described in this invention, and will become a protective barrier coating to the substrate.
  • Illustrative examples of articles having porous surfaces which may use this invention include, but are not limited to, thermal barrier coatings used on aircraft engine and power generation turbine blades, refractories used in applications such as metal processing; ceramic matrix composites such as based on carbon-carbon, carbon-silicon carbide, and silicon carbide-silicon-carbide composites; graphite; ceramic materials; and the like.
  • a precursor solution was prepared by adding aluminum nitrate nonahydrate (GFS Chemicals, Powell, OH) to anhydrous ethanol (-375 g/liter).
  • phosphorus pentoxide Sigma Aldrich, St. Louis, MO
  • the solution was concentrated on a rotary evaporator at 65 ° C.
  • the resulting 100 g/liter phospho-alumina precursor solution had an aluminum to phosphorus atomic ratio of 1 .5 to 1 and a viscosity of 5.3 cSt.
  • Samples of slip cast fused silica (SCFS) with bulk volumes of -0.6-0.9 cc were chemically cleaned in ethanol in an ultrasonic bath and then further cleaned by heat treating at 800C for 1 hour in a furnace. After the samples were dried in an oven at 160°C for 10 minutes, the samples were immersed in Precursor Solution A for various times. The samples were removed from the solution and patted dry with a KimwipeTM to remove excess solution. The samples were dried in an oven at 60°C for 10 minutes and 160°C for 10 minutes.
  • the substrate sample was inserted into a furnace and ramped to 800°C and a rate of 10°C/min in air and allowed to dwell for 60 minutes to facilitate the curing of the aluminum phosphate coating.
  • the samples were weighed on an analytical balance and the percent weight gain was calculated.
  • Table 1 displays the percent weight gains calculated for cured aluminum phosphate layer exhibiting the time dependence of the immersion process. The weight gain for 5 to 60 minutes do not show a statistical difference.
  • a leak rate for the material was determined by fastening the coupon to a vacuum chuck and crystal bond and attaching to a vacuum line equipped with a BaratronTM pressure gauge. The system was evacuated for 60 minutes and the system was sealed off with a valve such that a pressure of ⁇ 5 torr was made between the sample and the pressure gauge. A leak rate of air through the coupon was recorded over ten minutes. Uncoated SCFS, 1 -minute immersion, and 60-minute immersion samples exhibited leak rates of 31 .2 torr/min, 9.34 torr/min, and 0.77 torr/min, respectively.
  • Example 2 One sample of SCFS was prepared in a similar fashion to Example 2 except the sample was suspended over a watch glass of solution such that only the face of the coupon was immersed in the solution. A beaker was placed over the apparatus to limit solvent evaporation. The sample was held for 60 minutes and the solution was allowed to infiltrate through the porous substrate. The coupon was cured as described in Example 2. This procedure was repeated six times. The sample was then tested for air permeability as described in Example 2. The leak rate was determined to be 1 .65 torr/min.
  • Example 2 One sample of SCFS was prepared in a similar fashion to Example 2 except a saturated KimwipeTM was placed on the surface of the coupon. A beaker was placed over the apparatus to limit solvent evaporation. The sample was held for 60 minutes and the solution was allowed to infiltrate through the porous substrate. The coupon was cured as described in Example 2. This procedure was repeated six times. The sample was tested for air permeability as described in Example 13. The leak rate was determined to be 2.61 torr/min.

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Matériau contenant des pores ouverts, dans lequel canaux et pores sont intérieurement revêtus d'au moins une couche d'alumine contenant du phosphore. On forme un tel matériau en infiltrant dans un matériau poreux, à la pression atmosphérique ou quasi-atmosphérique, une ou plusieurs fois, un précurseur de revêtement liquide à faible viscosité, en faisant sécher et durcir le précurseur de revêtement afin de former une couche d'alumine contenant du phosphore dans les pores du matériau.
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